Wood is Stora Enso's most important raw material, and the Group's business is based on the renewability, recyclability and sustainability of wood.

Sustainable forestry, which guarantees the continuing availability of wood in the future, is the fundamental basis of all Stora Enso’s operations.

Stora Enso operates in all the main forest zones around the world, and the sources of fibre used by the Group are increasingly varied. This underlines the importance of Stora Enso's wood procurement principles in guiding regional wood procurement.

Stora Enso has traceability systems in place to document the origin of the wood used in the Group's mills, in order to guarantee that the wood used in Stora Enso's products is in compliance with Stora Enso's sustainability principles. Most of these traceability systems are third-party verified to increase transparency. Forest certification is used as an additional tool to communicate the sustainable origin of wood.