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SCA today named Camilla Weiner as its new Senior Vice President Corporate Communications.

Camilla Weiner has extensive experience from senior positions in communications. She currently holds the corresponding position at Axfood. Camilla Weiner’s former employers include Ahlsell and Securitas, where she held senior communications positions in both companies.

As head of the Corporate Communications staff, Camilla Weiner will be a member of SCA’s Corporate Senior Management Team, reporting to CEO Jan Johansson.

“Camilla Weiner has a very broad background in marketing, branding and financial communication on senior management level, and I am confident that Camilla will make a positive contribution to the development of SCA,” comments Jan Johansson.

“What attracts me to SCA is that it is a global corporation and a highly respected Swedish industrial company with a very exciting product portfolio. At the same time, it focuses intensely on innovation and has a clear ambition to contribute to sustainable development,” says Camilla Weiner. She will assume her position at SCA after the summer.

For further information, contact:
Gordana Landén, SVP Human Resources, +46 8 788 51 91
Pär Altan, VP Media Relations, +46 8 788 52 37

The Swedish Paper Workers Union alerted on Tuesday a total stoppage of six companies from 16 April, The filing of approximately 3000 employees. The companies involved are SCA Packaging in Munksund, Iggesund works, Korsnäs Gävle, Stora Enso Skoghall, Värö Bruk and Skärblacka Bruk.

Earlier, the union announced an overtime ban, but the mediators postponed this from April 5 to April 12.

- We feel that we must increase the pressure in wage negotiations. We have not managed to get our negotiating counterpart Forest Industries operating in the manner which you are entitled to expect, says paper Federal Chairman Jan-Henrik Sandberg.

SCA’s interim report for the period 1 January–31 March 2010 will be published on Monday, 26 April, at approximately 12:00 CET.

Media and analysts are invited to participate in a webcast press conference at which the report will be presented by Jan Johansson, President and CEO.

Date: Monday, 26 April 2010
Time: 13:00 CET
Venue: www.sca.com (The webcast will be broadcast from Sundsvall)

The press conference will be webcast live at www.sca.com, since it coincides with the date for the SCA Annual General Meeting. The Annual General Meeting will be held in Tonhallen in Sundsvall, Sweden, and will commence at 15:00 CET.

It is also possible to participate by telephone. Call +44 20 7162 0077, +1 334 323 6201, or +46 8 5052 0110.

Stockholm, 31 March 2010

For additional information, please contact
Pär Altan, Vice President Media Relations, +46 8 788 52 37
Johan Karlsson, Vice President Investor Relations, +46 8 788 51 30

Tomas Hedström (MBA) will take up his appointment as CFO for Rottneros AB on 1 May 2010. Tomas Hedström, who has among other things been engaged as an accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers, is coming to us from the SCA Group where he was responsible for the Corporate Finance Department. Prior to this, he held various financial posts within SCA's Swedish and global operation.

Tomas Hedström replaces Karl Ove Grönqvist, who decided to leave Rottneros in May.

For further information please contact: Ole Terland, CEO, +46 8 590 010 00

Rottneros discloses the information provided herein pursuant to the Securities Markets Act and/or the Financial Instruments Trading Act. The Information was submitted for publication on Thursday 25 March 2010 at 12.30 CET.

For the third consecutive year, SCA has been named one of the world’s most ethical companies by the Ethisphere Institute. According to the Institute, the ranking list recognizes companies that go beyond making statements about doing business “ethically” and actually translate those words into action.

Of the 3,000 companies worldwide that took part in the survey, only 100 made the 2010 list.

Says Ulf Söderström, Senior Vice President for Business Development and Strategy at SCA, who is responsible for the Group’s sustainability work:

"We are pleased to have qualified as one of the most ethical companies in the world for the third consecutive year. The award is a recognition of how the Group's employees are successful at managing our extensive operations in a responsible way, and how we let our core values of Respect, Excellence and Responsibility guide us in everything we do."

Read more at www.ethisphere.com/wme2010. For further information about SCA’s sustainability work, visit www.sca.com/sustainability, where you can download the Group’s latest sustainability report.

For additional information, please contact
Jörgen Olsson, Press and Media Officer, +46 8 788 51 29

SCA’s Annual Report for 2009 has been published and is available below. SCA has also published its 2009 Sustainability Report, which can also be downloaded below.

SCA's Annual report 2009 and Sustainability report 2009The printed version of the Annual Report will be distributed by post to shareholders and other stakeholders on the week commencing 29 March.

For additional information, please contact
Jörgen Olsson, Press and Media Officer, +46 8-788 51 29
Jessica Ölvestad, Investor Relations Manager, +46 8-788 52 82

Stockholm, March 23, 2010

NB
This information is such that SCA must disclose in accordance with the Securities Markets Act. The information was submitted for publication on March 23, 2010, at 12.00 noon.
Related documents

* Annual Report 2009
* Sustainability report 2009

SCA Group headquarters will be relocated to the Waterfront Building, Stockholm's new landmark, by Central Station. The move was carried out at the beginning of March and represents a cost-efficient solution that reflects the SCA of today and tomorrow. The Waterfront Building conforms to a range of requirements governing environmentally friendly workplaces of the future.

SCA is vacating it premises at Stureplan, where the office has been spread out over a number of addresses. In efforts to identify new premises, needs-adapted and efficiently utilized premises combined with a distinct environmental profile have been the guiding principles.

"Our goal has been to create a cohesive and thus enhanced working environment, with simpler communication between various departments at head office. We have also assigned great importance to identifying an efficient environmental solution," says Gordana Landén.

Gordana Landén also points out the significance of effective communications, which, for a company like SCA, is highly significant for contacts with customers, suppliers and other parts of the company. Consequently, the proximity to the Central Station is positive from an environmental and communications perspective.

The Waterfront Building, a part of Stockholm Waterfront, is one of Sweden's greenest buildings. Energy consumption is reduced by, for example, using water from Klara sjö (Klara Lake) to cool the property. In addition, water/ice is used to store energy. The complex' double-glazed façade works as a solar collector and the Waterfront Building comfortably meets the requirements of the EU Green Building standard.

Stockholm, 8 March 2010

For further information, please contact
Pär Altan, Vice President Media Relations, SCA, +46 8-788 52 37

According to SCA's articles of association, owners of Class A shares have the right to have such shares converted to Class B shares. Conversion reduces the total number of votes in the company. When such a conversion has occurred, the company is obligated by law to disclose any such changes in this manner.

In February, at the request of shareholders, 5,300 Class A shares were converted to Class B shares. The total number of votes in the company thereafter amounts to 1,632,380,571.

The total number of registered shares in the company amounts to 705,110,094, of which 103,030,053 are Class A shares and 602,080,041 are Class B shares.

Stockholm, 26 February 2010

For further information please contact
Petter Tiger, Press & Media Officer, +46 8 788 53 62

ABB announced it is to engineer, deliver and commission the electrical systems to a new tissue production line supplied by Metso to SCA's new factory in Mexico. The delivery includes intelligent control and monitoring systems for power distribution, the new generation intelligent Motor Control Centers, frequency converters and high efficiency motors as well as a complete paper machine sectional drives system.

The delivery includes ABB's most recent application knowledge for the power distribution and motor control technique. The intelligent solution allows a higher degree of control and information transfer between the systems. ABB Process Industry unit from Vaasa, Finland, is responsible for the delivery, which it includes project management, engineering and site services.

"The electrical equipment, that drives the processes, is connected by modern field bus solutions into one functional system. By using the latest new generation products and applications know how the life cycle management and preventive maintenance of the system will be further enhanced", says Area Sales Manager Fredrik Grankull from ABB.

The new line will produce 60,000 tons/yr of high-quality facial, toilet and towel tissue grades. The start-up is planned for summer and autumn 2010 and ABB deliveries are scheduled for the beginning of 2010. The production at the mill, which is situated close to Mexico City, will start at the end of 2010.

Between 2000 and 2005, Chinese timber imports tripled from 10 million to 30 million cubic metres. The import of sawn solid wood products also experienced a similar trend. During the second quarter of 2009, China was the world's second-biggest importer of sawn softwood products.

The biggest volumes originate from Russia and Canada. Imports from Europe remain relatively modest. During the first six months of this year, almost 30% more sawn solid wood products were imported than during the corresponding period in 2008.

Chinese wood businesses visiting SCA
Autumn 2009 several wood finishing companies from visited SCAs saw mills in Tunadal, Bollsta, Rundvik and Munksund. Several of SCA's customers from China expressed the hope of establishing a close collaborative relationship with the aim of securing longterm and reliable supplies of raw material.

Swedish wood has become popular in China, partly due to IKEA starting operations there. "The lighter Nordic wood varieties are seen as modern and trendy amongst young Chinese," says Edmunt Tong, SCA in China. Spruce and pine from Scandinavia have increasingly replaced dark wood varieties in furniture and interior design.

Doing business together since 2005
Since 2005, SCA Timber, working in collaboration with a wood finishing company in Southern China, has licensed the manufacture of window components from Swedish raw material for distribution to customers in Italy and the United Kingdom.

However, the focus has recently shifted to the sale of sawn timber to companies who produce items for the local market. The 1.3 billion Chinese, who are rapidly garnering an increasingly higher standard of living, constitute what is an almost insatiable market.

One such company is Shenzhen Sampo Furniture, the owner of which CEO is Guo Xian Yang. Previously his company manufactured pine furniture for the Japanese market. When demand for furniture in Japan fell, Yang decided to focus on the domestic Chinese market instead.

Today, his company has more than 70 stores in 20 or so Chinese cities. In a few years, he estimates he will be selling his furniture in more than 500 stores. "I work from the conviction that each store will generate sales of USD 100,000 a month," notes Yang delightedly.

Wood finishing for the export market
Another customer category in China being prioritised by SCA is those companies which manufacture products for the export market. Simon Wang is CEO of Zhanjiang Huapin Wooden Products, whose 300 employees produce doors made from pine, primarily for customers in the UK and Ireland, but also for customers in the Middle East.

"We make around 150,000 door sets per year," says Wang, "both in solid and veneered woods. But we're now also taking a look at furnishing components such as panels and mouldings, made from both pine and spruce."

Wholesalers and distributors
A third customer category for SCA in China is timber wholesalers and distributors on the domestic market. One of these companies is Jiang Men Gao Hong, which will soon be celebrating 10 years of importing wood raw material intended for use in sauna furnishing and furniture manufacture.