Forest and energy, industries view

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Forest and energy, industries view

• Introduction
• European Forest Week, Rome October 22
• Mikael Eliasson/Chairman Cei-Bois

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Our challenges
Competitiveness market
Raw material, availability, price
FBI
Energy, availability and price
Environmental performance
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Our industry, in Europe

• Represents close to 10 of total value creation
  in Europe
• Brings sustainable products to consumer and
  society
• Employ some 3 Million people
• More than 200 000 companies of which many are
  SMEs
• Is vital for rural regions and their economy
• Comprises world-leading companies among
  forest-products producers, suppliers and
  consultancies.
• Enjoys global technological leadership and
  occupies leading reserch position at
  international level
• Is the leading player in bio energy and rapidly
  growing
• Provide an efficient infrastructure for an
  increased bio- energy market

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Vision 2030

• The European forestbased sector plays a key
  role in a sustainable society.
• It compries a competetative, knowledgebased
  industry that fosters the extended use of
  renewable forest resources.
• It strives to ensure its societal contribution
  In the context of a bio-based, consumerdriven and
  globally competitive European economy

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The total energy consumption in EU
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Forest based Industry, a complex structure
working well together

• The raw material is well used in the complex,
  but well functioned clusters of different
  industries. A market based allocation guaranties
  best possible value- and job creation. The
  emerging energy sector is alreday an important
  part of the FBI
• Important
• An open market
• Clear and fair
  
  policies
• Incentives for
  
  users to pick the
  
  environmentally
  best
  option

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Impacts on FBI of an increased use of biomass
for energy production

• Europe's forests and biomass capacity can not
  alone meet or replace the present usage of non
  renewable energy sources
• Desperate shortcut flows of industrial usable
  raw material to energy production could
  jeopardise long term value creation and job
  opportunities
  - - By decreasing the efficiency of an well
  working infra-structure of an diversified
  industry sector
• A logic and constructive approach where the
  industry has the lead will efficiently increase
  the output of energy-production and as well as
  energy products.

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Conclusions

• The forest based industry is a vital part of a
  true sustainable development
• It is important to have a holistic view on the
  sector when evaluate the sustainability
  performance.
• The forest industry is by far the biggest
  producer and user of biomass based energy and a
  natural integrator and driver of an increased use
  of bio-energy
• The different value chains are in many cases
  integrated and to an large extent recyclable
• We advocate an balanced use of our forests aiming
  to optimize the economic, social and
  environmental aspects

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