Mellanskog

Name

Mellanskog

Legal name

Skogsägarna Mellanskog, ekonomisk förening

Website

https://mellanskog.se

Company type

Private

Founded year

1906

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Forestry Cooperative Services

NAICS

Support Activities for Forestry (1153), Timber Tract Operations (11311), Sawmills (321113), Lumber, Plywood, Millwork, and Wood Panel Merchant Wholesalers (42331)

SIC

Forestry (800), Wholesale-Lumber, Plywood, Millwork & Wood Panels (5031), Sawmills & Planting Mills, General (2421), Millwood, Veneer, Plywood, & Structural Wood Members (2430)

akta.pro primary industry

Timber Tract Operations & Forest Ownership (Timberland) (IMAMAAAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Forest Products Import/Export & Commodity Merchants (IMAMAIAM), Softwood Lumber Distribution & Trading (IMAMAIAA)

Keywords

• Forestry services
• Timber trading
• Forest management
• Forest cooperative
• Woodland advisory

Headquarters

HQ city

Uppsala

HQ country

Sweden

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Timber Trading (Virkeshandel): Members deliver timber and wood pulp to Mellanskog, which sells the raw material to sawmills, paper mills, and energy companies. The cooperative earns a margin on the difference between selling price and member payment. Members benefit from higher prices, price guarantees, and profit-sharing (afterlikvid/distribution). In 2025, 4.6 million cubic meters of timber were delivered.
2. Forestry Services: Mellanskog provides fee-based forestry services including planting, thinning, clearing, forest road construction, forest management planning, economic and legal advice, and property brokerage. These services generate service revenue and strengthen member relationships. Digital ordering of services (e.g., thinning, forest management plans) is available through Skogstorget.
3. Setra Group (Subsidiary): Following the May 2025 acquisition of Sveaskog's shares in Setra Group AB, Mellanskog became the main owner of Setra, a wood product manufacturer. Setra processes timber into sawn wood products, contributing to the Mellanskog Group's total revenue exceeding SEK 6 billion in 2025 (group revenue, May–December 2025: SEK 6,337M).

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Mellanskog is a member-owned forestry cooperative that purchases timber from its roughly 29,100 private forest-owner members and sells it to industrial buyers while returning margins to members. It delivers forestry advisory, forest management, planting, thinning, harvesting, road building, and property-brokerage services, supported by the Skogstorget digital platform and Skogsöversikt AI forest overview. Through its wholly-owned Setra Group subsidiary, it produces sawn wood products, integrating family forestry with downstream processing.

Product overview

Mellanskog offers a digital platform-based service portfolio centered around Skogstorget (digital platform) and Medlemsappen (member app), complemented by comprehensive forestry services. Skogstorget combines AI-powered forest overviews with interactive maps, action suggestions, and forest economics, accessible via web and mobile. The Medlemsappen provides property-specific maps with tree height, soil moisture, GPS navigation, and contract management. Core services include professional forestry advisory, forest management, forestry management planning, economic and legal advice, property mediation, timber sales (including harvesting, thinning, and energy products), and forest care (planting, seeding, clearing, fertilization). The company also offers the Skogskompis initiative for psychosocial member support during crises.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Skogstorget: Digital platform for forest owners to manage their forest holdings, view maps, order services (thinning, forestry plans), and track timber contracts and economics.
• Mellanskog Group
• Mellanskogakademin
• Skogskompis

Products and services

• Skogstorget Digital Platform Web-based digital platform that lets forest owners manage their holdings online, access AI-generated forest overviews with map layers (tree height, soil moisture), view timber prices and forest economics, place orders for services such as thinning and forestry management plans, manage contracts, and offers 10% self-service discount on digital orders.
• Medlemsappen (Member Mobile Application) Native mobile application for iOS and Android enabling members to access forest property maps, forestry management plans, GPS navigation, note-taking including windthrow and insect-damage marking, contract and economics overview, and association news with offline support for areas with poor connectivity.
• Skoglig rådgivning (Forestry Advisory) Professional advisory service where experienced forestry advisors help individual forest owners make informed decisions about their holdings, covering harvesting, planting, thinning, and overall forest strategy. Delivered by personal advisors assigned across four field-operations areas.
• Skoglig förvaltning (Forestry Management) Outsourced forest management service prioritizing responsive stewardship, well-maintained forests, and orderly long-term administration for customers who do not manage their own forest properties.
• Skogsgårdsavtal (Forest Estate Contract) Contract service guaranteeing that a member's forest is managed according to their wishes, providing peace of mind when owners lack time, capacity, or proximity to manage their own holdings.
• Skogsskötselplan (Forest Management Plan) Comprehensive forest management plan providing an overview of forest holdings, accessible via the Mellanskog app and Skogstorget. Plans have a validity of ten years, can be ordered digitally with field-visit quality assurance, and qualify for the 10% self-service discount.
• Ekonomisk och juridisk rådgivning (Economic and Legal Advisory) Economic and legal advisory service covering property purchases, inheritance planning, generational transfers, taxation, and other property-related matters for forest owners and estates.
• Fastighetsförmedling (Property Mediation) Brokerage service for the buying and selling of forest properties in Mellanskog's central-Sweden operating area.
• Virkespriser och virkesförsäljning (Timber Sales and Pricing) Core timber-trading service under which Mellanskog purchases timber from members and resells it to sawmills, paper mills, and energy companies, with regional pricing by product category, price guarantees on member deliveries, and profit-sharing (afterlikvid). Includes harvesting assignments, branch and roundwood chips, thinning, and forest energy products.
• Skogsvård (Forest Care) Operational forest-care service covering soil preparation, planting, seeding, clearing (röjning), fertilization, ash return, forest road construction, and bark-beetle damage management. Includes digital ordering via Skogstorget for clearing and planting.

Quantifiable outcome

• SEK 614 per delivered cubic meter — historical high member value (2025)
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability4 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Setra Group ABflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 May 2025In May 2025, Mellanskog acquired Sveaskog's ownership stake in Setra Group AB, becoming the main owner. Setra is a wood product manufacturer (sawmill and wood processing). Following the acquisition, a new Mellanskog Group (Mellanskogkoncernen) was formed. Fredrik Munter, CEO of Mellanskog, also became CEO of Setra Group. The vertical integration links family forestry with international markets through Setra's processing capacity.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• UPM-Kymmene: Finnish forest industry major with European-wide forestry, pulp, paper, biomaterials, and energy operations. Comparable in scale and integrated forest-to-product value chain, competing in the same European sawn timber and pulp end-markets as Mellanskog/Setra.
• Holmen: Swedish forest industry group with significant own forest assets and operations in wood products, paperboard, and renewable energy. Comparable in its Swedish forest footprint and downstream wood products manufacturing, recently expanded via the Martinsons acquisition.
• Stora Enso: Global Finnish-Swedish forest products major with extensive Swedish forest holdings and integrated pulp, paper, packaging, and biomaterials operations. A broad incumbent competing for Swedish wood fiber and offering similar end-markets (lumber, pulp) to Mellanskog/Setra.
• SCA (Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget): Major Swedish forest company with one of Europe's largest private forest holdings, producing sawn timber, pulp, and renewable energy. Comparable as a large Swedish forest owner and wood products producer, though privately held by the Wallenberg foundations.
• Vida AB: Major Swedish sawmill group with multiple production sites in southern Sweden, producing sawn timber, packaging, and biofuel. A direct competitor for Swedish sawmill customers and comparable in timber-processing focus to Setra.
• Billerud: Swedish forest products company focused on packaging materials and paper, with significant Swedish forest operations. Comparable as a Swedish forest industry incumbent with integrated raw-material sourcing and processing, overlapping with Mellanskog's pulpwood trading and Setra operations.
• Sveaskog: Sweden's largest forest owner (state-owned) and a major seller of timber, which competes for wood fiber procurement with Mellanskog. Previously a co-owner of Setra until selling its stake to Mellanskog in May 2025, making it both a historical partner and ongoing market counterparty.

Direct peers

• Norra Skog: Swedish forest owners' association serving members in northern Sweden, providing timber trading, advisory, and forestry services. Most direct cooperative peer to Mellanskog in terms of member-owned service model, though operating in a different geography.
• Södra Skogsägarna: Sweden's largest forest owners' cooperative, with member-owners primarily in southern Sweden. Operates an integrated business model spanning timber trading, sawmills (Södra Wood), and pulp (Södra Cell) — directly comparable to Mellanskog's cooperative structure and vertical integration following the Setra acquisition.

Regional players

• Derome: Swedish family-owned timber, building materials, and prefabricated housing group with sawmill operations concentrated in western/southern Sweden. Comparable as a Swedish forest-products and timber-trading player, though operating in a different geographic region than Mellanskog.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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