Australia Yearbook - 2001

Chapter 16—Forestry and fishing 655
16.3 WOOD AND PAPER PRODUCT MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES, Summary of Operations—1997–98
Employment
at 30 June(a)
Wages and
salaries(b)
Turnover
Industry
’000
$m
$m
Log sawmilling and timber dressing
Log sawmilling 5.4 151.0 711.0
Wood chipping 0.7 37.2 448.0
Timber resawing and dressing 6.2 222.3 1 177.3
Total 12.3 410.5 2 336.3
Other wood product manufacturing
Plywood and veneer manufacturing 1.5 52.8 253.0
Fabricated wood manufacturing 3.5 143.3 890.0
Wooden structural component manufacturing 20.2 533.7 2 521.7
Wood product manufacturing n.e.c. 5.5 129.2 532.0
Total 30.7 859.1 4 196.8
Paper and paper product manufacturing
Pulp, paper and paperboard manufacturing 4.4 265.2 2 114.2
Solid paperboard container manufacturing 2.5 106.5 555.6
Corrugated paperboard container manufacturing 5.5 n.p. n.p.
Paper bag and sack manufacturing 1.3 n.p. n.p.
Paper product manufacturing n.e.c. 3.7 141.6 1 085.0
Total 17.3 864.0 5 601.5
Total wood and paper product manufacturing 60.4 2 133.5 12 134.6
(a) Includes working proprietors. (b) Excludes the drawings of working proprietors.
Source: Manufacturing Industry, Australia (8221.0).
16.4 PRODUCTION OF WOOD AND SELECTED WOOD PRODUCTS
Commodity Quantity 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99
Sawn Australian grown timber
Coniferous ’000 m 3 2 053 2 063 2 327 2 331
Broadleaved ’000 m 3 1 391 1 418 1 322 1 271
Total ’000 m 3 3 445 3 481 3 649 3 603
Hardwood woodchips(a) ’000 t 4 827 4 779 5 665 4 856
Railway sleepers ’000 m 3 86 72 r 62 67
Plywood ’000 m 3 131 151 170 169
Unlaminated particle board(a) ’000 m 3 826 790 882 902
Medium density fibreboard ’000 m 3 377 434 501 495
Wood pulp(a) ’000 t 986 949 958 871
Paper and paperboard
Newsprint(a) ’000 t 445 421 444 404
Printing and writing ’000 t 351 364 424 497
Household and sanitary ’000 t 180 181 191 208
Packaging and industrial ’000 t 1 344 1 452 1 483 1 431
(a) Excludes production of small single establishment management units with fewer than four persons employed, and
establishments engaged in non-manufacturing activities but which may carry on, in a minor way, some manufacturing.
Source: Unpublished data, Australian Bureau of Statistics and Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics.