Welcome to Norway and Lunner Almenning

Program

1

Norwegian forestry• Numbers

• Forest ownership

• Forestry organization

• Forestry entrepreneurship

• Log market

2Lunner Almenning • The history

• Today, number and facts

• The forest and wildlife

• The organization

3Lunch

• Aprox. Kl 1200

4Fieldtrip• Forest• Harvester• Forwarder

Where are we ?

Forest and forestry by numbers in Norway

• Norway has a land area aprox. 32,4 mill. hectare

• Forest area aprox. 13,4 mill. hectare

• Productive forest aprox 8,3 mill. hectare

• Harvesting 9 mill. cubic meter

• Balance quantity 25 mill. cubic meter

• 47% Spruce- 32% Pine- 21% Leaf/others

Forest ownership

Private 77 % (120 000 properties)

Companies 7,5 %

State of Norway 10 %

Allmenninger 5,5 % ( Forest of the common)

Values

• 5600 employments (Forest, industry etc.)

• 400 mill. Euro first hand value.

• Gross production value 3,6 billion Euro

Forest owner organizations

The Norwegian Forest Owners’ Federation was founded in 1913, and is the central organisation for six regional cooperatives. The regional cooperatives cover almost the whole of Norway and represent about 36 000 family forest owners, with a market share of approximately 80 percent of the timber market.

Other organizations:

Value chainOrder-based Services, massages

Bill , invoices& Reports, messages

Timberbyers, typical

Sawlogs: Pulp:

Market price, timber… approx&average

• Sawlogs 50-60 Euro/M³

• Pulp: 34-39 Euro/M³

• Energy: 25 Euro/M³

• Average: 42 Euro/M³

Lunner Almenning….whats that??

• Almenning is an old Norwegian institution, based on laws from year 800 AD.

• An Almenning «owns its self» and has a purpose to go brake even after given benefits for the licensees.

• The land or the forest in an Almenning cant be sold or be in a kind of mortage.

• Special rules, benefits and right for the licensees.

• The licensees has a minimum of farmland and all of them have equal rights.

• All the benefits and rights are supposed to support managing and operating the farmland and the farmers animal herd ( Barns, buildings, fences, ditches and pasturelands). No cash, only supporting the farmers bills.

• There is still an opportunity develop, build and grow the business for better outcome for the licensees and their benefist.

Lunner Almenning; The property

Numbers:

• 9150 hectares

• Harvesting 19.000M³ in 2018

• Gross growht is aprox. 43.600M³ a year

• 5,8M³/hectare in growth

• Spruce 74%

• Pine 22%

• Leaf/other 4

Average results harvesting:

64% Sawlogs26% Pulp10% Energy

Wildlife & environment

Typical:

• Moose (Alces)

• Roe Deers (Capreolus)

• Hare (Lepus)

• Wood Grouse (Capercaillie)

• Black Grouse (Tetrao tetrix)

• Trout (salmo trutta)

• Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus )

• Perch (Perca fluviatilis)

• About 120 local hunters/200 fishers

Forest reserve:Five reserves and approx. 700 hectares

Strictly forest laws, rules and regulations to preserve nature and environment

PEFC- certified

Our users:

Developing real estate:

The old sawmill and areas close will be transformed in to apartments, offices, shops and institutions for seniors and Healthcare.

We are going to heat up all the buildings with bioenergy from our own woodchips