These are the top 15 companies across the globe based on their softwood lumber production figures for 2021. The list includes companies from several continents and includes privately owned companies as well as publicly listed companies. Source: YahooFinance
- Moelven Industrier ASA
Production Volume in 2021: 2,1161,000 m³
Moelv, Norway-based Moelven Industrier ASA, commonly knownas the Moelven Group, is one of the largest industrial wood processing groups in Europe with 33 production companies across 41 locations in Norway and Sweden.
The company sells its products through sales offices in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, the UK, Germany, and China.
- Tolko Industries Ltd
Production Volume in 2021: 2,1291,000 m³
15 manufacturing locations across British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.
- Pfeifer Group
Production Volume in 2021: 2,2001,000 m³
Imst, Austria-based Pfeifer Group is among the leading companies in the European timber industry. Founded in 1948, family-operated Pfeifer Group has over 2000 employees across 8 locations in Austria, Germany, and the Czech Republic, and serves clients in 90 countries worldwide.
- Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget SCA
Production Volume in 2021: 2,2631,000 m³
Sundsvall, Sweden-based Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget SCA,commonly known as SCA, is Europe’s largest private forest owner and a leading manufacturer of wood products, pulp, packaging paper and renewable energy.
The Wood business of SCA includes five sawmills, wood processing units with planning mills in Sweden. SCA owns 2.6 million hectares of forest in northern Sweden comprising 36% spruce, 40% pine, 15% deciduous and 9% Pinus Contorta.
- Canfor Corporation Weyerhaeuser
Production Volume in 2021: 2,9031,000 m³
Hampton Lumber is a forest products business based in Portland, Oregon. The family-owned company started in 1942 with a single mill operation and has since grown to own 9 mills and over 1800employees. The sawmills owned by the company are located in United States and have a combined annual capacity of 2,495MMBF.
- Celulosa Arauco y Constitución
Production Volume in 2021: 3,0001,000 m³
Celulosa Arauco y Constitución, commonly known as ARAUCO, is a leading global forestry company based in Santiago, Chile. The company operates 9 sawmills across Chile, Argentina, and Spain with annual capacity of 3.7 million cubic meters. It also has access to vast forest plantations, including 1.6 million hectares of forestland owned by the company.
- Resolute Forest Products
Production Volume in 2021: 3,0631,000 m³
Resolute Forest Products is a global company based in Montreal, Canada. It owns or operates around 40 facilities and power generation assets across the United States and Canada. Its products are marketed in over 60 countries.
The Wood Products segment of Resolute Forest Products comprises 22 production facilities. The company shipped 606 million board feet of woodproducts during Q3 2022.
- Georgia-Pacific
Production Volume in 2021: 4,0981,000 m³
Georgia-Pacific LLC, based in Atlanta, Georgia, is among the world’s leading manufacturers and marketers of tissue papers and napkins, tableware, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibres and building products. Founded in 1927, thec ompany employs more than 30,000 people across more than 150 facilities in more than 30 states across the United States.
- Interfor Corporation
Production Volume in 2021: 4,6391,000 m³
Burnaby, British Columbia-based Interfor Corporation has operations across North America and customers around the globe. The company operates 30 manufacturing facilities across North America with an annual lumber production capacity of 5 billion board feet.
- Binderholz
The company has employees across 29 locations in Austria, Germany, UK, Latvia, Finland, and USA. The company operates across the whole value chain, from forestry management and timber harvesting, through processing n the sawmills, to solid wood production and mass timber solutions.
- Sierra Pacific Industries
Production Volume in 2021: 4,8631,000 m³
Anderson, California-based Sierra Pacific Industries owns and manages more than 2.4 million acres of timberland in California, Oregon, and Washington. The company also produces millwork, windows, and renewable energy.
Sierra Pacific Industries was founded in 1949 with one sawmill and has since grown to be a leading lumber company with 14 sawmills and 3 remanufacturing centres.
- Stora Enso Oyj
Production Volume in 2021: 5,7001,000 m³
Stora Enso Oyj is an integrated, paper, packaging, and forest products company based in Helsinki, Finland. It employs nearly 22,000 personnel across all continents. The company owns or manages land covering a total area of 2.01 million hectares, across the globe.
The Wood Products segment of Stora Enso Oyj operates globally and has 16 production units in Europe with annual sawing capacity of 5.5 million cubic meters and further processing capacity of 2.5 million cubic meters.
- Weyerhaeuser Company
Production Volume in 2021: 7,6841,000 m³
Seattle, Washington-based Weyerhaeuser Company owns nearly 10.6 million acres of timberlands in the United States and an additional 14.1 million acres of timberlands in Canada under long-term licenses. In addition to managing the timberlands, the company also produces wood products and renewable energy.
Its operations comprise of 35 manufacturing facilities in United States and Canada, including 19 lumber mills with annual capacity of 5.4 million board feet.
- Canfor Corporation
Production Volume in 2021: 8,9071,000 m³
Vancouver, Canada-based Canfor Corporation primarily produces softwood lumber and also owns 54.8% shares of Canfor Pulp Products Inc., a leading producer of pulp and paper.
- West Fraser Timber
Production Volume in 2021: 9,3981,000 m³
Quesnel, Canada-based West Fraser Timber is a wood products company with more than 60 manufacturing facilities across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe. It produces lumber, OSB, LVL, MDF, plywood, particleboard, pulp, newsprint, wood chips, and renewable energy.
