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For me this is a great opportunity, and I couldn’t wait to get back to Lanzarote and join the training program. I hope that my Mini Transat experience will stand me in good stead and it is great to be sailing with such a strong team of women
Justine Mettraux
This is definitely really exciting. I feel that we have an incredible opportunity here to compete on an equal level with the other teams in this race. There are only nine months left to the start, so we are really now on the home straight and have everything to train and play for
Sally Barkow
“Wood is an amazingly sustainable raw material, and we are managing these precious assets so it is as rich today as it will be tomorrow”.
Björn Lyngfelt, Vice President Communications for SCA Forest Products
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Anticipating Auckland

As Team SCA approaches the finish line in Auckland of Leg 4 of the Volvo Ocean Race, Annie Lush sends us a brief update on the closing stages and the imminent arrival into the City of Sails"Less than 400 miles to go to dry land, new sights (as a first time NZ visitor), and most importantly a bed (oh, and a glass of wine)! It seems like nothing, five more watches on deck, one more full night of darkness to battle through, three more freeze dried meals to endure. We've covered over 6,000 Miles already on this leg from Sanya aboard our pink Volvo Ocean 65. That totals over 50,000 miles we've

Three new crew members join Team SCA

Three new crew members have joined Team SCA to add to the growing squad of women who now form part of the team.It was confirmed today that Dee Caffari (GBR), Sara Hastreiter (USA) and Elodie-Jane Mettraux (SUI) would all be joining Team SCA, leading global hygiene and forest products company SCA's, all-female team in the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15. Caffari (41) is no stranger to ocean racing having competed in the Vendée Globe Race, the Global Challenge, Barcelona World Race and four transatlantic races.  She is the only woman to have sailed solo around the world in both directions (east

Team SCA marks International Women’s Day with global competition and new website

SCA, with an all-female team in the next Volvo Ocean Race, Team SCA, is to create a global competition in conjunction with Getty Images aimed at empowering more women to become professional photographers.Working with Getty Images, one of the world’s leading media companies,  the Team SCA Academy will seek to encourage, inspire and support female photographers around the world. Announced to coincide with International Women’s Day , the Team SCA Academy will, together with Getty Images, look to engage increasing numbers of female photographers to

SCA Announces New Crew For All-Female Team

SCA has today confirmed that Sally Barkow (USA) and Justine Mettraux (SUI) will be joining the all-female team for the 2014-15 Volvo Ocean Race.Both sailors come with a strong pedigree and join a growing squad of international sailing champions. Team SCA crew to date includes Carolijn Brouwer (NED); Sam Davies, Abby Ehler, and Annie Lush (GBR), and Liz Wardley, Sophie Ciszek and Stacey Jackson (AUS). From hundreds of applications some 35 women have been invited to take part in month-long trials at the team’s base in Lanzarote, Spain.  Each candidate has to go through a rigorous training

SUSTAINABILITY AT THE CORE OF SCA

Sustainability is at the core of SCA, a leading global hygiene and forest products company as well as Europe’s largest private forest owner. Practicing sustainable forestry and maintaining biological diversity is part of SCA’s DNA, and the Sweden-based company has received several of the world’s most prestigious awards in the field of sustainability, both when it comes to measurable nature and people targets.In the autumn of 2013, the crew from Team SCA, an all-female entry into the world’s toughest offshore sailing competition, the Volvo Ocean Race, visited one of SCA’s forests close to

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