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Basic materials companies and projects

Explore materials companies across metals and mining, chemicals, construction materials, packaging and forest products. Browse their public profiles and read the project-specific evaluations available on Orbitrum.

Projects in Basic Materials

322 projects

SCA ASvenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget SCA (publ) operates in the forest business in Sweden, Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, the rest of Europe, Asia, and internationally. It operates in five segments: Forest, Wood, Pulp, Containerboard, and Renewable Energy. The company offers various sawn wood products; wood solutions for industrial buildings comprising construction timber, outer panels, dimensionally planed timber, laths, base rafters, planks, and shaped timber products; wood solutions for merchants, including joists, battens, untreated and painted outer panels, as well as pressure-impregnated wood products; logistics services consisting of marine and land transportation services, such as forwarding services using RoRo vessels, container express, and road and rail; and wood pellets. It also provides pulp products comprising bleached softwood kraft pulp and chemical thermomechanical pulp; packaging paper/kraftliner products for consumer durables, electronics, hazardous goods, industrial products, fruit and vegetables, and frozen food; refined and unrefined solid biofuels, and liquid biofuels; and green products, such as tall oil, turpentine, district heating, and green electricity. In addition, the company engages in the management and harvesting of forest land, which includes the provision of hunting and fishing privileges; sourcing and transporting of timber; and wind power operations. It exports its products. Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget SCA (publ) was incorporated in 1915 and is headquartered in Sundsvall, Sweden.Web2
SCA BSvenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget SCA (publ) operates in the forest business in Sweden, Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, the rest of Europe, Asia, and internationally. It operates in five segments: Forest, Wood, Pulp, Containerboard, and Renewable Energy. The company offers various sawn wood products; wood solutions for industrial buildings comprising construction timber, outer panels, dimensionally planed timber, laths, base rafters, planks, and shaped timber products; wood solutions for merchants, including joists, battens, untreated and painted outer panels, as well as pressure-impregnated wood products; logistics services consisting of marine and land transportation services, such as forwarding services using RoRo vessels, container express, and road and rail; and wood pellets. It also provides pulp products comprising bleached softwood kraft pulp and chemical thermomechanical pulp; packaging paper/kraftliner products for consumer durables, electronics, hazardous goods, industrial products, fruit and vegetables, and frozen food; refined and unrefined solid biofuels, and liquid biofuels; and green products, such as tall oil, turpentine, district heating, and green electricity. In addition, the company engages in the management and harvesting of forest land, which includes the provision of hunting and fishing privileges; sourcing and transporting of timber; and wind power operations. It exports its products. Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget SCA (publ) was incorporated in 1915 and is headquartered in Sundsvall, Sweden.Web2
Segezha GroupGroup of Companies Segezha Public Joint Stock Company operates in the forestry industry in Russia, China, rest of Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, the Commonwealth of Independent States, Africa, and internationally. It operates through the Paper and Packaging, Wood Products, Wood-based Panels (WBS), Home Kits, Forest Resources, and Other segments. The company offers kraft paper, paper packaging, birch plywood, glulam beams, CLT panels, sawn timber, biofuel, forest chemicals, lignosulfonates, and artificial parchment. It also provides sack paper, artificial parchment, paper sacks, consumer packaging, fluting, and container paperboard; roundwood; pellets and wood chips; and briquettes, glulam, and glulam and CLT-based home kits. In addition, the company offers various brown sack papers, industrial paper sacks, and dry and wet process fiberboards. Further, it provides biofuels, wood chemistry products, and greaseproof paper. Group of Companies Segezha Public Joint Stock Company was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in Moscow, Russia.Web2

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Construction Materials (550)

Companies supplying materials used in construction.

Metals & Mining (3,704)

Companies and projects associated with metals and mining.

Chemicals (1,993)

Companies producing or supplying chemicals.

Containers & Packaging (510)

Companies producing containers or packaging.

Paper & Forest Products (322)

Companies producing paper or forest-related products.

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