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1 sources; in any event the pulp.
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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.
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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".
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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.
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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.
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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.
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50 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Which year is that?
51 A. This is 1992.
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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 -----
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57 MR. MORRIS: Pulp and Paper Association?
58 A. A publication by Skogsindustrierna.
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60 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, this is one I do not have, I think.
