Sawmills - All Mills |
UK sawmills produced a total of 2.8 million cubic metres of sawn softwood in 2009, a 2% increase from the 2008 figure.
Sawmills with total sawnwood production of 10 thousand cubic metres or more accounted for 92% of the total sawn softwood produced by sawmills in 2009.
|
Year | Size of mill (total production)1 |
Total |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
< 1 |
1 - < 5 |
5 - < 10 |
10 - < 25 |
25 - < 50 |
50 + |
|
| thousand cubic metres | |||||||
|
2000 |
28 |
213 |
168 |
274 |
466 |
1 365 | 2 515 |
|
2001 |
24 |
163 |
167 |
355 |
429 |
1 446 | 2 583 |
|
2002 |
19 | 147 | 159 | 360 | 354 | 1 580 | 2 619 |
|
2003 |
16 | 142 | 130 | 328 | 443 | 1 610 | 2 669 |
|
2004 |
17 | 126 | 119 | 331 | 368 | 1 761 | 2 722 |
|
2005 |
17 | 116 | 121 | 278 | 317 | 1 877 | 2 727 |
|
2006 |
17 | 118 | 128 | 326 | 359 | 1 911 | 2 859 |
|
2007 |
17 | 109 | 111 | 335 | 437 | 2 090 | 3 099 |
|
2008 |
18 | 116 | 104 | 331 | 369 | 1 834 | 2 771 |
|
2009 |
20 | 108 | 89 | 367 | 326 | 1 914 | 2 824 |
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 Timber Statistics web page.