Pulp mills and sawmills in Mexico
WoodComp tracks 1 sawmill in Mexico, with capacity, status and location as open data. Mexico holds 66.3 M ha of forest, 34 % of its land area, led by Palo mulato, copalillo, cohuite and Tzalam.
Wood supply
- Forest area
- 66.3 M ha
- 34 % of land area
- Standing volume
- 3.7 bn m3
- growing stock, over bark
- Industrial roundwood
- 9.5 M m3/y
- production
Forest types
share of forest area- Primary 49.9 % · 33.0 M ha
- Other naturally regenerating 49.9 % · 33.1 M ha
- Other planted 0.0 % · 5 450 ha
- Plantation 0.2 % · 128 760 haone or two species, one age class
Tree species
share of growing stock- Palo mulato, copalillo, cohuite 4.2 %
- Tzalam 3.6 %
- Pino prieto, pino resinoso, pino amarillo 3.2 %
- Pino blanco, pino real 3.1 %
- Pino blanco, pino real 2.1 %
- Other species 83.7 %
All 15 reported species
- Palo mulato, copalillo, cohuite4.2 %161 M m3Bursera simaruba
- Tzalam3.6 %138 M m3Lysiloma latisiliquum
- Pino prieto, pino resinoso, pino amarillo3.2 %121 M m3furnish of 1 local facilityPinus oocarpa
- Pino blanco, pino real3.1 %119 M m3furnish of 1 local facilityPinus durangensis
- Pino blanco, pino real2.1 %79 M m3furnish of 1 local facilityPinus pseudostrobus
- Pino blanco, pino real2.0 %76 M m3furnish of 1 local facilityPinus arizonica
- Encino blanco1.9 %73 M m3Quercus magnoliifolia
- Ocote chino1.8 %68 M m3furnish of 1 local facilityPinus leiophylla
- Chicozapote1.7 %65 M m3Manilkara zapota
- Encino chaparro1.7 %64 M m3Quercus sideroxyla
- Mangointroduced0.0 %2 M m3Mangifera indica
- Árbol del hule, cauchointroduced0.0 %2 M m3Hevea brasiliensis
- Fresno, cedro rosadointroduced0.0 %1 M m3Acrocarpus fraxinifolius
- Melinaintroduced0.0 %1 M m3Gmelina arborea
- Framboyán, tabachínintroduced0.0 %0 M m3Delonix regia
Introduced species hold 0.1 % of the reported growing stock. FAO ranks the ten largest native and five largest introduced species, together 25.5 % of the total.
The facilities on this page report Pine (1) as furnish. The species matching that demand hold 12.2 % 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
- 0
- Sawmills
- 1
- Operating
- 1
- Operating pulp capacity
- 0
- Sawn timber capacity
- -
Sawn timber capacity covers 0 of 1 operating sawmills with a reported figure. Data last updated 2026-09-10.
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| Mill | Raw material | Status | Capacity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forestal Alfa / Silvícola Chapultepec aserraderoSawmillForestal Alfa S.A. de C.V. / Compañía Silvícola Chapultepec, S. de R.L. de C.V. | Softwood | Operating | No data yet |
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