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UDDEHOLMS AKTIEBOLAG
(THE UDDEHOLM COMPANY, LTD.)
THE greater number of the Wood Goods Industries that are situated in the mining
districts of “central” Sweden, as it is called, owe their origin to ancient iron
manufacturing works, the history of which, in many instances, dates back a number
of centuries.
These old ironworks needed large quantities of charcoal for the production of their
pig iron and steel. In order to assure themselves of a constant supply, they began,
at a very early date, to acquire forest estates. The Swedish mining districts are, as
a whole, situated in distinctively wooded country, and the various ironworks found
no difficulty, therefore, in becoming the owners of immense forest estates in their
immediate vicinity.
Although these areas of timber-land were, in the beginning, purchased with a view
to the production of charcoal, they have, in our days, become of essentially far greater
importance for the ironworks, but in quite a different way to that first intended.
With the increasing value of forest products the forests ceased to be merely a source
of raw material for the iron manufacture, and became an object of independent
administration and productive aims of the very greatest importance. In a word: by
the help of the timber procured from these forests there has sprung up in connection
with many of the ancient ironworks, a most extensive Wood Goods- and Wood Pulp
Industry. In certain cases this new branch has actually become the leading factor in
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