About the Logging in Illinois Market Research Report
What’s Included in the Logging in Illinois Market Research Report
Definition of the Logging in Illinois?
Logging companies buy and lease log-harvesting equipment and vehicles and use them to fell trees. The trees are then transported as sawlogs to sawmills and pulp mills. The industry excludes breeding, planting or growing trees; companies that provide these services are classified under the Timber Services industry (IBISWorld report 11311). Companies that truck timber are categorized under Local Specialized Freight Trucking (48422).
What’s included in the Logging in Illinois?
The Logging in Illinois includes softwood logs and bolts, hardwood logs and bolts and pulpwood. Related terms covered in the Logging in Illinois industry report includes the greater-in-diameter and straighter part of a tree stem processed at a sawmill; the most financially valuable part of a tree, wood from broad-leaved trees, often used for construction, flooring and furniture, wood from coniferous trees that is water-resistant and generally used for millwork, building components and furniture, timber grown with the purpose of making pulp for paper production, an engineered wood product, similar to plywood but cheaper, formed by layering strands of wood and a short, round section of a log.
Industry Performance of the Logging industry in Illinois
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Logging in Illinois
#37 in Highest Revenue 0.2% of state's GDPRevenue (2025)
Annual Growth (2020-25)
Annual Growth (2025-30)
Logging in the US
Revenue (2024)
Annual Growth (2019-24)
Annual Growth (2024-29)
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Key Drivers of the Logging industry in Illinois
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Illinois Economic Indicators
Population
Net Migration
New Business Formation
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US Key External Drivers
Value of residential construction
Producer Price Index: Sawmill lumber
Trade-weighted index
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County Data of the Logging industry in Illinois
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Key Statistics of the Logging industry in Illinois
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