Moelven’s Timber Division produces sawn timber, from locally cut pine and spruce. In 2008, around 2.8 million cubic metres of timber were processed into 1.4 cubic metres of sawn timber.
Clients are primarily industrial businesses that use timber products as components in their own production. Sawn timber is used for construction and interior products in housing and other structures, in addition to furniture, flooring, mouldings, panels and windows and for packaging timber and glulam. In addition, Timber produces large quantities of biomass energy products such as cellulose chips, dry chips, shavings and bark.
12 sawmills in Norway and Sweden
Moelven Timber comprises 12 sawmills , a planing mill, a component factory and a company which trades sawmill machinery and equipment. The production units are located in Southeast Norway and Central Sweden. At the start of 2009, Timber had a total of 803 employees: 252 in Norway, 544 in Sweden and seven in other countries. The total annual turnover was MNOK 2,472.
Specialisation and development
Timber has many small clients, but also major global clients. We are increasingly focusing on specialisation and development of concepts in order to meet the individual needs of the various client groups.
Around 60 percent of production is sold within Scandinavia, which is Timber’s main market. Important export markets for Timber include Great Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan and North Africa, in addition to smaller volumes to some other markets.
The main industrial clients within wood processing consist of planing mills, glulam factories, window manufacturers, flooring factories and packaging material manufacturers. Around 15 percent of the timber produced is sold for further processing to other companies within the Group.
Rising demand for bio-fuels
Timber’s chip, shaving and bark products are sold to regional pulp and paper producers, and to the chipboard industry, bio-fuel industry and district heating producers. Environmental considerations are becoming increasingly important, a trend which means that interest in bio-energy is steadily rising.
Local raw materials
The timber that is used by Timber’s sawmills is primarily obtained from forests in the local area. In both Norway and Sweden, the timber primarily comes from private forest owners and is purchased through forest owner companies, sales companies and forest enterprises.
Raw materials constitute a major part of the total production costs, and our units are constantly working to maximise the financial return from every log.
Timber is the material of the future
Timber is both a renewable raw material and environmentally friendly with unique properties that help to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. Timber is both light and strong and is increasingly able to replace other materials, thereby reducing the overall impact on the environment. Growing environmental awareness and increasing demands for environmentally sustainable products and production methods combined with further product development will gradually result in an increase in the demand for timber as a material for construction and interior fittings.