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- Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget SCA (publ) (SCA-B.ST) operates as Europe's largest private forest owner, managing 2.7 million hectares of productive forestland primarily in northern Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania; it develops, manufactures and markets renewable products including sawn wood and processed wood products from five sawmills and two planing mills, bleached softwood kraft pulp and chemi-thermomechanical pulp (CTMP) from mills at Ortviken and Östrand, kraftliner containerboard and packaging paper from facilities at Munksund and Obbola, forest-based biofuels, liquid biofuels from a joint venture biorefinery in Gothenburg with St1, solid biofuels such as pellets and lignin, green electricity and district heating; the company also provides forest management services to other owners, hunting and leisure opportunities, wind power leases and comprehensive logistics solutions for sea and land transport across Europe and overseas markets. SCA organizes its activities across five segments—Forest, Wood, Pulp, Containerboard and Renewable Energy—supported by sourcing and logistics operations, serving building material trades, packaging manufacturers, pulp buyers and energy markets primarily in Sweden, Europe including the UK and Germany, the United States, North Africa, Asia and other international regions. Founded on November 27, 1929 and headquartered in Sundsvall, Sweden, SCA employs approximately 3,450 people and reported net sales of SEK 20.2 billion for 2024. In recent developments, SCA commissioned a new CTMP mill at Ortviken and a new paper machine at Obbola to enhance pulp and containerboard competitiveness; it continues operations at the Gothenburg biorefinery for advanced liquid biofuels, invests in wind power projects on its land and launched the fossil-free icebreaking tug M/S Drake in October 2025 to support port logistics in Sundsvall.