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BravikenGran ger mer

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 13:30:00 GMT

När du säljer BravikenGran ställs Holmens skogliga kunnande och

resurser till ditt förfogande. För oss är BravikenGran högprioriterat och vi vill att du ska märka det. Du får:

Ett mycket konkurrenskraftigt grantimmerpris. Vår prislista är marknadsledande. Närheten till pappersbruket ger oss också möjlighet att betala bra för massavedsdugliga grantimmervrak.
Förmånliga betalningsvillkor och möjlighet till dellikvider. Du får ränta på förväntat netto från sex månader efter kontraktsdatum. Oavsett om avverkningen gjorts eller inte.
En personlig skoglig rådgivare och kostnadsfri skoglig rådgivning.
Behandling mot rotröta när avverkningen sker under känslig tid av året.
Prioriterad avsättning i händelse av storm eller liknande.
Enkelhet med en kontaktperson som köper samtliga normalt förekommande virkessortiment inklusive aktuella bränslesortiment.
Enkel, tydlig och fullständig redovisning av alla intäkter och kostnader på avverkningen.

Vi erbjuder totalentreprenad för återbeskogning. Efter avverkning-en ser vi till att du får ny skog, med hjälp av kunnig personal, välkända metoder och gott plantmaterial. Vill du certifiera ditt Skogsbruk kan du göra det under Holmens paraply. Du får en premie för det certifierade virket.

Du kommer dessutom att få fortlöpande information om Holmen och Bravikens Sågverk, förtur till studiebesök och skogliga studieresor samt andra arrangemang för våra leverantörer.

Det är många skogsbestånd som passar för BravikenGran men inte riktigt alla. För att kvalificera sig för BravikenGran ska skogsbeståndet innehålla gran och timmer, ha god

tillgänglighet och vara av medelstor till stor storlek.

I början av januari startade Holmens sågverk i Braviken. BravikenGran är vårt namn på avverkningsrätter som ska försörja Braviken med gran, såväl sågverk som pappersbruk.
Categories: News, Holmen Skog, About forest

Test sawing at Braviken Sawmill

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:56:00 GMT

With installation of the sawmill’s machinery now completed, the period October to December will see all the machinery being tested and calibrated. The timber for these test sawings will come from Holmen’s own forests in Östergötland. Alongside this activity, the remaining groundwork around the site is also set to be completed.

With the construction project right on schedule, production will begin at the sawmill in January, starting off at 260 000 cubic metres of sawn timber in the first year, before gradually rising to 550 000 cubic metres. The sawmill will have a capacity of 750 000 cubic metres of sawn timber over the longer term.

The test runs will be conducted by the first group of sawmill operators, who have been at the sawmill since the spring. The recruitment of another 30 sawmill operators will begin in October. Braviken Sawmill will eventually employ a total of 110 people.

Testing and calibration of the machinery at Braviken Sawmill will start on 1 October, allowing production to commence, as planned, in January 2011.
Categories: News, Holmen Timber, Sawn timber

Holmen Timber and Martinsons Trä form a joint sales company

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:02:00 GMT

The sales company is formed by Martinsons Trä buying a share in Holmen Timber Ltd which then will change its name to Holmen Martinsons Timber Ltd. The co-operation in a joint sales company will enable Holmen and Martinsons to strengthen their position on the UK market by supplying substantial volumes in a wide range of Scandinavian Timber products.

"I see great possibilities in this collaboration, as Holmen and Martinsons productions complement each other", says Johan Hedin, marketing manager at Holmen Timber AB. The strategy is to provide a product portfolio that spans a broad range which will include: northern joinery redwood, construction grade whitewood and glulam beams and components from both species.

Holmen Timber AB and Martinsons Trä AB are already part owners of Uni4 Marketing AB, a sales and marketing company focused in the Middle Eastern and North African markets.

"Through Holmen Martinsons Timber Ltd, we will be able to offer our customers a more complete specification, which will be increasingly in demand in the future", says Kenneth Wallin, CEO at Martinsons Trä AB. "This co-operation enables us to supply an interesting product mix in volumes that increases delivery frequency while keeping the logistical costs down. Our ambition is to take advantages of the product - and volume synergies to become a strong and reliable partner to our current and future customers".

For further information please contact:

Johan Hedin, marketing Manager Holmen Timber AB,

+46 70 211 08 56

Kenneth Wallin, CEO Martinsons Trä AB,

+46 70 324 94 65

With effect from the 3rd January 2011, Holmen Timber and Martinsons Trä form a joint sales company on the UK market.
Categories: News, Holmen Timber, Sawn timber

VindIn i havsbaserat vindkraftsprojekt

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:54:00 GMT

Läs mer på VindIns hemsida.

Vindkraftsbolaget VindIn, där Holmen är delägare, förvärvar en del av Blekinge Offshore AB som projekterar och utvvecklar ett av Sveriges och världens största havsbaserade vindkraftsprojekt i Hanöbukten vid Blekinge.
Categories: News, Holmen, Holmen Energi

Ikea and Sunday Telegraph wins on Holmen XLNT

Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:20:00 GMT

- We are very happy for the win and this shows that Holmen XLNT is a perfect alternative for both SC and MF magazine products, says Tommy Wiksand Sales and Development Director at Holmen Paper.

The winning product in SC was Ikea’s "Design your own life" insert, printed at Roto Smeets on Holmen XLNT.

In the NewsPlus Paper category, the winner was the Sunday Telegraph’s Seven Magazine, printed at Polestar Sheffield on Holmen XLNT.

The European Rotogravure Association, ERA, is the leading international organization of the gravure industry. www.era.eu.org.

Holmen XLNT was the product used for the winning print products both in the SC and Newsplus categories at the annual European Publication Gravure Awards.
Categories: News, Show on startpage, Holmen Paper, Printing paper, Products

Holmen Paper Madrid wins forest industry "Oscar"

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:52:00 GMT

The competition is the only global contest that presents awards to and puts the spotlight on companies, mills and individuals in the paper and pulp industry. It can be compared to the film industry’s ‘Oscars’.

Holmen Paper Madrid won against tough competition from factories in Denmark, Brazil, Canada and the USA. The judges were looking for the mill that had clearly cut usage of raw water and made best possible use of process water filtration, circulation and reuse.

The award was announced in Brussels on 16 November and accepted by Francisca Pérez, environmental manager at Holmen Paper Madrid.

"We are extremely pleased with this award. It recognises the importance of our work on cutting water consumption," says Francisca Pérez.

Holmen Paper Madrid has won the ‘Water Efficiency Award’ for the mill’s work on efficiencies and reductions in water consumption. The prestigious accolade is one of 12 announced at the PPI Awards, which are held annually by Pulp and Paper International in partnership with RISI.
Categories: News, Show on startpage, Holmen Paper, Printing paper, Products, Hållbarhet / Sustainability

Holmen i samarbete om hållbart skogsbruk

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:00:00 GMT

För att leda detta samarbete har Hans Djurberg anställts till en nyinrättad befattning som hållbarhetsdirektör med placering hos branschorganisationen Skogsindustrierna.

De bolag som ingår i samarbetet har sitt skogsbruk certifierat enligt FSC (Forest Stewardship Council). Tillsammans representerar företagen cirka 10 miljoner hektar FSC-certifierad skogsmark.

– Det är första gången går vi samman på detta sätt för att med gemensamma krafter utveckla skogsbrukets hållbarhetsarbete i Sverige, säger Sören Petersson, chef för Holmen Skog.

– Jag är övertygad om att samarbetet innebär möjligheter att nå ännu längre i vårt hållbarhetsarbete.

Holmen har tillsammans med skogsföretagen Bergvik Skog, Korsnäs, SCA, Stora Enso och skogsägareföreningen Södra etablerat ett samarbete för att utveckla skogsbrukets hållbarhetsarbete i Sverige.
Categories: News, Show on startpage, Holmen, Holmen Skog, About forest, Hållbarhet / Sustainability

Produktionsstart vid Bravikens Sågverk

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:30:00 GMT

Den första stocken för kundbeställd produktion rullar genom sågverket den 12 januari 2011. Sågverket ska producera konstruktionsvirke av gran till kunder främst i Skandinavien och på den europeiska marknaden.

- Det är en historisk händelse för Holmen Timber när vi nu startar koncernens andra sågverk efter ett och ett halvt års byggande, säger Håkan Lindh, VD Holmen Timber. Dagens produktionsstart är resultatet av ett intensivt projektarbete och en fantastisk och hängiven insats av en lång rad medarbetare. I och med det nya sågverket i Braviken blir Holmen Timber en komplett leverantör av trävaror med konstruktionsvirke från Braviken och snickerifura från Iggesunds Sågverk, berättar Håkan Lindh, VD Holmen Timber.

Nu startar produktionen vid Bravikens Sågverk. Sågverket som är Skandinaviens största kommer att producera konstruktionsvirke av gran.
Categories: News, Show on startpage, Holmen Timber, Sawn timber

Årets gallrare 2010

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:56:00 GMT

– Priset delas ut för att lyfta fram goda insatser inom skogsbruket, berättar Per Olsson, skogschef vid Holmen Skog region Norrköping. Bedömningen bygger på en systematisk uppföljning av regionens samtliga gallringsgrupper under ett års tid.

Vid bedömningen har hänsyn tagits till såväl biologiska resultat som kvalitets- och produktionsresultat. Under året har 40 gallringsgrupper på Holmen Skogs Norrköpingsregion följts upp systematiskt där faktorer som avverkningskvalitet, stubbhöjder, andel stickvägar med mera kontrollerats. Totalt har drygt 200 gallringstrakter undersökts. Årets vinnare är JB:s Skogstjänst.

Motiveringen lyder:

JB:s Skogstjänst får priset "bästa gallringsgrupp 2010"

för ett kvalitetsmässigt väl genomfört gallringsarbete med låg skadenivå och högklassig virkestillredning.

Tidigare år har följande vinnare utsetts:

2009 Nilssons Skog & Entreprenad

2008 JK Skördartjänst AB

2007 JB:s Skogstjänst AB

2006 JB:s Skogstjänst AB

2005 Ingen vinnare pga stormen Gudrun

2004 Holmen Skog EVA-laget

2003 Fågelsund Skog AB

2002 Yxefall Skogsavverkning AB

Årets vinnare av Holmen Skogs gallringspris inom region Norrköping är JB:s Skogstjänst. Sedan flera år delas priset ut för att lyfta fram goda insatser inom skogsbruket.
Categories: News, Holmen Skog, About forest

Holmen inför webbkurs i skogsvård

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 14:33:00 GMT

Stora Enso ligger bakom idén om en självinstruerande skogsutbildning på nätet. När andra aktörer såg potentialen hängde de på och nu är även Holmen, SCA och Sveaskog med i satsningen.

– Vi har skapat Skötselskolan som ett sätt att höja och säkerställa kompetensen hos våra egna anställda och entreprenörer, säger Anna Norén på Stora Enso.

Den gemensamma utbildningen omfattar markberedning, plantering och röjning och man går den i sin egen takt. Det är en bred och djup utbildning som omfattar allt från plantbiologi, hur skogen växer, natur- och kulturmiljövård till teknik. Kunskaperna stämmer man av först genom ett självtest. När man känner sig redo gör man ett huvudtest, där man måste ha godkänt på 90 procent av frågorna. Därefter utfärdas diplom och personen registreras som godkänd i ett register.

Branschen ser stora fördelar med ett mer flexibelt utbildningsverktyg och att samverka kring att utveckla detta vidare. Flera tusen personer kommer att genomgå de här utbildningarna.

– De som hittills har testat utbildningen uppfattar den som pedagogisk, säger Marie Larsson-Stern på Sveaskog. Kunskapen till exempel för var och hur plantan sätts bäst ökar hos plantörerna, liksom också vilken hänsyn som ska tas till natur och kulturmiljö.

Den teoretiska utbildningen kommer att kompletteras med praktiska övningar. Skogsvårdstesterna ska genomföras varje år. Tanken är att utbildningen ska finnas på upp mot tio språk inom kort.

- Utbildningen ger oss en fantastisk möjlighet att på ett effektivt och flexibelt sätt utbilda ett stort antal personer på flera olika språk, säger Erik Normark på Holmen.

Logga in - lär dig plantera, röja och markbereda - logga ut. Skogsbranschen lanserar nu Skötselskolan, en webbaserad utbildning i skogsvård som ska lära tusentals egna anställda och entreprenörer skogsvård på nätet.
Categories: News, Holmen Skog, About forest

A creative challenge

Sat, 20 Nov 2010 13:00:00 GMT

What would happen if you asked the world’s most pre-eminent designers to do the opposite – to summon all their creative inspiration and think inside the box? We did!

Holmen XLNT among winners in European Publication Gravure Award

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:09:00 GMT

This competition for the best quality in publication gravure printing in Europe is open to both members and non-members of the ERA organisation in Europe. Entry categories are primarily according to paper grade (improved newsprint, SC, LWC and heavier coated papers).

This year the winners for the category Improved Newsprint printed their magazines on Holmen XLNT. The awarded printers were Polestar Sheffield and Prinovis with the magazines Seven (Telegraph Media Group) and Shortlist.

During the European Rotogravure Association Annual Meeting held in Dresden 22-24 September, the award winners for the European Publication Gravure Award 2008 were announced. Holmen XLNT is among them.
Categories: News, Holmen Paper, Printing paper

Holmen Paper sponsors European Award for Directory Publishing

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:07:00 GMT

The categories of the competition are: B2B Online Advertising, B2B Online Content, B2C Online, B2C Offline (print) and Holmen Paper is the sponsor of the category Business to Consumer - B2C Offline.

Holmen Paper has been a part of this sponsorship since the start, now reaching the 10th edition.

The winner for this years best Business to Consumer was the "Gelbe Seiten Hamburg 2008/2009" (Hamburgs Yellow Pages) by the publisher Dumrath & Fassnacht/DeTeMedien, Germany.

On September 26 Holmen Paper attended the European Awards for Quality and Excellence in Directory Publishing in Athens, Greece. The organizer is the European Association of Directory and Database Publishers, also called EADP. This is an annual price ceremony which put focus on the directory publishing market in Europe.
Categories: News, Holmen Paper, Printing paper, Products

Towards a greener Braviken

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:05:00 GMT

Leonard is one of the quality and environmental engineers at Braviken. He, along with his colleagues Jenny Nyqvist and Pia Kuhla, work to ensure that laws, regulations and requirements set out in the quality, environment and energy management standards are followed. They are also involved in and manage projects that aim to make Braviken into an even more efficient and ‘greener’ plant.

"Environmental issues will come even more into focus," says Jenny Nyqvist who works with Leonard Dahlberg and Pia Kuhla (not in photo) as a quality and environmental engineer.

Detailed environmental targets and action plans help to guide people in their efforts to use water and energy more efficiently and reduce and take care of the waste that is produced. A significant amount of time and effort has been put into finding ways of using waste paper for more than just energy production.

Today a tenth of carbon monoxide emissions compared to 2004

Successful environmental efforts include the solid fuel boilers, which have been designed to ensure that burning takes place more efficiently, not only to reduce carbon monoxide emissions but also to increase nitrogen dioxide emissions. Carbon monoxide emissions in 2007 were around a tenth of what they were in 2004.

Reduce energy consumption and producing higher steam recovery

In 2008 the modernisation of the production line for thermomechanical pulp will be completed. This will reduce energy consumption, while producing higher steam recovery for every tonne of pulp produced. The rebuilding of PM 51 has previously led to improved heat recovery.

"Environmental issues will come even more into focus and will lead to greater awareness both internally and externally," says Jenny Nyqvist. Customers are starting to ask more questions about environmental impact and want to know more information about products and production.

This was a summary from an article in our customer magazine Holmen's paper. Read more - Holmen's paper.

Yet another one of Holmen Paper’s production plants is now certified in accordance with FSC. "We only started work on this in the autumn of 2007. The reason why things have gone so quickly is because we have benefited from the fact that Holmen Skog, and the plants at Hallsta and Wargön, have already been certified. Good cooperation within the Group has helped the work go along very smoothly indeed," says Leonard Dahlberg.
Categories: News, Holmen Paper, Printing paper

Braviken utvecklas till ett biokombinat

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:38:00 GMT

Det finns betydande samordningsfördelar med denna lösning.

Exempelvis kommer pappersbruket att få en stor del av sin råvara i form av flis från den nya sågen. Överskott av bark och sågspån kommer att användas för energiproduktion och fjärrvärme. Sågen och pappersbruket kommer också att få sin el från en gemensam anläggning. Ytterligare fördelar är att utnyttja redan befintlig infrastruktur på platsen.

Tanken är att skapa ett centrum för tillverkning av biologiska produkter av förnybar råvara. Samlokaliseringen innebär också goda möjligheter att komplettera tillverkningen med andra produktområden baserade på skogsråvara, till exempel pellets, värme och el. Något som förstås ligger helt i tiden med tanke på de mycket aktuella klimatfrågorna.

Placeringen av sågverket vid pappersbruket innebär också betydande samordningsfördelar i anskaffning av virke. Holmen köper alla virkessortiment på marknaden, alltifrån massaved och timmer till skogsbränsle.

Att placera det nya sågverket vid det befintliga pappers-bruket innebär att Braviken utvecklas till ett så kallat biokombinat. Här kommer att tillverkas både sågade trävaror och papper på ett och samma ställe.
Categories: News, Holmen Paper, Printing paper

Braviken’s new pulp line inaugurated

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:59:00 GMT

Minister for Education Jan Björklund inaugurated a new pulp line at the Braviken Paper Mill in Norrköping today 1 of December.

The investment means that existing cutting edge technology combined with newly developed equipment will be tried out on a full scale for the first time.

"The new pulp line not only gives better pulp quality and higher production capacity, it will also result in greatly improved energy efficiency by reducing electricity consumption by 25 per cent, as well as lower oil consumption," says Magnus Hall, Holmen’s President and CEO. "The investment is one aspect of the process of raising the quality of our products; it also reflects our aim of contributing to long-term sustainable development by means of reduced energy consumption per tonne of paper produced. Given today’s high energy costs it is also a key pre-requisite for higher profitability."

The investment cost of the pulp line, which will replace a 30-year-old production unit, was approximately MSEK 500. The pulp is used to produce newsprint and special printing paper.

The Minister of Education Jan Björklund together with Fredrik Lundberg, the chairman of the Holmen Group's board of directors.

For further information please contact

Ingela Carlsson, Public Relations Director,

Holmen AB, tel +46 70 212 97 12

Anders Lyngenberg, Manager Public Communications,

Holmen Paper AB, tel +46 70 570 05 48

In its capacity as issuer, Holmen AB is releasing the information in this press release in accordance with Chapter 17 of the Swedish law (2007:528) regarding the securities market. The information was distributed to the media for publication at 12.15 PM CET on Monday 1 December 2008.

Minister for Education Jan Björklund inaugurated a new pulp line at the Braviken Paper Mill in Norrköping today 1of December.
Categories: News, Holmen Paper, Printing paper

Holmen gratulerar Jonas Jacobsson till bragdguldet

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:05:00 GMT

I sin långa karriär har han radat upp en serie bragder i dessa sammanhang och vunnit allt annat man kan vinna i sportskytte. Stort grattis till Jonas, som nu blir historisk genom att vara den förste inom handikappidrotten att få denna fina utmärkelse. Holmen och Jonas har varit samarbetspartners sedan början av 90-talet.

Bild från www.svd.se

Jonas Jacobsson tilldelades idag Svenska Dagbladets Bragdmedalj för sina tre guld i Peking Paralympics 2008. Jonas är alltid bäst när det gäller och har hittills kommit upp i helt fantastiska 16 Paralympicsguld. I sin långa karriär har han radat upp en serie bragder i dessa sammanhang och vunnit allt annat man kan vinna i sportskytte. Stort grattis till Jonas, som nu blir historisk genom att vara den förste inom handikappidrotten att få denna fina utmärkelse. Holmen och Jonas har varit...
Categories: News, Holmen Paper, Printing paper

Pappersreklamens miljöpåverkan utreds

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:12:00 GMT

Vem har inte sett skyltarna på våra postlådor och brevinkast "Nej tack till reklam"? Säkert de flesta eftersom allt fler klistrar upp det budskapet. Det här oroar företag som på ett eller annat sätt verkar inom branschen direktreklam. De flesta hushåll som väljer att avstyra utdelningen av direktreklam gör det för miljöns skull, men forskning och upplysning på detta område är dåligt.

– Det behövs insatser på området och utreda hur det ser ut när det gäller just hur direktreklamen som delas ut i folks brevlådor påverkar miljön, säger Maj Bonde-Teir, konsult och projektledare för Miljö Direkt och även företagens språkrör.

Hon förklarar att det inte finns någon dokumenterad forskning kring hur miljöfarlig direktreklamen egentligen är i Sverige. Därför ska företagen Svensk Direktreklam (SDR), Posten, Bring Citymail och tryckerierna JMS, V-TAB, samt informationslogistikföretaget Strålfors och papperstillverkaren Holmen gemensamt försöka utreda det.

– Initiativet kom från branschen själv. Att samla kunskap och fakta är projektets huvudmål. Hur ser miljöbelastning ut när det gäller direktreklamen, undrar Maj Bonde-Teir.

Ny studie startas

De ska även starta en studie om andra medier och deras miljöpåverkan för att få fram objektiv information om hur annan reklam än papper påverkar miljön.

– Väldigt ofta pratar man om att de digitala medierna inte har någon miljöpåverkan alls, men det har ju givetvis de också. Men ingen vet egentligen hur mycket miljöpåverkan de har och svaret vore intressant att sätta i relation till direktreklamens påverkan på miljön, berättar hon.

Faktabank på nätet

Allt ska alltså samlas på en hemsida på internet där fakta och kunskap från forskningen ska förmedlas till allmänheten. Vad det blir för resultat vet ännu ingen eftersom de resultaten väntas bli klara under nästa år. Maj Bonde-Teir hoppas ändå att forskningsgruppen hittar alternativ som gör produktionen av direktreklam mer miljövänlig.

– Eftersom vi inte vet idag hur den slår mot miljön så finns det ju en möjlighet att den redan är så miljövänlig den kan bli. Det vore ju bäst, för syftet med projektet är att förändra om det är nödvändigt, säger hon.

Det finns många myter kring direktreklamens påverkan på miljön och det blir väldigt lätt en emotionell fråga, menar Maj Bonde-Teir.

– För gemene man tror säkert att man skövlar skog för att göra direktreklam. Sanningen är den att direktreklam ofta är en biprodukt av trädet. Det är väldigt sällan man skördar träd enkom för att producera pappersreklam. Det är ju inte så att om man skulle sluta med direktreklamen så skulle man sluta avverka träd, förklarar hon.

Detta var ett sammandrag från en artikel publicerad 2008-12-19 på www.skogsaktuellt.se

Vilken miljöpåverkan som direktreklamens 180 000 ton papper har vet ingen idag. Därför ska aktörer i branschen nu utreda det. Företag som Posten SDR och Holmen Paper är några som ingår i satsningen – en satsning som bland annat ska slå hål på myter om pappersreklamen åverkan på miljön.
Categories: News, Holmen Paper, Printing paper

Next Marketing '09 - Holmen Paper sponsors "Best Direct Marketer of the Year"

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:24:00 GMT

Holmen Paper is one of the sponsors and will be awarding the

prestigious ‘Best Direct Marketer of the Year Award’ in conjunction with FEDMA. This prize will go to the company that has produced the best DM of the year.

There will be a number of internationally renowned experts at the conference. They will be speaking and leading discussions on the strategies that can be used to get messages across in the financially turbulent times we now find ourselves in. For example, they will be looking at how we can communicate with consumers in a more innovative and economical way; consumers who have changed their way of shopping, saving and working as a result of the financial crisis.

The organisers of this event are FECEMD, The Spanish Federation of E-Commerce and Direct Marketing, in conjunction with DMA, Direct Marketing Association, FEDMA and its counterpart in Latin America and IFDMA, International Federation of DMA.

Next Marketing ’09 will take place on 6 and 7 May in Madrid and will welcome representatives from companies that work with direct and interactive marketing.
Categories: News, Holmen Paper, Printing paper

Unique energy research at the Braviken Paper Mill

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:22:00 GMT

"The front line for practical research into mechanical pulp production is located in Braviken and it will remain here for a long time to come. We have the technical equipment that is needed to be able to engage in unique research into the use of energy in industry. This makes it particularly important to be able to attract highly competent people," says Rikard Wallin, mill manager at the Braviken Paper Mill.

The new TMP line (Thermo Mechanical Pulp) in Braviken, which was brought into production in August 2008, is a large production facility; it is also the world’s largest research lab for mechanical pulp. The line produces 800 tonnes of pulp per day. Compared with the old line energy consumption will be reduced by around 600 kWh per tonne of pulp.

The research project started in September 2008. The overriding goal is to save energy, but also to improve the quality of the pulp.

"Our ordinary organisation is not large enough to take on the work that is needed for such an extensive evaluation and optimisation of the facility. We therefore thought it would be a good idea to bring in young researchers," says Rikard Wallin.

Holmen, the Swedish Energy Agency and the Knowledge Foundation (KK-stiftelsen) are putting up the fi nancing. Each of the postgraduate students has been given responsibility for optimising their own section of the TMP line. Responsibility has been allocated by dividing the process into pre-grinding, main refining, and low concentration refining.

Erik Nelsson from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala is tackling the first stage. "My process starts when the wood is cut into chips and then washed. By adding chemicals we hope to make the chips easier to break down and, in this way, save energy," he says.

Dino Muhic from Mid Sweden University in Sundsvall is looking at the second stage, in which the chips are ground into fibre. "I am working with a process known as high-concentration refining. It involves trying to fi nd the best way to run the refiner, the mill where the chips are ground, by adjusting parameters such as pressure, temperature and intensity."

Stefan Andersson, who is also from Mid Sweden University in Sundsvall, is investigating the third stage, which is known as

low-concentration refining. "Energy can be saved here by, for example, refining the pulp at a lower level of dry content," he explains.

Stefan Andersson

All three postgraduate students find the project in Braviken interesting because it involves doing research in a real production environment.

"It is very exciting. We are given plenty of responsibility and it is not only research as such but also something that you can apply direct, which means that the practical benefits show through at once," says Dino Muhic.

Eric Nelsson agrees: "What is unique about this project is that the tests are carried out at full scale with more than 30 tonnes of pulp per hour," he says.

"When we’ve got a bit further we should be able to adopt a more integrated approach, so our projects will be more dependent on each other," explains Stefan Andersson. The project will be submitted to the Swedish Energy Agency within two years of

its start. Holmen estimates that it will save at least 30 per cent of the energy along the process – from chips to pulp – once all the systems have been run in and fine-tuned. This means that 130 GWh of energy will be saved each year.

This is an article from Holmen Business Report

Holmen has launched a research project to study energy saving at the Braviken Paper Mill. The project will involve three postgraduate students studying the new TMP-line for a period of two years.
Categories: News, Holmen Paper, Printing paper

Royal recognition for environmental work

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:17:00 GMT

"We’re proud of this award and see it as proof that we’ve fulfilled our ambition of combining efficient production with proactive and sustainable environmental consideration," says Arne Wallin, head of the Holmen Paper business area, who received the award from King Juan Carlos I.

This was the fourth time that the Drottning Kristinapriset was awarded by the Swedish-Spanish chamber of commerce in Madrid. Holmen won the award thanks to "its work on environmental and climate issues and promotion of relationships between Sweden and Spain."

Holmen Paper’s mill in Madrid produces newsprint and coated magazine paper based on 100 per cent recycled paper and therefore plays an important part in paper recycling in Spain. In total, 85 per cent of Madrid’s recycled paper is used by Holmen Paper Madrid.

Furthermore, in 2010 all paper at the Madrid mill will be made using recycled water, making it a reference facility for the entire industry. At the mill, the plant that produces electricity and steam is currently being expanded and the new larger facility is scheduled to open in November 2009.

Holmen received the Drottning Kristinapriset award during a ceremony at the Swedish Embassy on Thursday. From right King Carl XVI Gustaf, King Juan Carlos I, Lena Treschow Torell, chairman of IVA (Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences), Miguel Torres, CEO Bodega Torres (who also was rewarded), Swedish ambassador Anders Rönquist and Arne Wallin, head of Holmen Paper. Photo: Alejandro Cid-Fuentes

Holmen was awarded the Drottning Kristinapriset [Queen Kristina Award] during a grand ceremony at the Swedish Embassy in Madrid on Thursday. The Kings of Sweden and Spain presented the award.
Categories: News, Holmen Paper, Printing paper, Hållbarhet / Sustainability

Holmen to reduce capacity and make staff cuts

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:15:00 GMT

Board machine 1 (BM 1) in Workington will be decommissioned at the end of 2009. The machine, installed in 1967, has an annual capacity of 70,000 tonnes of folding boxboard in the lower quality segments. Holmen estimates that the changes will mean staff cuts of up to 100. Upgrading of BM 2 will start at the same time. BM 2 produces folding boxboard in the higher quality segments. The new annual capacity of the Workington Mill will be 200,000 tonnes (currently 250,000) - a volume better adapted to the market.

"This will make us even more competitive and further bolster our transition towards the highest quality segments. The changes are in line with our efforts to evolve our boxboard products and will reinforce our solid position and strong brands in high-quality boxboard," says Magnus Hall, President and CEO of Holmen.

Holmen Paper Braviken

Holmen Paper is continuing to adapt to the decrease in demand for printing paper. The business area has previously made substantial staff cuts, changed its product mix and shut down production capacity. At the Braviken Paper Mill a review of the organisation and work methods will take place. Negotiations will commence to cut staff by approximately 100.

"The market for printing paper continues to be weak. We must continue our efforts to streamline the organisation and make sure that our units maintain their competitive edge," says Magnus Hall. "At the same time, it's regretful that the measures now being taken mean that several of our employees will now be forced to leave the company."

Along with these measures, administrative processes within the Holmen Group will be evaluated in order to improve efficiency and cut costs.

For more facts and pictures of the Holmen mills in Workington and Braviken, please visit www.holmen.com

At the end of 2009, Holmen will be closing down one of its two board machines at the Workington Mill in Cumbria, UK. At the same time, the capacity of the remaining machine will be upgraded. At the Braviken Paper Mill in Norrköping, Sweden, negotiations will commence to cut staff by approximately 100.
Categories: News, Holmen Paper, Iggesund Paperboard

New paper calculator helps you make smarter paper choices

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:35:00 GMT

But how much can you save by choosing Holmen XLNT instead of the paper you currently use? And how many times can you target your market by making a smarter paper choice?

Our Calculator can help you with the answers of these questions. Its pre-programmed selections, automatically linked to information about the grammage of different Holmen Paper products, and it's user-friendly layout make this calculator extremely simple to use. You will also get a print-out which presents this information clearly, making it easy to compare different alternatives.

Holmen XLNT is around 20% thicker than LWC and SC paper which means that you can choose a lower grammage without compromising on the quality of the printed material.
Categories: News, Holmen Paper, Printing paper

Order printed and unprinted samples

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:34:00 GMT

Choosing paper is often all about the feel – being able to see and touch a paper in order to decide whether it is right for the end product. Holmen Paper therefore has an online system that enables you to order paper samples and quickly get a feel for our products.

"This is a free service for existing customers and others who are exploring Holmen Paper for the first time," explains Tommy Wiksand, head of Holmen Paper’s sales to printers, retailers and publishers. "We hope that this will lead more people to discover all our interesting options."

Alongside your sample order, why not contact your local sales office for help with your choice of paper.

If you are interested in Holmen Paper’s products, it is now possible to order printed and unprinted paper samples, both as sheets and dummies, online.
Categories: News, Holmen Paper, Printing paper

Holmen fick rätt mot DO

Mon, 17 May 2010 08:55:00 GMT

- Ett förnuftigt och korrekt beslut, inte bara för oss utan för Sveriges samtliga arbetsgivare. DO:s krav på lönekartläggning går, om det skulle bli norm, långt utanför vad som kan anses rimligt, säger Arne Wallin, affärsområdeschef för Holmen Paper.

Utredningsarbetet som Holmen Paper ålagts från DO har varit krävande.

Redan 2006 begärde dåvarande JämO in lönekartläggnings-uppgifter från Holmen Paper. Utredningsarbetet har pågått sedan dess men dragit ut på tiden på grund av DO:s krav på kompletteringar och ökad detaljeringsnivå. Slutinstans för ärendet blev Nämnden mot diskriminering, som nu alltså avslår DO:s samtliga tre yrkanden samt yrkandet om vite.

– Det har kostat oss mycket att försöka svara upp till DO:s krav. Det positiva, utöver dagens besked, är att utredningen vi tvingats till ytterligare bekräftat att osakliga löneskillnader inte förekommer inom Holmen Paper. DO:s yrkanden rörde inte alls den frågan, men det är ändå en positiv bieffekt av det jobb vi gjort.

Nämnden mot diskriminering avslår diskrimineringsombudsmannens (DO) begäran om vitesföreläggande mot Holmen Paper. Beslutet kan inte överklagas.
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Newspapers on paper or on the net?

Wed, 19 May 2010 08:28:00 GMT

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT / ENERGY CONSUMPTION

Paper newspaper: To analyse the climate impact of a newspaper, you start out from a lifecycle approach. This includes obtaining and transporting raw materials, producing the paper, printing, editing and distribution. For example, an annual subscription to a daily paper means 12 kilos in carbon dioxide emissions. This can be compared with driving from Stockholm to Göteborg, which produces carbon dioxide emissions of 120 kilos. Or a return flight to Mallorca which generates 730 kilos of carbon dioxide. It is also important to calculate how many people will read a particular copy of the paper newspaper. The more people who read the same copy, the lower the environmental impact.

The Internet: Although many people might think that reading online just uses "a bit of electricity", digital newspaper reading does contribute towards carbon dioxide emissions. To produce these figures you include the carbon dioxide emissions that arise when the parts of the computer are manufactured, when the energy needed to run the computer is produced, when transporting the computer and for the editorial work. And while it is true that carbon dioxide emissions can be reduced by reading online, it obviously depends on how much time is spent in front of the screen. Half an hour reading online a day emits roughly the same amount of carbon dioxide as reading a daily paper – based on the newspaper being read by 2.4 people, which is the average.

RESOURCES / RECYCLING

Paper newspaper: The greatest environmental impact from printed newspapers is in the paper manufacturing process. At the same time, the paper industry is working hard to achieve high forest productivity and to cut emissions. The general rule is for three new trees to be planted for every one cut down. In 2009 there were a total of 460 000 tonnes of newspapers on the market in Sweden. 420 000 tonnes were sent for recycling. This corresponds to a collection rate of 91 per cent. The collected newspapers are returned to paper mills where the ink is removed before they are ground down into recovered fibre pulp used in new newspapers. Using recycled newspapers produces an energy saving of 70 per cent compared with producing newspapers from new pulp.

The Internet: Producing the computers of today demands large amounts of plastic derived from crude oil. A computer also contains heavy metals and brominated flame retardants. As private individuals and companies are increasingly buying new computers and throwing away their old ones, the lifecycle for computers is getting shorter all the time, with a marked increase in the amount of waste. This means it is important that all electronic equipment is sent for recycling so that toxic substances that have a negative impact on the environment are not emitted. However, separating out the different parts of a computer is a complicated process.

Text: Malin Larshammar. Illustration: Amigos.

This was a sample of an article in Holmen Business Report.

Digital newspapers have gained an increasing amount of ground and from an environmental perspective have been put forward as a better alternative to paper-based newspapers. And many people would probably be prepared to agree – electronics must be more environmentally friendly, after all it just uses "a bit of electricity". But if you factor in manufacturing the computer, producing the energy needed to run it, and recycling, things are not quite as clear cut.
Categories: News, Holmen Paper, Printing paper, Products

Holmen awarded for environmental work

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 08:25:00 GMT

"We are naturally proud to receive this recognition of our comprehensive environmental work. We work efficiently with renewable and recyclable resources in our manufacturing process, while always maintaining respect for people and the future," said managing director Mikael Wirén as he accepted the award from the Community President, Esperanza Aguirre.

The annual award is a joint initiative of the Community of Madrid, its chamber of commerce and local business organisations.

Freshwater is in short supply in Spain. Holmen Paper’s development work in partnership with water supplier Canal de Isabel II and Complutense University of Madrid has led to a future where the paper mill will be able to use recycled water instead of purified drinking water in its manufacturing process. This will make the mill the first in Europe to make paper based only on recycled water and recovered paper.

Holmen Paper’s recovered paper operation deals with the majority of all recovered paper in the capital itself and outlying areas. As much as 93 per cent of the waste products from production are also recycled. For example, sludge from the process of cleaning the recovered paper is recycled and used in building material and in agricultural applications, with any metals arising from the process sent on to metal industries.

Two highly efficient steam turbines take care of energy production for the mill, producing steam and electricity totalling 77 MW. Holmen Paper Madrid recently became the first paper industry in Spain to receive UNE 216 301 energy certification.

Mill manager Mikael Wirén received the Madrid Environment Award from Esperanza Aguirre, President of Madrid.

For further information please contact:

Mikael Wirén, managing director Holmen Paper Madrid, tel. + 34 659 057 006

Jonas Lindell, public communications manager Holmen Paper, tel. +46 11 23 62 11

On Monday, Holmen Paper’s mill in Madrid received an award from the Autonomous Community of Madrid for its extensive environmental work. The paper mill’s management of water, recovered paper, waste products and energy resulted in Madrid’s Environment Award for 2009.
Categories: News, Holmen Paper, Printing paper

Holmen reduces workforce at Hallsta Paper Mill

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:22:00 GMT

"As the market for printing paper continues to be weak, we are forced to take steps to maintain our competitiveness and improve profitability," says Arne Wallin, head of Holmen Paper. "Unfortunately, these measures mean that a number of employees will have to leave the company."

Holmen Paper has already reduced its staff, improved the product mix and shutdown unprofitable production capacity. In Hallsta the recovered paper operation and one paper machine was shutdown in 2008.

"We’ve succeeded in reorganising production at Hallsta so that we manufacture more improved products such as MF Magazine and book paper. But to achieve acceptable profitability, we also need to lower our fixed costs. Combined with the continuous efforts of further developing our products, among others through a rebuild of PM 11, this lays the foundations for securing a future for the mill that is sustainable in the long term," says Arne Wallin.

For further information please contact:

Jonas Lindell, public communications manager Holmen Paper, tel. +46 (0)70 323 20 13

Ingela Carlsson, public relations director Holmen, tel. +46 (0)70 212 97 12

This week, Holmen Paper will begin negotiations on reducing the workforce at the paper mill in Hallstavik. Around 150 people will be affected.
Categories: News, Holmen Paper, Printing paper

Holmen VIEW - a new paper that feels like silk

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:20:00 GMT

"Holmen VIEW is something completely new. It combines the printing properties of SC papers with the feel of MF papers," comments Tommy Wiksand, Sales and Development Director at Holmen Paper.

"Holmen VIEW is suitable when quality is paramount, for advertising materials, product catalogues and magazines with exacting demands on printability, colour reproduction and excellent feel."

Holmen VIEW carries on Holmen Paper’s innovative tradition in product development. Holmen VIEW complements the company’s product portfolio and serves as a natural continuation of the advances in Holmen XLNT. Earlier this year, the company introduced new levels of brightness and grammages for the SC paper Holmen PREMIUM and the book paper Holmen BOOK.

"This is a result of clearly defined wishes from our customers. It is through such close collaboration that we intend to stay on the leading edge of product development. That benefits us and our customers," Wiksand explains.

Holmen VIEW is produced on PM 11 at Hallsta Paper Mill. To produce this product, PM 11 was upgraded for more than SEK 70 million.

About Holmen VIEW

Description: Uncoated silk paper

Grammages: 51 and 54 g/m2

Brightness (ISO): ISO 75

Bulk cm3/g: 1.1

For further information please contact:

Tommy Wiksand, Sales and Development Director Holmen Paper,

tel. +46-11-23 50 00

Jan Andersson, Product Development Manager Holmen Paper,

tel. +46-11-23 50 00

Holmen Paper continues to develop winning products and is now launching Holmen VIEW, a new uncoated printing paper that feels just like silk.
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The paper book is not dead!

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:31:00 GMT

"Nothing speaks to us as forcefully as a book." Those were the words of Herta Müller, 2009 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, in her Banquet Speech. In the midst of a time that celebrates information technology and digital media, she stood up and spoke about the important role books have always played in people’s lives.

Due to e-book readers, mobiles and computers the traditional book has taken on a new guise and become an e-book. But even as the range of e-book readers becomes bigger and better, technical barriers still stand in the way of the experience.

An international overview shows uneven take-up. A number of e-book readers have been launched – and new ones are coming onto the market all the time. In the US 90 per cent of the 50 000 best-selling printed titles are offered in e-book format and when Dan Brown released his latest book, the e-book version achieved higher sales than the printed one. In Japan e-books are big sellers, while in the UK and Germany interest has been cooler. In France publishers receive government funding for converting

traditional books into digital e-books. In Denmark the e-book market barely exists, while it is taking off in Norway.

Text: Sofia Eriksson. Photo: Elliot Elliot/JOHNÈR.

This was a summarized sample of an article in Holmen Business Report.

In a digital world, you might easily think the paper book is dead. If so, think again. So far, a good book is still a good book, despite e-books and e-book readers.
Categories: News, Holmen Paper, Printing paper

Reduced workforce in Madrid

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 08:17:00 GMT

The smaller of the mill’s two paper machines, PM 61, is operating at a loss and has done so for some time, despite active improvement measures. These have included switching from production of newsprint to production of coated printing paper, LWC, based on 100 per cent recovered fibre. Since September employees have been temporarily laid off due to the shortage of recovered paper. The workforce reduction now being announced is part of a wider review of costs.

"The market situation for printing paper continues to be tough. The shortage of recovered fibre and the resulting cost increase means that in parallel to workforce reduction, we’re looking into different courses of action for PM 61. One possible path is to switch to other product areas, which can be achieved in partnership or in their entirety by another player," comments Arne Wallin, head of Holmen Paper.

The staff cuts will be made with immediate effect and affect 29 people, of which seven work in production and 22 have administrative duties. The cuts will take place in parallel with a new organisation entering into force. After these measures have been taken, Holmen Paper Madrid will have 320 employees.

Footnote: Holmen Paper acquired the mill in Madrid and PM 61 in 2000. The machine has a capacity of 170 000 tonnes of printing paper. PM 62 was commissioned in 2005, with a capacity of 330 000 tonnes of newsprint.

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Contact:

Arne Wallin, head of Holmen Paper,

tel. + 46 (0)11-23 62 21

Ingela Carlsson, public relations director, Holmen,

tel. + 46 (0)70-212 97 12

In its capacity as issuer, Holmen AB is releasing the information in this press release in accordance with Chapter 17 of the Swedish Securities Market Act (2007:528). The information was distributed to the media for publication at 12.00 CET on Thursday 14 October 2010.

29 people will be made redundant at Holmen Paper’s mill in Madrid as part of an ongoing efficiency drive. This drive also includes looking into alternative options for PM 61.
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Invercote Bio now certified compostable

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:00:00 GMT

“We’ve never doubted it was but now we also have scientific documentation that it is,” comments Jan-Erik Winlund, product safety manager at Iggesund Paperboard.

The composting certification opens new doors for Iggesund. Earlier this year the company announced that it can supply paperboard coated with bioplastic, a biodegradable barrier material that is especially well suited for food applications. The fact that the paperboard itself is now certified to be biodegradable paves the way for new business opportunities.

“Invercote coated with bioplastic – and everything guaranteed biodegradable – is an exciting product which we believe has a great future,” says Jonas Adler, who is commercial manager of Iggesund’s value-added products. He describes the company’s hunt for bioplastics that could meet its high quality demands.

“There are a number of alternatives on the market but most of them cannot guarantee that they did not use genetically modified plants to produce the starch which is the raw material for the bioplastic. We chose to take the safest possible route and to refuse all products that cannot guarantee they are free from GMO material.

“In addition, there are cases where one or more ingredients in a total packaging solution do not measure up to the requirements for a sustainable strategy, and people have tried to gloss over the problem by adding a biodegradable plastic coating. We believe firmly that both the base board and the barrier material should live up to the same quality demands in terms of resource, energy and environmental strategies.”

Iggesund has chosen to cooperate with the Italian company Novamont and use its well-tested plastic Mater-Bi as a barrier material.

“Invercote Bio, which is the name of our bioplastic-coated Invercote, is an exciting material for anyone who wants documented biodegradability,” Adler says. “There is quite a lot of demand for this feature in the market and we are proud that we can offer this material.”

Invercote Bio is more expensive than a paperboard with a traditional PE coating.

“Companies that want sustainable packaging solutions are also prepared to pay for a material that rationalises their waste management,” Adler explains. “Instead of having to handle many different categories of waste, for instance at trade fairs, coffee and ice cream bars, and at various catering events, they can reduce their handling costs by choosing the right materials.”

He emphasises that while today’s bioplastics are not suitable for all types of applications, they are developing rapidly because so many different companies and organisations are working in this field.

“And paperboard coated with bioplastic has a fantastic future, because it fits into all the future waste scenarios prescribed in the EU’s packaging directive, be they recycling, energy recovery, composting or anaerobic treatment. No other material is suitable for all these different scenarios – and sharp-witted customers have already realised this.”

Invercote from Iggesund Paperboard is now certified for industrial composting. The certification is proof that the natural material is biodegradable in accordance with the European standard EN 13432.
Categories: News, Iggesund Paperboard

Get more from your paperboard with the Graphics Handbook

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:55:00 GMT

Discover the answers to these and many more questions in Iggesund Paperboard’s newly published Graphics Handbook, which gives examples of many different techniques and describes how to achieve them.

“Many graphic designers are unsure of how they can benefit and what they can achieve by using paperboard instead of paper,” explains Jonas Adler, applications specialist at Iggesund and one of the book’s authors. “In this handbook we have collected examples of paperboard techniques that are especially relevant to anyone who wants to develop their creativity to new and exciting levels.”

He emphasises, though, that the book is not just aimed at designers. It also contains a more technical section which advises printers on the best ways to achieve success with paperboard.

“Throughout much of the graphics industry there is uncertainty about paperboard as a material,” Adler says. “People would rather use a thick grade of a brand of paper that they know, even if they thereby lose out on the many advantages paperboard would have given them.”

The Graphics Handbook is part of Iggesund’s “Iggesund Anchor” reference material. The material also includes The Paperboard Reference Manual, which is used as a standard reference work in many packaging and design courses. The Graphics Handbook has 90 pages and is richly illustrated. It is currently available only in English but additional language versions are planned.

An extract of the Graphics Handbook can be seen at Iggesund’s website, iggesund.com where the book can be ordered at a cost of 25 Euro including postage.

For further information please contact:

Staffan Sjöberg, Publ. Relations Manager Iggesund Paperboard, +46 650 28256

What effects can I achieve by using paperboard instead of paper for graphics applications? When is paperboard the best solution and what can I do with it?
Categories: News, Iggesund Paperboard

Iggesund’s vision: Manufacturing without fossil CO2 emissions

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:00:00 GMT

FIRST CLASS PRODUCTS

The major reduction in Iggesund Bruk’s CO₂emissions have been implemented during 2009. It comes from a combination of energy savings plus investments in increased capacity for biofuel use. Mallinson emphasises, though, that the measures are not primarily motivated by the media’s intense focus on carbon emissions:

“We can’t respond in a short-term, erratic way, like public opinion sometimes does. In accordance with our long-term approach to the environment, we evaluate environmental aspects when making every investment decision. But our job – and there is no contradiction involved – is to deliver a first-class product at a competitive price.”

MINIMAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT

For decades now Iggesund has been implementing a long-term environmental programme at Iggesunds Bruk. The company’s energy supply is based on heat from Iggesund’s own production process plus electricity, almost half of which is also produced by the company. Today over 90 per cent of this electricity comes from biofuel, and soon the mill will also be self-sufficient in electricity. With regard to heat, Iggesunds Bruk produces a surplus. As well as being used in the production process, the heat is also used to dry timber in a nearby sawmill and to heat almost 1000 homes in the local village.

”It’s unfortunate that public environmental opinion tends to focus on one particular issue at a time, when industries are forced by necessity to see the overall picture,” Mallinson says. “Here at Iggesund Paperboard we’re not just good at cutting carbon dioxide emissions, we’re a world leader when it comes to operating a major process industry with minimal environmental impact.”

For further information please contact:

Staffan Sjöberg, Publ. Relations Manager Iggesund Paperboard, +46 650 28256

During 2009 Iggesund Paperboard has reduced its emissions of fossil carbon dioxide by 65 per cent at Iggesunds Bruk, where the company’s flagship product, Invercote, is made. The reduction by 63,000 tonnes corresponds to the emissions from 17,500 cars per year. “Even before this move our business operations are already highly robust and sustainable,” adds Guy Mallinson, Business Director Sales at Iggesund. “Almost 95 per cent of Iggesunds Bruk’s current energy consumption is from biofuels an...
Categories: News, Iggesund Paperboard

A shiny red hello from Iggesund

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:32:00 GMT

Pulling apart the protective red outer sheath reveals a Christmas greeting and the Christmas card itself, which is then removed to reveal a second greeting inside.

The outer cover is made of Metalprint, which is Invercote coated with metallised PET and in this case then printed with a transparent red ink. The outside of the card depicts a snowflake printed with a pale special effect varnish containing glitter.

The white structural elements of the cover are made of Invercote G 350 g/m² and the card itself of Invercote Creato 400 g/m².

“Of tradition we try to create Christmas cards that demonstrate the creative use of paperboard,” says Iggesund’s Anna Adler, who was in charge of developing the card. “Our Christmas card is not just a greeting to our customers but also a sample that we hope will inspire the recipients.”

The card was designed by Jörg Bluhm of the German agency Schindler Parent & Cie. GmbH, and conversion was done by Ekotryckredners in Sweden.

For further information please contact:

Staffan Sjöberg, Publ. Relations Manager Iggesund Paperboard, +46 650 28256

This year’s Christmas card from Iggesund Paperboard has an ingeniously designed construction that resembles a CD or DVD cover.
Categories: News, Iggesund Paperboard

Invercote certified for HP Indigo

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:10:00 GMT

“Invercote Creato was previously certified for HP Indigo but since the new Invercote launched last autumn has been improved in a number of ways that play a role in digital graphic production we decided to go through a new certification process,” explains Rickard Österlindh, head of digital business development at Iggesund.

He emphasises that digital printing is now expanding strongly in Europe despite the current economic recession. The American market has been quicker to embrace the advantages of digital printing, where the combination of speed and opportunities for personalisation has led to new creative solutions and applications.

“We’re now seeing the corresponding development in Europe and it is happening quickly,” he says. “There’s a strong demand from the market to use paper or paperboard that hasn’t been pretreated. Invercote Creato meets those demands and offers customer benefits such as quick delivery, easy combination of offset and digitally printed materials, and good lifespan for storage.”

Currently many types of paper used for digital printing must be pretreated, a situation that creates additional costs for printers. Pretreating with sapphire or similar coatings is an extra work step and reduces the length of time the paper can be stored without deteriorating. Pretreatment also affects whiteness, so that anyone who wants to add a digitally printed batch to a previous edition printed in offset has to use different whitenesses and thereby deal with different types of colour reproduction. A printer who wants to do both digital and offset printing also has to keep two types of material in stock.

“All these reasons are why the market wants products like Invercote Creato that don’t require pretreatment and that give optimal printing results in both printing processes,” Österlindh says.

In conjunction with the certification Iggesund is releasing a Digital Sample Pack – a set of 25 unprinted sheets of Invercote Creato 260 in a 460 x 320 mm format. Customers can use the samples to make a quick evaluation. The sample pack can be ordered from Iggesund or the merchants who carry Inverco

For further information please contact:

Staffan Sjöberg, Publ. Relations Manager Iggesund Paperboard, +46 650 28256

The new Invercote Creato from Iggesund Paperboard is now certified for use in HP Indigo’s digital presses. The certification covers grammages from 200 to 350 g/m 2 . Iggesund is now launching a Digital Sample Pack, which can be ordered from merchants who carry Invercote.
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Invercote and Incada top the list

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:44:00 GMT

Called “The Brand Equity Tracking Survey – Cartonboard for Consumer Packaging”, the study evaluates brands on the paperboard market based on a number of criteria: spontaneous brand recognition, perceived quality in several respects, and brand loyalty. The study concludes that the most valuable brand is Iggesund Paperboard’s Invercote followed by Incada, also belonging to Iggesund.

“This is a genuine confirmation that the market recognises our brands and their unrivalled quality level and consistency,” concludes Guy Mallinson, Business Director Sales at Iggesund Paperboard.

“We are especially pleased to achieve this result again this year, when we are launching a new, further refined Invercote taking it a step closer towards our customers’ and end users’ ultimate demands.”

This is the third time the study has been done and it is also the third time that Iggesund’s two brands are at the absolute top.

“For over many years, Iggesund has consistently asserted its brand and the values they stand for,” Mallinson says. “I believe this work and development will only be more important in the future.”

Consistent and successful marketing, though, has to be based on good products and everything associated with them and not least, service.

“Our technical service and documentation is designed to ensure our customers get the most out of the Invercote or Incada they have purchased. Our quality and service combine to give both a good overall economy and a final result that stands out from the crowd,” Mallinson concludes.

The leading paperboard brands according to Brand Equity Index:

1. Invercote

2. Incada

3. Simwhite/-cote

4. Tamwhite/- brite

5. Frövi

6. Ensogloss/-coat

7. Stora Enso

8. Neocart

9. Rochcoat/-blanc

Source: Opticom International Research

For further information please contact:

Staffan Sjöberg, Publ. Relations Manager Iggesund Paperboard, +46 650 28256

Iggesund Paperboard’s brands – Invercote ® and Incada ® – are the strongest brands on the European paperboard market. The conclusion comes from a European brand study based on over 700 interviews with converters and brand owners. The study was done by the consulting firm of Opticom International Research.
Categories: News, Iggesund Paperboard, About paperboard

Iggesund – soon free from fossil fuel emissions

Fri, 21 May 2010 07:33:00 GMT

“This investment is important both strategically and structurally. It will give us greater energy efficiency, enable us to be self-sufficient in electricity, and give us a production process that is completely free from any fossil fuel use,” mill manager Staffan Jonsson commented with great satisfaction.

For Iggesund Mill, the new investment is a key step towards realising the mill’s long-term development plan. Fundamental to this plan is to have a production process that uses renewable raw materials and a product – in Iggesund’s case Invercote paperboard – that can be recycled both as a material and as energy. The plan also states that emissions to air and water should be global leaders in terms of purity, and that the mill should be self-sufficient in electricity and operate 100 percent on biofuel.

“We’re very close to our goal now,” Jonsson says. “With a new recovery boiler and the other new measures we’re also improving our overall environmental performance and further reducing our impact on the local environment. With the new recovery boiler we are leaping forward in terms of technology, and the result will definitely be clear improvements to our work environment.”

The investment in a new recovery boiler will not lead to any increase in paperboard production but the mill’s pulp production capacity will gradually increase from today’s 355,000 annual tonnes to 420,000.

Iggesund Mill has one of the highest levels of investment in the world for paperboard mills and aims to produce the highest quality paperboard with excellent quality consistency.

“We’ve been the quality leader for many years,” Jonsson says. “In today’s market, sustainability issues are increasingly important as a competitive tool. In this respect, the Swedish forest industry in general and Iggesund in particular have a strong position versus both our competitors and other materials.”

Building the recovery boiler is estimated to take two years. The work will employ about 100 people for the first six months and then between 700 and 1,000 construction workers and specialists for another 18 months.

For further information please contact:

Staffan Sjöberg, Publ. Relations Manager Iggesund Paperboard, +46 650 28256

The board of management of the Holmen Group has given the go-ahead for a € 238 million investment for a new recovery boiler at Iggesund Mill which will considerably strengthen its flagship product Invercote. In addition to the recovery boiler the investment package also includes a new turbine plus equipment for capturing and incinerating weak, sulphur-containing gases – something that will further reduce the mill’s airborne emissions.
Categories: News, Iggesund Paperboard, Hållbarhet / Sustainability

Invercote Bio now certified compostable

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:14:00 GMT

“We’ve never doubted it was but now we also have scientific documentation that it is,” comments Jan-Erik Winlund, product safety manager at Iggesund Paperboard.

He describes the company’s hunt for bioplastics that could meet its high quality demands.

Iggesund has chosen to cooperate with the Italian company Novamont and use its well-tested plastic Mater-Bi as a barrier material.

Invercote Bio is more expensive than a paperboard with a traditional PE coating.

For further information please contact:

Staffan Sjöberg, Publ. Relations Manager Iggesund Paperboard, +46 650 28256

Cleaner water from Iggesund

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:43:00 GMT

“This new purification stage means we will be able to satisfy the environmental requirements that may be placed on us within the foreseeable future,” explains a satisfied mill manager Staffan Jonsson. “We’re reducing our emissions of nutritive salts like phosphorus and sulphur, which are particularly critical to the already eutrophic Baltic Sea. We’re also removing much of the brownish tinge that currently affects our waste water.”

Iggesund’s large-scale combination of biological and chemical purification is particularly out of the ordinary. Officials at the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency have followed the project and look forward to its upcoming evaluation.

“It is a very interesting combination of purification techniques and we’re very hopeful it will prove to be an effective method of reducing emissions from these types of forest industries,” comments Erik Nyström, senior advisor at the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency.

Iggesunds Bruk produces Invercote, a paperboard used in everything from book covers to packaging, both of which place crucial importance on design possibilities and colour reproduction. In many ways the mill’s environmental efforts already make it a model within the paper and paperboard industry. The facility already operates 95 per cent on bioenergy and plans to stop using any fossil fuels within the near future.

“Our vision is a mill that operates completely on biofuels and emits no carbon dioxide from fossil sources,” Staffan Jonsson says. “Our other air- and water-borne emissions will be at low levels that reinforce the leading position we already enjoy due to our product quality.”

He also emphasises the environmental significance of paperboard as a product. It is excellent for recycling either as a material or as energy, and its raw material, timber, is renewable.

“Paper and paperboard are already unbeatable materials from a sustainability viewpoint. This situation only improves when we can reduce the environmental impact of our production process, as we’re doing now.”

Jonsson and his colleagues at Iggesunds Bruk are continuing their work to gradually improve both the mill’s products and their sustainability.

“While our major competitive advantages are product quality and quality consistency, our sustainability work is more and more important to our customers,” he says.

For further information please contact:

Staffan Sjöberg, Publ. Relations Manager Iggesund Paperboard, +46 650 28256

In October Iggesund Paperboard will begin using a new purification system that will further ensure the purity of the waste water from its Iggesunds Bruk mill. Chemical treatment will then complement the mill’s current mechanical and biological water purification systems. It has cost just over 25 million euro to make Iggesunds Bruk a peak performer in water purification.
Categories: News, Iggesund Paperboard, About paperboard

Iggesund and Holmen present climate impact report

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:45:00 GMT

“Accounting for our resource usage and environmental impact is becoming increasingly important,” comments Lars Strömberg, Director of Sustainable and Environmental Affairs at the Holmen Group. “In just under a decade our sustainability report has become a powerful tool in both our sales activities and our contacts with the capital market.”

Energy and climate issues are now influencing almost all areas of social development. This situation offers major opportunities to the forest industry, because producing goods and energy from raw materials taken from forests harvested in a sustainable and environmentally sound manner is a strength factor in a world increasingly focused on sustainable development.

“At a time when all eyes are focused on the climate issue, it is a huge asset to be able to make products from natural raw materials and energy that do not use up finite resources or cause environmental problems,” Strömberg continues. “This is a major asset to the Scandinavian forest industry and especially to Holmen, which has extensive forest holdings and its own hydroelectric power.”

Holmen and its World presents the sustainability of Holmen’s operations, environmental impact and human resources policies, and explains how the Group’s actions influence local economies in places where the Group has a business presence.

New this year is a detailed carbon analysis, which investigates how Holmen’s forest holdings and forestry operations affect the climate. The analysis, which is based on research by Skogforsk (the Forestry Research Institute of Sweden) and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, concludes that Holmen’s forest holdings and products annually remove 1.3 million tonnes of CO₂ from the atmosphere. The forest’s annual capture of CO₂corresponds to almost 200 kilos of CO₂ per tonne of paperboard, paper or wood products that are produced by Iggesund Paperboard, Holmen Paper or Holmen Timber.

“The carbon analysis is an important step on our part to respond to the market’s demands for climate impact reporting,” Strömberg emphasises. “Here at Holmen we can justify everything we do from a sustainability perspective – and we are very eager to have transparent accounting that gives the market the best possible basis for assessing our operations.”

Holmen, of which Iggesund Paperboard is a part, is a member of the UN’s Global Compact and thereby takes a clear stand on issues regarding human rights, social conditions, environmental responsibility and the right to unionise.

Holmen is listed on several international corporate indexes which aim to make it easier for investors and other stakeholders to identify companies that are working with sustainability issues in a good way. Two such indexes are the FTSE4GOOD Index Series and the Storebrand Best in Class list.

Previous editions of Holmen and its World have been highly ranked by both international and Swedish analysts. The 2008 report satisfies the standards for reporting level A (the highest level) of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) guidelines for sustainability accounting. Holmen and its World is available in English and Swedish and can be downloaded from www.holmen.com.

For further information please contact:

Staffan Sjöberg, Publ. Relations Manager Iggesund Paperboard, +46 650 28256

Each tonne of paperboard made by Iggesund Paperboard in 2008 equated to almost 200 kilos of carbon dioxide being captured and stored in the Holmen Group’s forests. That’s one conclusion of the Holmen Group’s sustainability report Holmen and its World 2008 , which was published in April.
Categories: News, Iggesund Paperboard

Major investment to improve wastewater purification

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:32:00 GMT

The mill manufactures Iggesund’s flagship product Invercote, which has a leading market position as a packaging material for prestige products and for use in graphics applications such as book and brochure covers and greeting cards.

Iggesunds Bruk’s current purification system involves oxygenating the mill wastewater in a biological aerated lagoon before releasing the water into the Baltic Sea.

“After having investigated possible additional biological purification stages we have chosen to work with chemical precipitation in the new facility,” explains Iggesunds Bruk mill director Staffan Jonsson. “The process will result in a substantial reduction to the oxygen-consuming substances in the wastewater plus improvements to basically all our other parameters as well.

“The new treatment facility will enable us to maintain world-class standards for wastewater discharge within the foreseeable future.”

Earlier this year Iggesunds Bruk was given the green light to energy investments to reduce the mill’s emissions of fossil carbon dioxide by 75 per cent over the next few years. The reduction is the equivalent of taking 20,000 cars, each driving 15,000 kilometres a year, off the road.

For further information please contact:

Staffan Sjöberg, Publ. Relations Manager Iggesund Paperboard, +46 650 28256

Paperboard manufacturer Iggesund Paperboard, which is part of the Holmen forest products industry group, is investing £ 21.5 million ( € 27 M) to improve wastewater purification at its Swedish mill Iggesunds Bruk. The purification facility will come online in the autumn of 2009.
Categories: News, Iggesund Paperboard

Invercote – like never before

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:22:00 GMT

“It’s those same brand owners that both we and our direct customers – printers and converters – want to reach,” explains Carlo Einarsson, head of market communications for Iggesund Paperboard. “We have to adapt our approach to make our voice heard.”

Invercote has been on the market for over forty years. Its launch was a daring move – a courageous board of management chose to make a product that was unknown in Europe and was not in demand, and they made it using new technology. Now the company is launching a new Invercote after a thorough upgrading of the mill where it is made, Iggesunds Bruk. The result is a long list of improvements to printability and mechanical properties. The development process has focused on Invercote’s quality consistency that has traditionally given customers reliability and economy of production.

“The work to add new dimensions to Invercote’s identity has also been very important,” Einarsson says. “We’ve developed a new logo to clearly distinguish Invercote from our other paperboard, Incada. Above all, we felt a real need to change our approach and become a bit more provocative.” He adds, though, that Invercote will never deviate from its core values of style, elegance and class.

“Within that framework there was still a lot to do. When I look at the communication materials that are on the point of being rolled out, I believe we can safely say that we’ve taken a number of measures to distinguish Invercote’s communication materials from those of its competitors.”

At the same time as the new identity was being created, a new website has also been developed. It has a series of new functions that will make it easier for visitors to gain an impression of what Invercote can achieve, but also to get lots of information about how to get the maximum performance out of Invercote as a material.

“It’s part of our company’s tradition to convey knowledge about how paperboard can be used in the best way,” Einarsson says. “Our informational material, called the Iggesund Anchor, consists of several books and brochures about paperboard and will be printed in a revised format during the autumn.”

A recent independent survey confirmed that Iggesund owns the two strongest brands on the European paperboard market – Invercote and Incada. This conclusion has inspired some of the changes made to the communication materials.

“We’ve made a clearer distinction between Invercote and Incada. They’re two different kinds of paperboard, which are at the top of their respective niches but are good for different purposes. The distinctions we’ve now made will make it easier for Incada to assert itself more as an independent product.”

Traditionally, printers and converters have demanded more technical information compared with the more emotional approach to communications used in the consumer market. But Einarsson is not worried that traditional direct customers will feel abandoned:

“No, quite the opposite. I think they’ll feel that we’re helping them to attract the attention of brand owners and designers. And they’ll still be able to rely on getting knowledge support and technical service from Iggesund just as easily and quickly as ever.”

For further information please contact:

Staffan Sjöberg, Publ. Relations Manager Iggesund Paperboard, +46 650 28256

This autumn Invercote will change character. From being a typically pale Scandinavian understatement it will be transformed into a symphony of colours. Where blank space was previously used to highlight Invercote’s whiteness, a multitude of colours now prevails. There is a more provocative choice of images and the overall design style is more reminiscent of the big consumer brand owners than of Invercote’s competitors in the paperboard industry.
Categories: News, Iggesund Paperboard

New Invercote – better than ever

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:40:00 GMT

The new launch comes after the company rebuilt its board machine number 2, KM2, in Iggesund, Sweden at a total cost of 74 million Euro in the autumn of 2007. In addition to the machine rebuild, many other quality improvement measures have been implemented at the mill.

“We’ve worked intensively on these developments and we’re very pleased with the result,” says Philippe Letzelter, development manager at Iggesunds Bruk. ”When you do a major rebuild and product relaunch, much of the work involves bringing to fruition a development programme that has been in progress for many years.”

Iggesund employees worked intensively during the spring to implement all the required development work, trial runs and finally test printings and tests of various finishing techniques. More than 70 test printings were done prior to the end of May, with about ten specific properties being tested each time.

“I estimate the work done by Iggesund’s development department alone to total more than forty man-years,” Letzelter says.

Iggesund’s development programme differs from that of its competitors in that the company works a lot on the spot at its customers’ facilities.

“They’re the ones we’re actually doing the development for, and it’s in their machines that the process has to work without a hitch,” explains Jonas Adler, an application specialist at Iggesund who has been heavily involved in the development efforts. “When we have the most demanding customers with the most highly advanced equipment, of course we should make use of their knowledge and experience. We’re right on the spot when the job is actually being done, and we benefit from direct, in-depth feedback from the people doing the printing, gluing or foil lamination.”

The much improved whiteness stability is the result of Iggesund’s own in-house development work, in the form of a patented additive that delays the aging symptoms of the paperboard.

“Invercote was good before but now we’re the best in this respect,” Philippe Letzelter says. “For the customer this means that his packaging or printed materials have a longer lifespan. For example, an expensive carton will still be attractive even after sitting on the retail shelf for a while.”

Invercote G, Invercote Creato and Invercote Duo are the members of the Invercote product family that will have the new properties immediately after the launch. In addition to improving many different properties, the aim has also been to further improve quality consistency, which is a basic prerequisite for good production economy for printers and converters. However, there are also areas where Iggesund deliberately chose not to go as far as possible:

“We could make an Invercote with the highest whiteness on the market but we chose not to,” says Johan Granås, technical product manager for Invercote. “The higher the whiteness, the faster it goes down – which means a shorter lifespan for the end product.

“Perfect colour reproduction is also crucial, and whiteness plays a role there too. If you go too far with your whiteness, the paperboard or paper gets a blue shade, which immediately makes it harder to print skin tones well. We don’t want that to happen. The blind trials we’ve done show that the colour shade and whiteness we’ve chosen create a very tasteful impression on people – and our test printings confirm the new Invercote’s wonderful printing properties.”

Read more about Invercote

For further information please contact:

Staffan Sjöberg, Publ. Relations Manager Iggesund Paperboard, +46 650 28256

Iggesund Paperboard is now launching a new Invercote that has received a thorough facelift thanks to extensive investments implemented in the autumn of 2007. The new Invercote offers improved printing properties, higher purity and a whole range of improved mechanical properties. One visible new feature is increased whiteness plus a new shade of white, and the company promises the best whiteness stability on the paperboard market.
Categories: News, Iggesund Paperboard

Covers as a printing challenge

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:44:00 GMT

Van Heertum, a Dutch design agency who specialises in packaging for the luxury goods and tobacco industries, is highly experienced at producing technically advanced gravure works. On a wall in their home in Tilburg hang a number of awards in the field. They include five Golden Cylinder Awards from the Gravure Association of America for his intricate covers for Tobacco Journal International.

“This latest job posed several major challenges – not least to the material, which in this case was Invercote Creato from Iggesund,” Frans van Heertum, Art Director and Founder explains. “Having so many finishing steps placed huge demands on the material’s dimensional stability, and that really lived up to its reputation.

“The designs of the two covers are also completely different. TJI’s cover is very colourful, whereas the cover of Formes de Luxe focuses on emphasising the purity of the paperboard’s whiteness. Combining these two on the same printing plate was in itself a challenge.”

On previous occasions when they did this kind of project, Van Heertum worked with sheet-fed gravure. To increase the complexity of this latest project even further, it was decided to work from reels and then at subsequent stages of the process to work from sheets.

“The precision of the equipment and the dimensional stability of the substrate are of crucial importance to the end result,” Frans says. “The combination of the machinery available at the printers, Gundlach Verpackung, and Invercote Creato was one of the key reasons why we succeeded.”

Both covers are a display of advanced printing skills, including interference inks, foiling on top of print av well as printing on top of foil, and even the inclusion of Swarowski crystals. van Heertum says the cover design for Formes de Luxe was inspired by Invercote in the decision to let the whiteness dominate. The cover also includes in symbolic form everything that bring us the good things in life, ranging from the Scandinavian forests to complex forms of packaging.

“Invercote is a fantastic substrate for us and we are happy to praise it,” he says. “Invercote means that we have the greatest possible freedom as designers.”

The cover project was implemented by about ten specialist companies next to Van Heertum, including Gundlach Verpackung, Iggesund Paperboard, the ink manufacturer Siegwerk and the foils manufacturer Kurz.

For further information please contact:

Staffan Sjöberg, Publ. Relations Manager Iggesund Paperboard, +46 650 28256

The offset printing used 34 different inks, the gravure process used 11, and 11 different foils were used when design agency Van Heertum simultaneously produced this autumn’s special issues of the journals Formes de Luxe and Tobacco Journal International . The covers were produced from the same printing plate in the first production stage, the gravure printing.
Categories: News, Iggesund Paperboard, About paperboard

Iggesund radically reduces its fossil fuel use

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:49:00 GMT

“But our goal is even higher than this,” says Klas Simes, energy coordinator at Iggesunds Bruk. “We plan a gradual changeover so that we will ultimately not use any fossil fuel at all, and will also be self-sufficient in electricity.”

The reduction in Iggesund Bruk’s carbon dioxide emissions will be implemented in 2009. It will come from a combination of energy savings plus investments in increased capacity for biofuel use. Klas explains that the measures are not primarily motivated by the current intense media discussion of carbon emissions:

“We can’t respond in a short-term, erratic way, like public opinion sometimes does. We have a long-term environmental programme, and environmental aspects are considered when making every investment decision. But our job – and there is no contradiction involved – is to deliver a first-class product at a competitive price. If we want to do this in the long term we have to act systematically and rationally.

“The huge rises in energy costs in recent years have focused attention on this area. We’ve worked hard to achieve an intelligent solution that ensures our competitiveness – and the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions is just one result of that.”

For decades now Iggesund has been implementing a long-term environmental programme encompassing the entire production process at Iggesunds Bruk. The company’s energy supply is based on heat from Iggesund’s own production process plus electricity, almost half of which is also produced by the company. Today over 90 percent of this electricity comes from biofuel. With regard to heat, Iggesunds Bruk produces a surplus. As well as being used in the production process, the heat is also used to dry timber in a nearby sawmill and to heat homes nearby.

“We could be self-sufficient in electricity and independent of fossil fuel within the fairly near future,” Klas Simes concludes.

For further information please contact:

Staffan Sjöberg, Publ. Relations Manager Iggesund Paperboard, +46 650 28256

Iggesund Paperboard is reducing its use of fossil fuel by three-quarters. The company will thereby cut its emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil sources by three-quarters at Iggesunds Bruk, where the company’s flagship product, Invercote, is made. The radical reduction is the result of a detailed energy assessment plus investments totalling about 10.5 million euro, and corresponds to the emissions from 20,000 cars each driven 15,000 kilometres a year.
Categories: News, Iggesund Paperboard

Rolling Stones on Invercote

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:50:00 GMT

Made of 100% paperboard, the JakeBox holds a CD or DVD disc in place with an ingeniously designed folded “claw”. This claw releases the disc when the cover is opened and secures it back in place when the cover is closed. Jakob Skarin, CEO of JakeBox and the inventor of the packaging design, has worked in the packaging field for a number of years. His concept has met with a lot of interest but for a long time the manual stages of the production process made it impossible to achieve large production runs.

“The dominant kinds of covers in the music market are made in such huge series that it was impossible for us to compete in terms of price,” Skarin says. “We were forced to try to find a better solution.”

Together with the experienced packaging printers Strand Grafiska and the HJ Mek company in Eslöv, southern Sweden, he began intensive development work a couple of years ago to create a machine that could reduce the costs of producing the JakeBox. Today that goal has been reached, and it is possible to process up to 1,800 CDs or DVDs per hour. The fact that the Rolling Stones have chosen JakeBox for the exclusive version of their album is definite confirmation that the innovative design can now handle large production runs.

The cover of Rolled Gold + is made of Invercote G 300 g/m² in the cover itself and 180 g/m² in the interior claws that hold the discs.

“The choice of material is crucial, especially for the folding claw,” explains Bengt Strand of the printers, Strand Grafiska. “Since the construction is flexed and folded when the cover is opened and closed, you have to choose a paperboard that won’t crack from the repeated folding. That’s important for both the function and the appearance. The paperboard that best copes with these demands is Invercote from Iggesund.”

Read more about Invercote

For further information please contact:

Staffan Sjöberg, Publ. Relations Manager Iggesund Paperboard, +46 650 28256

When the Rolling Stones’ latest hits compilation, a double CD, is released it will be a breakthrough for the Swedish company JakeBox and its innovative CD packaging of the same name. Rolled Gold + is being issued in a special limited edition in two JakeBoxes contained in one slipcase. To the Rolling Stones a limited edition of 200,000 copies might not be that big, but for JakeBox this is by far its biggest order to date. The Swedish company hopes the order will also be a large step towards...
Categories: News, Iggesund Paperboard

The Designer Challenge continues

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 08:36:00 GMT

"We felt that ‘Think inside the box’ would be a provocative theme because most designers strive to add a different perspective than that of their client," explains Carlo Einarsson, Director Market Communications at Iggesund Paperboard and the initiator of this designer relay race. "So far we’ve seen an impressive display of creativity – proving that limitations in terms of physical format place absolutely no limits on designers’ freedom of thought."

The first designers to accept the challenge were the packaging specialists in cosmetics and fragrances at Landor in Paris and the printing artiste Frans van Heertum of Tilburg in the Netherlands. The free spirits at Landor did what designers so often do – broke all the rules for the commission right from the start. Their contribution is called "Virtually Real" and is based on the concept that everything we produce can be broken down into pixels. So they thought: why not produce a pixel that people can use to build something with? The result was a Black Box containing a single pixel. The box didn’t create much excitement until it became clear that the creative minds at Landor had not just thought outside the box – they’d also blown it to smithereens.

In addition to the box, Landor’s contribution consisted of four works of art, each made up of 4,900 physical pixels, resulting in four pictures, each 3 x 3 metres in size.

"It wasn’t really what we’d expected but who cares when it turned out so well," Einarsson says. "The key idea behind breaking out of the specified framework is of course about exceeding the client’s expectations. Landor did just that – in spades."

In contrast to Landor’s concept-driven contribution, that of van Heertum Design is clearly technology driven. The company’s grand old man Frans van Heertum is all but legendary in the graphics industry for pushing the boundaries of what is possible. He happily combines gravure, offset and screen printing and then adds 34 printing inks and a multitude of varnishes. As if that weren’t enough, he also likes to integrate Swarovski crystals into his design. He is a multiple winner of the Golden Cylinder honorary award from the American Gravure Printing Association.

"When Frans van Heertum wants to do something special, we know it won’t just be challenging, it will be extremely challenging," Einarsson says.

Opening van Heertum’s black box reveals a highly intricate laser cut construction made from a single sheet of paperboard. The box also contains a number of cards that display a variety of various printing and finishing techniques – ones that most printers and designers can only dream of achieving.

"No one will ever use all of these techniques in a single production," Einarsson says. "But what Frans has done is to demonstrate different techniques which we can all use when we want to give a brochure or package that extra touch to catch the consumer’s eye. His black box is essentially a stand-alone training course in what designers can do to achieve maximum attention."

Ada Brunazzi’s contribution to the Black Box Project will be presented in London on 22 March. The next contribution, from Marc Benhamou, will be presented in New York on 16 May.

Find out more and access videos about the Black Box Project at http://iggesund.com/blackbox.aspx

This month Iggesund Paperboard presents the third stage of its challenge to designers – the Black Box Project. The company asked several leading designers to use its Invercote paperboard to fill a predefined black box with contents that place stringent demands on the material. Ada Brunazzi of Brunazzi&Associati in Turin, Italy accepted the challenge and Iggesund will present her black box at an event in London in late March.
Categories: News, Show on startpage, Iggesund Paperboard, About paperboard, Products, Financial

VindIn bygger vindkraftspark i Ångermanland

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 12:00:00 GMT

Vindkraftsbolaget VindIn, där Holmen är delägare, har tecknat avtal om leverans och uppförande av minst 25 vindkraftverk. Vindkraftverken kommer att placeras på Trattberget och Skallberget i nordvästra Ångermanland.

Läs mer på VindIns webbplats.

VindIn bygger vindkraftspark i Ångermanland
Categories: News, Holmen, Holmen Energi, Hållbarhet / Sustainability

Holmen’s climate efforts rewarded

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 09:46:00 GMT

Holmen has become known and recognised for its impressive work to reduce its environmental impact. One example that the Swedish Chamber of Commerce drew attention to was the new recovery boiler now being built at Iggesund Mill. The boiler is the key in the mill’s long-term plan to reduce its fossil carbon dioxide emissions to zero. This plan includes the mill becoming self-sufficient in electricity and to become 100% biofuel powered.

On the occasion of its 50th anniversary the Swedish Chamber of Commerce for the Netherlands has awarded a Company Award to the Holmen Group for its climate efforts.
Categories: News, Holmen, Iggesund Paperboard, People, Financial, Hållbarhet / Sustainability

Nya timmerprislistor på region Norrköping

Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:30:00 GMT

Bravikens Sågverk har nu startat produktionen. Allt går enligt planerna och produktionstakten kommer att skruvas upp succesivt under året. För att prislistorna ska styra bättre mot sågens önskemål om timrets utseende har vi gjort några mindre förändringar i våra prislistor, i första hand avseende längdkorrektionen. De nya listorna gäller från och med måndag 7/2 2011.

Se prislistorna

Skogens År 2011

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:00:00 GMT

FN:s avsikt med kampanjåret är att öka medvetenheten om skogarnas nytta och att driva på ett hållbart nyttjande. Internationella skogsåret är en möjlighet för att öka förståelsen och kunskapen om skogens betydelse. Skogen är oerhört betydelsefull för miljön, växter och djur, ekonomin och vårt välbefinnande. Läs mer på FNs webbplats

Nätverket Naturens År

I Sverige samverkar nätverket Naturens år för att skapa engagemang, sprida information och öka kunskapen om skogen. Naturens år är en samverkan mellan ett 20-tal myndigheter och intresseorganisationer för att tillsammans skapa engagemang, sprida information och öka kunskapen om naturvård.

Kalendarium

Under 2011 kommer de att informera om vad som händer i Sverige under det internationella skogsåret, bland annat genom aktiviteter i sitt kalendarium. Läs mer på Naturens Års webbplats

FN har utsett år 2011 till Skogens år.
Categories: News, Holmen Skog, About forest

Årets gallrare 2010

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:30:00 GMT

Årets vinnare av Holmen Skogs gallringspris inom region Norrköping är JB:s Skogstjänst. Sedan flera år delas priset ut för att lyfta fram goda insatser inom skogsbruket.

Motiveringen lyder:

"JB:s Skogstjänst får priset "bästa gallringsgrupp 2010" för ett kvalitetsmässigt väl genomfört gallringsarbete med låg skadenivå och högklassig virkestillredning. "

Tidigare år har följande vinnare utsetts:

2009 Nilssons Skog & Entreprenad

2008 JK Skördartjänst AB

2007 JB:s Skogstjänst AB

2006 JB:s Skogstjänst AB

2005 Ingen vinnare pga stormen Gudrun

2004 Holmen Skog EVA-laget

2003 Fågelsund Skog AB

2002 Yxefall Skogsavverkning AB

Årets vinnare av Holmen Skogs gallringspris inom region Norrköping är JB:s Skogstjänst. Sedan flera år delas priset ut för att lyfta fram goda insatser inom skogsbruket. – Priset delas ut för att lyfta fram goda insatser inom skogsbruket, berättar Per Olsson, skogschef vid Holmen Skog region Norrköping. Bedömningen bygger på en systematisk uppföljning av regionens samtliga gallringsgrupper under ett års tid. Vid bedömningen har hänsyn tagits till såväl biologiska resultat som...
Categories: News, Holmen Skog, About forest

Rekordnöjda skogsägare

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:30:00 GMT

Landets privata skogsägare har aldrig tidigare varit så nöjda med lönsamheten. Det visar årets Skogsbarometer, som görs på uppdrag av LRF Konsult och Swedbank.

Nöjdast är skogsägarna i Norrland med 71 procent. I Götaland och Svealand är 64 respektive 65 procent nöjda med sin lönsamhet. Det visar att de som drabbades värst av stormen Gudrun nu ser med tillförsikt på sitt skogsägande ur ett lönsamhetsperspektiv.

Det finns också en stor investeringsvilja och hela 70 procent tror på stigande fastighetspriser.

Läs mer och ladda ner rapporten här

Landets privata skogsägare har aldrig tidigare varit så nöjda med lönsamheten. Det visar årets Skogsbarometer, som görs på uppdrag av LRF Konsult och Swedbank. Nöjdast är skogsägarna i Norrland med 71 procent. I Götaland och Svealand är 64 respektive 65 procent nöjda med sin lönsamhet. Det visar att de som drabbades värst av stormen Gudrun nu ser med tillförsikt på sitt skogsägande ur ett lönsamhetsperspektiv. Det finns också en stor investeringsvilja och hela 70 procent tror på stigande...
Categories: News, Holmen Skog, About forest

Hållbart skogsbruk

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:00:00 GMT

För att leda detta samarbete har Hans Djurberg anställts till en nyinrättad befattning som hållbarhetsdirektör med placering hos branschorganisationen Skogsindustrierna.

De bolag som ingår i samarbetet har sitt skogsbruk certifierat enligt FSC^® (Forest Stewardship Council). Tillsammans representerar företagen cirka 10 miljoner hektar FSC-certifierad skogsmark.

– Det är första gången vi går samman på detta sätt för att med gemensamma krafter utveckla skogsbrukets hållbarhetsarbete i Sverige, säger Sören Petersson, chef för Holmen Skog.

– Jag är övertygad om att samarbetet innebär möjligheter att nå ännu längre i vårt hållbarhetsarbete.

Samarbete för hållbart skogsbruk
Categories: News, Holmen Skog, About forest, Hållbarhet / Sustainability

Holmen Profile - Uno Lausen

Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:59:00 GMT

Initially Uno, who grew up in Linköping in the middle of Sweden, intended to be an engineer. “I went to technical college but, after studying marketing at university, I got a job as a sales assistant for a transport company in Germany.” In 1978 he returned to Sweden to start working for Iggesund Paperboard. “My German skills came in handy and I was soon sent to Switzerland to help build up Iggesund’s sales there.” A few years in Iggesund and Gothenburg followed, involving sales to Norway, Denmark and Iceland. In 1994 the post taking responsibility for Iggesund’s sales office in the US was advertised. Uno thought the job looked attractive. “What drives me is the desire to create results. And Iggesund Paperboard was facing an exciting challenge in entering the American market.”

The sales office employed two people at the time but, under Uno Lausen’s management, it now has a team of seven. “My three best arguments for Invercote? Best, best and best,” laughs Uno, who thinks that Invercote is the Rolls-Royce of paperboard. And brands such as Chanel, Estée Lauder, Clinique and Apple would agree. “We signed our first contract with Estée Lauder in 1999 and have gradually increased sales. Today Estée Lauder uses Invercote in 90 per cent of its perfume packaging,” says Uno Lausen.

2011 WILL HOPEFULLY be the year when wholesalers and graphic artists in the US and Canada discover the benefits of Invercote. This spring will see a major sales campaign in the US. As for Uno Lausen, 2011 will probably be his last year at Holmen. North America is huge and he spends much of his time travelling. Also he and his partner decided to stay living in Southport when the sales office moved to Lyndhurst in New Jersey in 2000. In Southport they live close to the sea, with golf, sun and swimming on the doorstep.

“It’s a 100 kilometre drive to the office and I spend a lot of time in the car. Age is starting to take its toll. I have been delighted to represent Iggesund out in the world, but I will probably be retiring in 2011. After 33 years, I’m quite looking forward to it.”

Name: Uno Lausen.

Title: Sales director, Iggesund Paperboard in the US.

Born: 1949.

Lives in: Southport, USA.

Family: Partner, daughter in Sweden.

Spare time: Beach, travel, golf, summer house in Florida.

We catch up with Uno Lausen on the phone. He has just landed in Amsterdam for an annual international industry meeting on packaging. An experienced sales veteran who has been working for the company for 33 years, Uno Lausen is sales director at Iggesund Paperboard in the US. He is now responsible for sales in the North American and Canadian packaging market, as well as the graphics industry in Canada.
Categories: News, People

Holmen Profile - Anna Mårtensson

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:24:00 GMT

“MY LAST TRIP was to Scotland, where I was a packer of boxes for Marks & Spencer. After eight hours a day at a conveyor belt, stuffing croutons into around 10 000 lunch packs, I realised that it was time to head home and do something else.” She considered training to be a certified forester and wanted to work for the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, but eventually decided on the envi-ronmental engineering course at Mid Sweden University in Östersund. Anna’s finances as a student meant that she needed a part-time job. Ironically, Anna ended up at the cellulose and environment laboratory at Iggesund Mill – leaving her teenage promises in tatters. “I soon realised the opportunities provided by working in a large company. Life changes, I had changed.”

DURING HER STUDIES, Anna met her future partner (no, he did not work at Iggesund) and they had a daughter Lina – and over time she took up a post as trainee in quality and environment at the mill. She and her family have also chosen to move home. “I was forced to admit that I loved it here in Iggesund.” Her trainee year has been made up of three project periods. “I’ve split my time between a project at Hallsta Paper Mill and part-time employment on a project examining how sludge from Iggesund Mill’s chemical waste water treatment system can be disposed of in a financially and environmentally sustainable way.”

At the end of June, Anna’s trainee post switched to a regular post as an environmental engineer. This is a new role that will see her continue working on the environmental issues that hold the key to Holmen’s future. Has “never Iggesund” been replaced by “forever Iggesund”? “Holmen is an exciting company. Now my focus is on settling into my new role, but if I know me, in the future I’m bound to become curious about other parts of the company too,” concludes Anna.

Name: Anna Mårtensson

Age: 32.

Education: Environmental engineer.

Lives: Iggesund.

Family: Partner, fouryear-old daughter and Laban the Labrador retriever.

Spare time: Doing up the house and cottage, elk hunting, reading and gardening. Three words about yourself: Fearless, uncomplicated, keen.

Why Iggesund Mill: It is an excellent workplace that offers huge opportunities.

As a teenager, Anna Mårtensson was very clear that she had no intention of staying in her childhood town of Iggesund and ending up at the mill. However, life had other ideas and she is now the fifth generation of her family to work at Iggesund Mill. “I swore never to do what my family had done. And I would definitely not be staying put in Iggesund,” says Anna. After upper secondary school, she packed her bag and left her childhood home. For five years, she travelled the world, trying all sort...
Categories: News, People

Holmen Profile - Anders Jernhall

Sat, 15 May 2010 16:34:00 GMT

Courage to ask the right questions. Willingness to think a step ahead to find a way through problems and see the bigger picture. Constantly with a goal of taking the business to the next level. Anders Jernhall sums up the leadership style he seeks to represent. “My taking over doesn’t mean any immediate changes. My job is to continue to make sure that the economic and finance functions at Holmen are handled in the best way.

"FINANCE HAS ALWAYS interested me, from accounts to wider financial issues and different aspects of financial and business management. What most stimulates me is trying to link all these aspects together to influence the company’s development in the right direction.” The role of CFO means taking responsibility for a Group staff unit comprising 15 people and covering five areas of responsibility: accounting, controlling, finance, tax and insurance.

“Holmen has an efficient financial organisation that works hard to improve even more by reducing administration, for example.” Acting as an interface with the stock and capital market is another important task, particularly in the light of the tough market conditions in printing paper. “It’s true that Holmen’s largest operations are in printing paper, but the other business areas are showing positive development. It will take a little time but personally I think we will achieve a good printing paper business which will also earn us money.”

FINALLY, WHO IS Anders Jernhall – the man behind the figures?

“A 39 year-old father of three who spends all his free time helping his children with their football, tennis, athletics, floorball and gymnastics. I’m also an assistant football coach and a team manager in floorball.” In many of his lunch breaks Anders Jernhall puts on his trainers and leaves the office for a jog round Djurgården. “Since last summer I’ve been in regular training and I run ten to twenty kilometres several times a week. I’m completely convinced it boosts efficiency,” he says.

Name: Anders Jernhall.

Age: 39.

Education: Degree in Economics and Business Administration.

Family: Wife and three children aged 5, 7 and 9.

Spare time: Family, running, children’s sports.

My best feature: Commitment.

In April Anders Jernhall became Holmen’s new CFO. He takes over the reins from Anders Almgren, who has been his mentor and source of inspiration since 1997. “I was 26 years old and working in a US bank when Anders Almgren called and persuaded me to come over to Holmen. Since then he’s been my boss and has naturally inspired my management style quite a lot.”
Categories: News

Holmen Profile - Johan Hedin

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:41:00 GMT

On his agenda are visits to existing and potential customers in Scandinavia, the UK, Germany, France and the Netherlands, all of which are anticipated to be Braviken Sawmill’s main markets.

THE INTERESTING future of the wood products industry is what enticed Johan Hedin back to Holmen, following what he terms an ‘educational detour’. “My career began at Holmen Timber in the 1990s, straight after I’d fi nished studying. Over the years I was fortunate enough to work with a variety of different tasks, e.g. raw materials issues, production planning and sales on the European market as well as in North Africa and the Middle East.

I was also head of Holmen Timber from 2000 to 2003. But after 12 years in the company, I wanted to broaden my horizons.” Iggesund Tools, a supplier to the forest industry, made him an interesting offer, including the opportunity to work on the North and South American continents. After six years as CEO of Iggesund Tools’ European marketing company, he made his next career move – back to the wood products industry. Firstly, he took up the position of CEO of Uni4 Marketing, a company partly owned by Holmen timber, but on 1 March this year, he decided to return to Holmen Timber.

“THEY WERE expanding the marketing organisation, and the fact that I was to play a part in launching products from a brand-new sawmill onto the market really swung it for me. But, above all, I was well aware of the knowledge and commitment among those working for the Group,” he says and continues: “At Holmen we started talking about environmental issues and carbon footprints as early as 15 years ago. The market wasn’t listening at that time, but a lot has happened over the past six years. The entire environmental debate is pointing in favour of wood as the material of choice.” What have you gained from your experiences outside Holmen?

“I’ve learned about other business and marketing processes, for example working with project-based sales. I’ve worked on different continents and learned that relational marketing with a long-term perspective is crucial to the business. And that’s something that Holmen Timber already excels at. It’s a well-trodden path that we’re now continuing to tread.

Name: Johan Hedin

Role: Marketing manager, Holmen Timber

Age: 47. Lives: Hudiksvall.

Education: Certified forester

Family: Wife, children and stepchildren.

Spare time: Spending time in the countryside, skiing, staying at our holiday cottage in the Stockholm archipelago.

Three words about yourself: Positive, energetic, homecomer.

Homecomer Johan Hedin has an important task as marketing manager at Holmen Timber. He and his colleagues will market construction timber from the new Braviken Sawmill. Johan Hedin has just arrived back from Algeria where he visited customers of Holmen Timber’s sawmill in Iggesund; the mill produces input materials for joinery from Hälsinge pine (pine from Hälsingland, northern Sweden).
Categories: News, People

Sustainability and usability boost Holmen online

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:29:00 GMT

"The ambition has been to make things simpler and clearer," explains public relations director Ingela Carlsson. "We want our visitors to quickly reach the service, information or person they are looking for. Our extensive sustainability work is also clearly set in context, with a presence on every page."

For shareholders and investors, the site provides exhaustive data and a range of practical tools. Forest owners will rapidly be able to access good advice on silviculture or log into their personal site, while simple tools guide paper and board purchasers towards the optimum product choice. And all the time, personal contact is always close at hand.

Forest, People and Products are the entry points for visitors to the new www.holmen.com. Holmen has become easier to reach and to explore with the launch of the new website.
Categories: News, Show on startpage, Holmen, Financial, Hållbarhet / Sustainability

Holmen VIEW – a first step towards HD quality

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:03:00 GMT

The people whose job it is to speculate on the paper of tomorrow are Tommy Wiksand, sales and development director, and Jan Andersson, technical sales & product development manager.

Looking ahead, the duo see today’s standard paper being replaced by other types of paper. Some of them will have top-class image reproduction and a feel that underlines the message that the sender wants to communicate.

New and more refined

Holmen VIEW can be seen as a step in this direction. Compared with traditional standard paper, the newly developed paper has excellent image reproduction and a silky feel.

Keeping a product range in step with the market is not just about launching new additions. Existing products with low demand must, of course, be weeded out. It is also important to take existing knowledge in one segment and see if it can be applied to others.

Tommy Wiksand comments: “We’ve refined the surfaces of our directory paper, for example. This has allowed us to reach other segments of the market that need this type of paper with high opacity and good print surfaces.”

Increased business

Across the market, more and more players are also realising what an even more effective collaboration between different message-carrying media can lead to.

“The paper catalogue is very important for online trade, acting as a tangible reminder that the company exists. Combining media thus helps to secure more business,” states Tommy Wiksand.

With refined segmentation and greater knowledge about customer preferences, large-scale print runs are no longer necessary, suggesting that the pace of development is likely to accelerate.

No nerds

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Tommy and Jan are convinced that paper has its place in tomorrow’s media mix.

“But don’t think we’re just some kind of narrow-minded paper nerds. It’s all about making smart use of paper in different communication situations. And paper doesn’t have an automatic place in the media mix,” says Jan Andersson.

It is necessary for the producers to keep a close eye on customer wishes and work their way up the value chain, an approach that forms an integral part of Holmen Paper’s overall strategy. The company has been working for a number of years now on migrating its mills from standard to specialist products. In this respect, the company has an important competitive advantage in its access to virgin fibre and what that means in the form of bulk and scope for bleaching.

Win-win

Another strategic move by Holmen Paper is to get even nearer to its customers. A close dialogue often provides a good idea of what products customers really want.

Naturally, not all wishes can be realised, but in the majority of cases any wishes are carefully analysed to examine which segment a new/adapted product would fit into and what potential exists.

“If the analysis suggests that it feels right and that we have the resources to take it forward, we then carry out a more extensive customer survey,” explains Jan Andersson.

If the response is positive, an internal development process is launched. When it comes to the initial test-runs, it is often necessary to work on site with the customer. This is an excellent way to build up experience, in order to further fine-tune the product, creating a win-win situation for both parties.

Product development in practice

Holmen VIEW, Holmen XLNT, Holmen PREMIUM and Holmen BOOK – four examples of new and improved products from Holmen Paper.

The latest example is the uncoated paper that feels like silk, Holmen VIEW, which was developed as an attractive alternative to LWC and SC paper for magazines, supplements and product catalogues. The well established Holmen XLNT has also broadened its range in recent years. The paper is now available in a brightness of 60 and in four grammages. Customer demand for wider reels – over 3.8 metres – has also been satisfied.

In addition, a larger range of the SC paper Holmen PREMIUM is now a reality. There were many requests for brightnesses of 72 and 80, which have given rise to Holmen PREMIUM 72 in four grammages and Holmen PREMIUM 80 in six grammages.

This is an article from the customer magazine "Holmen's paper".

High Definition Television is a reality. The high definition image gives HDTV an extra dimension. Don’t be surprised to see paper offering a kind of ‘HD quality’ – with extremely good image reproduction – on the market in the not too distant future.
Categories: News, Holmen Paper, Printing paper, Products

Första spadtaget för vindkraftspark vid Örnsköldsvik

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 11:21:00 GMT

Vindkraftsbolaget VindIn, där Holmen är delägare, tar idag första spadtaget för en ny vindkraftspark på Trattberget och Skallberget i Örnsköldsviks kommun.

Läs mer på VindIn´s webbplats.

Första spadtaget för vindkraftspark vid Örnsköldsvik
Categories: News, Show on startpage, Holmen, Holmen Energi, Hållbarhet / Sustainability

Livecast - Interim report for January-March 2011

Thu, 05 May 2011 16:30:00 GMT

Listen to the livecast from Magnus Halls presentation of the Interim report January-March 2011.

Livecast from Interim report January-March 2011
Categories: News, Holmen

Möt oss på SkogsElmia

Wed, 11 May 2011 13:56:00 GMT

Den 26 -28 maj är du varmt välkommen att besöka oss på SkogsElmia, du hittar oss i monter 736.

Där kan du ta del av ett helt nytt, unikt erbjudande från oss!

Du kan se och höra vad vi i övrigt kan hjälpa dig som skogsägare med.
Men även slå dig ned vid elden med en god kopp kokkaffe, prata skog och skogsskötsel med vår personal eller, varför inte, prova dina skyttekunskaper.

Välkommen!

Den 26 -28 maj är du varmt välkommen att besöka oss på SkogsElmia, du hittar oss i monter 736
Categories: News

Meet Holmen at SPCI

Mon, 16 May 2011 14:43:00 GMT

Representatives from Holmen will be taking part in several seminars.

SPCI Magic Future:

Henrik Sjölund, marketing director, Holmen Paper. Future strategy. New media habits changing paper demand. Tuesday 17 May at 11.00
Rikard Wallin, mill manager, Holmen Paper Braviken. More efficient maintenance. Wednesday 18 May at 09.00
Magnus Hall, President and CEO of Holmen. Paper & board. The future for Holmen. Thursday 19 May at 13.00

SPCI West:

Rikard Wallin. News from the mills. Transforming from newsprint to bioenergy plant. Tuesday 17 May at 13.00

SPCI East:

Erik Nelsson, development engineer, Holmen Paper Braviken. New processes for paper and board. Energy efficient TMP production, Tuesday 17 May at 15.00

Holmen has its own stand at the SPCI World Pulp & Paper Week on 17–19 May at Stockholmsmässan (Stockholm Exhibition and Congress Center) in Älvsjö. You are welcome to visit us at the Holmen stand, A19:40, just behind the main stage. The event is being organised by the Swedish Association of Pulp and Paper Engineers.
Categories: News

Holmen Magasin – ny tidning

Tue, 24 May 2011 08:43:00 GMT

Nu finns första numret av vår nya tidning Holmen Magasin ute hos läsarna. Den vänder sig till aktieägare, kunder, leverantörer och andra som är intresserade av att följa Holmens breda verksamhet. Tidningen kommer ut med fyra nummer per år.

Läs första numret här.

Här kan du prenumerera på tidningen kostnadsfritt.

Läs första numret av Holmens nya tidning Holmen Magasin.
Categories: News, Show on startpage, Holmen, Products, People, About forest, Financial, Hållbarhet / Sustainability

Inaguration of Braviken Sawmill

Fri, 27 May 2011 15:36:00 GMT

At the inauguration Anders Borg, Minister of Finance, were assisted by Fredrik Lundberg, chairman of the Holmen Board, and Magnus Hall, CEO and President of Holmen.

Möt oss på SkogsNolia

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 09:30:00 GMT

Den 16-18 juni är du varmt välkommen att besöka oss på SkogsNolia, du hittar oss i monter 3000.

Där kan du ta del av ett helt nytt, unikt erbjudande från oss!

Den 16-18 juni är du varmt välkommen att besöka oss på SkogsNolia, du hittar oss i monter 3000.
Categories: News

Visit Holmen Paper at the Ifra Expo during October 10-12th

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 13:56:00 GMT

The 63rd World Newspaper Congress and the 18th World Editors Forum will also run in parallel with the IFRA Expo. The agenda for the World Newspaper Congress includes examining trends in the media world, the importance of the brand and how newspapers and news publicists can regain their grip on the flow of news.

Highlight your environmental work

Hamburg hosted the very first ‘Media Port’, a great success that will be returning in Vienna.

Representatives from the newspaper industry will be presenting practical case studies from various countries and in a range of segments within the media world. Also under discussion will be the environment and the issue of sustainability.

This comes in the wake of growing demand from newspaper readers and advertisers for information on what newspaper publishers are doing for sustainable development and a better environment. Newspapers have a poor, but undeserved, reputation in this area. A debate on what they can do to promote facts and show how they are developing their environmental work will be conducted in the ‘Green Publishing’ segment.

After last year’s trip to Hamburg, the IFRA Expo is back in Vienna. Reed Messe is the venue for the 41st Expo, which will take place on 10-12 October. The organisers are expecting over 10 000 people from 85 countries to visit the fair. Naturally, the exhibitors will include Holmen Paper, which has stand 650 in Hall B.
Categories: News, Holmen Paper, Printing paper

Två lyckade skogsmässor

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:19:00 GMT

Vi lanserade vårt nya erbjudande, återväxtgaranti, under dessa dagar. Med anledning av detta hade vi personal från våra plantskolor på plats. De visade och pratade om de plantor som tas fram. Intresserade fick också en planta att ta med sig hem.

Vi passade också på att introducera vår nya koncerntidning ”Holmen Magasin”, som ersätter Skog&Virke samt Holmen Business Report och vi slog också ett slag för koncernens nya hemsida.

I vår monter under Nolia hade vi även en gödslingshelikopter från Airlift samt en tankbil med gödsel.

Tillströmningen av besökare till vår monter var konstant och vi upplevde att väldigt många var intresserade och stämningen var på topp.

Två, för vår del, mycket lyckade skogsmässor är över men vi återkommer 2013 när det är dags igen!

SkogsElmia hölls den 26-28 maj på Bratteborgs gård i Vaggeryd. Antalet mässbesökare var drygt 33 000. SkogsNolia hölls den 16-18 juni i Hörnefors. Antalet mässbesökare där var 14 500 vilket var nytt rekord! Vi på Holmen Skog fanns naturligtvis på plats på båda dessa mässor, med en monter fylld av diverse information.
Categories: News, Holmen Skog, About forest

Höjda massavedspriser

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:40:00 GMT

Höjda massavedspriser från och med 1/7 i Sörmland, Västmanland och Örebro. De nya priserna är 355 kr/m³fub för granmassaved och 340 kr/m³fub för barr och björkmassaved.

Höjda massavedspriser från och med 1/7 i Sörmland, Västmanland och Örebro. De nya priserna är 355 kr/m 3 fub för granmassaved och 340 kr/m 3 fub för barr och björkmassaved.
Categories: News, Holmen Skog, About forest

Nya grantimmerprislistor från 1/7 på region Norrköping

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:48:00 GMT

Bravikens sågverk har nu varit igång ett halvår. Produktionen går bättre än den ursprungliga planen och målsättningen nu är att producera drygt 300 000 m³ sågade trävaror under 2011. För att anpassa timrets utseende till sågens önskemål reviderar vi våra timmerprislistor 1/7. Medellångt och längre timmer blir bättre betalt, det korta något sämre. Samtidigt läggs mera pengar i listan på det medelgrova timret och lite mindre på det riktigt klena och riktigt grova. Flera diameterklasser införs för att de ska passa bättre med hur sågen sorterar och sågar timret. Sammantaget innebär dessa omfördelningar i prislistan ingen prisförändring vid avverkning av ett normalbestånd men däremot en omfördelning av timrets längder och dimensioner mot de av sågen önskade.

Bravikens sågverk har nu varit igång ett halvår. Produktionen går bättre än den ursprungliga planen och målsättningen nu är att producera drygt 300 000 m 3 sågade trävaror under 2011. För att anpassa timrets utseende till sågens önskemål reviderar vi våra timmerprislistor 1/7. Medellångt och längre timmer blir bättre betalt, det korta något sämre. Samtidigt läggs mera pengar i listan på det medelgrova timret och lite mindre på det riktigt klena och riktigt grova. Flera diameterklasser införs...
Categories: News, Holmen Skog, About forest

Livecast - Interim report January-June 2011

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:42:00 GMT

Listen to the livecast from Magnus Halls presentation of the Interim report January-June 2011.

Magnus Hall's presentation of the Interim report 17 August
Categories: News, Show on startpage, Holmen, Financial, Hållbarhet / Sustainability

Ny webbutbildning om skog och klövvilt

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:21:00 GMT

Genom en ny webbaserad utbildning vill Holmen bidra till ökade kunskaper för god skötsel av älgstammen och övrigt klövvilt. Ambitionen är att brett belysa såväl skogsägarnas som jägarnas intressen.

Ett stort betestryck i förhållande till fodermängden medför på många områden i landet stora skador på tallungskogar. Dessutom innebär det negativa effekter på den biologiska mångfalden genom att lövträdslag som rönn, asp och sälg inte växa sig stora.

De skador som uppstår av ett alltför stort vilttryck leder till problem som försämrad virkeskvalitet och sämre tillväxt i skogen. Holmens långsiktiga mål är att arbeta för en högkvalitativ älgstam med hög reproduktion i balans med fodermängden.

Den nya utbildningen är gemensamt framtagen av Holmen Skog, SCA Skog, Stora Enso Skog och Sveaskog.

http://www.skogochklovvilt.se/

Nu kan alla vilt- och jaktintresserade öka sin kunskap om skog och klövvilt enkelt vid datorn.
Categories: News, Holmen Skog, About forest

Holmens syn på effektivt och uthålligt skogsbruk

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 13:08:00 GMT

Nu nylanseras handboken Riktlinjer för uthålligt skogsbruk som sammanfattar Holmens syn på hur ett effektivt och uthålligt skogsbruk ska bedrivas. I handboken kan man läsa om allt från plantering till slutavverkning.

Under 2011 har Riktlinjer för uthålligt skogsbruk omarbetats och en ny version av handboken framtagits. Den är uppdaterad med bland annat den senaste FSC^®-standarden, aktuell viltförvaltning och nya avsnitt om snytbaggebehandling och social hänsyn.

Riktlinjer för uthålligt skogsbruk har hittills tryckts i cirka 38 000 exemplar med översättning till engelska för samtliga upplagor.

Nu nylanseras handboken Riktlinjer för uthålligt skogsbruk som sammanfattar Holmens syn på hur ett effektivt och uthålligt skogsbruk ska bedrivas. I handboken kan man läsa om allt från plantering till slutavverkning. Under 2011 har Riktlinjer för uthålligt skogsbruk omarbetats och en ny version av handboken framtagits. Den är uppdaterad med bland annat den senaste FSC ® -standarden, aktuell viltförvaltning och nya avsnitt om snytbaggebehandling och social hänsyn. Riktlinjer för...
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Nytt nummer av Holmen Magasin

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 13:34:00 GMT

Här är nya numret av tidningen Holmen Magasin.

Läs om:

Utländskt intresse för hållbarhet

Framtidens förpackningar

Magnus Hall: ”Vi behöver kärnkraft”

…och mycket mer.

Trevlig läsning!

Beställ en tryckt version av tidningen.

Prenumerera på tidningen kostnadsfritt.

Läs andra numret av Holmen Magasin
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Vi söker unga jägare

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:49:00 GMT

Det finns platser i våra jaktlag i Sörmland, Östergötland och Småland. Dessa platser vill vi gärna fylla med dig som är ung och jaktintresserad. För att ansöka om plats i något av dessa jaktlag klicka på länken nedan.

Ansök om plats i jaktlag

Om du har frågor, vänligen kontakta Håkan Svensson på 011-23 58 07. Håkan är Viltmästare och jakt- och fiskeansvarig på Holmen Skog, region Norrköping.

Vi söker dig, tjej eller kille, som är mellan 18 och 23 år och som vill ingå i ett av våra jaktlag till reducerat pris.
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11 september - Skogens Dag i Östergötland

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 10:08:00 GMT

Den 11 september firas Skogens Dag i Östergötland. Speciellt för Skogens Dag 2011 är att vi firar Internationella skogsåret. I anknytning till det, vill vi erbjuda våra besökare möjlighet att få lära sig mer om skogens olika möjligheter och värden. Med Skogens Dag vill vi visa att skogen är viktig för den svenska ekonomin, men även att den är en arbetsplats och inte minst en plats för rekreation och friluftsliv. Ju mer du vet om skogen och dess varelser, desto mer får du ut av ditt friluftsliv.

Holmen ansvarar för två familjearrangemang i Östergötland som har öppet mellan 10.00-14.00:

I Norrköping anordnar Holmen Skogens Dag i samarbete med bland annat Scouterna, Svampklubben, Svenska Jägareförbundet, Friluftsfrämjandet och Orienteringsklubben. Det kommer att finnas en tipsrunda med fina vinster! Dessutom bjuder vi på kaffe och korv. Vägbeskrivning: Jursla vid Lilllsjön, 5 km norr om Norrköping. Det kommer att finnas skyltning vid stora vägen från Jursla.
I Finspång kommer Skogens Dag bland annat att innehålla skogsmaskiner, naturinformation och en tipsrunda med fina vinster! Även här bjuder vi på korv, dryck och kaffe!
Vägbeskrivning: Kraftkärret, Grosvad i Finspång

För mer information se www.skogsstyrelsen.se/Upptack-skogen/Upplev-skogen/Skogens-Dag/Linkoping/

Ta med familj och vänner och besök oss på söndag. Varmt välkomna!

Den 11 september firas Skogens Dag i Östergötland. Speciellt för Skogens Dag 2011 är att vi firar Internationella skogsåret. I anknytning till det, vill vi erbjuda våra besökare möjlighet att få lära sig mer om skogens olika möjligheter och värden. Med Skogens Dag vill vi visa att skogen är viktig för den svenska ekonomin, men även att den är en arbetsplats och inte minst en plats för rekreation och friluftsliv. Ju mer du vet om skogen och dess varelser, desto mer får du ut av ditt friluftsli...
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EU-pengar ska minska hinder i fiskens vandringsväg

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:40:00 GMT

Holmen Skog medverkar i naturvårdsprojektet ReMiBar som beviljats pengar från EU-kommissionen. Projektet, som startar den 1 september och ska pågå under fem år, är ett av Sveriges största åtgärdsprojekt i sötvatten. Arbetet sker inom vattendrag med stort naturvärde, så kallade Natura 2000-vattendrag, och målet är att öka förutsättningarna för lax, flodpärlmussla, stensimpa och utter samt deras livsmiljöer. Totalt ska drygt 300 vandringshinder undanröjas.

De vattensystem som berörs av projektet är Ängesån (del av Torne- och Kalix älvsystem), Råneälven, Varjisån (del av Piteälven), Lögdeälven och Sävarån.

Bild: Här kan de vattenlevande djuren åter igen röra sig fritt efter att deras vandringsväg återställts. Fotograf: Peder Sundström.

Samarbete mellan flera aktörer
Projektet är ett samarbete mellan såväl myndigheter som privata aktörer med Trafikverket som projektägare. Förutom Holmen Skog ingår även Länsstyrelserna i Norrbotten och Västerbotten, Skogsstyrelsen, SCA Skog i Norrbotten och Västerbotten, SveaSkog i Norrbotten och Västerbotten samt Naturvårdsverket i projektet.

Prioriterat miljömål
Holmen Skog jobbar på flera sätt för att minska vandringshindren och återställa miljön i vattendragen på företagets mark. Naturvårdsprojektet ReMiBar är ett sätt, men arbetet ingår även som en naturlig del i skogsvårdsuppdraget.

Läs mer om naturvårdsprojektet ReMiBar på Trafikverkets webbplats

Med drygt 4 miljoner euro från EU-kommissionen ska cirka 300 vandringshinder i fem stora vattensystem i Norr- och Västerbotten återställas. Vandringshindren orsakas av dammar och vägtrummor. Genom att undanröja hindren får fisk och andra vattenlevande djur möjlighet att röra sig fritt i vattensystemen, vilket gynnar deras reproduktion.
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Vind - ta tillvara kraften

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:19:00 GMT

Svensk Vindenergi, där Holmen är ett av medlemsföretagen, arrangerade Vind 2011 på Stockholmsmässan den 14-15 september. Det är en mötesplats för vindkraftsbranschen.

Magnus Hall var en av talarna. Läs mer om arrangemangets program.

Magnus Hall var en av talarna på Vind 2011, en mötesplats för vindkraftsbranschen
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Holmen VIEW finalist in the 2011 PPI Awards

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:16:00 GMT

Homen VIEW has been shortlisted for the Innovative Product of the Year prize in the 3rd annual Pulp & Paper International (PPI) Awards. The PPI Awards are the only global awards dedicated to recognizing achievements in the paper and pulp sector.

Tommy Wiksand, Sales and Development Director at Holmen Paper says:

"These awards are regarded as a universal benchmark of quality within the paper and pulp industry. Being shortlisted is a great achievement, particularly in this tough year when the quality and quantity of the entries are better than ever."

Holmen VIEW is a completely new type of paper. Developed from a base in uncoated fresh fibres, Holmen VIEW holds unique qualities with high brightness, bulk and stiffness and an unmatched surface with a silk feeling.

For the customers, Holmen VIEW is a great and cost effective choice for magazines, catalogues and direct mail, considering its low environmental impact and its ability to carry high-end images.

The paper is also a good representative for Holmen Paper's strategy to challenge traditional paper choices, a tradition started with the successful Holmen XLNT.

This year's winners will be announced at a ceremony at Le Plaza Hotel in Brussels on November 15 2011.

Holmen VIEW has been nominated for one of the paper and pulp industry's most prestigious awards - the PPI Awards.
Categories: News, Holmen Paper

Livecast - Interim report January-September 2011

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 08:39:00 GMT

Listen to the livecast from Magnus Halls presentation of the Interim report January-September 2011.

Magnus Hall's presentation of the Interim report 26 October
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The Black Box Project continues

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:03:00 GMT

“We’re looking for creative minds who really push the limits of what can be done with Invercote,” explains Carlo Einarsson, Director Market Communications at Iggesund Paperboard. “But the project is also a tribute to all the designers who have chosen Invercote over the years to be the starting point for their fantastic packaging designs.”

He emphasises that the Black Box Project is not like a traditional advertising campaign in which the client expresses detailed wishes and closely supervises the outcome. The designers who have chosen to take part in Iggesund’s project have great freedom. The only stipulation is that they must work with Invercote and create something that reflects their own distinctiveness and Invercote’s possibilities.

“The degree of freedom and the opportunity to create something extraordinary have made it easy to find designers eager to take part,” Einarsson says. “A number of designers have contacted us to say they would like to participate. We are very satisfied with the response so far, both to the exhibitions we have held and to our web pages about the project.

“In a world where the materials for a design project are unfortunately often chosen as a matter of habit, it is important for us to highlight the additional opportunities that Invercote gives designers to fully realise their creative ambitions.”

On 15 November the Black Box Project will present the work of a fifth creator. Designer and illustrator Sebastian Onufszak is based in Augsburg, Germany but is active throughout Europe. His contribution will be unveiled at an event at the Prototyp Museum in Hamburg.

The other exhibitors include the Dutch firm of van Heertum Design, technical magicians who delight in printing with more than 30 colours and varnishes, and who often then add more finishing touches to the awe of technique fans and the despair of production economists. From Paris comes Landor, who elegantly demonstrate how designers break through all boundaries established by their clients. Brunazzi & Associati from Turin carve out a survival kit for pasta lovers that includes both pasta tongs and a colander, both made of paperboard. Marc Benhamou, a Frenchman based in New York, presents his concept of beauty in a new interpretation of the 22 Major Arcana cards from the tarot deck. And Sebastian Onufszak will now add his own contribution to this challenge series. Though still a secret, his concept focuses on the idea of closed loop recycling.

“This project is an adventure and we don’t really know where it will end,” Einarsson concludes. “But Invercote is the strongest brand on the European paperboard market, and that strength makes it possible for us to try new ways of communicating.”

Read more about the Black Box Project at
blackbox.iggesund.com

For other questions: blackbox@iggesund.com

Iggesund Paperboard has been operating its Black Box Project for almost a year now, with exhibitions in Paris, London, Amsterdam and New York. Iggesund has challenged a number of leading international designers and design agencies to fill a black box of specific dimensions with contents that in some way test the performance of the company’s flagship paperboard, Invercote.
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Lyckad kampanj lockade unga jägare

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:58:00 GMT

Håkan Svensson, viltmästare och jakt- och fiskeansvarig på Holmen Skog i Norrköping, varför vill ni föryngra jaktlagen?
- Det är dags för en generationsväxling. För en effektiv och trevlig jakt krävs engagemang, viltvård, bra pass och duktiga jakthundar. Vi behöver helt enkelt intresserade unga krafter som är villiga att lägga ner tid på jakt, vilt och hundar. Det är också viktigt med entusiasm i jaktlagen och att få in friska tankar och idéer. Nya unga krafter kommer att höja jaktintresset i jaktlagen. Det blir roligare att jaga helt enkelt.

Vad är det för kampanj som ni har bedrivit?
- Vi har annonserat i pressen och på vår webbplats kan unga tjejer och killar anmäla sitt intresse. Vi har fått in cirka sextio ansökningar sedan sommaren. Av dessa har vi valt ut ett trettiotal personer som vi placerat i grupper om två i passande jaktlag. Det är viktigt att jaktlagen har en välfungerande struktur och kan agera som faddrar för de nya. Jaktledarna har visat ett stort intresse för den yngre förstärkningen trots att de egentligen redan är tillräckligt många i jaktlagen.

Hur har urvalet gått till?
- Vi har gott om äldre jägare som vill jaga hos oss, men eftersom vi vill föryngra jaktlagen har vi fokuserat på gruppen mellan 18 och 23 år. Ansökningar från personer som är yngre än 18 år har vi lagt åt sidan och ska titta på till våren när vi utfärdar nya jakttillstånd. De som är äldre än 23 år avvaktar vi med. I den utvalda gruppen har vi sedan gjort ett geografiskt urval utifrån vad vi ansett vara lämpligt.

De nya jägarna kommer att få jaga gratis under resterande del av året. Om allt fungerar bra blir de ordinarie medlemmar i jaktlagen i vår och betalar då reducerat pris på jakttillståndet tills de fyller 25 år.

Ansöka om plats i jaktlag
Är du mellan 18 och 23 år och vill ansöka om plats i något av våra jaktlag i Sörmland, Östergötland och Småland? Klicka då på länken nedan:

Ansök om plats i jaktlag

Många av jaktlagen som jagar på Holmens marker har en hög medelålder. Satsningar för att rekrytera unga jägare genomförs därför på olika håll i landet. I Norrköping visade sig en sådan satsning särskilt lyckad. Under hösten har regionen fått tillskott av ett trettiotal nya jägare i åldrarna 18 till 23 år.
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Holmen på KTH 15-16 november

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:30:00 GMT

Många besökte vår monter på arbetsmarknadsdagarna Armada på Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan i Stockholm den 15-16 november. Läs mer här.

Armada - arbetsmarknadsdagar på KTH - Holmen var där
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Holmen Magasin nr 3 2011 ute nu

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 08:57:00 GMT

Ur innehållet:

Julens smaker i Iggesundskartong

Norrländs furu i danska fönster

Hållbart intresse

... och mycket mer.

Trevlig läsning!

Beställ tryckt version

Prenumerera kostnadsfritt

Läs det senaste numret av tidningen Holmen Magasin.
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Hederspris till holmen.com i Internetworlds Topp100

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:51:00 GMT

Bland säkert flera tiotusentals webbplatser i Sverige har www.holmen.com rankats som en av Sveriges 100 bästa webbplatser i Internetworlds årliga tävling. I år delades tävlingen upp i 16 olika kategorier samt 10 hederspriser. Holmen tilldelades, liksom bland andra Blocket, Tradera och Veckorevyn, hederspris. Läs mer på denna länk.

Juryns motivering löd:

”I en bransch så gammal och möjligen också så tråkig att klockorna stannat för länge sedan blir vi överraskade av att Holmen verkar ha tagit webben till sitt hjärta och skapat en sajt som är enkel, tydlig och lockar till läsning. Konkurrensen bland storföretagssajterna är knappast mördande, men det här är en riktigt, riktigt bra webbtjänst, inte bara för den inbitne skogsfantasten, för aktieägaren eller för den anställde på Holmen. Det här är en sajt som tar oss alla på allvar.”

Hederspris till holmen.com i Internetworlds Topp100
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Staff cuts at Strömsbruk

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:46:00 GMT

Today Iggesund Paperboard began union negotiations to reduce the workforce at Strömsbruk by 20 people. The main reason is a low use of capacity combined with a challenging market situation.

The company’s proposal involves reducing annual production capacity to a level adapted to current market conditions. Approximately 90 people now work for Strömsbruk’s production organisation.

The company aims to achieve the staff cuts with the aid of early retirement plus offers of employment at Iggesund Mill.

Staff cuts at Strömsbruk
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Holmen levererar julmat till Öster Malmas älgar

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:26:00 GMT

- Frugan brukar be mig att ta in lite tallris till jul, men det här var en lite större utmaning, säger Hans Olsson, virkesköpare på Holmen Skog.

I Öster Malma byggs fem stora vilthägn för att kunna visa älg, dovhjort, kronhjort och mufflon för allmänheten. De nya hägnen invigs våren 2012 och omfattar totalt 25 hektar. Idag finns fyra älgar innanför staketen. Den ena tjuren heter Holger och snart får han och hans kompisar även sällskap av hjortar på området. Sedan ungefär en vecka tillbaka är julmaten serverad för älgarna. Bakom beställningen står Svenska jägareförbundet.

Förutom att leverera tallris har Holmen varit med och avverkat skogen där de nya hägnen byggts. Svenska jägareförbundet räknar med cirka 30 000 besökare per år till hägnen i Öster Malma. För att besökarna ska kunna studera djuren på riktigt nära håll har promenadvägar skapats mellan hägnen.

Holmen Skog fick nyligen en förfrågan från Svenska jägareförbundet om att leverera sju ton tallris till älgarna i deras nya vilthägn i Öster Malma.
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För- och nackdelar med slutavverkning vintertid

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:47:00 GMT

Det finns områden i skogen som endast går att avverka när vintern är som kallast. Skog vid myrmark är ett område där tjälen måste gå ned djupt i marken för att en slutavverkning ska vara möjlig.
– För att göra ett så bra jobb som möjligt i skogen behövs noggrann planering. Bäst resultat blir det när vi tidigt planerar tillsammans med våra leverantörer när slutavverkning, markberedning och andra aktiviteter ska ske, säger Fredrik Munter.

Han ansvarar för Sörmlands distrikt som varje månad avverkar 40 000 kubikmeter skog, varav 25 0000 kubikmeter är slutavverkning.
– Visst ﬁnns det fördelar med att avverka på vintern, när det väl blir kallt är bärigheten i marken värdefull. Men nu när vintrarna är så oberäkneliga är det klokare att ha en planering som sträcker sig över hela året. Ibland är en torr sommar bättre för en slutavverkning, säger Fredrik Munter.

Fem goda råd vid slutavverkning på vintern:

Var ute i god tid. Använd en skogsbruksplan för att planera både slutavverkning och andra skogliga aktiviteter ﬂera år framöver.
Tänk på att vintrarna kan vara milda. Vissa slutavverkningar görs därför bäst en torr sommar.
Det är en fördel om du ser till att det ﬁnns bra skogsbilvägar. Det är ofta en förutsättning för att kunna avverka – i synnerhet under milda vintrar.
Ta vara på biobränslet. Det ﬁnns pengar att tjäna på att ta hand om all grot (grenar och toppar). Att skörda stubbar kommer sannolikt att bli mer lönsamt framöver.
Anlita ett etablerat skogsföretag med kompetenta entreprenörer. Be om referenser på hur de utfört tidigare jobb.

Läs hela artikeln i Holmen Magasin nr 3 / 2011

Det ﬁnns en rad fördelar med att slutavverka i skogen på vintern, men också nackdelar. God planering är det allra viktigaste vid en slutavverkning. Då kan en skogsbruksplan vara ett bra redskap, enligt Fredrik Munter, distriktschef på Holmen Skog i Katrineholm.
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Holmen awarded for sustainability report

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 09:21:00 GMT

Holmen, through MoDo, has had separate environmental reports since the early 1990´ies. In the annual report 2010, Holmen for the first time fully integrates the sustainability report in the administration report. The sustainability report has also been externally reviewed.

In their motivation FAR states that “Holmen has succeeded in the transition of making an extensive sustainability report to a more focused one in the administration report. We consider Holmen’s sustainability report 2010 a brilliant first step towards an integrated report”.

FAR – the institute for authorized public accountants, approved public accountants and other highly qualified professionals in the Swedish accountancy sector - has awarded Holmen with the first prize for the 2010 sustainability report in the category large companies. Lars Strömberg, Director of sustainable and environmental affairs and Ingela Carlsson, Head of group public relations, received the award.
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Press conference about Holmen's forest holdings

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:24:00 GMT

Listen to CFO Anders Jernhall and take part of the presentation on Holmen's press conference that was carried out on friday 9 December at 10.00.

Press conference about Holmen's forest holdings
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Incada Silk protects the taste of Christmas

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:48:00 GMT

No Swedish Christmas is complete without Aladdin – a classic chocolate box whose journey starts in the UK and ends under Christmas trees across Sweden. Please read more.

No Swedish Christmas is complete without Aladdin – a classic chocolate box whose journey starts in the UK and ends under Christmas trees across Sweden. Please read more .
Categories: News, Show on startpage, Iggesund Paperboard, About paperboard, Products

Unique calendar could be yours

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:42:00 GMT

In a bold challenge to today’s digital world, Iggesund Paperboard, a member of Sweden’s Holmen Group, has launched an oversized wall calendar made entirely of its market-leading Invercote® paperboard. 100 copies were totally handmade.

The already legendary 2011 calendar was delivered to a select group of graphic and packaging customers across the world.

Of those 100 copies, only 2 are left to be auctioned out, and the money will go in full to UNICEF Sweden.

"It’s a very exclusive calendar that’s not just a regular calendar, it’s a masterpiece as well", says Björn Kvick, President of Iggesund Paperboard.

At an opening bid of €2,000 (Two Thousand Euro) this calendar could be yours. This auction is set-up on a first come first serve basis.
Categories: News, Show on startpage, Iggesund Paperboard, About paperboard

Drabbades din skog av stormen?

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:53:00 GMT

Vi prioriterar nu avverkning av stormfälld skog och försöker bistå drabbade skogsägare. Därför ber vi om din förståelse för att vissa omprioriteringar behöver göras, främst i Iggesundsregionen. Det innebär att avverkning av oskadad eller ringa skadad skog kan behöva senareläggas i detta område.

Du som nu drabbats av stormskador bör:

Ta kontakt med våra virkesköpare.
Vi vill gärna, efter bästa förmåga, hjälpa dig att minska förlusten. Kontakta våra virkesköpare så får du råd och hjälp med din skog!
Var försiktig!
Arbetet i stormfälld skog kan vara livsfarligt och bör utföras av specialutbildade entreprenörer med rätt utrustning. Ta inga onödiga risker! Och arbeta aldrig ensam!
Bevara värdet i virket.
När du prioriterar vilka träd som ska tas om hand först kan det vara lämpligt att låta träd med god rotkontakt vänta. Dessa kan klara vattenförsörjningen och bevaras färska längre än träd utan rotkontakt.

I julhelgen drog stormen Dagmar in över Sverige och orsakade skador på skogen på flera håll i landet. Främst är norra Hälsingland, östra Jämtland, östra Härjedalen och Medelpad drabbade. Är din skog berörd? Då vill vi gärna hjälpa dig.
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Unga uppskattar papper

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:30:00 GMT

Hela 83% av 18-24 åringarna föredrar att läsa på papper framför att läsa på en skärm. 78% av de svarande i åldersgruppen säger att papper och tryck är behagligare att ta på och hantera jämfört med andra medier. 63% föredrar dessutom att ha viktiga dokument i pappersformat och 57% tror att pappersarkiv är mer hållbart än elektroniskt lagrad information.

Studien visar dock också på att konsumenterna behöver mer information om tryck och pappers miljöpåverkan. Trots att 63% av de svarande i undersökningen säger sig förstå att papper och tryck är baserat på en förnyelsebar råvara, tror en majoritet att endast 20-40% av papperet i Europa lämnas till återvinning. Den verkliga siffran ligger enligt European Recovered Paper Council på 60%, i Sverige är återvinningsgraden ännu högre och branchen är en av de ledande i Europa när det gäller just grad av återvinning.

Källa: Power of Print

En ny studie som genomförts i tio länder visar att 18-24 åringar tycker om att läsa på papper.
Categories: News, Show on startpage, Holmen, Holmen Paper, Printing paper

Livecast - Interim report January-September 2011

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 08:39:00 GMT

Listen to the livecast from Magnus Halls presentation of the Interim report January-September 2011.

Magnus Hall's presentation of the Interim report 26 October
Categories: News, Show on startpage, Holmen, Financial, Hållbarhet / Sustainability

Magnus Hall presents Year-end report for 2011

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:35:00 GMT

Listen to the livecast from Magnus Hall's presentation of the Year-end report 2011.

Magnus Hall presents Year-end report for 2011
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Holmen återställer ängs- och betesmarker

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:37:00 GMT

Det svenska odlingslandskapet har ett rikt djur- och växtliv. Dock har dessa områden minskat i Sverige under 1900-talet. I Rodga har tidigare ängs- och betesmarker växt igen. Den speciella hagmarksfloran har fått ge vika för sly och skog. Växter och djur som tidigare frodades på betesmarken har svårt att överleva.

För att skona marken i området utförs skötselarbetet manuellt med hjälp av ett hästlag.
Foto: Lasse Hejdenberg.

Nu återställer Holmen de gamla ängs- och betesmarkerna vid Norrsjön i Rodga. Syftet är att bevara och förstärka markernas natur- och miljövärden. Här ska en mer variationsrik betesmark skapas med större gläntor, fristående träd och överlag mer solinstrålning. Området kommer även fortsättningsvis domineras av björk, men med större åldersvariation.

Vill skapa bra förutsättningar för biologisk mångfald
– Vi på Holmen arbetar aktivt för att skapa bra förutsättningar för den biologiska mångfalden på våra marker. Alla områden har olika förutsättningar och i Rodga kommer den speciella hagmarksfloran att ges möjlighet att utvecklas, säger Jonnie Friberg som ansvarar för Holmens skog i region Norrköping

För att skona marken i området utförs skötselarbetet manuellt med hjälp av ett hästlag.
– Hästlag påminner oss om gamla tiders skogsbruk och är idag en ovanlig syn. Genom att föra ut sly och träd med häst skonas marken. Även detta är ett arbetssätt som skapar bra förutsättning för den biologiska mångfalden, berättar Jonnie Friberg.

Till sommaren kommer hästar och får att beta i området. På så vis ska markerna hållas öppna även i framtiden.

I Rodga arbetar just nu ett hästlag för att återställa ett område med ängs- och betesmark. Här ska den speciella hagmarksfloran ges utrymme att utvecklas och till sommaren kommer hästar och får att beta i området.
Categories: News, Holmen Skog, About forest, Hållbarhet / Sustainability

Nu söker Holmen traineer

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:19:00 GMT

Nu söker vi sju olika traineeprofiler

- Trainee Utvecklingsavdelningen på Iggesunds Bruk

- Trainee Underhåll på Iggesunds bruk

- Trainee Inköp på Iggesunds bruk

- Trainee Processutveckling på Hallsta Pappersbruk

- Trainee Produktion Hallsta Pappersbruk

- Trainee Projektledning Mekanik på Hallsta Pappersbruk

- Trainee Projektledare Strategiskt Inköp på Holmens huvudkontor

Traineeprogrammet startar i augusti 2012 och pågår till midsommar 2013.

Sista ansökningsdag: 2012-03-19. Vi ser fram emot din ansökan!

Läs mer om Holmens traineeprogram.

Nu söker vi sju olika traineeprofiler - Trainee Utvecklingsavdelningen på Iggesunds Bruk - Trainee Underhåll på Iggesunds bruk - Trainee Inköp på Iggesunds bruk - Trainee Processutveckling på Hallsta Pappersbruk - Trainee Produktion Hallsta Pappersbruk - Trainee Projektledning Mekanik på Hallsta Pappersbruk - Trainee Projektledare Strategiskt Inköp på Holmens huvudkontor Traineeprogrammet startar i augusti 2012 och pågår till midsommar 2013. Sista ansökningsdag: 2012-03-19. Vi ser fram em...
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To young Europeans - Paper is key

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:56:00 GMT

Newspapers, coupons, cookbooks, tickets and love letters are best on paper according to the young people in the Cepi Millenial Paper Use and Consumption survey. 734 Europeans between the ages of 16 and 26 participated in the study, which aimed to investigate future trends concerning the pulp and paper industry. Another objective of the study was to see how the Generation Y use paper and how they feel about it.

Source: www.cepi.org

Young people between the ages of 16 to 26 trust paper when it comes to the important things in life.
Categories: News, Show on startpage, Holmen Paper, Printing paper

Förslag till stadgar för Älgskötselområde

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:07:00 GMT

Länen delas in i älgförvaltningsområden

Varje län delas in i ett antal, vanligen mellan två och sex, älgförvaltningsområden med en markägarrepresentant som ordförande. Huvuduppgiften är att ta fram älgförvaltningsplan, ordna inventeringar, följa upp och sätta mål. Tanken är att varje älgförvaltningsområde ska hantera en ”egen” älgstam. Älgförvaltningsområdena kan vara länsöverskridande.

Jakten struktureras
Inom älgförvaltningsområden kan jakt på älg ske i tre former: älgskötselområden med avskjutning om minst tio älgar per år, licensområden med minst en årskalv årligen, samt oregistrerad mark där kalvjakt bedrivs under begränsad tid. För närvarande håller organisationerna för älgförvaltningsområden och älgskötselområden på att komma på plats.

Stadgemall för älgskötselområde

Det finns ett stort intresse för att nybilda eller ombilda älgskötselområden. För att underlätta hanteringen av älgskötselområden har därför Holmen tillsammans med Skogsindustrierna, Sveaskog, Bergvik Skog, LRF och Skogsägarrörelsen tagit fram en stadgemall som vi rekommenderar att använda vid bildande av älgskötselområde (ÄSO).

I Sverige införs nu efter riksdagsbeslut en ny älgförvaltning. Den viktigaste nyheten i det nya systemet är älgförvaltningsområden, där markägare nu får en bättre möjlighet att påverka älgförvaltningen, bland annat genom förslag om älgförvaltningsplaner.
Categories: News, Holmen Skog, About forest, Hållbarhet / Sustainability

Välkommen på ekonomikväll för skogsägare!

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:29:00 GMT

Under kvällen får du information kring bland annat skattenyheter, tjänsteutbud, marknadsläge och placeringsråd. Experter inom såväl skogshushållning som skatterådgivning och placering finns på plats för att svara på dina frågor. Vi bjuder även på kaffe och tilltugg under kvällen.

Program

Handelsbanken - Banktjänster som förenklar din vardag som skogsägare. Gunnar Sandqvist, regionchef.
Skogens Hus - Nyheter och grundläggande skatteregler för skogen. Anders Lennartsson, mäklare och skatterådgivare.
Holmen - Skogen då, nu och i framtiden. Erik Normark, FoU-chef, samt Daniel Norberg, marknadschef.

Tillfällen

Sikeå, Spiran.		21 februari, kl 19.00
Umeå, Nolia Lokalen Relationen		23 februari, kl 19.00
Nordmaling, Olofsfors Herrgård		28 februari, kl 19.00
Bjurholm, Bjurholms Värdshus		1 mars, kl 19.00
Åsele, Åsele Värdshus		22 februari, kl. 18.30
Lycksele, Hotell Lappland		27 februari, kl 18.30

Anmälan
Vi ser fram emot att träffa dig någon av dessa kvällar! Skicka din anmälan senast den 20 februari till din lokala virkesköpare. Kom ihåg att ange vilken av träffarna som du anmäler dig till.

Virkesköprae i Umeå:
Lars Jacobsson, 090-12 18 72, lars.jacobsson@holmenskog.com

John Königsson, 090-12 38 24, john.konigsson@holmenskog.com

Stefan Gotthardsson, 090-12 18 09, stefan.gotthardsson@holmenskog.com

Stig Forsberg, 090-12 38 27, stig.forsberg@holmenskog.com

Bert Forsberg, 090-12 18 93, bert.forsberg@holmenskog.com

Virkesköpare i Lycksele:
Nicklas Stenlund, 0941-660 66, nicklas.stenlund@holmenskog.com
Lars Eliasson, 0950-517 17, lars.eliasson@holmenskog.com

Du som är leverantör till Holmen är varmt välkommen till ekonomikvällar som vi anordnar i samarbete med Handelsbanken och Skogens Hus.
Categories: News, Holmen Skog, About forest

Holmen Magasin ute nu

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:58:00 GMT

Ur innehållet:

Holmen uppvärderar sitt skogsinnehav
Räkodling på gång i Hallstavik
Ungdomar föredrar papper
Nytt hopp för plantan och framtidens plantskola
Mer krav på kunskap inom skogsindustrin
Revansch för furu
och mycket mer.......

Trevlig läsning!

Prenumerera eller beställ kostnadsfritt

Läs årets första nummer av tidningen Holmen Magasin
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”Planera plantering redan vid slutavverkning”

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:17:00 GMT

Enligt skogsvårdslagen ska både skogsbolag och enskilda skogsägare återplantera senast tre år efter slutavverkning. Helst tidigare, för att plantorna inte ska få för stor växtkonkurrens på hygget.

Linnea Forsmark, som ansvarar för skogsvård på Holmens egen skogsmark i Kolmårdsskogarna, förbereder planteringen tidigt.
– Redan vid avverkningen bedömer jag om vi kan ta ut grenar, toppar och stubbar från marken. Sedan väljer jag den markberedning som passar bäst och vilka plantor jag ska sätta.

Bra markberedning ger de nysatta plantorna bättre förutsättningar att klara både snytbagge och konkurrens från andra växter. Bra planteringspunkter förebygger angrepp från de unga plantornas värsta fiende, snytbaggen.
– Snytbaggen gillar inte öppna ytor, då får den torgskräck, säger Linnea Forsmark. Vår stora planta, Starpot 120, har bra tillväxt och efter en säsong bör den klara av angrepp från snytbaggen.

Tänk på det här inför planteringen:

Planera i god tid och bedöm redan vid slutavverkningen om grot och stubbar ska tas ut.
Välj markberedningsmetod efter traktens förutsättningar.
Välj rätt planta till rätt ställe och beställ dem i god tid, minst ett halvår i förväg.
Hantera plantorna rätt när de levereras. Ha så korta ledtider som möjligt med hänsyn till plantvården. Är de frysta ska de ställas isär och tina under kontrollerade former. I fält bör de helst stå under skuggväv. Se till att de hålls fuktiga fram till plantering.
I södra Sverige bör planteringen göras så tidigt som möjligt, plantorna bör vara i jorden före midsommar.
Har du tid och rätt kunskap att planera och plantera själv? Ta hjälp av proffs om du är osäker.

Läs mer om återväxt och hjälp med din skog

God framförhållning och planering är viktigt för att plantorna ska få en bra start. – Planera för föryngring redan vid avverkningen, råder produktionsledaren Linnea Forsmark vid region Norrköping.
Categories: News, Holmen Skog

Framtidens plantskola är här

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:47:00 GMT

Hösten 2011 stod en helt ny produktionshall på 1 400 kvadratmeter klar på Friggesunds plantskola nordväst om Hudiksvall. I dagarna paketeras de första plantorna med en helt ny paketeringsutrustning, som med kamerateknik kan avläsa och sortera plantorna efter längd.

Det stora tekniksprånget är den nya odlingskammaren som byggs under 2012. Den ska ge mer exakt tillväxt genom noggrann styrning av klimat, belysning och bevattning. Plantskolan har också fått ny teknik för omskolning (omplantering) av plantor från odlingskammaren till större brätten innan de flyttas ut till friland för att växa ytterligare.

Holmen har under tre år satsat 36 miljoner på ombyggnaden av Friggesunds plantskola. När den nya odlingskammaren är klar, ser plantskolechefen Roger Larm fram emot att förbättra plantkvaliteten genom noggrann styrning av klimat, belysning och bevattning. Foto: Magnus Liam Karlsson

Läs hela artikeln i Holmen Magasin nr 1 / 2012

Friggesund blir 2012 den första skogsplantskolan i Sverige med egen odlingskammare, en tillväxtkuvös för plantor. Kammaren ger plantorna större möjligheter att klara sig när de planteras ut på ett hygge. Inom ett par år kommer plantorna att vara både starkare och jämnare. Detta ska leda till säkrare överlevnad i fält och därmed skapa större tillväxt. Foto: Magnus Liam Karlsson
Categories: News, Holmen Skog, About forest

Gemensam miljöpolicy om körskador

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:14:00 GMT

Markskador till följd av maskinell avverkning är ett problem på vissa delar av skogsmarken. Genom ökad kunskap om sjöars och vattendrags ekologi och hur skogsbruksåtgärder påverkar dessa miljöer ges bättre möjligheter att begränsa skador och negativ miljöpåverkan.

Den gemensamma policyn redovisar en rad exempel på sådant som ska undvikas:

körning i och i direkt anslutning till vatten
körskador som leder till ökad slamtransport
dämning som leder till försumpning och översvämning
körning i torvmarker nära vatten
körning i lämnad naturvårdshänsyn
körning som försämrar framkomlighet på frekvent använda stigar
körning som försämrar upplevelsevärden i viktiga rekreationsområden
körskador på kulturhistoriska lämningar

Policyn bygger på ett förslag från en arbetsgrupp som Skogsbrukets vattenråd tillsatte 2009. Målet var att skapa samsyn om vad en körskada är och hur den på bästa sätt kan undvikas. Tillsammans med Holmen står följande företag och organisationer bakom policyn: Bergvik Skog, Korsnäs, LRF Skogsägarna, Mellanskog, Norra Skogsägarna Norrskog, SCA, Skogsindustrierna, SMF Skogsentreprenörerna, Stora Enso, Sveaskog, Svenska Kyrkan, Södra.

Ladda ner policyn

Tillsammans med tretton andra skogsföretag och organisationer står Holmen bakom en policy för att begränsa allvarliga körskador i skogen. Initiativet är ett led i den långsiktiga satsningen på ett hållbart skogsbruk.
Categories: News, Holmen Skog, About forest, Hållbarhet / Sustainability

Furuns revansch

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:42:00 GMT

En förklaring är att furu är billigt och lättarbetat, vilket fått många formgivare att välja furu när de gör prototyper. På så sätt har de upptäckt furuns förtjänster även för färdiga produkter.

Yngre arkitekter jobbar dessutom gärna med närproducerade, naturliga material. Tallar från svenska skogar uppfyller de kriterierna bättre än jakaranda och mahogny.

Efter 1970-talets slut har furupanelen varit ordentligt ute i kylan. Nu omvärderas furun. En ny generation formgivare och arkitekter jobbar med träslaget på nya sätt, ofta som ett accentmaterial mot ljusa ytor.
Categories: News, Holmen Timber, Sawn timber

Guidelines for sustainable forest management

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:06:00 GMT

The guidelines contain detailed instructions for the stewardship of Holmen forests. The requirements laid down in PEFC and FSC® certification are built into the guidelines. Among other things the instructions concerning the FSC-standard, moose management and social values of the forest has been updated.

Holmen's Guidelines for sustainable forest management 2011 is now available in English.
Categories: News, Show on startpage, Holmen Skog, About forest, Hållbarhet / Sustainability

Annual report 2011 including sustainability report

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 12:24:00 GMT

Holmen's Annual report 2011 including sustainability report is now available
Categories: News, Show on startpage, Holmen, People, Financial, Hållbarhet / Sustainability

Holmens museum i Norrköping återinvigt

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:59:00 GMT

Östergötlands landshövding Elisabeth Nilsson och Holmens VD och koncernchef Magnus Hall återinvigde tillsammans den nya utställningen genom att klippa ett symboliskt band och därefter tillverka det nygamla museets första handpapper med hjälp av museets kunniga personal.　

- Holmens historia är också Norrköpings historia, konstaterade Magnus Hall i sitt invigningstal. Holmens museum speglar inte bara vår egen historia utan också Norrköpings och industrilandskapets framväxt. Historien är viktig för oss och Holmens museum är länken till vår viktiga historia.

Hjärtat i museet är den manuella tillverkningen av papper. Museets personal visar hur traditionell papperstillverkning går till, från friläggandet av fiber från lump till färdigt papper. Som besökare kan du också få prova på att göra ditt eget papper. Den egna handpapperstillverkningen blir till uppskattade julkort och brevpapper som finns till försäljning i museet.

Den nya utställningen gör korta nedslag i delar av Holmens brokiga historia men har fokus på papperstillverkningen. Här berättas om grundandet av Holmen, industrilandskapets framväxt, om arbetet och villkoren på bruket samt den industriella utvecklingen av papperstillverkning. Utställningen har arbetats fram i samarbete med Norrköpings stadsmuseum och med stöd av riksantikvarieämbetet. Ett samarbete med Norrköpings kommun gör att många grundskolor besöker museet, som också tar emot andra gruppbesök efter överenskommelse.

Museet ligger på Laxholmen i det gamla industrilandskapet i Norrköping och har öppet för besök på tisdagar och torsdagar mellan 09:00 och 12:30. Museet tar även emot grupper efter överenskommelse.

Telefon: 011-12 89 92, e-post: holmens.museum@telia.com

Holmens museum i Norrköping, har på nytt slagit upp portarna med en helt ny utställning i nyrenoverade lokaler
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Göran Lundin appointed honorary doctor

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 07:42:00 GMT

Göran Lundin, former president and CEO of Holmen, at present board member of Holmen, has been appointed honorary doctor of the university of the Linköping University.

Göran Lundin, former president and CEO of Holmen, at present board member of Holmen, has been appointed honorary doctor of the university of the Linköping University.
Categories: News, Show on startpage, Holmen, Holmen Paper, People, Career

De skrev årets examensarbeten 2011

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:33:00 GMT

För tionde året i rad delade Holmen Skog i fredags ut pris till årets bästa examensarbete. Nytt för i år var att två pris delades ut. Robin Collin-Karlsson tilldelades 10 000 kr för sitt arbete ”Volymsrapportering vid terrängtransport av virke” (15 högskolepoäng). Erik Edler fick 15 000 kr för sitt arbete ”Contortatallens roll för virkesförsörjningen på Holmen Skog, Region Iggesund” (30 högskolepoäng).

- Examensarbeten ger oss en möjlighet att integrera ny kunskap och nya perspektiv in i vår verksamhet. Det är en mycket värdefull del av vårt utvecklingsarbete. Vi lyfter fram Årets examensarbete för att visa uppskattning och ge studenterna ett kvitto på att de har gjort ett bra jobb, säger Ewa Faglöv på Homen Skogs HR-avdelning.

Bedömningen av examensarbetena görs i flera steg och omfattar bland annat arbetets nytta för verksamheten, genomförande, kreativitet och vetenskaplighet. Den först bedömningen görs av respektive kontaktperson inom företaget. De examensarbeten som får mest poäng går vidare till en final och läses av en jury. Årets jury bestod av FoU-chef Erik Normark, Skogschef Per Olsson, samt marknadschef Andreas Rastbäck.

Robin Collin-Karlsson och Erik Edler skrev de två bästa examensarbetena för Holmen Skog under 2011. I fredags tog de emot blommor och varsin prischeck på 10 000 respektive 15 000 kronor från vd Sören Petersson.
Categories: News, Holmen Skog, People, Career

Holmen and sustainability

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:29:00 GMT

Under the heading Sustainability you can read about what Holmen is doing in terms of the climate, environment, finance and employees.

The comprehensive report on Holmen’s sustainability activities is now available.
Categories: News, Show on startpage, Holmen, Products, People, About forest, Career, Financial, Hållbarhet / Sustainability

DO stämmer Holmen Skog i Arbetsdomstolen

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:05:00 GMT

Händelsen inträffade förra sommaren, men kom till Holmens Skogs kännedom först efter att de båda kvinnorna kontaktat DO.
- Företaget inledde då omgående en utredning och fann att det fanns fog för anmälan. Vi delar i alla västentliga delar den syn som DO har om att de både kvinnorna har blivit sexuellt trakasserade verbalt av en av våra anställda, säger Mats Nilsson, HR-chef på Holmen Skog.

- Vi ser allvarligt på det som inträffat och flera åtgärder har vidtagits. Personen i fråga har fått en varning och omplacerats inför kommande säsong. Han kommer inte längre att ha en arbetsledande befattning och inte heller att arbeta tillsammans med ungdomar. Vi har fört samtal med de drabbade kvinnorna. Vi har även diskuterat fallet med samtliga chefer i verksamheten och de har i sin tur fört en dialog med övriga anställda kring hur man ska bete sig mot varandra och vad man kan göra om man upplever sig utsatt för en liknande situation, säger Mats Nilsson.

DO har nu beslutat att företräda kvinnorna och stämmer företaget inför Arbetsdomstolen. Holmen Skog välkomnar att en objektiv rättsinstans tar ställning till vad som ska vara rådande praxis i den här typen av mål.

- En av våra anställda har betett sig på ett oacceptabelt sätt i en roll där han företräder Holmen Skog. Vi är beredda att ta konsekvenserna av detta. Nu är det upp till Arbetsdomstolen att avgöra vad det innebär, säger Mats Nilsson.

För mer information, kontakta:

Mats Nilsson, HR-chef Holmen Skog

Tel: 070-398 16 01

Två unga kvinnor i ett av Holmen Skogs planteringslag har anmält företaget till Diskrimineringsombudsmannen (DO) då de känt sig sexuellt trakasserade av en säsongsarbetande arbetsledare. DO har beslutat att företräda kvinnorna och stämma Holmen Skog i Arbetsdomstolen.
Categories: News, People

Report of the month - Annual report including sustainability report

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:57:00 GMT

Holmen's Annual report including sustainability report 2011 is featured as Report of the Month on www.reportwatch.net in April 2012. The report is rated A- (for very good) and has been singled out for a number of distinctive features.

Report of the month - Annual report including sustainability report
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Holmen Paper performs customer survey

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:42:00 GMT

Times continue to be challenging for the paper industry and companies throughout our value chain are looking for ways to optimise their business. Some choose to diversify into areas other than paper. At Holmen Paper, we are convinced that paper will continue to be an important part of the media mix also in the future.

In an increasingly tougher business climate, we believe that it is critical to have a close relationship with our customers and to carefully listen to what they have to say. A valuable tool in this respect is the customer survey that we conduct every 2^nd year. One result of our previous customer surveys is our intensified focus on quality improvements. We also have a strong desire to develop new products and this has, amongst other things, resulted in our most recent product; Holmen VIEW which was launched last year.

The market place is undergoing a lot of changes but our passion for paper remains. That is what drives us to constantly develop and adapt our offering to the rapid changes taking place and above all to our customers’ needs.

For the fourth time Holmen Paper performs our biannual customer survey. It enables us to verify whether or not we are on the right track and if not; what we need to change and / or improve.
Categories: News, Holmen Paper, Printing paper

World Book Night April 23rd

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:32:00 GMT

1,000,000 books are given out in total - half of these are donated directly to hospitals, prisons and care homes, and the other half go to Givers to distribute amongst individuals in their communities.

25 titles are specially chosen and printed in their thousands in World Book Night editions. Givers apply to give away a particular book (you get a first, second and third choice) which they must commit to give away to those who don't regularly read to share and spread their love of reading. Each Giver receives 24 copies which they pick up from their local bookshops and libraries - the very heart of our reading communities - in the week before April 23.

Holmen Paper proudly sponsors World Book Night by donating Holmen BOOK-paper for the printing of the special World Book Night editions.

In 2012 World Book Night will be celebrated in the UK, Ireland, Germany and USA on April 23.

It's too late to sign up as a Giver for this years World Book Night, but read more about the upcoming events and how to become a reading ambassador at the World Book Night official website.

World Book Night is a celebration of reading and books which sees tens of thousands of passionate volunteers gift books in their communities to share their love of reading.
Categories: News, Holmen Paper, Printing paper, Products

Catalogues are faster than the internet

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:03:00 GMT

With sales of almost EUR 2 billion and exports to around 100 countries, Jungheinrich AG is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of industrial forklift trucks and material handling equipment. Its flagship products are the world-famous yellow forklifts, but Jungheinrich offers a complete range in the field of intra-logistics, including tailor-made systems for many well known industrial customers.

New customer groups

Traditionally, the focus has been on the needs of large companies, but in recent years Jungheinrich has expanded its business to include small and medium-sized enterprises. This new drive has required brand new marketing channels. The key weapon in the battle for new market share is Jungheinrich’s PROFISHOP, a distance selling concept launched on its domestic German market in 2006. Stefan Wissler, who’s been involved from the start, explains the philosophy behind the launch of PROFISHOP.

“E-commerce really took off in other areas, and we wanted to seize the opportunity to be a pioneer in our own industry. A really effective online store would enable us to reach out to the hundreds of thousands of SMEs in Germany and its neighbouring countries,” states Stefan Wissler.

Print to push online sales

To get the planned online store up and running quickly, Stefan Wissler and his colleagues chose an unconventional solution. In combination with the launch of the online store, they simultaneously poured considerable resources into an ordinary mail order catalogue made of paper!

“We realised that the catalogue would be by far the fastest way of reaching out to the new customer groups. Once we had gained the foothold we needed, we counted on the fact that customers would also discover PROFISHOP on the internet.”

Stefan Wissler admits that at the time, the project group did not know an awful lot about either mail order or online sales, so they had to learn the hard way. However, the idea of using print to push online sales proved a huge hit. As well as getting their new online store quickly established, Jungheinrich saw sales via the paper catalogue grow at a high rate.

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The catalogues and our online store are equally important to us. At the moment, we’re seeing the same growth rate in both sales channels

Thicker and broader

The actual sales figures are being kept under wraps, but what we do know is that every PROFISHOP catalogue since those first days has increased in size, from 140 to today’s 1 100 or more pages. The range has also broadened out considerably. Customers now have 30 000 products to choose from in the catalogue, and if that is not enough, there are another 10 000 available from the online store. In practice, a whole new business has been built up in just six years. Jungheinrich is the industry leader in terms of both catalogues and the internet.

Detailed analysis

Alongside the online store and catalogues, the company also sends out a customer magazine and uses different types of advertising both in print and on the net. Although the company may have the German word for catalogue in its name, there is very much a multimedia focus to its work. The company’s marketing department analyses all the different activities down to the minutest detail. What these analyses show is that customers use the catalogue as a source of inspiration and to gain a general overview, before often turning to the online store to actually place an order. It is also clear that, sitting on the customer’s shelf, the bright yellow PROFISHOP catalogue is an excellent reminder of the Jungheinrich brand.

“The catalogues work extremely well at trade fairs too. We always have a full palette of catalogues on our stand to hand out to visitors. It’s a real high visibility activity,” explains Stefan Wissler.

Focus on cost-efficiency

The focus of senior management is on cost-efficiency, not least when it comes to the resource-intensive catalogues. Publishing such an extensive catalogue in a run of probably some hundred thousand copies is of course a considerable investment. A close eye has to be kept on the core expenses such as printing, paper and distribution, and the company is always on the lookout for smart new solutions.

For 2012, the company decided to print its catalogue on Holmen VIEW, an uncoated printing paper whose qualities are extremely close to those offered by much more expensive papers.

“In addition to the cost benefits, we’re extremely pleased with Holmen VIEW’s printability and in particular the paper’s gloss and good colour reproduction. High quality product images are a must in this type of catalogue,” says Stefan Wissler.

The Netherlands next

Although Jungheinrich has established a strong market position with its catalogues in Germany and Austria, the business is still in a phase of expansion. March 2012 will see the company take an important new step, with the launch of the catalogue and online shop in the Netherlands. The growth strategy is simple. Since the PROFISHOP concept has met everyone’s expectations, they intend to continue on their chosen path.

“The key to success is seeing the catalogue and the online store as a single unit. Each channel supports the other. Of course the range offered by the online store is going to grow most, but the catalogue is just as important. As well as generating its own profitable business, it also drives our online sales,” concludes Stefan Wissler.

About Jungheinrich AG

The Jungheinrich Group is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of industrial forklift trucks and other material handling equipment. The company has four factories in Germany and one in China, plus its own sales offices in around 30 countries. Sales amounted to EUR 2.0 billion in 2011. The Group has over 10 000 employees and is headquartered in Hamburg.

The subsidiary Jungheinrich Katalog GmbH & Co. KG runs distance selling operations via its PROFISHOP catalogues, published in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands, and via the online store www.jh-profishop.de. The company employs 80 people.

Text: Anders Thorén

Photos: Magnus Wahman

Catalogue or online store? Jungheinrich uses both channels to reach new groups of customers. Each has its own benefits, but if the focus is on quickly breaking into a new market segment, catalogues win hands down, according to Stefan Wissler, CEO of Jungheinrich Katalog GmbH & Co. KG.
Categories: News, Holmen Paper, Printing paper, Products

Direct mail top marketing priority

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:06:00 GMT

Changes in technology are driving more effective targeted communication by leveraging data to create better engagement with consumers online and offline, while building deeper and lasting relationships.

SourceLink’s latest Client Marketing and Transactional Document Survey revealed that direct mail is still a top marketing priority for 2012. The findings are based on completed surveys from over 30% of SourceLink’s client base.

Key objectives for 2012 were Customer Retention, ranked number one in the survey, followed closely by Customer Acquisition and Customer Profitability. Over 88% of respondents declared Direct Marketing as the engine in reaching their marketing objectives.

Other key findings include:

Direct mail ranked number one in planned channels for 2012, followed by web/micro-site, email and Social Media. Over 64% of respondents use Social Media to some degree as part of their marketing plan.
Increasingly, marketers recognize the role of modeling and analytics in accomplishing their marketing objectives, as evidenced by over 60% of respondents asserting that they currently leverage customer intelligence or are interested in doing so in 2012.
Recognizing the imperative of multichannel efforts, over 69% of respondents conduct multichannel marketing and over 56% of those consider it an integral part of their marketing strategy. However, only 34% are seeing the results they had hoped for, highlighting the need for a centralized, database approach to optimize multichannel communications.
Over 45% of respondents have considered integrating marketing with transactional customer documents, and over 40% use color personalization in marketing communications or transactional documents.

SourceLink is a top 5 largest privately-held CRM/Direct Marketing Agency and top 3 GPO Supplier. For more information read the full press release.

Source: SourceLink

Direct mail is the top marketing priority for 2012 in the US according to the results of SourceLink's most recent client survey. The survey highlights key trends in marketing services and transactional document processing priorities, as well as challenges and direction for the future.
Categories: News, Holmen Paper, Printing paper, Products

Tillgänglig information om skyddad svensk skog

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:24:00 GMT

Tjänsten visar förutom formella skydd som nationalparker, naturreservat och biotopskydd även bolagens egna skyddade områden – de frivilliga avsättningarna. En samlad bild ges av all skyddad skog som finns hos Holmen, Bergvik, SCA och Sveaskog. Nyckelbiotoperna (områden som enligt Skogsstyrelsens definitioner är särskilt viktiga för den biologiska mångfalden) som ofta ingår i de skyddade områdena redovisas visas också i kartan. Dessutom beskrivs skogsföretagens arbete med exempelvis åtgärdsprogram för hotade arter och naturvårdshänsyn.

Frivilliga avsättningar i Sverige omfattar idag tillsammans närmare 1,3 miljoner hektar skog. Utöver de stora skogsföretagens frivilliga avsättningar finns det ytterligare stora arealer avsättningar på privata skogsägares marker, Fastighetsverket, etc. Totalt är 25 procent av den svenska skogen undantagen från skogsbruk genom olika former av formellt skydd och frivilliga avsättningar.

Historiskt har nästan all skog i Sverige någon gång påverkats av avverkning. Den tidiga gruvbrytningen behövde mycket virke, vi värmde våra bostäder med ved i stor utsträckning fram till mitten av 1900-talet. Jordbruket tog skogen i anspråk för svedjebruk och bete och från mitten av 1800-talet växte en skogsindustri fram i hela Sverige. Från att först ha fokuserat på olika typer av naturhänsyn i samband med avverkningen har skogsbruket sedan början av 1990-talet utvecklat arbetet med den biologiska mångfalden där frivilliga avsättningar är en del.

Resultatet av det frivilliga skyddet är idag tusentals värdefulla avsatta skogsområden. Dessa områden varierar i storlek mellan ett halvt hektar och tusen hektar och innefattar urskogsartade skogar med ett stort antal gamla träd och mycket död ved, äldre lövrika skogar, olika typer av sumpskogar men även andra typer av skyddsvärd skog.

I samarbete med flera andra stora skogsbolag redovisar nu Holmen sitt arbete med biologisk mångfald på ett helt nytt sätt. Genom tjänsten www.skyddadskog.se blir information om skyddade skogsområden i Sverige lättillgänglig för alla.
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Many interests get along in our forests

Wed, 02 May 2012 09:37:00 GMT

Our forest is a place where forestry, reindeer husbandry, hunting, mushroom picking and other outdoor activities get along. In addition, our forest has to provide adequate habitats for diverse flora and fauna. We make major allowances to cater for all these different interests.

Read more about how we manage our forests in Holmen’s Guidelines for Sustainable Forest Management.

Managing the forests and using the products they yield are important factors in efforts to tackle the problem of global warming. Our task is to make commercial use of our forest resources while not jeopardising other values – quite the contrary.
Categories: News, Show on startpage, Holmen, Holmen Skog, About forest, Hållbarhet / Sustainability

Classic initiative made an impact

Mon, 07 May 2012 14:03:00 GMT

The target group for the marketing initiative was those who fly on business or privately, and the intention was to present the advantages of choosing SAS in a light-hearted way. At the same time, it was an opportunity to showcase the company’s broad product offering and a large number of new services. The tool chosen was a customer magazine as an insert with the title En klokare resa (A smarter way to travel).

“We chose print because we had so much that we wanted to tell our customers. If you want to spend a long time with the customer, magazines and newspaper inserts are far superior to the digital channels,” says Ulf Hermansson Samell, head of marketing for SAS in Sweden.

At the same time, Ulf Hermansson Samell at SAS has a complete multimedia strategy, with around 60 per cent in print and the rest in digital and moving media. Exploiting the strengths of the various channels and combining them in a carefully planned way delivers an impact that is greater than the sum of their parts. The company’s measurements confirm that daily press ads, DM and other printed material strengthen the messages in the digital channels and vice versa.

It was thus only natural that the paper version of En klokare resa was also optimised for use on the iPad and in pdf format from the outset. In addition, the launch was preceded by information via electronic DM aimed at those registered in the customer database.

Ulf Hermansson Samell, who has extensive experience of brochure and DM production in the travel industry, stressed from the beginning that En klokare resa would apply the highest quality of graphic craftsmanship. The combination of text, photos, layout, paper, printing and so on would really create interest and attract readers. The job went to DG Communications, which chose to create a 20-page product in magazine format (205x267mm) and print 875 000 copies. As a bonus, SAS included an insert inside its own insert – a poster with a world map on one side and a picture of a flight deck on the other.

The choice of distribution channels was already tried and tested. SAS stuck with the major Swedish daily newspapers Dagens Nyheter, Svenska Dagbladet, Göteborgs-Posten and Sydsvenska Dagbladet, with copies also distributed at airports.

“The approach was normal for a classic newspaper insert. We had a strong message and a clear target group, but we were still surprised at the incredible scale of the impact,” says Ulf Hermansson Samell.

Directly after the launch numerous positive comments came in via email, Facebook, Twitter and so on. As always, SAS had some careful impact measurements taken and the results speak for themselves:

– 1 260 000 people read the magazine (target: 1 000 000)

– Average reading time 14 min (very high for a 20-page magazine with 8 pages of ads)

– 42% of readers went away with a more positive image of SAS (33% is the average for similar campaigns)

– 32% of readers intend to book SAS flights (10% is the average for similar campaigns)

Enclosing the world map also proved a real hit. The measurements show that a huge 490 000 people have kept the map and 163 000 of them have even put it up on their wall. This is the equivalent of an area the size of 13 football pitches! The figures were almost impossibly high, so SAS had them double-checked and they proved accurate.

Over the next few years SAS will be running several campaigns whose key ingredient will be inserts, magazines or other printed material, but always combined with digital and moving media. There is nothing to suggest, in the foreseeable future, that print is going to be any less of a presence in SAS’s total media mix. The airline’s inflight magazine Scanorama, for example, continues to enjoy high readership figures and SAS’s printed direct mail is also achieving excellent results.

“The lesson from En klokare resa is that classic magazines and inserts can still make a major impact. The key is to do it right, with professional graphics and quality on every level,” concludes Ulf Hermansson Samell.

TEXT: Anders Thorén

Source: Power of Print

Amongst all the digital media noise, SAS chose to focus on a classic newspaper insert. Its success was incredible. The number of readers and reading time exceeded all expectations. And most importantly – a third of readers had the impulse to book SAS flights.
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King prawns from Hallstavik

Mon, 07 May 2012 14:06:00 GMT

The company is now seeking investment capital for its continued development. The aim is to start full-scale production during 2014, with an initial focus on the Swedish market.

“We also looked into other farming options, but we decided to focus on king prawns. Market surveys show that consumption is rising and that more and more consumers are looking for responsibly farmed king prawns.”

Up on land

King prawns are currently farmed on a large scale in locations such as Southeast Asia, but production causes considerable damage to the mangrove swamps. Things will be different using the Vegafish process in Hallsta, with Vegafish moving its natural system up onto dry land.

The king prawns are farmed in ponds together with tilapia, a tropical whitefish. The water in the ponds is heated – via a heat exchanger – by wastewater from the mill.

“The water circulates in a closed system, so nothing can escape to contaminate the sea,” explains Matilda Olstorpe.

For the prawns to grow, they do of course require food. Matilda has collaborated with other experts such as Anders Kiessling, professor of aquaculture, to develop a microbial feed. This comprises bacteria and yeasts that thrive on the residual sugars in the process water that leaves the mill. The microorganisms also provide the prawns and fish with protection against disease. What is more, the microorganisms break down excrement and convert it into new, protein-rich fish food.

Waste products become a resource

This exciting project to rear king prawns has its origins in the Hallsta Network, whose aim is to develop the area and attract new employment to Hallstavik. It was in this context that the idea arose of trying to put waste heat from the paper mill to good use.

“Relatively quickly, we came to realise that some form of farming would be a good option. Fish was the first suggestion,” relates Hans Hammarfors, who is an active member of the network.

The farming idea resulted in the network applying for and securing EU funding for a feasibility study. It was then that the SLU and king prawns entered the picture. The team behind Vegafish includes former Holmen employees Bengt Mattson and Tage Sundblom, who know all about the mill’s processes. So 10 000 square metres of the mill site will now host a brand new business that will create new jobs in the area. The Vegafish sign is already in place and the company will soon start converting waste products and matter that is not suitable for human consumption into quality food – in this case something that all sushi lovers and general foodies will be able to enjoy.

Read more about the project at www.vegafish.com

TEXT: Anders Thorén

PHOTO: Lasse Modin

Waste heat and sugars from Hallsta pave way for eco-friendly farming of king prawns. It sounds like a joke, but it is absolutely true. 2012 will mark the launch of a prototype king prawn farm on the industrial site around Hallsta Paper Mill. “We’ve signed an agreement with the mill to use the land and to harness heat from the mill’s process water and residual products from the paper manufacturing,” says Matilda Olstorpe, a microbiology researcher at the Swedish University of Agricultural...
Categories: News, Holmen Paper, Printing paper

Webcast presentation of Interim report January-March 2012

Tue, 08 May 2012 07:53:00 GMT

See and listen to Magnus Hall's presentation of the Interim report for January-March 2012.

Magnus Hall presents Interim report for January-March 2012
Categories: News, Show on startpage, Holmen, Financial, Hållbarhet / Sustainability

Activate your brain – read printed text!

Thu, 10 May 2012 08:47:00 GMT

In collaboration with the Centre for Experimental Consumer Psychology at Bangor University, the Royal Mail in the UK wanted to investigate whether there are any differences in the effectiveness of communications in physical and virtual media, i.e. material versus digital.

The study focused on how the brain processes and reacts to physical marketing material, compared with digital material presented on a screen. To understand and see how the brain reacts to physical and virtual stimuli, the researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to identify, in real time, which parts of the brain were most involved in processing advertising. The participants were presented with existing marketing ads, as well as made up images that were used to prove that physical material is more stimulating than visual material. The material was shown both on screen (virtual/digital) and in paper form (physical) while the MRI scanner was running.

Results

Printed material creates a deeper impression in the brain, since the brain perceives physical material to be more genuine, as it is more easily linked to the memory and thus has greater meaning. Physical material requires more emotional processing, which is important for the memory and brand associations. Printed text increases the brain’s response to the message, which suggests that people relate the given information to their own thoughts and feelings.

In summary, the research clearly shows that printed material prompts greater emotional processing compared with digital material. Printed material is perceived to be more real and can thus be more easily stored in the memory. It also generates more emotions, which should help to develop positive associations towards a brand.

TEXT: Martina Nicklasson / Power of Print

Source: Millward Brown

Virtual media have exploded onto the scene in recent years, while physical media such as print and direct mail have lost ground. Could this shift affect users’ absorption of advertising information?
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Q1 2012 - Demand for paper declines

Mon, 14 May 2012 11:59:00 GMT

The state of the economy

During the first quarter of the year the euro area continued to struggle with a sharply rising unemployment rate and declining private consumption. Industrial production is slowing down, and at the beginning of the year the International Monetary Fund (IMF) adjusted their forecast downward by 1.6 percentage points, now estimating that the eurozone’s economy will contract by 0.5% in 2012. Many European countries, especially hard-hit Greece, will feel the pain of austerity measures for a long time to come despite, or perhaps because of, the European Central Bank’s rescue package, which affects the entire European Union. Higher unemployment leads to lower consumption, which in turn affects export-dependent economies such as Sweden, which had been doing well so far. For Italy, a country surrounded by great uncertainty, the IMF is lowering its forecast and expects a recession there in 2012–2013.

The IMF is adjusting its global growth forecast downward to 3.3% in 2012 and 4.0% in 2012. The US economy has improved, unemployment is declining, private consumption is increasing and the balance of trade is less negative than it has been in a long time. The US central banking system, the Federal Reserve, is repeating its mantra that its benchmark interest rate will remain at its present low level at least until the end of 2014. China is still a powerhouse, even though its first-quarter GDP growth rate of 8.1% was somewhat lower than expected.

Advertising spending

Global advertising investments are expected to rise by 4.8% in 2012 as Asia and Latin America make up for the slowdown in Europe. This forecast from ZenithOptimedia has been revised upward slightly primarily based on two factors: large companies are investing more in marketing, above all brand building advertising; and the risk of a total collapse in the euro area is considered to be reduced, even though the area’s short-term financial results have deteriorated.

Advertising investments in Western Europe are forecast to grow by a modest 1.5%, while investments in Eastern Europe are expected to grow by 6.5% and in North America by 3.6%. The major growth is forecast for Asia at 7.4% and Latin America at 9.2%; their economies are expected to remain strong. The forecast for advertising investments in North Africa and the Middle East has been reduced to 1.0% due to continued political and social turmoil in the region. Zenith expects a gradual but steady increase in marketing investments in 2013 and 2014.

Ten growth markets will be responsible as a group for half of the increase in advertising investments between 2011 and 2014. Moreover the share of investments spent on internet advertising will continue to grow rapidly: in six months internet advertising will make up more than 30% of total marketing investments in 2014.

Advertising investments in newspapers and magazines have declined steadily since 2007, with a brief respite for magazines in 2010. Zenith expects advertising investments in both newspapers and magazines to continue declining by 1% per year between 2011 and 2014. This reduction refers to advertisements in print editions and not to electronic editions or websites, which are categorised as internet advertising. For this reason the prospects for newspaper and magazine publishers aren’t necessarily as gloomy as this figure would indicate if they succeed in developing a successful business model for their electronic media. However paper manufacturers cannot expect newspaper and magazine publishers to increase their consumption of printing paper. Things look brighter for other types of marketing such as direct mail and product catalogues. These marketing channels are not measured in the same way, but so far no obvious structural impact upon them has been discerned, nor is there any discussion of sharply reduced volumes in Europe in the next few years.

Industry structure and capacity

At the end of 2011 UPM closed down the capacity that they announced they would be shutting down immediately after acquiring Myllykoski. This means that at the beginning of 2012, capacity was around one million tonnes lower than at the end of 2011. The capacity closed down was primarily in the magazine paper segment, but they are still able to supply cut-sheet paper since the equipment from the closed Albbruck mill was moved to Plattling. During the quarter UPM also sold its packaging business to Billerud and announced that they would be making a number of investments, such as a combined heat and power plant connected to the Schongau mill, and a biorefinery to produce wood-based biodiesel.

Norske Skog closed the Follum mill at the end of March. Viken Skog, which bought the mill along with its land and some of its equipment, will not be producing printing paper at the facility. Instead, they plan to convert it into a “forest industry centre”. The Follum mill produced book paper, improved newsprint and on-line coated paper (MFC) on two machines with a total capacity of 290 000 tonnes.

Stora Enso has reorganised, and the new business area structure means that on the printing paper side, they’ve combined Newsprint & Book Paper with Magazine Paper and Fine Paper, forming a new area called Printing & Reading. Moreover Stora Enso has reviewed the organisation of its maintenance operations at its Swedish mills in order to improve efficiency and profitability, leading to around 130 jobs being axed. During the quarter the news was also published that Stora Enso will build a paperboard and pulp mill in China, an enormous investment of EUR 1.6 billion.

Russian newsprint producer Solikamsk had previously announced that they would be expanding their newsprint capacity. They were planning to construct a new machine with a capacity of 350 000 tonnes per year to produce newsprint from virgin fibre. Now there are indications that the project has been put on the back burner, and Solikamsk is keeping quiet about it.

Another Russian producer, Kama, shut down its PM 7 machine, which produces LWC paper, in mid-February due to financial problems. The plan was to restart the machine in the middle of March, but it is still idle and will remain so indefinitely.

Another major piece of news during the quarter was SCA’s sale of its packaging operation (except for the two Swedish mills Munksund and Obbola) to the British firm D.S. Smith. The reason was that SCA wants to concentrate more on its tissue paper business. The two Swedish mills were left out of the sale because they are tightly integrated with printing paper manufacturing in Sweden. Furthermore there is great uncertainty about the majority of North American mills, including St. Mary’s Paper and Port Hawkesbury, which manufactures SC paper, newsprint and uncoated wood-containing paper. The mills are closed indefinitely and under the management of a bankruptcy administrator, but they are in the process of finding a new owner.

Market outlook for wood-containing printing paper

Magazine paper

Total European demand for Magazine Paper (MF Magazine, SC and coated wood-containing paper) declined by 4% during the first quarter of 2012 compared with the same period in 2011.

MF Magazine

		(000 tonnes)
	Q1 2011	Q1 2012	Changes
Western European demand	339	315	-7%
Exports from Western Europe	100	94	-6%
Total Wester Europe deliveries	439	409	-7%

	Q1 2011	Q1 2012
Capacity-to-delivery ratio Western Europe	93%	89%

MF Magazine was the grade that did the best in 2011. Demand rose through the third quarter, but then declined in the fourth quarter, and for the full year demand was at the same level as in 2010. The established trend of lower demand has continued in the first quarter of 2012.

In the MF Magazine segment, deliveries of both high-brightness and low-brightness products have declined, but the high-brightness products did somewhat better.

SC paper

		(000 tonnes)
	Q1 2011	Q1 2012	Change %
Western European demand	723	742	3%
Exports from Western Europe	319	306	-4%
Total Western European deliveries	1043	1048	1%

	Q1 2011	Q1 2012
Capacity-to-delivery ratio Western Europe	83%	83%

In the first quarter of 2012 total deliveries of SC paper from Western Europe were essentially unchanged compared with the first quarter of 2011, since Western European demand has risen while exports have declined.

While deliveries of both SC-A+ (the brightest SC grade) and the standard product SC-A declined, deliveries of SC-B (with a recovered paper element and the lowest brightness) rose by 8% during the first quarter of 2012 compared with the first quarter of 2011.

Coated wood-containing paper

In the first quarter of 2012 Western European demand for coated wood-containing paper declined by 8% compared with the same period in 2011, which in turn was a weak quarter compared with the same period in 2010. Deliveries of glossy LWC paper were unchanged during the quarter compared with the first quarter of 2011. However deliveries of both matte LWC paper and MWC paper (high grammage coated), which make up 15% and 20% of the segment respectively, have declined.

It is worth pointing out that the established trend for different printing methods is accelerating: deliveries of coated paper for offset printing are essentially unchanged, while paper for gravure (rotogravure) declined by 10% during the quarter.

The higher capacity utilisation for coated paper in the first half of 2012 versus the same period in 2011 – despite reduced deliveries – is attributable to UPM shutting down its coated capacity, which was equivalent to almost 600 000 tonnes per year.

Book paper

		(000 tonnes)
	Q1 2011	Q1 2012	Change %
Western European demand	84	80	-5%
Exports from Western Europe	27	32	18%
Total Western European deliveries	111	112	0%

Demand for wood-containing book paper declined in 2011 for the first time since this grade began to be accounted for separately. The 4% reduction is due to several likely causes, including e-books and the increased use of digital printing, which reduces the number of overruns. The decline seen in 2011 continued on its established path in the first quarter of 2012.

Newsprint

		(000 tonnes)
	Q1 2011	Q1 2012	Change %
Demand
Western Europe	1797	1627	-9%

Exports from Western Europe	305	370	21%
To North America	6	5	-8%
To Asia	142	208	47%
To Eastern Europe	90	91	2%

	Q1 2011	Q1 2012
Capacity-to-delivery ratio Western Europe	91%	86%

Demand for newsprint declined by 9% in Western Europe during the first quarter of the year, compared with the first quarter of 2011. After the first quarter of 2012 demand in all parts of the world except for Asia and Latin America was lower than in the same period last year. The trend of lower demand in China appears to have turned around as it increased by 14%; however after the first quarter it declined by 7% in India, where demand was previously growing strongly. Japan demonstrated higher demand for newsprint for the first time in a long time, because the country has now recovered from last year’s earthquake.

Imports to Western Europe had risen after two months in 2012, but it is still a matter of low quantities since imports were low in 2011. Exports from Western Europe grew by 20% in the first quarter, with deliveries to above all Asia being greater than during the same period last year. Deliveries to North America have declined.

Capacity utilisation is only 86%, which is lower than in all quarters in 2011.

Telephone directory paper

Western European demand for telephone directory paper declined by approximately 5% in 2011, but it remains unchanged in the first quarter of 2012 compared with the same period last year. It is worth pointing out that European telephone directory publishers’ demand for paper is steadily declining by approximately 20% per year, so paper for other uses is making up for this.

During the quarter Western European capacity utilisation was significantly lower than in the same period last year for all grades that can be manufactured on the same types of machines and are considered “swing capacity”. These grades are book and telephone directory paper, MF Magazine and newsprint.

Western European demand for magazine paper and newsprint, as well as book and telephone directory paper, declined in the first quarter of 2012 compared with the same period in 2011. This is largely attributable to the weak economy in Europe, as well as lower advertising investments in daily newspapers and magazines. Investments in direct mail and product catalogues remain better than in traditional media.
Categories: News, Holmen Paper, Printing paper

New box to be unveiled in Milan

Mon, 14 May 2012 13:09:00 GMT

On 15 May at 18:00, Iggesund will open the doors in Milano.

Please read more about the event and about the Black Box-project.

Having already toured Paris, London, Amsterdam, New York, Hamburg and Stockholm, it’s now time for the project to visit Milano. Where is the next stop?
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Luxe Pack New York

Mon, 14 May 2012 13:31:00 GMT

Come introduce yourself!

Iggesund is participating at
Luxe Pack New York 2012.

Where: Luxe Pack New York
Altman Building & Metropolitan Pavillion

125-135 W. 18th Street

Meet us at booth: D10

Dates: 16 - 17 May 2012

Opening hours: 9:00 am to 6:00 pm

The black box goes red

Wed, 16 May 2012 12:09:00 GMT

In Greek mythology Pandora was created as the first woman. Nishinaka chose to make the box red because in Japan, the homeland of his ancestors, the colour red stands for womankind. Pandora’s curiosity led her to open the box and unleash the evils that plague mankind in the shape of legendary creatures.