In a today's global economy, a small sized paper mill far from export harbors is doomed. Over the last thirty years there has been an ongoing slaughter of such mills while the larger units here in Sweden with favorable locations are now approaching and even exceeding 1 million metric tons of annual output of pulp and/or paper products. An inland mill like this one with an annual capacity far south of 100k tons simply had no chance.

Although located in a very scenic area, this one just offers a depressing sight which on top of a spectacular bankruptcy during the aftermath was hit by a devastating fire (what a strange coincidence, eh?). Loads of stuff and scrap has just been left to rust and slowly deteriorate as small trees makes their way up through the concrete and tarmac. It is somewhat puzzling that advanced machinery and valuable scrap (given today’s scrap prices) does not appear to have any value and that it have just been trashed. But, presumably due to its low capacity, the second-hand market for this kind of equipment is not there.
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