Despite accounting for only 17% of all sawmills (see Table 2.8), those with total annual sawnwood production of 25 thousand cubic metres or more accounted for 86% of the total softwood consumed by sawmills in 2016 (Table 2.11).
Year | Size of Mill (total production)1 | Total | ||||||
<1 | 1 – <5 | 5 – <10 | 10 – <25 | 25 – <50 | 50 – <100 | 100+ | ||
thousand green tonnes | ||||||||
2007 | 30 | 184 | 203 | 585 | 840 | 1639 | 2346 | 5828 |
2008 | 31 | 197 | 190 | 599 | 660 | 1548 | 1881 | 5107 |
2009 | 35 | 183 | 163 | 664 | 577 | 1416 | 2253 | 5291 |
2010 | 33 | 188 | 155 | 744 | 537 | 1373 | 2689 | 5719 |
2011 | 32 | 180 | 156 | 685 | 615 | 830 | 3486 | 5984 |
2012 | 33 | 176 | 184 | 539 | 738 | 1133 | 3395 | 6198 |
2013 | 36 | 177 | 177 | 476 | 804 | 777 | 4085 | 6532 |
2014 | 36 | 150 | 173 | 486 | 833 | 1090 | 4117 | 6884 |
2015 | 31 | 158 | 204 | 553 | 795 | 801 | 3805 | 6347 |
2016 | 29 | 146 | 199 | 588 | 372 | 1117 | 4270 | 6720 |
Table 2.11 Consumption of softwood by size of mill, 2007-2016
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 Data Downloads web page.