Knowledge
The wood fibre value chain
How wood becomes pulp and paper, how logs become timber, and how the two chains meet in the chip flow. Follow a chain, or jump to any stage.
Forests: Where Wood Raw Material Comes From
The world's forest zones, growth rates and rotations: where wood fibre comes from, and why the zone determines the fibre.
Read →Pulp Fibre Sources
Softwood, hardwood, non-wood and recovered fibre as pulp furnish: how the fibre source shapes pulp strength, yield and cost.
Read →Pulping Processes
Kraft, sulphite, mechanical and recycled pulping: how each process determines pulp properties and how much wood a mill consumes.
Read →Pulp Grades
Market pulp grades from NBSK to eucalyptus kraft and dissolving pulp, with a property profile for each grade.
Read →Pulping Byproducts
Energy, tall oil, lignin and biogenic CO2: the byproduct streams that make a modern pulp mill a biorefinery.
Read →Paper and Board Products
Packaging, tissue and graphic papers: the paper and board segments and where each is heading.
Read →Sawmilling
How a sawmill turns logs into timber: breakdown, drying, grading and yield, and why every sawmill is also a supplier of chips to the fibre industry.
Read →Sawn Timber Products
From rough sawn boards to glulam and cross laminated timber: the sawn timber product families, how the grading split sets the market, and why engineered wood matters for the fibre balance.
Read →Sawmill Byproducts and the Chip Flow
Chips, sawdust, shavings and bark: where each sawmill stream goes, and why WoodComp never adds sawmill and pulp mill wood consumption together.
Read →Sawmill capacity by country
Operating sawmills country by country with capacity in sawn timber and, separately, log intake, after a full review of every published figure that measured and corrected a 22 percent error rate.
Read →Wood Pellets
What a wood pellet is, the ISO 17225-2 grades and the ENplus and SBP schemes, how sawmill pellet lines differ from free-standing export plants, and how WoodComp records pellet capacity and raw material.
Read →Wood pellet capacity by country
Operating wood pellet plants country by country with capacity in tonnes, US short tons converted for comparison, how many stand on sawmill sites, and the measured error rate of the review behind them.
Read →European pulp mill capacity by country
Europe's operating pulp mills country by country with verified pulp capacity, after a full review of every published figure that measured and corrected a 38 percent error rate.
Read →Glossary
Definitions of the abbreviations and terms used across WoodComp's knowledge base and mill database.
Read →Methodology: How WoodComp Builds the Dataset
How WoodComp defines scope, classifies and locates facilities, measures capacity, and sources and verifies every fact.
Read →Data access: what is free, what is prepared on request
What is free on WoodComp and what is prepared on request: the open licence, how to cite, curated exports, and what we will not do.
Read →For journalists and researchers
How to cite WoodComp, the open licence, our published error rate, and free data exports for journalists, researchers and students on request.
Read →Sub-national data: regions, wood flows and fibre baskets
Regions on WoodComp: the free region labels and filter, and the sub-national supply, flow and fibre-basket analysis prepared per region on request.
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