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Karl Hedin is a family-owned business and one of Scandinavia’s largest sawmill operators and specialist wood packaging companies. The diverse forestry trading group has manufacturing facilities in Sweden and Estonia. Its raw material division supplies its Swedish sawmills with timber, and the sawmills subsequently supply the packaging factories and planing mills with sawn timber. In turn, the company’s planing mills supply builders’ merchants with construction, impregnated and primed timber products.

The Karl Hedin Group was founded at the beginning of the 1900s and has grown to become one of Sweden’s largest and most respected forestry products companies with over 850 employees and a turnover of approximately SEK 2.8 billion. The company also has a chain of 33 builders’ merchants located throughout Sweden. In addition, it has also been involved in sawmill production in the Baltic States since the 1990s.

Today the Karl Hedin Group operates five specialist packaging plants in central Sweden with its main focus on the production of pallets for the forestry industry. The company also supplies pallets and boxes for the steel and manufacturing industries, where it has the capacity to produce both large and heavy packaging items.

Know-how and the latest technology

Karl Hedin has always strived to get as much value as possible out of the timber that it processes, which is one of the reasons why forest owners stay so loyal to the company. Over the years, Karl Hedin has accumulated extensive experience in the forestry sector and its knowledge stretches back many generations. The company’s strength lies in its ability to combine old forestry knowledge and principles with new knowledge and technology. In addition, Karl Hedin has its own team of designers and it plans to strengthen these further as well as its sales organisation with more design competence and drawing capacity. The company also offers its customers a range of IT connections for more efficient ordering and invoicing.

The company produces a wide range of timber products and by-products. This includes roof trusses, which are produced at its Rattvik factory where a number of standard designs are produced although specially designed roof trusses can also be made to order at the plant. Construction timber plays a big part in the company’s product portfolio with joists of varying sizes as well as tongue and groove products being manufactured, all of which are planed by AB Karl Hedin. The company’s impregnated assortment includes a large number of decking boards, and all these products are pressure-treated with a solution that does not contain either the traditional harmful chrome or arsenic constituents.

Internal and external panelling is another product that is manufactured by Karl Hedin,

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and production is carried out in accordance with strict Swedish building standards with a wide range of profiles available. An important by-product made by the company is Stable Litter, which is clean and dust free and made from wood shavings collected from its planning mills. This product is packed and sold in bales.

Diversity in sawmill production

AB Karl Hedin operates three dedicated sawmills in Sweden at Karbenning, Krylbo and Sater. Here it has the means to process the whole tree handling operation for both small and large diameter logs. In Sater the company processes large pine logs of the highest quality and in Karbenning it processes both standard pine timber as well as spruce for construction timber products. Whilst in Krylbo it processes pine and spruce blocks in smaller dimensions of up to three metres wide, which are also used for construction applications. As a result of its wide product mix, the company can maximise the timber yield and therefore increase forest owners’ returns compared to those harvesting timber only for wood pulp production purposes.

At its specialised sawmill in Toftan, Estonia, the company specialises in pine timber and processes all lengths of pine up to 40cm in diameter. The key products manufactured include joinery timber, glue-jointed goods and construction products for both its domestic and export markets.

Flexible wood packaging

AB Karl Hedin is one of Sweden’s largest manufacturers of specialist wood packaging products and operates five modern plants in central Sweden. At its Skultuna packaging plant the company produces packaging products made of wood, cardboard and different types of laminate. Two of the main products manufactured are barrier bags and ply-boxes. The barrier bags are made of laminated plastic either alone or in combination with aluminium. The Skultana factory uses VCI-based material, which is a material that provides excellent protection against corrosion. This forms a perfect barrier that provides the protection that guarantees that the product will reach the customer in the same condition as when it left the factory.

The company’s ply-box product is made of plywood and comes folded for easy mounting for the packing or shipping of products. The ply-box is available in different styles, from composite to moveable sides or ends and with a thickness of six or eight millimetres. n

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