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FOCUS AREA:
Climate
strategy
transportation We have our own logistics system
that is unique in the industry. Instead of single-use
boxes, we use blankets to protect the products in tran-
sit. The blankets are then taken back to be reused for
subsequent deliveries. This saves us and our clients
about 270kg of packaging per trailer. This method
of packaging our products makes it possible to fit
in 50% more furniture per shipment, as we can pack
the products like a jigsaw puzzle and at the same time
avoid transporting unnecessary air. So when others
need up to three trucks, we manage with just two.
This increases efficiency and reduces the number of
shipments, and ultimately the climate impact. Our ve-
hicles are also optimised for maximum load volumes
in accordance with European standards. The vehicles
are lower, which means that we have a larger internal
loading height and loading length in our swap bodies
to be able to load more furniture. Our trucks are
equipped with driver assistance that measures driving
behaviour, which has helped us to reduce average
fuel consumption. At our filling station in Kinnarp,
we use HVO diesel with 97% renewable content,
and we refill with HVO wherever available, which
means that our trucks mainly run on renewable diesel.
All in all, this means that a shipment in our blue trucks
emits 80% less carbon dioxide per product than
conventional transportation using conventional diesel.
Our own logistics system includes transportion
of products from the Kinnarps, Drabert, MartinStoll,
Skandiform and Materia brands, and during the year
we have worked to expand the concept to also include
products from NC Nordic Care. This reduces the num-
ber of shipments and thus carbon dioxide emissions
as well, while at the same time making life easier
for our clients, as we can deliver a complete solution
in just one delivery. Since the concept was expanded
to include products from Skandiform, Materia and
NC Nordic Care, we’ve also been able to reduce the
use of packaging boxes by around 90 tonnes per year
thanks to packing with blankets and cardboard sheets
instead. After each delivery, we then load the trucks
with materials from our suppliers, which means that
we use the transport capacity in both directions.
In order to further streamline our logistics system,
we’re taking part in a research collaboration with
Volvo concerning High Capacity Transport (HCT).
This involves testing longer combination vehicles
that drive with two trailers instead of one, meaning
we can fit in a third transport container. This increases
the load volume by 50% and also results in approxi-
mately 20% lower CO2 emissions. This has enabled
us to reduce shipments between our factories
by one trip a day. Thanks to a positive government
decision on HCT on Swedish roads, the opportunity
for increased use has been opened up. We’re working
to ensure that our vehicle combination is approved
within the regulatory framework, which would give
us the opportunity to transport larger volumes to
more locations in the coming years.
Our vehicle fleet includes electric service vehicles
and passenger cars, and we also have a gas-powered
lorry in operation for furniture delivery, which reduces
the climate impact by over 50%. By placing orders
for more electric vehicles, the proportion of electric
transportation will gradually increase over the coming
years. We’re in discussions with vehicle manufactur-
ers about electric and hydrogen-powered trucks in
order to find alternatives that will work in our logistics
system. In the short term, until the development
of alternatives has come further, we see fossil-free
fuels used in conventional combustion engines, such
as HVO with a high proportion of renewable diesel,
as the best solution to keep our total emissions down.
We have truck containers that are certified for the
railway and we are in discussions with carriers so
that our intermodal freight operations can function
better and eventually make better use of the railway
in our flows.
Climate-optimised transportation
and energy auditing