Swedish forestry management company Holmen Skog has selected Trimble’s Connected Forest for the digital transformation of the management of its extensive land holdings.
ForestX, Trimble’s service partner in Sweden, will implement the project.
Holmen Skog, which is responsible for sustainably managing and developing the Holmen Group’s 1.3m hectares of land. It will be the first forestry management company Scandinavia to fully adopt Connected Forest as part of Holmen’s strategic commitment to become more data-driven in its forestry operations.
Clas Engström, head of development at Holmen Skog, said: “Connected Forest gives us a platform where we can add more solutions and systems in the future. We have a lot of data. Now we have a platform that makes it possible for our company to take a data-driven approach in our work for the long term. In Trimble, we have an active counterpart who continues to develop their software. We get inspiration from Trimble for our own development.”
New approaches through digital transformation
The adoption of the Connected Forest suite represents not only an IT project but a significant shift in Holmen Skog’s approach to work.
Engström said: “We are also looking at changing our own working methods. We have involved large parts of the business to find some new approaches and to work in new ways.”
Kevin Toohill, general manager of Trimble Forestry, said: “Holmen Skog’s strategic adoption of Trimble’s Connected Forest suite represents a pivotal moment in advancing data-driven forestry operations in Sweden. In collaboration with ForestX, this initiative is pivotal to transforming sustainable forest management.”
Holmen Skog manages Holmen’s forests and procures wood for Holmen’s Swedish sawmills, paper and paperboard mills. It also purchases and sells wood from Swedish private forest owners, forest owner associations and sawmills.
