SEB Enskilda lowers recommendation of the SCA in a market letter dated 17 March. The new target price is set to 105 SEK from 114 SEK.
Over the years it has been shown that an increasing number of environmental objectives such as Sweden have set up is very difficult or impossible to reach. Several of the 16 national environmental objectives have proved to be difficult or even impossible to reach. The Swedish Government now wants to reduce its environmental goals and lower the requirements for how to achieve an environmental objective, writes Swedish Radio Ekot.
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Former Prime Minister of Sweden socialdemocrat Göran Persson has been elected to the Board of Directors of the think tank - World Resources Institute (WRI). Read more
Right now copyprint is a service that everyone wants to sell. Printing has become a costly area for IT operations. A study from Harward business school finds that the average business spends between 3% and 8% of their annual revenues for printed material, this cost accounts for the actual printed work, including the printing. IDC estimates the cost of printing and copying between 412 Euro and 1031 Euro per employee per year in Sweden. Read more
It is time for a new tree standard. Stockholm is Europe's first green capital and the City Council will take decisions on a new master plan. The conservative majority in the City Hall want to include new planting of one tree for each newly built home. On a four years period this means 15 000 new trees. Read more
Thermal properties of a building component is an emerging concept in the construction industry and more and more designs should be moisture-proof. Moisture is complicated to calculate and therefore it is easier to use a calculation program which aids. Wufi is such moisture calculation software.
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New regulation from IMO will mean a drastic increase in transport costs for business community in Northern Europe, and especially for base industries. The decision is likely to have "disastrous effects" for Swedish forest industry according to the organization Swedish forest industry. Read more
2010-03-11 | Handelsbanken Nordic Basic Industry Seminar
Handelsbanken Nordic Basic Industry Seminar
Speaker: Jan Johansson, President and CEO SCA
Södra has purchased six ENERCON E-82 wind turbines through its subsidiary Södra Vind AB. The turbines are to be constructed at Södra Cell’s Mönsterås pulp mill. Read more
The major cost items for many pulp companies are electricity and raw materials. Refineries that convert wood chips into paper pulp are large consumers of electricity since it is a complex process to separate the wood fibers. The spot price during February 2010 was almost 100% higher than the corresponding period in 2009. Price trends in daily average in the Nordic countries and Germany during the peaked with over 500 Euro / Mvh. Read more
