Forestry has always been an important industry for the Sweden, Norway and Finland. They all have a lot in common, having large land areas, where only small parts are populated by people and large areas of the country is uninhabited due to small populations compared to the land size. Large parts are covered by forest and has for ages been used to become one of the leaders in delivering paper, paper pulp and wood products globally. Sweden is actually the world’s second biggest exporter of paper, paper pulp and wood products.

Sweden has led the way for economic and social sustainability, 70% of Sweden is covered by forest and the main trees grown for timber is the Norway Spruce and the Scots Pine, which is quite similar for all the Nordic countries, where you can also have birch being also a major species. Pine and Spruce tend to be the biggest ones each representing approximately 40% each and Birch around 10% and the remaining 10% split on the other species. Forest is also a renewable raw material that also reduces the CO2 in the atmosphere, as it is able to store it until the wood is burnt.

The Nordics use cut to length technology when harvesting forests, which tends to be a more environmental method due to less soil disturbance compared to skidding the trees. It also gives you cleaner wood and you are reliant on fewer machines of higher technology, which increases the safety due to protected cabs on the machines. You can manage with having a harvester and a forwarder as your main machines operating within the forest. This means thought that you will need to make sure that you have the best equipment, so that you can avoid problems by unscheduled downtime due to equipment failure. There are a few equipment brans that have excelled as the best options and for tires you have the global leader of forest tires, Nokian Tyres.

Nokian Tyres has a long history in forest tires and have been the dominant supplier of harvester tires, forwarder tires as well as skidder tires. They also produce forest tractor tires and the tires for your logger trucks. For the logger trucks, you might need to have tires that can perform well even when you have snow and ice on the roads and a tire that can operate well both on and off road. When it comes to the equipment that operate within the forest, you will need relentless grip on the challenging surfaces that you will face in the forest, which can be anything from swamps, to slippery rocks, where the grip and durability is of utter importance.

When it comes to forest tires, you know where to look for durable tires that can operate regardless of weather or surface conditions. Tires that are some of the most cut and crack resistant tires on the market, that can deliver the most operating hours even in difficult circumstances.