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38 SOLUTIONS FOR A GREEN FUTURE
The forest industry
Associations for forest owners are
popular
About 110,000 are members of forest owner
associations, organized as producers’
cooperatives. All forest owner associations
can buy the harvested roundwood from
their members. Some forest owner associations
have their own industry while others
sell all the raw material to the private
industry.
Forest owners can also choose to sell
what they harvest in their forests directly
to the industry. Well-known forest industry
companies in Sweden are, for
example, SCA, Storaenso, Holmen, Billerud
and Setra.
Special technique for harvesting
The trees are harvested by cut-to-length
logging, which means that the tree trunks
are cut in the forest to the lengths that the
sawmills specify. In Canada and the USA,
however, it is more common to transport
the whole tree trunks to the sawmills,
where cutting to the desired lengths take
place.
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The 2010 prices of raw materials from the forest
(before deductions for the cost of harvesting)
were:
Logs for sawing in the wood industry – c. 600 SEK
per cubic metre
Logs for pulp to the paper industry – c. 300 SEK
per cubic metre
Branches and treetops for the energy industry – c.
250 SEK per cubic metre
Contacts:
The Swedish Forest Agency: Skogsstyrelsen www.skogsstyrelsen.se Press contact +46 470 72 61 29.
Link to statistical yearbook 2010 (statistisk årsbok) in Swedish and English: http://skogsstyrelsen.se/
Myndigheten/Statistik/Skogsstatistisk-Arsbok/Skogsstatistiska-arsbocker/
The Swedish Forest Industries Federation: Skogsindustrierna www.forestindustries.se
The Swedish Federation of Forest Owners: LRF Skogsägarna http://www.lrf.se/In-English/