Sawmills - All Mills |
Despite accounting for only around one quarter 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 2013 (Table 2.11).
|
Year | Size of mill (total production)1 |
Total |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
< 1 |
1 - < 5 |
5 - < 10 |
10 - < 25 |
25 - < 50 |
50 + |
|
| thousand green tonnes | |||||||
|
2004 |
31 | 218 | 216 | 630 | 686 | 3 397 | 5 178 |
|
2005 |
29 | 230 | 232 | 518 | 579 | 3 607 | 5 196 |
|
2006 |
29 | 200 | 243 | 613 | 661 | 3 730 | 5 476 |
|
2007 |
30 | 184 | 203 | 585 | 840 | 3 985 | 5 828 |
|
2008 |
31 | 197 | 190 | 599 | 660 | 3 430 | 5 107 |
|
2009 |
35 | 183 | 163 | 664 | 577 | 3 668 | 5 291 |
|
2010 |
33 | 188 | 155 | 744 | 537 | 4 062 | 5 719 |
|
2011 |
32 | 180 | 156 | 685 | 615 | 4 316 | 5 984 |
|
2012 |
33 | 176 | 184 | 539 | 738 | 4 528 | 6 198 |
|
2013 |
36 | 177 | 177 | 476 | 804 | 4 862 | 6 532 |
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.