Valuable raw material and a rich nature
SCA owns 2.6 million hectares forests in northern Sweden. We have a long tradition of managing the forest and supply our industries with valuable and renewable raw material. With a long-lasting and effective value chain in world class, we use the whole tree and refine the forest into sustainable solutions and products to people all over the world.
Forest in figures 2019
| Forest holdings | 2.6 million hectares |
| Productive forest land | 2.0 million hectares |
| Forest volume | 36% spruce 40% pine 15% deciduous 9% Pinus Contorta |
| Annual harvest volume SCA's own forests | 4.4 million cu. m |
| Annual harvest volume from private forest owners | 3.1 million cu. m |
| Annual harvest SCA´s own forest | 21,000 hectares |
| Thinning SCA’s own forest | 10,000 hectares |
| Silviculture acreage | 59, 045 hectares |
| Seedlings deliveries to SCA’s own forest | 34.7 millions |
| Seedlings deliveries to private forest owners | 49.9 millions |
News from SCA's forests
News from SCA's forests
Record seedling deliveries from SCA
2020 was a record year for SCA’s NorrPlant…
seedling operation. 103.5 million seedlings were delivered in 2020, which is over a million more than before!
Damaged and dead pine trees on SCA land create new life
SCA is hosting a research project into vetera…
nisation on its land, which is being conducted by the Mid Sweden University. The aim is to study the best methods to accelerate the formation of wood that is normally only found in old trees, to recreate habitats for endangered species.
SCA supports owls together with BirdLife Medelpad
SCA and BirdLife Medelpad have built nesting…
boxes and platforms for Ural owls and great gray owls. The aim is to provide the owls with nest sites on SCA’s land and to encourage more breeding.
SCA's forest in the Baltics
SCA has acquired around 50.000 hectares forest and land assets in the Baltics.
The acquisition in Latvia consist of around 38.000 hectares. Our holdings are mainly located on the Northern/North-Eastern region of Latvia. The standing timber volume amounts to 3.7 million cubic metres. The assets consist mainly of self-rejuvenated forests. This means there are more deciduous than we normally have in our Swedish forests, but there are also great spruce stands.
The acquisition in Estonia consist of a total of 10,300 hectares located on the two islands Hiiumaa and Saaremaa. The forest assets consist of 8,800 hectares of this land is forest land with a standing volume of 1,300,000 cubic metres. The forest consist mainly of pine, but also some birch.
Our raw material
SCA’s production facilities used 9.6 million cubic meters of wood raw material in 2018. Almost all of the raw material flow (more than 93%) was from Sweden. The remaining raw material was from Finland, Norway and the Baltic States (6%), and from Poland, Scotland and Spain (1%).
The main part consist of:
Spruce (Picea abies)
Pine (Pinus sylvestris)
A minor part consist of:
Alder (Alnus spp.)
Aspen (Populus tremula)
Birch (Betula spp.)
Contorta pine (Pinus contorta)
Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)
Monterey pine (Pinus radiate)
Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis)
Our environmental work
Learn more about how we work with nature consideration in the forest, certified forestry, ecological landscape planning and more. In our map you can see SCA’s entire land holdings in Sweden, including forest voluntarily set aside - and discover your own forest gems.
Responsible forestry
Our environmental work
Our environmental work
Well-managed forests burn less often than old-growth forests
Today's forests do not burn as often. That is because we fight the fires effectively and the forest structure and care makes it not as inflammable.
Read moreForest fires
Welcome to our forest
Everyone is welcome to our forests. Come and hike, pick berries and mushrooms or simply enjoy the calm atmosphere of the forest. Feel free to visit one of our five conservation parks.