"SCA's greatest asset is rather unimpressive - three millimetres long and a fraction of a millimetre wide. Wood fibre!"
Whether obtained fresh from the forest or recovered, wood fibre is the base for our entire business and all of our products. Wood fibre is a renewable resource. It is recyclable, and when it is finally worn out, it can be used for energy production. The residual product, carbon dioxide, is reabsorbed by growing trees.
We therefore have the prerequisites to be an industry that is totally in harmony with nature's eco cycles. Although we have made significant progress we can still identify areas where we need to do even better.
Our forests
Our forests are sustainably managed and will be as rich in the future as they are today - in terms of timber, biodiversity and opportunities for enjoying nature.
SCA is one of Europe's largest private forest owner, with some two million hectares of forest land in northern Sweden, an area large enough to cover half the Netherlands. At SCA's forest tree nursery in Sweden, 85 million seedlings are raised each year to produce new forest. We replace every tree we harvest with three new ones, either through natural regeneration or planting.