What is the difference between Consumption and Furnish?

Consumption refers to the total quantity of a specific raw material used during the production process, focusing on a single raw material such as hardwood chips or softwood roundwood consumption. It's important to note that this consumption figure is calculated before the pulping process, as "what comes through the mill gate".

Furnish refers to the mixture of various pulps (derived from the consumed raw materials), dyes, additives*, and other chemicals blended together in the stock preparation area of a paper mill and fed to the wet end of a paper machine to make paper or paperboard. Furnish shows the percentage/composition of certain fibre pulp/additives used in the end product.
*additives listed in our furnish report are coating, filler, and starch.