SCA is one of Europe’s most profitable producers of forest products. Strengths include deep customer insight, efficient production facilities, integration with SCA’s own forests, high value-added products and a sustainability perspective at every level.
Forest Products consists of magazine paper, newsprint, pulp, timber, solid-wood products and biofuels. There are strong links between these segments in a value chain that makes optimal use of SCA’s own wood raw material. The business area also supplies the rest of the Group with raw material from SCA's own forests and is responible for parts of the Group's transport and logistics.
SCA focuses on the prime quality segments within magazine paper, SC and LWC paper. These are used for magazines, catalogues and printed advertising, which are all areas with good growth.
SCA is one of the ten largest manufacturers of solid-wood products in Europe and the shift continues towards increasingly processed and customized products focused on markets with good growth and leading customers.
"Operations are mainly based on renewable energy."
Control of its own wood raw material is a key part of the Group’s long-term strategy. It provides a stable cash flow, reliable supplies and facilitates quality and cost control. SCA’s forest holdings total 2.6 million hectares. The forest is managed on a long-term basis and provides the base of SCA’s raw material integration.
Operations are mainly based on renewable energy. Self-generated process power is increasing all the time.
SCA has the following strategic priorities for forest products:
- Continue to shift towards increasingly developed products in high-quality segments within publication papers, solid-wood products and pulp.
- Continue efficiency enhancements at the production facilities.
- Further develop the integration between the forest and the industrial operations.
- Exploit the commercial strength of the sustainability perspective and SCA’s leading environmental positions.
SCA's forest products operations are conducted within one business group: