2016 - Consumption of softwood by size of mill

Despite accounting for only 27% of all sawmills (see Table 2.8), those with total annual sawnwood production of 10 thousand cubic metres or more accounted for 94% of the total softwood consumed by sawmills in 2015 (Table 2.11).

Table 2.11 Consumption of softwood by size of mill, 2006-2015
Year	Size of mill (total production)¹							Total
	< 1	1 – < 5	5 – < 10	10 – < 25	25 – < 50	50 – <100	100+
thousand green tonnes
2006	29	200	243	613	661	1 694	2 036	5 476
2007	30	184	203	585	840	1 639	2 346	5 828
2008	31	197	190	599	660	1 548	1 881	5 107
2009	35	183	163	664	577	1 416	2 253	5 291
2010	33	188	155	744	537	1 373	2 689	5 719
2011	32	180	156	685	615	830	3 486	5 984
2012	33	176	184	539	738	1 133	3 395	6 198
2013	36	177	177	476	804	777	4 085	6 532
2014	36	150	173	486	833	1 090	4 117	6 884
2015	31	158	204	553	795	801	3 805	6 347

Source: Sawmill Survey

Notes:

1. Categories are based on total sawnwood production (softwood and hardwood), in thousand m³.

Data: Longer time series of the above table are available from the Data Downloads web page.

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2016 – Consumption of softwood by size of mill

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