What is it?
Logs. The tree after felling and before anything has been done to it except cutting it to length.
Why does it matter?
This is the number that tells you how much wood an economy actually harvests for use rather than for burning. Every other product on this shelf is cut, peeled, chipped or cooked out of it, and the split between sawlogs and pulpwood decides which mill a tree is worth sending to.
Deeper written sections for this material have not been published yet. Everything below is drawn straight from the source datasets and is complete.
What it is used for
All end markets →| End market | What it does there | Importance |
|---|---|---|
| Housebuilding | The logs all of the above are cut from | Defining |
| Packaging & Paper | Pulpwood: the logs too small or bent to saw | Defining |
| Bioenergy & Heating | Competes for the same low-grade logs | Important |
Traced supply chains
Standing tree to house frame
The stump-to-stud route that most of the world's homes are built through, and where the value is actually added.
Plantation to cardboard box
How the trees a sawmill does not want become the packaging around everything bought online.
Sawdust to power station
How a disposal problem at a sawmill became an internationally shipped energy commodity, and why policy is the whole…