This
family run company was founded in 1943 by the father and grandfather of
the present managing director, Mr. Christer Karlsson. The company is
situated in Frödinge, in the north-eastern part of Småland, an area
close to good supplies of quality pine and spruce raw materials from the
renowned Vimmerby district.
We cater for everything
from harvesting to the mill with our own harvesting, forwarding and
transport machinery. Our catchment area has a radius of roughly 50 km.
The species mix is about 60% spruce and 40% pine of an annual production
of 45.000 m3 sw. We mill both large and sall diametre logs
in our two reducer bandsaw lines. The main part of production is set for
producing panels and construction timber as well as furniture grade
pinewood. Since the availability of top quality raw materials is high
there is capacity to produce unedged high grade pine for the joinery
industries.
To dry our timber we use two through kilns
and two chamber kilns. This gives us the flexibility to dry to costumer
specification right down to 8% mc. We plane as much as possible our
timber. Planing takes place in our dry rip and planer line where we
process construction and panel timber some 16.000 m3 p.a. We also
prepare timber for pressure impregnation. 95% of our present production
is exported with major clients being in Europe. A lot of the planed
timber goes to German and British markets and furniture timber to
Denmark. However, we do export to countries outside of Europe, such as
Australia and some of the Arab states.
| Owner |
|
The Karlsson family |
| MD |
|
Mr. Christer Karlsson |
| No. employees |
|
33 st |
| Turnover |
|
65 million SEK |
| Capacity |
|
45.000 m3 sw/p.a. |
| Saw equipment |
|
Reducer bandmill |
| Drying equipment |
|
Through and chamber kilns |
| Further processing |
|
Planing |