Sustainability is at the core of SCA, a leading global hygiene and forest products company. For that’s as well as Europe’s largest private forest owner. Practicing sustainable forestry and maintaining biological diversity is part of SCA’s DNA. So the Sweden-based company has received several of the world’s most prestigious awards in the field of sustainability. Both when it comes to measurable nature and people targets.
In the autumn of 2013, the crew from Team SCA, an all-female entry into the world’s toughest offshore sailing competition. For the Volvo Ocean Race is it. It visited one of SCA’s forests close to Sundsvall, Sweden. All in order to leave their own legacy. The Team SCA Forest is also on a half-hectare site. Moreover and the crew planted some 600 trees which will be managed alongside all other SCA forests in Sweden.
Practicing sustainable forestry and maintaining biological diversity is part of SCA’s DNA. So the Sweden-based company has received several of the world’s most prestigious awards. All in the field of sustainability, both when it comes to measurable nature and people targets.
SCA’s vast forest holdings in Northeastern Sweden, of 2.6 million hectares. They also have a net growth of one percent per year which corresponds to a net annual absorption of 2.6 million tons of carbon dioxide. This is more than the emissions from SCA’s entire usage of fossil fuels. Especially at its 140+ hygiene and forest products manufacturing sites around the world.
In the autumn of 2013, the crew from Team SCA, an all-female entry into the world’s toughest offshore sailing competition. So the Volvo Ocean Race vi
sited one of SCA’s forests close to Sundsvall, Sweden. That’s in order to leave their own legacy. The Team SCA Forest is on a half-hectare site, and the crew planted some 600 trees. All which will be managed alongside all other SCA forests in Sweden.
SCA ‘owns’ two out of every three trees planted in Sweden, and in 2012 the company grew some 100 million seedlings from their tree nurseries. Also, SCA is a major player in renewable energy production, wind power and biofuel pellets, in the Nordic region.
“Forestry for the long-term future is really at the core of SCA’s sustainability ambitions,” says Björn Lyngfelt, Vice President Communications for SCA Forest Products. “Wood is an amazingly sustainable raw material, and we are managing these precious assets so it is as rich today as it will be tomorrow”.
A leader in its field, SCA was recently once again recognized by the WWF for leadership in transparency for disclosing its ecological footprint, by being included in the WWF Environmental Paper Company Index 2013.
Responsible sourcing, manufacturing operations with a low impact on the climate and innovative and resource-efficient products. For they are all focal points for SCA’s development as an international company. This came fromKersti Strandqvist, SCA Senior Vice President Corporate Sustainability. “We warmly welcome initiatives such as this by the WWF as it helps us on our path toward continual improvements of operations and products”.
