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Please submit your completed return by Friday 27 February 2026.
If you are unable to provide actual figures, then best estimates are acceptable.
All data provided will be treated in the strictest confidence and will be aggregated with data from other respondents so that it will not be possible to identify an individual business in any publication or other report.
For further information on this survey and the statistics that Forest Research produce, please visit our Timber Surveys webpage.
If you have any queries or feedback, please call us at 0300 067 5238 or email statistics@forestresearch.gov.uk.
1. Please enter the mill reference number:
2. Please enter the mill name:
3. TOTAL PRODUCTION
What was the total quantity of pellets and briquettes produced by your company in 2025?
Please only include pellets and briquettes that your company produced. Exclude any that you purchased from another company. If you did not produce any pellets or briquettes in 2025, please enter 0 in the box below and "next page" at the foot of this page.
Please give figures in tonnes.
4. SOURCE OF FIBRES USED IN PELLET AND BRIQUETTE PRODUCTION
Approximately what quantity of each of the following fibres were used in the production of pellets and briquettes by your company in 2025?
Please give quantities in tonnes as received.
5. If possible please provide a further breakdown for roundwood:
Please give quantities in tonnes as received.
6. ORIGIN OF WOOD USED IN PELLET AND BRIQUETTE PRODUCTION
Approximately what % of the wood used in the production of pellets and briquettes by your company in 2025 was:
Please exclude other (non-wood) fibres. 'Total UK' plus 'Imported' should equal 100%.
7. PRODUCT MARKETS
To the best of your knowledge, approximately what % of the total pellets and briquettes produced by your company in 2025 were sold for use in:
'Woodfuel' plus 'Other uses' should equal 100%.
8. DESTINATION OF PELLETS AND BRIQUETTES
To the best of your knowledge, approximately what % of the total pellets and briquettes produced by your company in 2025 was sold to markets in:
'UK' plus 'Other countries' should equal 100%.
9. CERTIFICATION
Do you have a Chain of Custody Certificate?
10. What percentage of input volume is from Certified sources?
11. EMPLOYMENT (at this site)
Please provide an estimate of the mill’s total employment, expressed as Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs).
Include both direct employees (those for whom you are responsible for paying wages and National Insurance contributions) and other employment (any others undertaking work for you, including contractors and their employees). To express employment as FTEs, please include a rough estimate of time for those who work a part-year for the mill. For example, count a full-time employee working slightly more than half the time for the mill as 0.6, or an employee who works part-time for 4 months as 0.2.
For haulage employment, please only include those employed directly. Please exclude any contract haulage employment and any employment at the site not directly related to the mill (e.g. exclude work producing other wood products).
12. Please use the box below to record any additional comments.
13. Please add your preferred email address or addresses as point of contact for future iterations of this survey (leave it blank if you are happy with the one or ones used this year).
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14. Please select 'submit' if you are ready to submit your completed questionnaire. If you would like to amend or review your answers please use the 'previous page' button to go back. *