UK's sawmills produced a total volume of 3.624m m³ softwood lumber during 2016, 5% more than in the preceding year, when the production of home-grown timber amounted to 3.449m m³.  As shown in the latest Forestry Statistics published by Forestry Commission, the production in Scotland also went up by 5% to 1.871m m³. In Northern Ireland and England, the production volumes increased at a similar rate to 1.093m m³ and 294,000m³ respectively. Yet, production increased most significantly in Wales by 13% to 366,000m³.  The increase from 2016 partly ...