The forest industry sets on – invest 28 billion – Svenska Dagbladet

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LRF Konsult have examined the how foresters look at the future. The annual skogsbarometern show very satisfied owners. Despite the fact that the pulp and skogspriserna is still so they believe in the future.

– You own the forests, to manage to the next generation. Once you got into it, and plant three seedlings for every tree you cut down, then you see the cycle, ” says Jimmy Larsson, segmentschef of forestry and farming on LRF Konsult.

He is self-owners, and have just been out and gone in their own forest in the western Kronoberg county. It is a special feeling to base for future generations, ” he explains.

” this time of year, in the fall when the leaves have fallen, then we will see what you need to do in the woods during the winter.

the Feeling he with all of the 350 000 private forest owners around the country. They are comfortable with owning the forest, and 40 percent answer that the just the feeling of owning the is what matters the most. Sure, profitability is also important. But in the forest, the revenue force.

” the Difference with other industries is that the revenue will not running. It felled the forest about once every ten, twenty years.

There is a concern among forest owners, ” he says.

– There are proposals to remove the skogskontot, which means that forest owners can beat out the revenues from harvesting at longer time. Then they consider away most of the time. Most forest owners have so little real estate that they felled, perhaps only every 7:e -100 years.

Companies such as Ericsson, drag down, but the forest industry is increasing.

the Forest products industry, which processes owners, raw material, exports usually around 130 billion a year.

Companies such as Ericsson, drag down, but the forest industry is increasing. So far during the first half of this year the value of exports become 73 billion.

Now, the demand for forest products changed drastically. With the digitization of the newspaper industry will reduce the demand on the newsprint. But at the same time, increasing e-commerce, and demand for paperboard and packaging increases.

– the Forest goes from newsprint to cardboard boxes. Sanitary and toilet paper also increases. I have not seen any other industry that invests so much so fast to set.

the Industry is now investing 28 billion in two years, ” he says. Among other things, making Södra skogsägarna, which is a cooperative owned by forest owners, miljardinvesteringar in their establishments, and private companies as Holmen is plowing down money in order to be able to ask about.

the Forest has been one of Sweden’s basnäringar, and so it is still, like Jimmy Larsson. Most owners of small skogsskiften. The average size of the private owner is 50 acres, about 50 football pitches.

” It’s a good shift, then you can have a certain mix of mature and young forest.

3 million to get an average of 59 hectares of forest. In the north, you get the entire 129 acres for the same sum, and in the far south only 35. Skogspriserna is expected to lie still in the near future.

– Skogsmarkspriserna has increased a lot in recent years. Forest owners, especially the young, think on further rising prices, ” says Jimmy Larsson.