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The company’s works had been established at Slottsbron, where a good supply of wood
could be relied upon from the basin of the Fryken Lakes by the river Norsalven and also
from Lake Varmeln and other lakes. There was a railway connection, by the
Bergs-lagernas Railway, with Gothenburg. Billerud and Slottsbron, although under the same
manager and partly also with shareholders in common, had been run as independent
concerns until they were combined in 190(1. No forests-lands were inclued in this purchase.
In 1907 Billerud took over the Ilillringsberg Company, Ltd., the manager of
Hill ringsberg, Mr. Chr. Storjohann, at the same time being given the management of
the entire Billerud concern. By the purchase of Hillringsberg, Billerud also solved its
power question. Hillringsberg (situated on the Glafs Fjord to the north of Stomne)
owned about 36,500 acres of forests and also possessed multifarious and well developed
industries. There were a couple of wood grinding mills, a power station, a large
sawmill, a flour-mill and a number of large waterfalls, which had been built out. The
company had worked itself up into a good concern and therefore was in a position
to assist Billerud in the work of reorganization that was to follow.
In 1911 the shares in the Stomne Sulphite Manufacturing Co., Ltd. were acquired,
thus eliminating one of the chief competitors on the water-course. This company had
a factory for the manufacture of sulphite pulp which, however, was immediately
reconstructed for the production of sulphate.
By those acquisitions the company secured considerable forest-estates in West
Vermland, namely along the courses of the rivers Byiilven and Norsalven. In 1915
the company made an acquisition which brought with it large forest-estates in East
Vermland and the neighbouring parts of Dalecarlia and in the basins of the rivers
Klaralven and Svartalven. In the said year the Riimen-Liljendahl Company, Ltd.
was taken over with its 45.000 acres of forests.
In 1916 the Bosjon Works in the neighbourhood of Filipstad, in East Vermland,
were also purchased with their 18,300 acres.
In 1917 the Jossefors, Salboda and Charlottenberg Companies, Ltd, in the most
westerly parts of Vermland and chiefly in the basin of the river Byiilven, were purchased.
79,300 acres of forests were included in this acquisition. The next acquisition was
the Gustaf Hallgren Wood-goods Company, Ltd., who owned the Gruvon Saw-mill in
the parish of Grums on Lake Venern. This transaction took place in 1919.
Finally, in 1920 the majority of the shares in the Borgvik Company, Ltd. with
the appendant Kyrkebyns Sulphite Co., Ltd., was purchased. This company owned
about 45,000 acres of wooded land, in the neighbourhood of the company’s older woods.
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