Pulp mills and sawmills in New Zealand
WoodComp tracks 1 operating pulp mill and 13 sawmills in New Zealand, with capacity, status and location as open data. New Zealand holds 10.3 M ha of forest, 39 % of its land area, led by Radiata pine and Silver beech.
Wood supply
- Forest area
- 10.3 M ha
- 39 % of land area
- Standing volume
- 4.2 bn m3
- growing stock, over bark
- Industrial roundwood
- 32.6 M m3/y
- production
Forest types
share of forest area- Primary 19.4 % · 2.0 M ha
- Other naturally regenerating 57.0 % · 5.9 M ha
- Plantation 23.6 % · 2.4 M haone or two species, one age class
Tree species
share of growing stock- Radiata pine 17.2 %introduced
- Silver beech 13.7 %
- Red beech 11.1 %
- Kamahi 7.9 %
- Mountain beech 5.4 %
- Other species 44.8 %
All 12 reported species
- Radiata pineintroduced17.2 %708 M m3furnish of 8 local facilitiesPinus radiata
- Silver beech13.7 %563 M m3Lophozonia menziesii
- Red beech11.1 %456 M m3Fuscospora fusca
- Kamahi7.9 %324 M m3Weinmannia racemosa
- Mountain beech5.4 %222 M m3Fuscospora cliffortioides
- Rimu3.8 %155 M m3Dacrydium cupressinum
- Tawa3.4 %139 M m3Beilschmiedia tawa
- Southern rata2.3 %95 M m3Metrosideros umbellata
- Hard beech2.2 %92 M m3Fuscospora truncata
- Black beech1.6 %68 M m3Fuscospora solandri
- Miro1.2 %50 M m3Prumnopitys ferruginea
- Douglas firintroduced0.5 %23 M m3furnish of 1 local facilityPseudotsuga menziesii
Introduced species hold 17.7 % of the reported growing stock. FAO ranks the ten largest native and five largest introduced species, together 70.3 % of the total.
The facilities on this page report Pine (8), Spruce (1) and Douglas Fir (1) as furnish. The species matching that demand hold 17.7 % 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
- 1
- Sawmills
- 14
- Operating
- 14
- Operating pulp capacity
- 265 000
- t/y pulp
- Sawn timber capacity
- 1 345 000
- m3/y sawn timber
Capacity is the sum over 1 of 1 operating pulp mills with a reported capacity (t/y). Sawn timber capacity covers 6 of 13 operating sawmills with a reported figure. Data last updated 2026-09-14.
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