Papers

Majid Azizi, S. Amiri , M. Modarres
Journal: Journal of the Institute of Wood Science
The aim of this article is to show how to select the best location for the establishment of wood industry units in Iran. The decision is examined in a framework of benefits, opportunities, costs, and risks (the BOCR), called the merits of the decision. A hierarchy is used to prioritize the BOCR t...

Majid Azizi, S. Amiri, M. Modarres
Journal: Iranian Journal of Natural Resources
The objective of this paper is to develop a method for selecting the most suitable location for establishing wood industry unit. Decision making is examined within the framework of benefits, opportunities, costs, and risks (BOCR), called the merits of the decision. A hierarchy is developed to pri...

Majid Azizi, A Memariani
Journal: OR Insight
The improper siting of plywood and veneer factories has given rise, in Iran, to unsatisfactory production. For future plants, it has been decided to analyze the problem on a more scientific basis. A hierarchy was constructed based on five major groups of criteria, and the weight of the indicators...

Majid Azizi
Journal: The Pakistan Journal of Forestry
The location of wood industry has not been selected by proper planning in Iran and for that reason the production rate is not satisfactory. Effective indicators in location of the Industry were identified and a hierarchy was constructed based on five major groups of criteria. The weights of the i...

Majid Azizi, Mohammad Modarres
Journal: Journal of Applied Sciences
The objective of this research is to design a method for selection of an appropriate location to establish plywood and veneer plants in Iran. Due to the climate of this region as well as the destruction of the forests and lack of proper plantation, the supporting forests to feed this industry are...

Majid Azizi
Journal: OR Insight
The raw materials of Iran's plywood industry are procured from the northern forests of Iran, and development of the plywood industry is intensively related to the situation of these forests. Previous research has indicated that the future development and location of plywood units in Iran will...

Majid Azizi
Journal: Journal of the Institute of Wood Science
The improper sites of plywood and veneer factories have caused the unsatisfactory production. For future plants, it is decided to analyze the problem through scientific studies. Influential indicators for this matter were identified and an hierarchy was constructed based on five major groups of c...

Majid Azizi, Mohammad Modarres
Journal: OR Insight volume
The aim of this paper is to develop a strategic plan for selecting the best options for the supply of raw material to feed paper producing plants. The decision-making is examined within the framework of benefits, opportunities, costs, and risks (BOCR). A hierarchy is used to prioritize the BOCR, ...

Majid Azizi
Journal: Journal of Forestry Research
The objective of this research is to design a method for an appropriate alternative to supply poplar wood as raw material for wood and paper factories in Iran. Due to the destruction of the forests and lack of proper plantation, replacement of the forest wood by the fast growing wood is vital to ...

Majid Azizi
Journal: Journal of the institute of wood science
The choice of the best machines for furniture industries is very important due to the high investment in the industry. The aim of this research was to determine and prioritize three types of machine which can be used in the secondary wood industries. After obtaining the information in the field o...

Majid Azizi
Journal: The journal of the institute of wood science
Development trend of Iranian particleboard industry is not satisfactory. Effective indicators in non-development of the industry were divided into five major groups, i.e. by economic, raw material and product, social, technical and man power, rules and regulation plus 23 subsections. After obtain...

Majid Azizi, Mohammad Modarres
Journal: OR Insight
The objective of this research is to design an approach for selecting appropriate raw materials for facial tissues in Iran. There are three possibilities to maintain raw materials: (1) imported virgin pulp; (2) bagasse (sugar cane residue) plus some imported raw materials; and (3) recycled paper ...

Payam Ghorbannezhad, Majid Azizi, Shih-Chan Ting, Mohammd Layeghi, Omid Ramezani
Journal: International Journal of Sustainable Engineering
The pulp and paper industry is under increasing pressure to reduce its energy consumption and impact on the environment. The ‘Cleaner Production’ (CP) approach has been widely utilised as a tool to meet environmental concerns by industry. However, because of the high initial capital cost of CP im...

Majid Azizi, Alireza Dehghan, Nemat Mohebbi
Journal: Iranian Journal of Wood and Paper Industries
Identification and priority of the effective criteria in decision making of selecting most suitable location for establishing solar wood drying unitsin Iran was objective of this study. For this purpose, after preliminary investigation and interviews, 42 effective criteria and sub-criteria were i...

Majid Azizi, Mohammad Modarres
Journal: Journal of Forestry Research
A study was conducted to select the best alternative for the development of construction panels as well as investment in its manufacturing in Iran. Three alternatives are considered, cement-bonded wood composite product, substituted products (such as concrete panel) sandwich panel and a mixture o...

Majid Azizi
Journal: International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process
Identification of preferable wood panels according to market share, competition and quality is necessary until the investors and manufacturers help to develop the industry and preserve the market share. The quality and quantity of Iranian wood panels is growing successfully. The preservation of m...

Majid Azizi, Mostafa Ramezanzadeh
Journal: Iranian Journal of Wood and Paper Industries
This research presents an optimum framework for hardboard industry location selection in Mazandaran Province. Considering the existence of only two depreciated hardboard plants with very old technology in Iran, the establishment of new plants are vital. To materialize this goal, Mazandaran provin...

A. Bayatkashkoli, A. Rafighi, Majid Azizi, M. Shamsian
Journal: JOURNAL OF WOOD AND FOREST SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Lignocellulosic resources of Khoozestan province are usable for wood and paper industry. The main questions are that, which places have the best conditions are select for development of wood and paper industries? Since, the methodologies of research were analytical and estimated. The research que...

Majid Azizi, N. Mohebbi, R. Mohebbi, M. Ziaie
Journal: JOURNAL OF WOOD AND FOREST SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Suitable site-selection of industrial units creates proper conditions for optimum use of material and reduction of waste, and on the other hand, leads to more sell and hence high profit. The objective of this study is to determine the effective criteria in decision making of selecting the most su...

Majid Azizi, R. Dehghan, A. Eftekhari, M. Faezipour
Journal: Journal of forest and wood products
With regard to the importance of the conduction of limit resources to the superior industries, study on the country's priorities in the industrial areas and products is essential. Considering the fact that Qom province has special conditions, this provincecan be consideredas a wood centerin t...

Majid Azizi, Mostafa Ramezanzadeh
Journal: Economics, Management and Sustainability
This paper presents a framework for locating agricultural-residuals particleboard industry in the northern provinces of Iran. Particleboard industry is the only Iranian wood and paper industry with an export potential and the use of agricultural residuals as the raw material can help with increas...

Majid Azizi, Mansooreh Azizpour
Journal: International Journal of Production Research
The privatisation of the Iran newsprint industry has caused an increase in production and decrease in importation. Recognition of effective criteria in newsprint privatisation will accelerate privatisation of the industry. The goal of the research is expediting privatisation in the Iran newsprint...

Majid Azizi, Elaheh Momeni, Nemat Mohebbi
Journal: Journal of the Indian Academy of Wood Science
Medium density fiberboard (MDF) product is one of the newest types of compressed wood panels that their consumption has had a lot of growth in recent years. MDF productions of every production unit are different from each other according to a number of physical and mechanical indices. In this art...

Mohammad Vali, Ali Rafighi, Majid Azizi , Nemat Mohebbi
Journal: International Journal of Sustainable Engineering
Today, the issue of site selection for industrial units in developing countries which are poor in wood resources is considered as a vital matter and it is one of the key measures in the process of building industrial and giving service units. In every country there are some provinces and states w...

Payam Ghorbannezhad, Majid Azizi, Charles Ray, Changkyoo Yoo, Omid Ramazani
Journal: Environment Protection Engineering
Multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) was used to make comparative analysis of projects or heterogeneous measures for prioritization criteria and subcriteria simultaneously in a complex situation. The aim of this paper is to determine the alternatives and the sensitivity of main factors affecting...

Vahid Nabavi, Majid Azizi, Nemat Allah Mohebbi
Journal: iBusiness
In cycle of attraction and keeping the customers, fulfilling the customer satisfaction via identifying of their needs is very important. So, identifying the amount of customer satisfaction and informed of the field of strength and weakness in this regard, helps manager programming in line with cu...

Fatemeh Sarfi, Majid Azizi, Amin Arian
Journal: Forest Science and Practice
Of considerable importance and a principal goal in business is the creation of customer satisfaction. Evaluation of end user preferences for producers of particleboard and medium density fiberboard (MDF) requires indices for the assessment of markets and modification of product quality. However, ...

Abdollah barimani, Ali Ghasemian, Majid Azizi, Nemat Mohebbi, Majid Zabih Zadeh
Location selection for factory competitiveness in the market place plays an important role and should be chosen so that will leads achievement of the strategic advantages compared with other competitors. The objective of this study was determination of the effective criteria for decision making t...

Majid Azizi, Fatemeh Sarfi, Mehdi Faezipour, Amin Arian
Journal: International Journal of Multicriteria Decision Making
In order to compare composite wood in Iran, a hierarchy was designed to prioritise benefits, opportunities, costs and risks using analytic hierarchy process rating approach. BOCR structure was determined by providing questionnaires and collecting data from knowledgeable persons who were consumers...

Majid Azizi, Nemat Mohebbi, Rahim Mohebbi Gargari, Mohsen Ziaie
Journal: International Journal of Multicriteria Decision Making
Selecting the best place for a factory among some proposed locations based on various indices is a decision-making multi-criteria issue. This issue is one of the most critical steps in establishing the factory since the results of this decision will have economically, socially, environmentally an...

Mansoureh Hasanzadeh, Afshin Danehkar, Majid Azizi
Journal: Ocean & Coastal Management
Oil jetties are among the most effective land structures, which have cause a different potential for coastal environment destruction. These effects relate to the oil products of these industries that cause extensive oil pollution in coastal regions. Thus, the identification and prioritization of ...

H. Alizadeh, M. Faezipour, Majid Azizi, M. Ziaie
Journal: Journal of forest and wood products
Foreign trade has a significant role in economic development that some of experts know it as anengine or fuel for economic growth and other know it as growth car oil and some consider it asinternational inequalities exacerbated factors. In the classical theory of international trade, exportcharac...

Omid Hosseinzadeh, Yahya Hamzeh, Majid Azizi, Yahya Hamzeh
Journal: Iranian Journal of Wood and Paper Industries
In this study, with the aim of furniture clusters development, the geographical distributionof furniture industries in Iran was evaluated and taking account this parameter, the areas with the high priority for the development of the furniture clusters were identified. LQ (Location Quotient) calcu...

Majid Azizi, Alireza Dehghan, Nemat Mohebbi
Journal: Iranian Journal of Wood and Paper Industries
Identification and priority of the effective criteria in decision making of selecting most suitable location for establishing solar wood drying unitsin Iran was objective of this study. For this purpose, after preliminary investigation and interviews, 42 effective criteria and sub-criteria were i...

Vahid Nabavi, Majid Azizi, Mehdi Faezipour
Journal: International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the effect of the ISO 9001 quality management system on customer satisfaction and show an application of an analytic hierarchy process (AHP)-based method for measuring the customer satisfaction index (CSI). This will be useful to anyone who wants to have an...

Majid Azizi, Charles Ray
Journal: Forest Policy and Economics
Due to the implementation of Iran's Northern Forest Protection Plan for wood resources, manufacturers of wood and paper have a major problem in raw material supply in Iran; hence, they have to search for other resources to supply and procure their required raw material. Although there are som...

Kamran Afsahi, Asadollah Akram, Reza Alimardani, Majid Azizi
Journal: International Journal of Agriculture and Crop Sciences
In order to advise system, the research results cannot be adequate. So for identifying the effective factors in system selecting, the experience of experts should be used. The present study examines the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) of system at plowing in all of the use...

M. Ghofrani, V. Farshchi, Majid Azizi
Journal: Iranian Journal of wood and paper science research
Nowadays, producers are successful in Of getting profit in more efforts to satisfy our customers in target markets And build customer loyalty to your brand. The aim of this study was to study and identify factors influencing loyalty Customer to the brand in the furniture industry using Group Deci...

Mohammad Ghofrani, Vajihe Farshchi, Majid Azizi
Journal: Journal of Lignocellulose
The present paper aims at assessment and prioritizing of branding factors affecting the furniture industry and offering appropriate solutions to branding in furniture industry. To this end, after basic studies and review of other researches, 23 patterns and sub-patterns under 5 basic criteria of ...

Mohammad Azadfallah, Majid Azizi
Journal: J. for International Business and Entrepreneurship Development
A review of the supplier selection literature shows that the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method is one of the most commonly applied methods in practice. However, a major drawback in applying AHP is that the required comparisons rises quadratically with the entities to be compared. In this pa...

Abdollah Barimani, A. Ghasemian, Majid Azizi, S. M. Zabizadeh
Journal: International Journal of Lignocellulosic Products
A suitable location plays an important role in the competitiveness of a plant in the market and should be selected such that it allows access to strategic advantages compared with other competitors. The aim of the current study was identification optimized location of fluting paper plant from ...

Nemat Allah Mohebbi, Majid Azizi, Mohsen Ziyai, Mohammad Mahdi Faezipour
Journal: Iranian Journal of Wood and Paper Industries
Nowadays, many of developing countries are looking for outsourcing opportunities of developed countries, because this will bring them many benefits. In this regard, the goal of this study is determining and prioritizing of the effective criteria on attainment of outsourcing benefits of the develo...

Majid Azizi, Nemat Mohebbi, Fabio De Felice
Journal: Agriculture and Agricultural Science Procedia
Solar energy is one of the free and clean sources of energy supply without any destructive influence on the environment. Solar energy has been used in different forms for a long time. Concentrators of solar radiation can be used to produce unlimited, clean and free energy and save fossil fuels co...

Majid Azizi, Nemat Mohebbi, Fabio De Felice
Journal: Agriculture and Agricultural Science Procedia
Furniture manufacturing industry seems to be significant not only from economical and social standpoints but also from perspective of environmentally compatible industries. Accordingly, moving toward sustainable development in this sector of Iran's industry is regarded as a national necessity...

Majid Azizi, Mehdi Faezipour, Tahir Nisar
Journal: Cogent Business & Management
The purpose of this study is to use supply chain management in a wood furniture company and find its effect on the management indices of that company. The supply chain is a complex system consisting three or more commercial units which directly include at least one connected product procedure, fi...

Majid Azizi, Kazem Mohammadzadeh
Journal: Socio-Economic Problems and the State
The current research presents the best solution for socio-economic problem regarding poplar plantation in Eastern and Western Azerbaijan, Iran. Planting fast growing species such as poplar is highly profitable in wood farming in Eastern and Western Azerbaijan, hence identification of socio-econom...

Majid Azizi, Charles Ray
Journal: Cogent Business & Management
This study proposes a decision model for privatization of newsprint paper industry. Newsprint paper has very demanding market requirements, ones that must be adapted in quality and quantity with consumers’ media preferences. In Iran, there is one newsprint paper producer that supplies 70% of dome...

N. Mohebbi, Majid Azizi, M. Ziaie, O. Hosseinzadeh
Journal: J. of wood & forest science and technology
Background and objectives: Development of non-oil exports is one of the pillars of strengthening the country's economic growth. Today furniture industry has a significant share in global trade, so the sustainable development and growth of this industry can have a significant impact on employm...

Majid Azizi, Seyed Alireza Dehghan, Mohsen Ziaie, Nematollah Mohebi
Journal: Economics, Management and Sustainability
The purpose of this research is to identify the influential factors on customer satisfaction in the Iranian furniture market in order to get acquainted with the fundamental items for planning future sales programs with the purposes of extolling competitive advantages. A commixture of 6 items an...

Majid Azizi
Journal: Economics, Management and Sustainability
The location of solar wood drying has not been selected in Iran yet. One of important applications of solar energy is to manufacture solar wood drying units. Effective indicators in location of solar wood drying were identified and a hierarchy was constructed based on five major groups of criteri...

Majid Azizi, Fatemeh Rahimi, Mohammad Amin Jonoobi, Mosen Ziaie
Journal: Economics, Management and Sustainability
Both Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and benefits, opportunities, costs and risks (BOCR) techniques were used successfully to evaluate the effective criteria on site selection for energy production unit development from cellulosic biomass in Iran. The results showed that the benefits criteria ...

Majid Azizi, Gholamreza Mehdikhanloo
Journal: International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process
This study was carried out due to the severe dearth of research on the role of design in furniture production and the furniture market in Iran. Accordingly, this research proposes a decision making model to select the best solution for the role of design in this industry. The four possibilities t...

Majid Azizi, Nemat Mohebbi, Mohammad Azadfallah
Journal: Economics, Management and Sustainability
Fluting paper industry seems to be significant from environmental view point. Accordingly, study on sustainable development criteria in this sector of Iran’s industry is regarded as a national necessity. The intent of the current study is to determine and prioritize the indices affecting sustaina...

Majid Azizi, Yaghoob Asadizadeh, Charles Ray, Yahya Hamzeh
Journal: International Journal of Sustainable Engineering
The objective of this research is to design an approach for selecting appropriate solutions to efficiently and productively reduce environmental pollution and water, energy and raw material consumption in a recycled paper manufacturing facility, the paper mill in Latif, Iran. To reach this goal, ...

S. B. Hosseini, Majid Azizi, Mehdi Kalagar, Mehdi Moradipour
Journal: Iranian Journal of Wood and Paper Industries
27 percentage of Gilan province (North of Iran) with approximately 150 thousand hectares is under cover of Shafaroud Forest Company which is utilized in form of 73 forestry plans. Regarding to ecological futures of the region, promising species and the Shafaroud's potential, three species con...

Majid Azizi
Journal: Economics, Management and Sustainability
The present paper aims at assessment and prioritizing of reputation factors affecting the administrative furniture. To this end, after basic studies and review of other researches, 45 sub-criteria under 6 basic criteria of management, customer, services, social-cultural, technical and marketing- ...

Majid Azizi, Hamzehali Mansouri
Journal: International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process
This study was carried out because of the lack of research on strategic planning in Iran's home furniture market. Accordingly, in this study, we developed a decision-making model to select the best solution for strategic planning in the industry. After determining the strategic criteria or fa...

Rahim Mohebbi Gargari, Majid Azizi, Charles Ray, Asghar Tarmian, zam Dokht Safi Samghabadi
Journal: International Journal of Business and Systems Research
This study attempted to determine a suitable combination of multiple-criteria selection techniques for the best location for wood drying kiln operations in Iran. Utilising field studies across the wood-drying industry, limitations of existing selection-method criteria were identified, and a hiera...

Fatemeh Hasani Khorshidi, Majid Azizi, Charles Ray, Mohammad Mahdi Faezipour, Hamid Zarea Hosseinabadi
Journal: International Journal of Sustainable Engineering
The production operation plays a crucial role in reducing environmental impacts in various stages of the life cycle of products, from extraction of materials to production, end use, reuse, and recycling. Therefore, the process of reducing these environmental impacts in relation to production cont...