SCA uses raw materials, water, energy and transport in the production and distribution of its products.
Aggregated RMS data encompasses the main products produced by SCA plants. Some products are delivered to other SCA units for further processing whilst others are brought directly to market. Data that represents total SCA production is based on the production at each site. Due to the degree of integration between SCA sites and its business areas, total production data should be interpreted as a gross figure. All figures below are from 2007.
Raw Materials
A typical SCA product is made from various types of wood fibre. It also contains small amounts of inorganic and fossil organic materials. Renewable raw materials (virgin wood fibre and recovered fibre) account for the largest share of a the material used in an average SCA product. Inorganic materials (kaolin clay and calcium carbonate) are used as filler and coating pigment in certain types of paper in order to satisfy customer quality requirements. Synthetic materials are used in highly absorbent hygiene products to improve quality and function, as well as in packaging with superior protective qualities.
SCA is Europe’s largest collector and user of recovered fibre. The diagram shows the material distribution of SCA's products.
Distribution of raw materials
Energy
Energy use includes purchased energy (heating, electricity and fuel) supplied to production units, energy generated from wood, liquor, bark, sludge and waste paper, and electricity generated on site. A large portion of the energy used by SCA comes from the incineration of wood residuals and from on-site co-generation of electricity. The stated energy data figures therefore include both a fuel component and an electricity component.
Distribution of electricity supply
Distribution of fuel supply
Water
The figures given are totaled of surface water, ground water and community tap water. The total amount of water intake corresponds to 229 Mm³.
Distribution of water supply
Transport
Raw materials are transported to SCA's production plants and finished products are delivered to SCA's customers. SCA uses external suppliers for most of its transports. SCA transport use corresponds to 33.8 billion tonne-kilometres.
Sea transports account for the greatest portion of SCA's transports and the remainder consists of road and rail transports.
Distribution of transport usage
