Wood Products Manufacturing
This section examines how TRI chemical wastes are managed within the wood products manufacturing sector (facilities reporting their primary NAICS code as 321).
This map shows the locations of the wood products manufacturing facilities that reported to TRI for 2023, sized by their releases. Click on a facility for details on its TRI reporting.
Wood Products Manufacturing Facilities Reporting to TRI, 2023
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For 2023, 715 facilities in the wood products manufacturing sector reported to TRI. Facilities in this sector make wood products, such as lumber, plywood, veneers, wood containers, wood flooring, manufactured (mobile) homes, and prefabricated wood buildings. The production processes of the sector include sawing, planing, shaping, and, for composite wood products, bonding wood material with resin.
The chart below shows the number of facilities by wood products subsector for 2023. While the veneer, plywood, and engineered wood product subsector accounts for 18% of the sector’s facilities, this subsector reports more than half (53%) of the sector’s releases. Conversely, sawmills and wood preservation account for the most (53%) facilities reporting to TRI in the sector but report 29% of the releases.
This page was published in August 2025 and uses the 2023 TRI National Analysis dataset made public in TRI Explorer in October 2024.