Pulp mills and sawmills in Chile
WoodComp tracks 6 operating pulp mills and 26 sawmills in Chile, with capacity, status and location as open data. Chile holds 18.2 M ha of forest, 24 % of its land area, led by Coihue and Ulmo.
Wood supply
- Forest area
- 18.2 M ha
- 24 % of land area
- Standing volume
- 4.5 bn m3
- growing stock, over bark
- Industrial roundwood
- 42.3 M m3/y
- production
Forest types
share of forest area- Primary 49.2 % · 8.9 M ha
- Other naturally regenerating 33.5 % · 6.1 M ha
- Plantation 17.4 % · 3.2 M haone or two species, one age class
Tree species
share of growing stock- Coihue 29.0 %
- Ulmo 8.3 %
- Tepa 7.7 %
- Pino insigne 7.0 %introduced
- Roble 6.6 %
- Other species 41.4 %
All 12 reported species
- Coihue29.0 %1 301 M m3Nothofagus dombeyi
- Ulmo8.3 %373 M m3Eucryphia cordifolia
- Tepa7.7 %346 M m3Laureliopsis philippiana
- Pino insigneintroduced7.0 %316 M m3furnish of 30 local facilitiesPinus radiata
- Roble6.6 %297 M m3Nothofagus obliqua
- Mañío hembra6.2 %281 M m3Saxegothaea conspicua
- Tineo4.2 %189 M m3Weinmannia trichosperm
- Olivillo3.7 %166 M m3Aextoxicon punctatum
- Trevo3.1 %141 M m3Dasyphyllum diacanthoides
- Eucaliptointroduced2.8 %125 M m3furnish of 2 local facilitiesEucalyptus spp
- Lenga2.7 %123 M m3Nothofagus pumilio
- Araucaria2.7 %122 M m3Araucaria araucana
Introduced species hold 9.8 % of the reported growing stock. FAO ranks the ten largest native and five largest introduced species, together 84.1 % of the total.
The facilities on this page report Pine (30) and Eucalyptus (2) as furnish. The species matching that demand hold 9.8 % of the growing stock. Removals by species are not reported internationally, so this is a comparison of demand and standing forest, not a balance.
Forest, species and production figures: FAO FRA 2025 and FAOSTAT (2024-2025).
- Pulp mills
- 7
- Sawmills
- 29
- Operating
- 32
- Operating pulp capacity
- 5 126 000
- t/y pulp
- Sawn timber capacity
- 2 517 229
- m3/y sawn timber
Capacity is the sum over 6 of 6 operating pulp mills with a reported capacity (t/y). Sawn timber capacity covers 11 of 26 operating sawmills with a reported figure. Data last updated 2026-09-14.
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