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     1        sources; in any event the pulp.
     2
     3   MR. MORRIS:  Would you like to comment?
     4        A.  Yes, I would like to comment.  You have a reference
     5        there.  It is a small booklet from Finland which would be
     6        useful.  In the back of it you will find a flow chart
     7        showing where timber goes in.
     8
     9   Q.   If I can hand it to you, you can identify it.  This is
    10        reference No. 7, Sustainable Forestry, the Swedish view
    11        from Skogsindustrierna 1993, Swedish Pulp and Paper
    12        Association publication.
    13        A.  This is a page which is headed "Supply of Raw
    14        Materials".
    15
    16   Q.   Can you say the page number?
    17        A.  The page number is 45 and we are looking at the diagram
    18        at the top.  It is headed "Supply of Raw Materials" and it
    19        is 1992.  They are taking basically a figure of 53 in round
    20        figures, 53 mill cubic metres, of timber out of the forest
    21        that year; of that, 4 million cubic metres is fuelwood.
    22        About half of what remains goes to the sawmill, and half of
    23        what remains goes to the pulpmills; but then of the stuff
    24        that goes to the sawmills a large amount of that then later
    25        goes into the stream at the pulpmill.
    26
    27        So, if you actually look at what finally happens at the
    28        right-hand side of the page, you will see that of the stuff
    29        not used for fire wood, sawn timber is 16 million cubic
    30        metres and the pulp industry takes 41.5 million cubic
    31        metres.  In other words, the pulp industry is taking, let
    32        us say, roughly two and a quarter to two and a half times
    33        the amount of timber that is going to the construction
    34        industry.
    35
    36   Q.   This is in Sweden?
    37        A.  In Sweden.  I also -- this is for the whole of Sweden
    38         -- I did, in fact, get the figures for Stora, which is the
    39        largest timber and paper company in Sweden, and there again
    40        the same thing happened; about half went immediately to the
    41        sawmill and half went to the pulpmill.  But then from the
    42        sawmill, a lot of stuff is going back into the pulp
    43        stream.
    44
    45        So, I think both for an individual company like Stora and
    46        the figures shown here, show that, in fact, the intensively
    47        managed forests of Sweden are primarily going to the pulp
    48        industry and paperboard.
    49
    50   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Which year is that? 
    51        A.  This is 1992. 
    52 
    53   Q.   The figures are 1992 year figures, are they?
    54        A.  It says:  "Supply of raw material to the forest
    55        products industry, 1992", and the publication is -----
    56
    57   MR. MORRIS:  Pulp and Paper Association?
    58        A.  A publication by Skogsindustrierna.
    59
    60   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, this is one I do not have, I think.

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