UK's sawmills produced a total volume of\u00a03.624m m\u00b3 softwood lumber during 2016, 5% more than in the preceding year, when the\u00a0production of home-grown timber amounted to 3.449m m\u00b3.<\/p>\n
As shown in the latest Forestry Statistics published by Forestry Commission, the production in Scotland also went up by 5% to 1.871m m\u00b3. In Northern Ireland and England, the production volumes increased at a similar rate to 1.093m m\u00b3 and 294,000m\u00b3 respectively. Yet, production increased most significantly in Wales by 13% to 366,000m\u00b3.<\/p>\n
The increase from 2016 partly balanced the 7% decline recorded in 2015, as compared to 2014.\u00a0In 2014 British sawmills produced 3.716m m\u00b3 softwood lumber and thus reached the highest production volume ever recorded by the Forestry Commission.<\/p>\n
Sawmills that had an\u00a0annual production of over 100,000m\u00b3 produced a total of 2.296m m\u00b3 softwood lumber in 2016. As compared to UK's total production,\u00a0this constitutes an increase by three percentage points to 63%. The companies with a production volume of 50,000-100,000m\u00b3 produced 597,000m\u00b3, which constitutes 16% of British production. Production by sawmills with annual production of 10,000-25,000m\u00b3 increased by 14% to 338,000m\u00b3.<\/p>\n
Sawmills from the other size-classes, in comparison, produced less in 2016 than in 2015. For companies which reach an annual production of 25,000-50,000m\u00b3, production plummeted by 60% to 186,000m\u00b3. In the case of sawmills with an annual production of up to 10,000m\u00b3, the volume produced, at 208,000m\u00b3, fell short of the preceding year\u2019s figure by 21%.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
UK’s sawmills produced a total volume of\u00a03.624m m\u00b3 softwood lumber during 2016, 5% more than in the preceding year, when the\u00a0production of home-grown timber amounted to 3.449m m\u00b3. As shown in the latest Forestry Statistics published by Forestry Commission, the … Continue reading