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Wood Input Purchases by Industry 2022

Wood Input Purchases at 3.1 million cubic metres in 2022

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CSO statistical release, 29 September 2023, 11am

Key Findings

The total volume of roundwood input purchases was 3.1 million cubic metres in 2022, a decrease of 3% from 2021 (See Table 1A).
Roundwood purchases from publicly-owned forests comprised 72% of 2022 purchases, compared with 64% in 2021 (See Figure 1, Tables 1D and 1E).
Large sawlog accounted for the highest proportion of roundwood purchase volume at 40% in 2022, followed by small sawlog (25%) and pulpwood (25%) (See Figure 2 and Table 3A).
Purchases of non-roundwood products (including brash and tree stumps, woodchip, and sawdust) were 424 thousand tonnes in 2022 (See Tables 1F and 2F).

Statistician's Comment

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has today (29 September 2023) released Wood Input Purchases by Industry 2022.

Commenting on the release Niamh Shanahan, Statistician in the Environment and Climate Division, said:

"In 2022 the volume of roundwood input purchases by industry was at 3.1 million cubic metres (See Table 1A), a decrease of 3% compared with 2021 purchases of 3.2 million cubic metres.

Roundwood purchases from publicly-owned forests made up 72% (2.2 million cubic metres) of 2022 purchases with the remainder from privately-owned forests (See Figure 1, Tables 1D, and 1E).

Large sawlog accounted for the highest proportion of roundwood purchase volume at approximately 40% in 2022, followed by small sawlog (25%) and pulpwood (25%) (See Figure 2 and Table 3A). Approximately 7% of roundwood purchase volume was for use as biomass.

In 2022, purchases of non-roundwood products such as brash and tree stumps, woodchip and sawdust totalled 424 thousand tonnes (See Tables 1F and 2F)."

Note: A link to the survey questionnaire is available in the Background Notes.

	Total roundwood purchases	Roundwood purchases from publicly-owned forests	Roundwood purchases from privately-owned forests
2015	2.778	2.063	0.715
2016	2.856	2.237	0.619
2017	2.937	2.213	0.724
2018	3.002	2.198	0.804
2019	3.198	2.445	0.753
2020	3.066	2.131	0.934
2021	3.212	2.044	1.168
2022	3.111	2.232	0.879

	volume
Large sawlog	1259
Small sawlog	793
Stakewood	85
Pulpwood	771
Roundwood for use as biomass	203

Table 1A Total Roundwood Purchases 2022

Table 1B Coniferous Roundwood Purchases 2022

Table 1C Non-coniferous Roundwood Purchases 2022

Table 1D Roundwood Purchases From Publicly-owned Forests 2022

Table 1E Roundwood Purchases From Privately-owned Forests 2022

Table 1F Non-roundwood Purchases 2022

Table 2A Total Roundwood and Non-roundwood Purchases by Product 2022 ('000 tonnes)

Table 2B Coniferous Roundwood Purchases by Product 2022 ('000 tonnes)

Table 2C Non-coniferous Roundwood Purchases by Product 2022 ('000 tonnes)

Table 2D Roundwood Purchases from Publicly-owned Forests by Product 2022 ('000 tonnes)

Table 2E Roundwood Purchases from Privately-owned Forests by Product 2022 ('000 tonnes)

Table 2F Non-roundwood Purchases by Product 2022 ('000 tonnes)

Table 3A Total Roundwood Purchases by Product 2022 ('000 cubic metres)

Table 3B Roundwood Coniferous Purchases by Product 2022 ('000 cubic metres)

Table 3C Roundwood Non-coniferous Purchases by Product 2022 ('000 cubic metres)

Table 3D Roundwood Purchases from Publicly-owned Forests by Product 2022 ('000 cubic metres)

Table 3E Roundwood Purchases from Privately-owned Forests by Product 2022 ('000 cubic metres)

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Table 1A Total Roundwood Purchases 2022
Year	'000 tonnes	'000 cubic metres
2015	2,459	2,778
2016	2,531	2,856
2017	2,599	2,937
2018	2,654	3,002
2019	2,824	3,198
2020	2,703	3,066
2021	2,829	3,212
2022	2,728	3,111

Table 1B Coniferous Roundwood Purchases 2022
Year	'000 tonnes	'000 cubic metres
2015	2,459	2,777
2016	2,530	2,855
2017	2,599	2,937
2018	2,654	3,002
2019	2,824	3,197
2020	2,702	3,065
2021	2,829	3,212
2022	2,728	3,111

Table 1D Roundwood Purchases From Publicly-owned Forests 2022
Year	'000 tonnes	'000 cubic metres
2015	1,825	2,063
2016	1,981	2,237
2017	1,957	2,213
2018	1,942	2,198
2019	2,149	2,445
2020	1,874	2,131
2021	1,791	2,044
2022	1,948	2,232

Table 2A Total Roundwood and Non-roundwood Purchases by Product 2022 ('000 tonnes)
'000 tonnes
Product	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
Large sawlog	869	931	958	1,040	956	1,031	1,164	1,082
Small sawlog	634	644	670	659	796	731	735	695
Stakewood	56	58	60	59	64	49	61	76
Pulpwood	763	723	750	769	851	733	731	695
Roundwood for use as biomass	137	174	161	127	157	160	138	180
Brash and tree stumps	23	27	23	6	7	–	8	10
Woodchip	192	221	237	268	284	332	361	295
Sawdust	59	80	103	93	97	151	78	86
Short-rotation coppice	2	16	19	17	13	16	13	6
Post-consumer recovered wood	11	17	21	24	25	26	31	27

Total	2,747	2,892	3,002	3,062	3,251	3,229	3,319	3,152
– indicates absolute zero value

Table 2B Coniferous Roundwood Purchases by Product 2022 ('000 tonnes)
'000 tonnes
Product	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
Large sawlog	869	931	958	1,040	956	1,031	1,164	1,082
Small sawlog	634	644	670	659	796	731	735	695
Stakewood	56	58	60	59	64	49	61	76
Pulpwood	763	723	750	768	851	733	731	695
Roundwood for use as biomass	137	174	161	127	157	160	138	180

Total	2,459	2,530	2,599	2,654	2,824	2,702	2,829	2,728

Wood Input Purchases by Industry 2022