Södra Cell Tofte
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Södra Cell Tofte is a pulp mill
Pulp mill
A pulp mill is a manufacturing facility that converts wood chips or other plant fibre source into a thick fibre board which can be shipped to a paper mill for further processing. Pulp can be manufactured using mechanical, semi-chemical or fully chemical methods...
located in Tofte
Tofte
Tofte is a village in the municipality of Hurum, Norway. The village has 3,045 inhabitants as of 1 January 2009.Tofte is best known for Södra Cell Tofte, a pulp factory in the middle of Tofte, and Hurum factories that make paper. The major industry in Tofte is the Södra Cell Tofte paper mill. In...
, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
. The plant has been owned by Södra Skogsägarna since 2000 when it bought the plant from Norske Skog
Norske Skog
Norske Skogindustrier ASA or Norske Skog, which translates as Norwegian Forest Industries, is a Norwegian pulp and paper company based in Oslo, Norway and established in 1962...
. The raw material used at the plant is from eucalyptus
Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus is a diverse genus of flowering trees in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. Members of the genus dominate the tree flora of Australia...
, pine and spruce. The product is pulp which is used for fine paper. Annual production is 400,000 tonnes, of which 70% is exported. The plant dates back to 1899 when Tofte Cellulosefabrikk was founded. It was called Norske Skog Tofte while owned by Norske Skog.