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U.S. Forest Products Industry - Statistics & Facts
The total amount of land covered by forests in the United States - as defined by the U.S. Forest Service - amounts to more than 750 million acres, or approximately three million square kilometers. Alaska is by far the U.S. state with the largest amount of forested land, followed by Oregon and California. About two thirds of all U.S. forested land is timberland, producing or capable of producing industrially utilized wood. Most of this land is held by private owners.
Such resources promote a strong forest products industry in the United States. The U.S. produces around 11.97 billion cubic feet of industrial roundwood, distinctly less than a decade earlier. The most important products incorporating industrial roundwood are lumber, pulp products, plywood and veneer. Prices for timber products remained stable or increased over the last decade. The highest increase was reported for wood pulp and paperboard.
In total, the U.S. forestry and forest products industry employ approximately 953,000 people, making this sector one of the most significant employers in U.S. manufacturing. The industry shows an annual payroll income of almost 53 billion U.S. dollars. Industrial shipments of the wood and paper manufacturing industry are worth some 282 billion U.S. dollars. U.S. paper mill shipments alone, for example, are worth some 45 billion U.S. dollars.
Major players are summarized in the so called forest, paper and packaging (FPP) industry. International Paper is not only the largest FPP company in the United States, but also worldwide, generating some 22.37 billion U.S. dollars of revenue in 2015. Kimberly-Clark is another top player in this sector globally. With more than 0.94 billion U.S. dollars, it has the highest net income of all U.S. FPP companies, next to Kimberly-Clark with 1.01 billion U.S. dollars in net income.
Forest products industry in the U.S. - Important statistics
- 1. Forest resources
Total forest land in the United States by region 2007- Total timberland area in the United States by region 2007
- +Total U.S. area of timberland by ownership 2016
- Top 10 U.S. states based on total forest land area 2007
- Net volume of timber growing stock in the United States by region 2007
- +Forest area of the U.S. by designated function 2015
- +Distribution of U.S. timberland ownership 2016, by organization type
- 2. Main timber products
- Industrial roundwood production in the United States 2003-2013
- Industrial U.S. roundwood imports and exports 2003-2013
- Industrial roundwood consumption in the United States 2003-2013
- Lumber production in the U.S. 2003-2013
- Pulp products output of the United States timber industry 2003-2013
- Production of paper and board in the U.S. 2003-2013
- Consumption of paper and board in the U.S. 2003-2013
- Price index for selected timber products in the U.S. 2004-2013
- 3. Forest products industry
- +Employment in the forest products industry in the U.S. 2016
- Annual payroll income of the U.S. forest products industry 2016
- +Number of manufacturing facilities of the U.S. forest products industry 2016
- +Value of industry shipments of the U.S. forest products industry 2016
- Gross output of U.S. paper mills 1998-2015
- +U.S. shipment value of sawmill products 2002-2015
- +Forecast: paper mill industry shipment value U.S. 2008-2018
- +Forecast: veneer, plywood, and engineered wood product shipment value U.S. 2008-2018
- 4. Top FPP companies
- +Financial key figures of the U.S. forest, paper and packaging industry 2011-2015
- +Leading U.S. forest, paper and packaging companies based on revenue 2015
- Leading U.S. forest, paper and packaging companies based on net income 2015
- +Top U.S. forest, paper and packaging companies based on EBITDA 2015
- +Top timberland owners in the U.S. 2016, by land owned
- +Top U.S. private timberland managers 2015, by land area managed
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