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Stairs from SSC pass high environmental demands in Japan
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| SSC Trätrappor AB in Norsjö is at the leading edge of the Swedish joinery branch when it comes to environmental certification of building products for the Japanese market. They belong to one of the pilot companies that has been formaldehyde certified at SP Trätek.
- Our stairs have passed the highest demands stated in Japan - this gives us opportunities to find new customers in a difficult market, Bengt Lindgren MD at SSC Trätrappor says. When, in 2003, higher demands concerning formaldehyde in building material was introduced in Japan, the Swedish wooden industry faced huge problems.
This had a great impact on us and we quickly needed to find new solutions. To start with we had to rely on Japanese companies getting certificates when they imported stairs. This meant that we couldn’t develop new customers on our | | 
Bengt Lindgren,
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| own, Svante Lundström SSC, responsible for sales in Japan, reveals.
SP Trätek and the project Aurora Borealis, of which SSC is a part, acted quickly and in July 2004 SP was the first European organisation to be approved in conducting glulam product tests as a base for certification. A pilot group consisting of SSC Trätrappor and some other wood companies, were the first to be certified by SP. The cooperation with SP Trätek has been very beneficial. Firstly, it wasn’t easy to hand over all the information that Japanese regulations demanded, but finally everything was resolved and of course the possibility of using Swedish when carrying on a conversation made it a lot easier, Urban Malmbom Purchasing Manager says.
In June 2005, SSC Trätrappor received its certificate for formaldehyde in products from the MLIT ministry of Japan. They passed the highest requirements and obtained a four star certificate. | |
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| | -This means that SSC, without further tests, can sell as many stairs as possible to the Japanese market, says Lars-Erik Wikström, Project Manager for the structure of SP Trätek’s office for certification and test laboratories in Skellefteå.
This year SSC trätrappor will sell stairs for approximately ten million Swedish Crowns in Japan.
-I’m convinced that there will be further opportunities for SSC in the Japanese market. Recently there has been a break in the Japanese trend which means that they have started to think of the stairway as a piece of furniture, Krisitan Sandström Project Manager WoodHouse Aurora Borealis adds.
In mid October SP Trätek was approved by the Japanese ministry to go through with the whole certificate procedure in Sweden. | |
Svante Lundström,
sales, SSC Trätrappor |
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More information: Svante Lundström, Sales, SSC Trätrappor, +4670-523 33 88, Urban Malmbom, Purchasing Manager, SSC Trätrappor, +4670-399 70 28, Lars-Erik Wikström, Project Manager SP Trätek, +46910-28 56 20.
SSC is the leading supplier of joinery products such as windows, doors, stairs and special carpentry in Scandinavia. The company is owned by 8 joineries that market and sell their products through SSC Skellefteå AB. There is also cooperation with producers outside the group of owners. The sales office is located in Skellefteå and the group has sales of 400 million SEK with 400 employees.
SSC Trätrappor is the largest company in the group and is Scandinavia’s leading supplier of wooden stairs. The company started in 1923 and today has 120 employees. For 2005 the company’s turnover is calculated to be 107 million SEK. Exports last year counted for 40 percent of the sales and went mainly to Norway, Denmark, Germany and Japan.
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