But the growing demand for forest products creates significant challenges for the industry. Somatic embryogenesis 

A process of initiation and development of somatic embryos in vitro from somatic cells and tissues.

plays a significant role in addressing those challenges. At CellFor, we are stewards of the forest.

The value of our technology to the ecosystem is clear. If foresters use existing lands more efficiently, they'll achieve the same level of production from a smaller growing area. This means that more of the world's natural forests can be preserved.

In fact, growing all of the world's lumber through our high yield process and intensive silviculture concentrated in high yielding growing regions would reduce the use of forestland for industrial production by a factor of 20.

And that means millions of acres of natural growth forests.

Just consider in 1996, the world consumed 1.6 billion cubic meters of industrial wood products. That figure is expected to grow to 2.3 billion over the next 20 years. If we relied solely on natural forests for this production, we would consume nearly 1.5 billion hectares (or 3.7 billion acres) of forestland, or 40% of the world's current natural forest.

Drs. C.A. Dean, P. Farnum and M. Plummer during the XXI IUFRO World Congress in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (August, 2000), and "State of the World Forests 1999"; FAO

By growing and harvesting wood from managed forests employing CellFor's high yield approach, the same production would be achieved with only 2% of the world's forests.

We believe that our future, and the future of the environment, depends on improving the efficiency and productivity of our existing industrial production through CellFor's proprietary seed production technology.