Svenska Cellulosa AB SCA

SCA was founded in 1929 by a merger of ten Swedish forest companies. In 1975 SCA took its first step towards becoming a consumer goods company with the purchase of the Swedish hygiene company Mölnlycke. In 2017, the SCA Group was divided into two listed companies, the forest company SCA and the hygiene and health company Essity.

SCA at a glance

The core of the operations is SCA's vast forest holdings in northern Sweden, 2.6 million hectares of forest land, almost the area of Belgium. This is the largest private forest holding in Europe. Based on this unique resource, SCA has developed a well-invested industry, designed to create the highest possible value from the forest, a resource-efficient industry where the entire tree is used to create value. Our products include solid-wood products, pulp, kraftliner, publication papers and renewable energy.

A leading industrial ecosystem,
driven by the force of the forest

We grow and plant seedlings that will grow for a century before they are harvested to become renewable and recyclable products with the lowest possible carbon footprint. We bring this long-term perspective into everything we do. We manage our forests in a way that maintains their biological diversity, while the growing trees absorb the atmosphere's carbon dioxide.

SCA is an important part of society in Sweden, being an important employer with strong ties to the communities in the north where our industries and businesses are located. We create jobs, we develop infrastructure and we turn a renewable natural resource into export revenues. We are committed to creating value as a sustainable business for our shareholders, customers and employees.

Sustainability and commitment

Energy

Wind power, forest-based biofuels unit and three fully or partowned pellet mills in Härnösand, Stugun and Luleå with a total capacity of 300,000 tonnes of pellets per annum.

About energy

We are owners of land with high windpower potential and we are also one of Europe's largest suppliers of forest-based biofuels. SCA Energy develops renewable energy from forest resources and produces refined and unrefined forest-based biofuel, in addition to managing SCA’s wind-power assets.

Forest-based biofuels, pellets and peat

SCA's forest-based product range includes fuel wood, logging residues (tops and branches fromlogging), bark and sawdust from sawmills processed into pellets and briquettes. For livestock produced a specially designed wood pellets - Stall Pellets. Although peat for power and heat are included in the range.

SCA BioNorr is responsible for wood pellet production at plants in Härnösand and Stugun, Sweden.

Wind power

Through SCAs large forest holdings SCA has land with high wind potential. SCA Vind develops SCAs wind power assets, in-house and through collaborations.