ITTO Project PD 179/91 “Industrial utilization and improved marketing of some lesser -used timber species from sustainably managed forest”. Project Amount US$1million in 1993. 

I was co-investigator of the ITTO Project PD 179/91 “Industrial utilization and improved marketing of some lesser -used timber species from sustainably managed forest”. The Project amount of US$1million has been the biggest so far attracted into a research institution in Ghana. The Project duration was from 1993-1996. This project acquired the state-of-the-art furniture research and testing machine and a Universal Instron Machine for testing mechanical properties of timber for the Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (FORIG) also used by students and staff of KNUST. The project raised the image of FORIG and benefitted several wood processing companies in Ghana. Co-investigator: Dr A.G. Addae-Mensah. Project Consultants: Prof. Ivan Eastin (University of Washington, Seattle, USA); Prof Jay Johnson (University of Washington, Seattle, USA); Mr. Karl Nielson Gosta (Sweden).

AMEX/USAID Consultancy: Base-line survey data on availability of sawmill off-cuts for setting up a finger-jointing plant in Kumasi. 1996. Amount- US$ 40,000. Co-Consultants: Dr. A. Ofosu-Asiedu and Mr. J.M. Nani-Nutakor.