%0 Article %T Wood consumption of wood manufacturing industry in Finland in 1911‒1929 %A Pöntynen, V. %D 1931 %J Acta Forestalia Fennica %V 37 %N 3 %R doi:10.14214/aff.7265 %U https://silvafennica.fi/article/7265 %X

The main source of data was the official industrial statistics in 1911‒1929. The data was complemented with information from other sources, and the figures converted to solid volumes under bark. The wood consumption of wood manufacturing industry in the period varied strongly, being lowest in 1918 (2.2 million m3) and highest in 1927 (18.1 million m3). The wood consumption dropped during the World War I.

The wood manufacturing industry in Finland concentrated on sawmilling industry which has used annually 70‒80% of the wood consumed in the whole wood manufacturing industry. Other sectors of industry using wood were plywood industry, wood-wool industry, spool factories, match industry, mechanical pulpwood industry and pulp industry.

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