Pulp mills and sawmills in Portugal
WoodComp tracks 7 operating pulp mills and 3 sawmills in Portugal, with capacity, status and location as open data. Portugal holds 3.4 M ha of forest, 37 % of its land area, led by Maritime pine and Eucalyptus. The fibre balance below sets their estimated wood demand against the national removals.
Wood supply
- Forest area
- 3.4 M ha 37 % of land area
- Standing volume
- 154 M m3 growing stock, over bark
- Yearly increment
- 17.5 M m3/y net annual increment (FAWS), over bark
- Fellings
- 15.1 M m3/y 86 % of yearly increment
- Industrial roundwood
- 11.2 M m3/y production
Forest types
share of forest area- Primary 0.7 % · 24 770 ha
- Other naturally regenerating 25.3 % · 849 830 ha
- Other planted 50.8 % · 1.7 M ha
- Plantation 23.2 % · 779 300 haone or two species, one age class
Tree species
share of growing stock- Maritime pine 32.3 %
- Eucalyptus 20.9 %introduced
- Cork oak 16.4 %
- Holm oak 4.4 %
- Cryptomeria 4.2 %introduced
- Other species 21.8 %
All 13 reported species
- Maritime pine32.3 %50 M m3furnish of 4 local facilitiesPinus pinaster
- Eucalyptusintroduced20.9 %32 M m3furnish of 6 local facilitiesEucalyptus globulus
- Cork oak16.4 %25 M m3Quercus suber
- Holm oak4.4 %7 M m3Quercus rotundifolia
- Cryptomeriaintroduced4.2 %6 M m3Cryptomeria japonica
- Stone pine3.5 %5 M m3furnish of 4 local facilitiesPinus pinea
- Chestnut2.1 %3 M m3Castanea sativa
- Quercus pyrenaica1.7 %3 M m3
- Quercus robur1.4 %2 M m3
- Pittosporumintroduced0.9 %1 M m3Pittosporum undulatum
- Quercus faginea0.4 %1 M m3
- Pinus sylvestris0.4 %1 M m3furnish of 4 local facilities
- Carob tree0.2 %0 M m3Ceratonia siliqua
Introduced species hold 26.0 % of the reported growing stock. FAO ranks the ten largest native and five largest introduced species, together 88.8 % of the total.
The facilities on this page report Eucalyptus (6), Pine (4), Mixed Hardwood (2) and Recycled Fiber (1) as furnish. The species matching that demand hold 57.1 % 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
Sawlogs
Pulp fibre
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.
Key figures
- Pulp mills
- 7
- Sawmills
- 3
- Operating
- 42
- Operating pulp capacity
- 2 700 000 t/y pulp
- Sawn timber capacity
- -
Capacity is the sum over 6 of 7 operating pulp mills with a reported capacity (t/y). Sawn timber capacity covers 0 of 3 operating sawmills with a reported figure. Data last updated 2026-11-03.
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