Miscellaneous products |
There were 61 active round fencing manufacturers in 2012 (Table 2.25).
Over two thirds of round fencing manufacturers (70%) consumed less than 5 thousand green tonnes of softwood annually.
|
Year | Size category (consumption)1 |
Total |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
< 1 |
1 - < 5 |
5 - < 10 |
10 + |
|
|
2003 |
25 | 28 | 9 | 6 | 68 |
|
2004 |
25 | 30 | 8 | 6 | 69 |
|
2005 |
24 | 25 | 8 | 8 | 65 |
|
2006 |
25 | 31 | 7 | 6 | 69 |
|
2007 |
29 | 28 | 10 | 8 | 75 |
|
2008 |
22 | 27 | 11 | 7 | 67 |
|
2009 |
22 | 26 | 13 | 7 | 68 |
|
2010 |
22 | 24 | 13 | 6 | 65 |
|
2011 |
22 | 24 | 10 | 8 | 64 |
|
2012 |
22 | 21 | 11 | 7 | 61 |
Source: Survey of Round Fencing Manufacturers
Notes:
1. Categories are based on total softwood consumption, in thousand green tonnes.
Data: Longer time series of the number of softwood round fencing manufacturers, by size category and by country (England/Wales/Scotland/Northern Ireland) are available from the Timber Statistics web page.