A research on entreprises applying heat treatment according to ISPM 15 standard in Turkish wooden products industry

IPPC (International Plant Protection Convention) is a FAO?s sub-organization and also our country is a member of this organization, is obliged with taking necessary precautions and expanding the struggle with pests harming wood. This association predicted the application of standard ISPM 15 so as to prudent the expansion and the transmission of these pests, which are located in wooden products that are used in international commerce, from one country to another. According to this standard, it is necessary to mark and impose the wooden packing materials by the process of heat treatment or fumigation with methyl bromide in a proper way.In Turkey, The Ministry of Agriculture and rural affairs prepared a regulation on this subject and put it into practice officially. According to this regulation, 482 enterprises are of authority doing fumigation and heating treatment accordingly to the ISPM 15 standard in our country.In this study, it has been reached 161 enterprises of which have the authorities of heat treatment and fumigation by the method of coincidental survey at sample survey and it has been looked for a solution to 23 questions by the method of face to face survey. With the help of these questions, all the problems encountered about the type of used energy, the effect of 2008 world economic crisis on heating treatment, the dimension of export and import, the capacity of Turkey?s heat treatment were evaluated statistically and solutions offers were presented.