Svenska Cellulosa AB history, profile and corporate video

 Svenska Cellulosa AB is engaged in the development and production of hygiene and forest products. It operates through the following business areas: Personal Care, Tissue, and Forest Products. The Personal Care business area includes incontinence care products, baby diapers, and feminine care products. The Tissue business area comprises consumer tissue and Away-From-Home (AFH) tissue for hospitals, large workplaces, restaurants and hotels. The Forest Products business area sells publication papers, packaging papers, pulp, solid-wood products and renewable energy. The company was founded in 1929 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.“

“SCA History

SCA’s history – an overview

• 1929
  SCA is founded through a merger of some ten Swedish forest companies.
• 1930-1949
  Production is focused on paper pulp. The pulp mill in Östrand is built.
• 1950
  SCA is listed on the stock exchange.
• 1950-1959
  SCA starts producing newsprint and builds a paper machine in Ortviken (1958). Production is confined to Sweden, but exports increase.
• 1960-1974
  Kraftliner production starts. Development continues with acquisitions and the build up of corrugated board plants in Sweden and the rest of Europe.
• 1975
  SCA lays the foundations for its personal care operations with acquisition of the Swedish company Mölnlycke.
• 1975-1999
  Publication paper operations are expanded. SCA acquires the Italian packaging company Italcarta. Operations are started in Latin America.
• 1990
  Acquisition of the British company Reedpack makes SCA the European leader in transport packaging.
• 1995
  SCA becomes Europe’s leading personal care products company following acquisition of PWA of Germany.
• 2001
  Acquisition of Georgia-Pacific Tissue and Tuscarora gives SCA a strong position in North America in Away-from Home (AFH) tissue and protective packaging.
• 2004
  SCA becomes the largest player in tissue and personal care products in Australasia through company acquisitions.
• 2007
  SCA sells its North American packaging operations, and acquires Procter & Gamble’s European tissue business. 2007 was also starting point for the extensive wind power investments in cooperation with Norwegian Statkraft.
• 2008
  SCA delisted from the London Stock Exchange.
• 2009
  SCA acquires – through its Colombian joint venture – Algodonera Aconcagua, one of the largest players in feminine care in Argentina.
• 2010
  SCA acquires Copamex baby diaper business in Mexico and Central America, and sells its Asian packaging operation.
• 2011
  SCA is acquiring the Brazilian hygiene products company Pro Descart and 95 percent of San Saglik, a Turkish company in incontinence. SCA and Pacific Equity Partners form a joint venture in Australasia and SCA acquires 50 percent of Turkish hygiene products company Komili.
• 2012
  SCA divests its entire packaging operations to DS Smith UK and acquires Georgia-Pacific’s European tissue operations, the Asian hygiene company Evergreen Beauty and the remaining 50 percent of the Chilean hygiene company PISA (Papeles Industriales SA).
• 2013
  SCA introduces an updated company logotype. Becomes majority shareholder in the Chinese tissue company Vinda, established operations in India and divested the publication paper mill in Laakirchen, Austria.

*Information from Forbes.com and Sca.com

**Video published on YouTube by “SCA“