2017 - Consumption of softwood by size of mill

Despite accounting for only 17% of all sawmills (see Table 2.8), those with total annual sawnwood production of 25 thousand cubic metres or more accounted for 86% of the total softwood consumed by sawmills in 2016 (Table 2.11).

Year	Size of Mill (total production)¹							Total
	<1	1 – <5	5 – <10	10 – <25	25 – <50	50 – <100	100+
thousand green tonnes
2007	30	184	203	585	840	1639	2346	5828
2008	31	197	190	599	660	1548	1881	5107
2009	35	183	163	664	577	1416	2253	5291
2010	33	188	155	744	537	1373	2689	5719
2011	32	180	156	685	615	830	3486	5984
2012	33	176	184	539	738	1133	3395	6198
2013	36	177	177	476	804	777	4085	6532
2014	36	150	173	486	833	1090	4117	6884
2015	31	158	204	553	795	801	3805	6347
2016	29	146	199	588	372	1117	4270	6720

^{Table 2.11 Consumption of softwood by size of mill, 2007-2016}

^{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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2017 – Consumption of softwood by size of mill

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