According to the Swedish business daily, Dagens Industri, SCA considers a major extension of Östrand pulp mill in order to increase the group’s self-sufficiency of pulp.Today, SCA buys around 60 percent of the pulp needed in its paper, tissue and board production, and the increasing pulp prices during the last months have weakened SCA’s profitability.Recent investments in the Östrand mill have been designed for a larger capacity than the mill has today. The recovery boiler from 2006 has a capacity of 800,000 tons of pulp, and so has the new lime kiln, which will be ready for start-up in November next year.According to Jan Johansson, CEO of SCA, it is, however, not likely that a decision to extend the Östrand mill will be made until after the new lime kiln is up and running.