History & Vision

The Business

Bergs Timber produces and sells sawn and processed wood goods with the focus on customisation. The production is located in three sawmill facilities, in Mörlunda, Orreförs and Järnforsen as well as in the wood preservation company Bitus. At all of the Groups sawmills there are planning mills for further processing and all the facilities are located within a distance of 90 km. The total sawmill production amounts to about 360,000 m³ sawn wood products, whereof more than half are processed further. It is estimated that Bitus wood preservation facility will treat about 225,000 m³ during the financial year. More than 80 percent of the wood products are exported, mainly to Great Britain, The Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, Germany, France, Ireland and the Middle East. By-products from the production are sold to the wood pulp and chipboard industries as well as for fuel. The timber raw material is acquired primarily from the areas around the Groups three sawmills, supplemented with timber taken from our own forests. The Group owns its own forests amounting to about 2000 hectares. The Group, as represented by Bergs Skog AB, is a complete forestry service company, which carries out everything from providing forestry owners with advice to the final felling process. The parent company, Bergs Timber AB (publ) has been quoted on the Stockholm Stock Exchange since 1984. Today, the company is quoted on the Nasdaq OMX Nordic Exchange Stockholm Small Cap, materials.

90 years since the start

In the year 1919, Carl Fabian Berg founded the company that for decades would be known as CF Berg & Co. Carl Fabians profession was carpenter and he needed timber. He started the business with a mobile sawmill that was moved around from one place to another in the forest. Apart from timber, the company also produced wood charcoal, which was produced in charcoal stacks, and wood fuel to produce wood-gas. It was not until the 1940s that the business arrived at the place where the sawmill in Mörlunda stands today. The founders son, Alf Berg, moved back home to help with the business. Before this, Alf had been a grocer on Påskallavik, a small town south of Oskarshamn. A fire destroyed large parts of the sawmill at the start of the 1950s. For almost a year, Alf wondered if he should build up the business again. The rebuilding, no doubt, was due to the  fact that the greater part of the dry plant, which by the standards of the day was modern, had survived the flames.

Alf lived until he was 88, and sat on the Board until the day he died, which at the time made him the oldest board member in a quoted company.
Apart from wood products, the company for a time also manufactured doors and work clothes. The production of work clothing was started to give employment to the women in the town and to those women who moved with their husbands. Today, the business is managed by Alfs son, Åke Berg, who has been in the business since 1972. Since a few years ago his son and son-in-law have also been a part of the company. Since 2006, the company has been called Bergs Timber AB.

Vision

Bergs Timbers Vision is to be the most profitable and the leading sawmill company in Southern Sweden. Bergs Timber has employees with expertise who make it possible for us to meet our customers expectations for customisation and service. By focusing on close customer relations and rational production, we are meeting the constantly increasing competition in the wood products industry. Local forest owners are very important for our raw material supply and our ambition is to be their reliable and competitive partners.