Wood consumption 2018

• In 2018, a total of 84.4 million solid cubic metres of roundwood was used in Finland, which was 5 per cent more than in the previous year and also more ever before.

• Most of the roundwood, 73.6 million cubic metres, was consumed by the forest industries to manufacture forest industry products. Of the total amount, 64.5 million cubic metres consisted of domestic roundwood and 9.1 million cubic metres of imported roundwood. Forest industries’ total roundwood consumption increased by 6 per cent from the previous year.

• In all, 10.8 million cubic metres of roundwood was used in energy generation. This was almost the same volume as in the previous year. Of this amount, 6.5 million cubic metres was burned as fuelwood in small-scale housing, and 4.3 cubic metres as forest chips manufactured from stemwood in heating and power plants.

• A total of 25.9 million cubic metres of forest industry by-products and wood residues were used in 2018. Of this, 9.7 million cubic metres were used for the production of forest industry products as sawmill chips and dust. In energy generation heating and power plants consumed 3.1 million cubic metres of various types of forest residues (i.e. logging residues and stumps) and 12.6 million cubic metres of forest industry by-products and other industrial wood residues (mainly industrial chips, sawdust and bark). In small-scale housing, a total of 0.4 million cubic metres of fuelwood from wood residues from sawmills and construction as well as wood pellets were burned.

• The Forest industries’ wood consumption is presented in more detail in Natural Resources Institute Finland’s statistics publication dated 25 April 2019. Detailed information on Wood in energy generation was published on 23 May 2019. Data on Fuelwood consumption in small-scale housing are available on the statistics’ home page.

Statistics for 2018 have been updated on 22nd November 2019