Pulp mills and sawmills in Croatia

WoodComp tracks 3 sawmills in Croatia, with capacity, status and location as open data. Croatia holds 1.9 M ha of forest, 35 % of its land area, led by Common beech and Pedunculate oak. The fibre balance below sets their estimated wood demand against the national removals.

Wood supply

Forest area: 1.9 M ha; 35 % of land area
Standing volume: 441 M m3; growing stock, over bark
Yearly increment: 8.5 M m3/y; net annual increment (FAWS), over bark
Fellings: 5.8 M m3/y; 68 % of yearly increment
Industrial roundwood: 2.8 M m3/y; production

Forest types

share of forest area

Primary 0.3 % · 6 730 ha
Other naturally regenerating 95.8 % · 1.9 M ha
Plantation 3.8 % · 74 120 haone or two species, one age class

Tree species

share of growing stock

Common beech 37.0 %
Pedunculate oak 11.5 %
Sessile oak 9.2 %
Common hornbeam 8.5 %
European silver fir 7.7 %
Other species 26.0 %

All 15 reported species

Common beech37.0 %160 M m3furnish of 1 local facilityFagus silvatica L.
Pedunculate oak11.5 %50 M m3furnish of 1 local facilityQuercus robur L.
Sessile oak9.2 %40 M m3furnish of 1 local facilityQuercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl.
Common hornbeam8.5 %37 M m3Carpinus betulus L.
European silver fir7.7 %33 M m3furnish of 2 local facilitiesAbies alba Mill.
Narrow-leafed ash2.7 %12 M m3Fraxinus angustifolia Vahl.
Norway spruce2.2 %10 M m3Picea abies (L.) Karst.
Turkey oak2.0 %9 M m3furnish of 1 local facilityQuercus cerris L.
Black locustintroduced1.9 %8 M m3Robinia pseudoacacia L.
Black alder1.7 %7 M m3Alnus glutinosa (L.) Geartn.
Black pine1.4 %6 M m3Pinus nigra
Euroamerican poplarintroduced0.4 %2 M m3Populus canadensis
Eastern white pine (Weymouth pine)introduced0.2 %1 M m3Pinus strobus L.
European larchintroduced0.1 %1 M m3Larix decidua Mill.
Eastern American black walnutintroduced0.1 %0 M m3Juglans nigra L.

Introduced species hold 2.7 % of the reported growing stock. FAO ranks the ten largest native and five largest introduced species, together 86.8 % of the total.

The facilities on this page report Fir (2), Beech (1) and Oak (1) as furnish. The species matching that demand hold 67.5 % of the growing stock. Removals by species are not reported internationally, so this is a comparison of demand and standing forest, not a balance.

Fibre balance

betaestimated industry demand vs reported removals

Estimate. The demand side covers only the facilities WoodComp has mapped, at reported capacity, converted with published factors. Removals are official statistics.

Sawlogs

Removals2.4 M m3/y0.5 coniferous, 1.9 non-coniferous

Estimated sawmill intake~0.1 M m3/y3 % of removals, from 2 of 3 operating sawmills

Pulp fibre

Pulpwood removals0.2 M m3/y0.2 coniferous, 0.1 non-coniferous

Sawmill chips, estimated0.7-1 M m3/y30-40 % of sawlog removals, joins the pulp fibre supply

Estimated pulp-mill wood demandno reported capacity figures yet (0 operating pulp mills)

Demand is derived at render time from reported capacities and the published factor table: sawn output at 2.0 m3 of log per m3 sawn, pulp at 2.3 to 5.3 m3 per tonne depending on process and furnish. Sawmill chips are estimated at 30 to 40 percent of sawlog removals (FAO conversion factor material balances) and shown as their own supply component, never merged with the removals. Log imports and exports are not modelled, and demand above the estimated supply can mean either imports or capacity above actual production. Where coverage is low the balance measures our dataset, not the market.

Forest, species and production figures: FAO FRA 2025 and FAOSTAT (2024-2025). Increment and fellings: Eurostat European Forest Accounts (2023), forest available for wood supply, over bark. Removals by assortment: Eurostat roundwood removals (2023), under bark.

Pulp mills: 0
Sawmills: 3
Operating: 3
Operating pulp capacity: 0
Sawn timber capacity: -

Sawn timber capacity covers 0 of 3 operating sawmills with a reported figure. Data last updated 2026-09-13.

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Mill	Raw material	Status	Capacity
Drvenjača FužineSawmillDrvenjača d.d.	Softwood	Operating	15 000 m3/y sawn timberestimated from 30 000 m3/y log intake
Šerif Grupa - pilana Malo Selo (Gorski kotar)SawmillŠerif export-import d.o.o.	Mixed	Operating	15 000 m3/y sawn timberestimated from 30 000 m3/y log intake
Spačva VinkovciSawmillBjelin Spačva d.o.o.	Hardwood	Operating	No data yet

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WoodComp (). Pulp mills and sawmills in Croatia. WoodComp facility database, version 2026-09. Accessed the date you retrieved it. https://woodcomp.world/countries/croatia