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for energy production. The residual product, carbon dioxide, is
reabsorbed by growing trees.
We therefore have the prerequisites to be an industry that is totally
in harmony with nature's ecocycles. Although we have made significant
progress we can still identify areas where we need to do even better.
Our forests
Our forests are sustainably managed and will be as rich in the future
as they are today - in terms of timber, biodiversity and opportunies
for enjoying nature.
SCA is one of Europe's largest forest owners, with some two million
hectares of forest land in northern Sweden, an area large enough
to cover half the Netherlands. At SCA's forest tree nursery in Sweden,
fifty million seedlings are raised each year to produce new forest.
We replace every tree we harvest with three new ones, either through
natural regeneration or planting.
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