Facts & Figures 2011 - SCA

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SCA Forest Products produces
publication papers for newspapers,
magazines and catalogues, as well
as pulp, solid­wood products and
renewable energy. SCA Forest
Products also manages SCA’s
extensive forest holding in northern
Sweden, supplies SCA’s Swedish
industries with wood raw materials
and offers cost­efficient transport
solutions to SCA’s units.
Publication papers account for
50% of sales. Other segments are
pulp, timber, solid­wood products,
renewable energy and logistics.
While the principal market is
Europe, solid­wood products and
publication papers are also
exported to other parts of the
world.
Fibre strategy
In Sweden, SCA’s industries utilize
the high quality of the raw material
from the Group’s own forests. In
the south of the UK, far from the
forests but close to Europe’s largest
concentration of paper con­
SCA Skog
SCA Forest Products
SCA
Transforest
SCA
Energy
sumers, the jointly owned company
Aylesford Newsprint uses 100%
recovered paper in the production
of newsprint. In Austria, close to
the large forests of the Alpine
region and major population
centres, SCA Laakirchen utilises
fresh fibre from the forest and
recovered fibre in the production
of high­quality publication papers.
The past year
Net sales were on a par with the
preceding year (rose 1% excluding
exchange rate effects) and
amounted to SEK 17,180m.
Operating profit declined by
18% to SEK 2,001m. Higher prices
for publication papers offset the
rise in raw material costs and negative
exchange rate effects. The
lower operating profit in the pulp
and sawmill operations was largely
attributable to higher raw material
costs and negative exchange rate
effects. The productivity improvements
implemented had a positive
impact on earnings.
ORGANISATION – SCA FOReST PROduCTS
SCA Timber SCA Östrand
President
SCA Forest Products
Business units
SCA Ortviken
Staff units
SCA
R&D Centre
SCA Laakirchen
Aylesford
Newsprint 50%