{"id":75405,"date":"2018-03-27T11:48:19","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T11:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tin.happy-projects.ro\/swedish-finnish-giant-forest-companies-risk-due-climate-change\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T08:47:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:47:46","slug":"swedish-finnish-giant-forest-companies-risk-due-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timberindustrynews.com\/ro\/swedish-finnish-giant-forest-companies-risk-due-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish and Finnish giant forest companies at risk due to climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"

The forest floors below the Arctic circle are starting to melt, as the unusually\u00a0mild winters are turning once icy grounds into thick layers of mud, which can swallow the\u00a025 tonne vehicles that harvest the woods in the area.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

According to the\u00a0foresters who work the land in Finland and Sweden, the machines that harvest the materials which\u00a0go into pulp, paper and packaging are in danger of being washed down by the Arctic Ocean waters.<\/p>\n

\"We will see more and more of these difficult conditions<\/em>,\" Uno Brinnen, head of forestry at Sweden's BillerudKorsnas AB, said in an interview. \"It will always shift between warm and cold winters, but the long-term trend seems clear.<\/em>\"<\/p>\n

According to the Business Times, temperatures across large swathes of Sweden were as much as 3 deg C higher than normal in December and January, as reported by the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI). That warming forms part of a trend that is likely to persist, according to SMHI, whose scientists expect temperatures to continue rising over the next six decades because of climate change.<\/p>\n

The travails increasingly experienced by Nordic foresters underscore the economic impacts of climate change. Even so, many\u00a0countries and companies in the region are being forced to adopt new ways of conducting traditional business.<\/p>\n

For Swedish and Finnish companies such as BillerudKorsnas, Holmen AB, Stora Enso Oyj and UPM-Kymmene Oyj, the changing climate poses major challenges because if the ground does not freeze enough to support the heavy vehicles used for harvesting, companies cannot get to the raw materials that they need to do business year round.<\/p>\n

\"The high water levels after the wet and mild autumn and winter creates a tough situation for the wood supply<\/em>,\" Sweden's largest forest-owner association, Sodra AB, said in January, when it opted to harvest closer to major public roads in order to minimize the risk of driving over mushy woodlands.<\/p>\n

The economic stakes are high. Forest industry products have for centuries been a pillar of the Swedish and Finnish economies.\u00a0Exports of such goods accounted for 10 per cent of Sweden's total exports last year and 22 per cent of Finland's in 2016. The combined value of the forestry to the two Nordic countries is about 24 billion euros (S$38.9 billion), The Business Times reported.<\/p>\n

\"The root cause of the shortage of pulp wood is the unusually wet and mild start of the winter,<\/em>\" said Swedish packaging giant BillerudKorsnas in January.<\/p>\n

BillerudKorsnas gets 75% of its raw material from the Swedish forests. The company announced that the warmer weather caused shortages in late 2017 and early 2018, resulting in an estimated negative impact of as much as 100 million kronor (S$16 million) on Q1\/2017 earnings. Also,\u00a0BillerudKorsnas started to scan its forests with lasers to map out more sensitive areas and to try to find stable routes through woodlands, even when they are wet.<\/p>\n

The company has also found a solution, by using bigger wheels and rubber tracks on some machines to reduce the damage that they cause to the ground and forest growth, another problem stemming from the milder weather.<\/p>\n

\"Winters have started later in large parts of our world, and it's a lot of wood we want to get hold of when the grounds are frozen,<\/em>\" Stora Enso chief executive officer Karl-Henrik Sundstrom said. \"It's something I think we have to get used to, work with and even adjust our harvest cycles<\/em>.\"<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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