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Timeless in the garden city

Developing new buildings in venerable Bromma Garden City requires careful consideration and thought. In a successful wood construction project, fou...

Renewable energy from the sawmills

The wood industry makes use of the whole log. Setra’s products include sawdust, bark and wood chips that are converted into, among other things,...

Second issue of Working Wood

This year's second issue of our customer magazine Working Wood has arrived. Read and subscribe here.

Forestry with respect for nature

Buffer zones, high stumps and dead wood. In Swedish forests, many different environmental considerations are taken into account during harvesting....

A state-of-the-art planing mill

In Hasselfors, we plan and cut structural timber mainly for export to Europe, USA and Australia. Production is flexible and the range includes raft...

Shop sustainably

“The Building of the Year 2022” is built entirely in wood with the feel of an old-time covered market. The climate-smart ICA grocery store in Sjöbo...

Studies in wood

Almost as far north as you can get, on the edge of the Barents Sea in northernmost Norway, Båtsfjord is eagerly awaiting its new school. A unique,...

Setra supports Bris - Children´s Rights in Society

Setra's management team has decided to support Bris's operations for the next year. Bris stands for Children's rights in society and has an importa...

Wood is wood, right?

Does it matter what species of wood is used for different products? And if so, what determines the different characteristics of the northern specie...

Tall pioneer

At 84 metres, Hoho offers magnificent views over Vienna. The underlying structure that made one of the world’s tallest wooden buildings possible is...

Material for the environment

Borlänge is home to Sweden’s first carbon-neutral house. The choice of building materials has guided the entire design process, which means that th...

At the heart of the action

Helena Lidelöw has devoted her life to wood through a mix of academia, industry and a passion for the material. Now her journey has taken her way o...

Comfortable with wood

Södra Hemlingby in Gävle offers green spaces, exercise trails and great opportunities for recreation, making it a place where many people want to...

An exceptional year for Setra

On the one hand, a stressful pandemic. On the other hand, record global demand for wood products. For Setra, 2021 will go down in history as an...

Where does the wood come from?

Traceability is becoming increasingly important throughout the construction and wood products sector. More and more people want to be sure that the...

Sacred architecture in wood

When Ängby Church needed to expand its premises, wood was the material of choice – but the extension would prove to be a complex project. In a uniq...

Wood and recovery

Can wood indoors have as positive an impact on our well-being as spending time in the forest? This is what researcher Tomas Nord is investigating i...

Stunning views

The incredible view from the tower in Siljansnäs nature reserve has been attracting visitors since the 1930s. Six years ago, the old observation...

Setra donates meeting hall to UN settlement in Kenya

A much-needed meeting hall, built of CLT donated by Setra. The premises have now become a reality in northern Kenya, in one of the world's oldest a...

See Cederhusen, the Bologna block, grow at record speed

Cederhusen will be one of the world's largest wooden housing blocks in an inner city environment. The frame of the second block, Bologna grew at a...

Building at a high level

If you’re building new, build higher and build with wood, says Timber on Top, a collaborative project that promotes sustainable urban development a...

Celebrating the Nobel prize on glulam stages

Three open stages in glulam will be the center of the Nobel Prize Museum's folk festival in Stockholm this autumn. The modules have been designed t...

On the right track towards the future

Rail is the best transport option from the perspective of the climate, and Setra is working in several areas to increase the proportion of rail...

Timber quality ensured for the future

The capacity to deal with and store timber quickly has already become a key issue and with the increasing effects of climate change, the need may...

A new way to build – and a new way to collaborate

Since the start of the project in 2016, Anna Ervast Öberg has played a key role in the design of Cederhusen, working closely with the landowner, th...

With a wooden frame

Architects and structural engineers. Builders and home buyers. Many are following the Cederhusen development in Stockholm with interest, as one of...

Generating a winning corporate culture

Over the past two years, the Setra glulam factory in Långshyttan has been joined by two new, strategic factories – one for wood components and one...

Smart choices in the component factory

Setra’s newly opened factory for door and window components has completed an impressive journey of improvement. In just a short time, we have almos...

Pyrocell's factory has arrived on Swedish soil

Now Pyrocell's new factory has arrived in Gävle in the form of about 30 modules pre-manufactured in the Netherlands. The assembly of the pioneering...

Planed timber finding a home in the UK

With a housing shortage, home DIY growth and a greater demand for wood, the future looks bright for the UK’s wood industry. Swedish raw material ha...

The close relationship we have with Setra is the most important part

Meiken is the largest glulam producer in Japan, and in 2017 they also expanded into cross-laminated timber. Here, Purchasing Manager Yu Nakashima...

In search of greener logistics

Setra's goods are shipped all over the world and our logistics solutions are an important part of the deal, something that became particularly clea...

EPD – easier to compare and make green choices

How a construction product affects the environment during its life cycle is an increasingly important aspect to factor in when building from scratc...

Strong, stronger, strongest

– how strength grading works. As building in wood becomes an increasingly popular choice, demand for strength graded construction timber is also on...

Pandemic sparks new-found love of woodworking

All the extra time spent at home during the coronavirus pandemic has prompted us to do up our homes like never before. Olle Berg, Setra's EVP Marke...

The work environment on a wood construction project

Many of us are familiar with the environmental and financial benefits of building in wood. But did you know that it also improves the work...

Hasselfors planes timber for a global market

There is a growing interest in building in wood. To meet this trend, Setra is expanding its range of construction timber with a major investment in...

Setra supplies timber frames for Cederhusen

Setra is supplying the timber frames for Folkhem’s housing development Cederhusen in Stockholm. With Setra’s crosslam factory now up and running,...

Dear Customer

Every day we are flooded with new reports of the corona pandemic's progress around the world. Countries close their borders, companies introduce...

Ground broken for Sweden’s historic first pyrolysis oil plant for biofuel

On the 23rd of March the first ground was broken for Pyrocell’s plant at Setra’s Kastet sawmill in Gävle. Pyrocell will be manufacturing non-fossil...

Setra's new CEO believes in wood

Everyone should learn more about how wood benefits the climate and society. That’s the firm opinion of Katarina Levin, Setra’s new CEO.

Katarina Levin – new CEO of Setra

Katarina Levin has been appointed the new President and CEO of wood products company Setra. Katarina is currently Vice President Marketing & Sales ...

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What are the implications of Brexit?

Preparing for Brexit is no easy task, because no-one really knows exactly what the UK's exit from the EU will actually be like. But keeping informe...

CLT revolutionises wood construction

In recent years, cross-laminated timber (CLT) has taken on an increasingly prominent role in Swedish construction. And the eco-smart material has a...

Welcome to the super-factory - a giant home for building homes

At Lindbäcks’ new super-factory in Piteå, apartment blocks are built indoors. Walls, floors and roofs are assembled into box units with kitchens,...

Preem and Setra collaborate on renewable fuel

Preem and wood industry company Setra are investigating the possibility of building a joint production facility for the manufacture of pyrolysis oi...

Several forest fires in Sweden

Several forest fires are burning in the area of Färila. So far, the fires have been about two miles from Setra's sawmill. Firefighters are tackling...

A renewable raw material from the coniferous forests of Norrland

Allvar makes underwear from fibres from Swedish pine and spruce forests. Founder Niklas Gilmark got the idea from a company that makes viscose out ...

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