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Tunadal sawmill inaugurates new saw line

 Wednesday, December 28, 2016

tunadalOn Thursday November 17, the new saw line at Tunadal sawmill was inaugurated amid pomp and ceremony, with over 300 guests in attendance.

 

Following a tour of the new facility, the guests listened to speeches by County Governor Gunnar Holmgren and Ulf Larsson, President of SCA Forest Products. The ceremony ended with a spectacular light show.

 

Over 300 guests, including customers from around the world and employees, gathered at Tunadal sawmill to attend the inauguration of one of Europe’s most modern sawmills.

 

“Tunadal was Sweden’s first steam-powered sawmill and was the springboard for the dynamic development of the forest industry in northern Sweden. More than 150 years later, Tunadal sawmill is still a flagship of the Swedish forest products industry and, along with the rest of the industry, places the highest possible value on the region’s most important natural resource,” said County Governor Gunnar Holmgren in his introduction.

 

Ulf Larsson, President of SCA Forest Products, added:

“Step by step, we have invested a total of SEK 1.3 billion to make Tunadal sawmill the internationally competitive facility it has to be to create the highest possible value from our forest raw material so we can support SCA’s other forest products operations in the region and be a flagship for our solid wood products business.”

 

The new facility is both highly cost-efficient and energy-efficient.

 

“We utilise seawater for cooling and also make use of heat recovery. Energy for drying comes from the close collaboration between our own industry and Sundsvall Municipality’s energy system which, overall, makes for a highly energy-efficient solution,” explained Ulf Larsson.

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