Planting season in SCA forests

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.