STUDY ON BALANCE SAWN TIMBER IN PRIMARY WOOD PROCESSING IN KOSOVA: CASE STUDY BEECH WOOD

Wood processing industry in Kosovo is one of the most developed industries. It numbers about 1550 subjects which produce wood products. Wood industry is the third most important industry in the number of employees in Kosovo. Overall timber used by the industry is local wood. There is a relatively large number of enterprises in sawing of the logs. Mainly of them used beech wood. This sort of tree covers the largest area of forests in the Republic of Kosovo, (about 33.33%) of the total volume of forests. To obtain reliable results are consulted 30 subjects, 18 of them are sawing logs of beech, while others saw logs from different types of trees. The data for the study were obtained by 18 subjects distributed geographically throughout the regions of the Republic of Kosovo. The study has shown the balance of the sawn log in primary wood processing in Republic of Kosovo, expressed in percentage: Boards 78.86%, Outer part with bark 11.27%, Sawdust 9.4%, others 0.39%.