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On the last day of SkogsElmia, the managements of Sandahlsbolagen and Elmia signed a new contract for future forestry fairs. The contract allows Elmia to arrange another four fairs on land belonging to Bratteborgs gård starting in 2013, when the next major forestry fair, Elmia Wood, will be held.

That SkogsElmia on 26-28 May outside Jönköping, Sweden would be the biggest forestry fair in the Nordic region was expected. The surprise of the fair was that so many forest contractors were among the visitors.

“This was my third forestry fair at Elmia and the best so far,” said Benny Granath, site manager for SP Maskiner. “During Thursday and Friday we had two hundred potential customers inside our stand every day.”

After a long, cold and energy-intensive winter, SkogsElmia is even more topical now than ever before. Opening on 26 May, it is also this year’s biggest forestry fair in the Nordic region. The demo fair focuses on private forest owners but even for forestry officials and contractors, SkogsElmia is the year’s most important meeting place and a source of inspiration, knowledge and the latest innovations.

The rumour is right. Ponsse will hold the world premiere of its new super-size forwarder, a twenty tonner, at SkogsElmia 26-28 May. “There’s a need for a forwarder in the largest category in Sweden, North America and Russia,” says marketing director Jarmo Vidgrén.

Mini harvesters are more than just a trend – they are a necessary way to increase yield and attract young people to work in the forest industry. The leading manufacturers of mini harvesters are putting their machines through their paces at SkogsElmia in Sweden on 26–28 May.

At the top of forest contractors' wish list is a harvester that can travel across water. Such a thing doesn’t exist but at SkogsElmia machinery manufacturer Ponsse is demonstrating how close we can get with today's technology.

Welcome to download the map over the fairground of SkogsElmia 2011. The exhibitor list is as of April 20. Exhibitors are still booked, so the full list will be available in the fair catalogue, which will be published in late April.

Two cold winters in the Nordic region – and the resulting high electricity bills – have created record local interest in wood-based heating. But at SkogsElmia in Jönköping, Sweden there’s a lot more on offer than just wood boilers.

At the forestry fair SkogsElmia forest owners, entrepreneurs, forest officials and machine & service suppliers meet during a few intense, but entertaining days to share opinions and try out news, prepare investment decisions and make interesting connections. SkogsElmia will of course be arranged in the forest, just like the Elmia Wood show. 

A completely new forest machine manufacturer is emerging in central Sweden: Green Wood Logistics AB. Forest contractor Torbjörn Ericsson has built a harvester, the T-Bear, completely from scratch, based on forest contractors’ needs and wishes. The result is a machine filled with innovations.

The global market for forest machines that use the environmentally friendly cut to length (CTL) method is currently worth about one billion euros, according to new figures from the Swedish forestry research institute Skogforsk. Together with Finland, Sweden is a leader in the field of modern forest technology, with Swedish manufacturing in this sector worth about 330 million euros. On top of that is the value of equipment and accessories plus small-scale forest technology. These are also worth millions of euros, conclude studies by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and other research bodies.