The WoodStock project is focusing on four underutilised wood stocks: hardwood, low-quality wood, damaged wood, and post-consumer and residual wood. The objective of this report is to provide background information on the forest value chain in Europe. It provides information on the flow of materials throughout the entire forest product value chain, serving as a baseline for the current status. From the data, substantial quantitative data can be derived about hardwoodsand post-consumer wood. Some information is available on by-products (residual wood), while little quantitative data is available on the volumes of damaged and low-quality wood.
The data in this report are mainly collected from Eurostat and FAO. The advantage of using European databases over national sources is that they provide harmonised data across all countries, enabling direct and reliable comparisons. The data gathered in the report supports the Material Flow Analysis (MFA) model in the WoodStock project.
This report is closely linked to the following WoodStock reports:
• O’Hagan & Brancart (2025) ‘Review of new technologies and processes’, D5.1.
Through case studies and literature review, the report identifies the most prominent technologies, groups them by application area, and illustrates how they can support greater use of underutilised wood resources to reduce waste.
• Nanda & Hughes (2025) ‘Characteristics of underutilised wood stock’, D5.2.
The report defines, identifies, characterises and derives potential applications for underutilised wood stocks in the EU, focusing on four underutilised wood stocks: hardwood, low-quality wood, damaged wood, and post-consumer and residual wood.
• Zdziarska, De Ligne & Baño (2025) ‘Review of zero-waste product concepts’, D5.3.
The report seeks to address the following questions:
• What can we do with underutilised wood resources? – identifying potential applications.
• How can we get there? – formulating design strategies used to develop building components from non-standard wood.
• What is the socio-cultural and environmental impact of design strategies used to develop building products from underutilised wood streams? – evaluating the sustainability potential and socio-cultural implications.
• Gedde (2026) ‘Material Intensities in the building stock’, D3.2.
The report explores material intensities for wood from Europe on an element and building scale.
• Cord’homme et al. (2026) ‘Quasi-stationary MFA model’, D3.3.
An approach to facilitate MFA of wood is developed and quantified for three case countries.
Publication Date: 2026-04-30