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Assessing the Level of Cascading Wood Use in Ukraine and Worldwide
Perepelitsyn H. B.

Perepelitsyn, Hryhorii B. (2026) “Assessing the Level of Cascading Wood Use in Ukraine and Worldwide.” Business Inform 2:167–178.
https://doi.org/10.32983/2222-4459-2026-2-167-178

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Abstract:
The aim of the article is to develop a methodological approach for assessing the level of cascading use in the woodworking industry in Ukraine and other countries. It has been defined that increasing the cascading use of wood will enhance resource use efficiency and, as a result, reduce environmental pressure. A system of indicators has been developed to provide an integrated assessment of the level of cascading use in the global woodworking industry. It is proposed to carry out the integrated assessment of the level of cascading use in the woodworking industry of countries worldwide based on four components: sustainability of the resource base for the woodworking industry; efficiency of primary wood processing; use of secondary and recovered raw materials; energy utilization of biomass. The results of the calculations of the integral indicator showed significant differentiation of countries worldwide in terms of the level of cascading wood use. Ukraine, with an integral indicator value of 0.2870, ranked 24th out of 36 countries studied and was included in the group of countries with a low level of cascading in the woodworking industry. Ukraine scored best in the components «Resource Base Sustainability» (22nd place) and «Energy Use of Biomass» (16th place), while it ranked low in «Primary Processing Efficiency» (29th place) and «Use of Secondary and Recovered Raw Materials» (28th place). Using cluster analysis (k-means), the classification of world countries was carried out based on the component values of the integral indicator assessing the level of cascading in the woodworking industry. According to the results of the clustering, the studied countries were divided into two clusters. The grouping of countries into designated clusters was most influenced by the components «Sustainability of the resource base» and «Energy use of biomass», and least influenced by «Use of secondary and recovered raw materials». Ukraine was placed in the second cluster, which included countries with low values across all components, allowing them to be classified as a group with a low level of cascading use in the woodworking industry.

Keywords: woodworking industry, circular approach, sustainable development, cascading use of wood, integrated assessment, clusters, biomass, processing efficiency.

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Perepelitsyn Hryhorii B. – Postgraduate Student, Research Centre for Industrial Problems of Development of NAS of Ukraine (2 floor 1-a Inzhenernyi Ln., Kharkiv, 61166, Ukraine)
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