Finland's industrial timber harvest down 13 per cent in October
The Finnish Natural Resources Institute (Luke) reports that industrial logs harvested for industrial use reached 5.4 million cubic metres in October, down 13% compared to the same month last year. Total removals in January-October were just over 48 million cubic metres.
Sawn timber and pulpwood accounted for equal shares of industrial log removals, both at 2.7 million cubic metres. Notably, sawtimber log removals declined by 7 per cent and pulpwood removals declined by 15 per cent compared to the October average over the past five years.
In addition, industrial log harvesting from non-industrial private forests declined significantly by 18 per cent from the previous year, totalling 4.2 million cubic metres. Meanwhile, harvesting from both forest company forests and state forests decreased by 10 per cent to 1.2 million cubic metres.
The volume of energy wood cut in October totalled 439,000 cubic metres, with stems and whole trees accounting for 56 per cent of this volume.
