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 →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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