Plantma Forestry didn’t start with a PowerPoint presentation in a boardroom. It started with a desire and
a conviction: mechanized tree planting is possible, and we want to show the world how it should be done.
The world needs more forests, fast. Trees are an excellent way of capturing carbon and converting it into
something useful –such as construction material. But planting trees manually is hard, dangerous, and
time-consuming work. Heat, snakes, and insects make it a hazardous job in most parts of the world, and
labor shortages are now limiting not just the forestry industry, but every tree-planting initiative set out to
address climate change. Mechanized planting has become a necessity.
People in the industry have known this for a long time. The first mechanized planting prototypes appeared more than 50 years ago. In Sweden, a machine called Silva Nova carried out 10 percent of all tree planting in the mid-1990s –but high operational costs and technical hurdles saw it fall into oblivion.
In 2018, the stars were aligned. Stig Linderholm –the entrepreneur behind global success stories Log Max
and Eco Log –met with Hans Arvidsson, the chief engineer on the original Silva Nova design and a long-time partner. Together, facing a major forestry company in urgent need of a new solution, they saw that the time was ripe. They simply could not resist the challenge of showing how it should be done. High-speed reforestation of the world was an achievable goal, and Plantma Forestry was created.
With a small team of experienced specialists, a first machine was designed and field-tested in under With a small team of experienced specialists, a first machine was designed and field-tested in under
two years. Speed like that is possible when decisions are grounded in what works, and when the team has an abundance of the right expertise. Our founding team was motivated by solving hard problems, by the pride of teamwork, and by the conviction that they were building something that could help change the world for the better.
The first PlantMax unit was sold to a Swedish forestry company in 2022. Demand grew rapidly. Brazil came first – one unit, then two, then ten, then twenty. South America grew faster than any of us had imagined. Units followed to Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Today, in Brazil – one of the world’s most demanding forestry markets – Plantma technology is used on 70 percent of all mechanized reforestation. That level of adoption doesn’t come from promises. It comes from performance.
You are welcome to contact the team through info@plantmaforestry.com or the contact form on the website. (Personal emails are firstname.lastname@plantmaforestry.com)
 Stig Linderholm Founder |   Pontus Linderholm CEO |  Joakim Eckerström CFO |
 Christer Larsson Product Manager |  Markus Pettersson After Sales Manager |  Erik Andersson Marketing Communications |