In 2017, professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Dr. Mario Dobner Jr. had a creative idea to demonstrate the potential for pine growth in the state.

With the support of the company Florestal Gateados, he made a block of wood, measuring 1 cubic meter (0.5m x 0.5m x 4.0m) using a Pinus taeda log. In that year, the area occupied by pine in Santa Catarina was between 500 and 600 thousand hectares. According to Professor Dobner, the volume of pine that grew every second in the plantations in Santa Catarina was 1 cubic meter per second. “I built this block, with the help of students, so that people could visualize what a cubic meter of wood is, and have a perception of the enormous productive potential of the pine stands in Santa Catarina”, he explains.

Currently, the pine block is on display on the UFSC campus, in the city of Curitibanos, one of the forest centers in Santa Catarina. Mário Dobner, who is a forestry manager, explains that this is a rounded measure, to facilitate teaching. “Considering that Santa Catarina has 713,000 hectares of pine forests, we can say that, depending on the location, there are between 0.700 and 1 cubic meter of pine wood that grows per second in Santa Catarina lands”.

Santa Catarina, Paraná and Rio Grande do Sul are responsible for almost 90% of the pine wood produced in Brazil. The genus Pinus, especially the species Pinus taeda, found the best place in the world to develop in the mountains of southern Brazil. This is where it achieves the highest growth rates.

 

In 2021, Brazilian pulp production grew by 7.4%, reaching 22.5 million tons, which kept Brazil as the second largest producer in the world. According to the 2022 Annual Report by the Brazilian Tree Industry (Ibá), in terms of production, Brazil is second only to the United States. By playing an important role in the economy, the quality and environmentally sustainable origin of pulp kept the segment as one of the most needed in the world in 2020, at the worst moment of the pandemic.

In 2021, the year in which the economies returned to growth, still under the influence of Covid-19, the sector reaffirmed its resilience by expanding capacity in the foreign and domestic markets. Of all production, almost 70% were destined for export, totaling 15.7 million tons. The domestic market was responsible for the consumption of 6.8 million tons, an increase of almost 30% compared to the previous year.

Brazil is the world’s largest exporter of cellulose. The main pulp export destinations in 2021 were China and the United States. These two countries accounted for 43% and 17% of Brazilian pulp exports, respectively.

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