Wood consumption 2016

• In 2016, a total of 76.9 million cubic metres of roundwood was consumed in Finland, which was 4 per cent more than a year earlier and 6 per cent above the average in the previous five-year period.

• Most of the roundwood, 67.4 million cubic metres, or 88 per cent, was consumed by the forest industries. The remaining 9.5 million cubic metres were used in energy generation as fuelwood in small-scale housing (5.4 million m³) and as forest chips made from stemwood (4.2 million m³) in heating and power plants.

• A total of 26.0 million cubic metres of forest industry by-products and different types of wood residues were consumed in 2016. Of this, 9.3 million cubic metres were used for the production of forest industry products, mainly as sawmill chips and dust. A total of 3.3 million cubic metres of various types of forest residues (i.e. logging residues and stumps) and 12.1 million cubic metres of forest industry by-products and other industrial wood residues were consumed in energy generation in heating and power plants. In small-scale housing, a total of 1.3 million cubic metres of fuelwood from wood residues from the forests, sawmills, construction etc. were burned.

• The forest industries’ wood consumption is presented in more detail in Natural Resources Institute Finland’s statistics publication dated 28 April 2017. Detailed information on Wood in energy generation was published on 26 May 2017. The most recent information on fuelwood consumption in small-scale housing is available on the statistics home page.

 Wood flows from forest to industry products, 2016