The planting season has begun. For SCA, this signifies the planting of one hundred million seedlings in the ground. Reforestation plays a crucial role in both carbon sequestration and the cultivation of trees that can serve as climate-smart bio-raw materials in the future.
For SCA, Europe’s largest private forest owner, reforestation of land is an ongoing effort. With the SCA NorrPlant initiative – which includes Bogrundet and Wifstamon’s nurseries in Timrå municipality in central Sweden – SCA supplies roughly 100 million new trees every year.
Growing trees creates climate benefits and ensures that our communities will have a sustainable supply of climate-smart bio-raw materials in the future. Hence, the foremost rule in forestry is always to replant. SCA typically plants two to three seedlings for every harvested tree, thereby securing and ideally expanding the forest’s stock.
Planting is an important part of forest management and SCA places great emphasis on quality control to ensure that the seedlings are planted correctly to achieve optimal growth.
Approximately 70 percent of Sweden’s land area is forest and we have become twice as rich in timber in the past 100 years with more and thicker trees. The key to this is nurseries and systematic replanting.
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The foundation of our mission is to maximize the value of both our forest and of the products we create from it. We ensure that as great a share as possible of harvested trees becomes solid-wood products and also optimize benefits from the other parts. Waste streams and by-products also become valuable products for society’s green transition.
Our forest will grow and yield improved access to renewable raw materials through active and long-term management. Today the standing volume is estimated at around 260 million m³fo. We have never had so much forest as today, which is good both for our business and the climate. For every tree we harvest we plant at least 2 new seedlings.
Within NorrPlant, SCA's plant seedling operations, we lay the foundation for the next generation forest. Every year, over 100 million seedlings see the light of day on our own "tree nursery". Plants that grow into trees, bind carbon dioxide and form the forests of the future.