Sawmills - All Mills |
Mills in Scotland consumed one half (50%) of the 5.3 million green tonnes of softwood delivered to UK sawmills in 2009. A further 29% was consumed by mills in England, 11% in Wales and 10% in Northern Ireland.
|
Year |
England |
Wales |
Scotland |
Northern |
UK |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| thousand green tonnes | |||||
|
2000 |
1 503 |
713 |
1 834 |
662 |
4 711 |
|
2001 |
1 435 |
724 |
2 016 |
662 |
4 838 |
|
2002 |
1 362 | 720 | 2 167 | 662 | 4 912 |
|
2003 |
1 433 | 777 | 2 166 | 662 | 5 037 |
|
2004 |
1 394 | 813 | 2 310 | 662 | 5 178 |
|
2005 |
1 416 | 746 | 2 349 | 685 | 5 196 |
|
2006 |
1 603 | 757 | 2 430 | 686 | 5 476 |
|
2007 |
1 674 | 784 | 2 683 | 713 | 5 853 |
|
2008 |
1 533 | 619 | 2 415 | 560 | 5 127 |
|
2009 |
1 548 | 558 | 2 672 | 532 | 5 311 |
Source: Sawmill Survey
Data:
Longer time series of the above table, and for mills in England by region, are available from the Timber Statistics web page.