Tuesday, November 18, 2025
Stora Enso is initiating a strategic review of its Central European sawmills and building solutions operations. The review, to be carried out in 2026, will cover one business unit of Wood Products business area, including seven sawmills in Austria, Czechia, Poland, and Lithuania, and further processing units with three cross-laminated-timber (CLT) mills, as well as wood procurement, and international sales and distribution operations.
Whilst the business in scope has a strong position in an attractive market, it does not bring strategic or operational synergies for Stora Enso’s core renewable packaging operations.
As part of the strategic review, Stora Enso will evaluate multiple scenarios for the relevant business and assets—including a potential divestment—to further sharpen its focus on renewable materials and packaging. The synergistic sawmills and processing operations in Northern Europe (Sweden, Finland, Estonia and Latvia) are excluded from the assessment and will continue to play a strategically important role in the company’s future.
Stora Enso is the largest sawn wood producer in Europe and a world leader in providing sustainable wood-based building solutions, including the advanced CLT elements, for the global construction industry. The seven sawmills under the review have a production capacity of about 3 million m³ and offer an extensive range of sawn products and mass timber components. This entity represents approximately 50% of the Wood Products segment’s sales. In recent years, Stora Enso has developed industry leading building solutions, providing innovative concepts, services and a comprehensive portfolio of products to support low-carbon construction.
Stora Enso plans to provide an update on this strategic review in 2026. In the meantime, operations will continue as usual, with an ongoing commitment to delivering high-quality, competitive products and services to customers.
Stora Enso is initiating a strategic review of its Central European sawmills and building solutions operations. The review, to be carried out in 2026, will cover one business unit of Wood Products business area, including seven sawmills in Austria, Czechia, Poland, and Lithuania, and further processing units with three cross-laminated-timber (CLT) mills, as well as wood procurement, and international sales and distribution operations.
Whilst the business in scope has a strong position in an attractive market, it does not bring strategic or operational synergies for Stora Enso’s core renewable packaging operations.
As part of the strategic review, Stora Enso will evaluate multiple scenarios for the relevant business and assets—including a potential divestment—to further sharpen its focus on renewable materials and packaging. The synergistic sawmills and processing operations in Northern Europe (Sweden, Finland, Estonia and Latvia) are excluded from the assessment and will continue to play a strategically important role in the company’s future.
Stora Enso is the largest sawn wood producer in Europe and a world leader in providing sustainable wood-based building solutions, including the advanced CLT elements, for the global construction industry. The seven sawmills under the review have a production capacity of about 3 million m³ and offer an extensive range of sawn products and mass timber components. This entity represents approximately 50% of the Wood Products segment’s sales. In recent years, Stora Enso has developed industry leading building solutions, providing innovative concepts, services and a comprehensive portfolio of products to support low-carbon construction.
Stora Enso plans to provide an update on this strategic review in 2026. In the meantime, operations will continue as usual, with an ongoing commitment to delivering high-quality, competitive products and services to customers.
About Stora Enso
Stora Enso works with people and in communities all over the world through their operations, sales and supply chains. In each and every step they take, Stora Enso considers their actions and their impact on others.
Their purpose “Do good for people and the planet. Replace non-renewable materials with renewable products” underpins their belief that everything that can be made with fossil-based materials today can be made from a tree tomorrow, and highlights Stora Enso’s opportunity to contribute to a greener economy.
Wood fibre-based products store carbon and can also replace non-renewable materials such as plastic, glass, steel, concrete and fossil fuels. With global warming, growing populations, urbanisation, changing life styles and eco-awareness, trees can be a big part of the solution for customers and their consumers towards a sustainable bioeconomy.
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