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Vologdaleskhoz (Vologda Region) reached its design capacity

November 3, 2020 ` 18:50  
Wood processing capacities to produce 30,000 m3 of sawn timber and moldings have been created at the production site of Totma Forestry Enterprise The project’s investment value was 340 million rubles. A boiler house with 3MW capacity consuming...

Segezha Group is gradually reducing export shipments of its sawn timber by water in packs

November 3, 2020 ` 18:44  
Sawn timber transportation by water in packs accounts for 80% of the total volume of the Group’s export shipments. Segezha Group plants also ship finished products in containers within multi-modal transport. In H1 2020, Lesosibirsky LDK No.1 shipped...

TransLes and Sveza Group started implementing a project ensuring raw material deliveries to plywood mills.

November 2, 2020 ` 19:43  
The project involves fleet integration, joint transport planning and application of contemporary shipping technologies. Cooperation took the form of exclusive service agreements on customer support at all transport stages. This commercial, technical and technological outsourcing of raw materials...

A series of Ukrainian paper and cardboard producers will be granted access to the Russian market

November 2, 2020 ` 19:34  
At a meeting with Government members on Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed with a proposal by Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin to permit three Ukrainian companies to supply their products to the Russian Federation, TASS reports. This...

Sveza Kostroma is reducing raw material consumption

October 30, 2020 ` 17:29  
The company has commissioned a Japanese-made surfacing-and-jointing line for raw veneer; the investment exceeded 60 million rubles. Installation of this line will make it possible to splice small-sized veneer into full-size sheets. The equipment is an automated line...

The Government of the Khanty-Mansiysk Region was again unable to sell assets of Ugra Timber Holding and Ugra-Plit through bidding

October 30, 2020 ` 17:17  
The bids were declared void due to lack of qualified participants. This information is posted on the website of the Auction House of the Russian Federation. 100% of both companies’ shares were auctioned as a single lot with...

WhatWood Agency has completed an update to its annual survey Russian Particleboard Market in 2019-2020

October 30, 2020 ` 14:53  
The players of the domestic PB market in 2019 faced the somewhat sluggish demand for products in the domestic market. Money income of the population did not help to support the demand for furniture. For four years, starting...

Wood pulp export from Russia grew by 7.5% in January — August 2020

October 29, 2020 ` 19:14  
In January — August 2020, the volume of wood pulp export from Russia grew by 7.5% YoY, reaching 1.475 million tons, as reported by the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation. The value of foreign supplies dropped...

WhatWood Agency has completed an update to its annual survey Russian OSB market in 2019-2020

October 29, 2020 ` 16:46  
Russian OSB market is quite young. The first imported products appeared in the late 1990s. In the period from 1997 to 2014 OSB demand has doubled annually (largely due to the low base effect). Until 2012 there was...

Cherepovets Plywood and Furniture Mill and Vologodskiye Lesopromyshlenniki Group purchased Sheksna Wood Board Plant

October 28, 2020 ` 18:10  
This transaction is aimed at enhancing the market positions of the largest wood processing enterprises from the Vologda Region by increasing board products output volumes and expanding the companies’ product range by producing MDF boards. Sheksna Wood Board...

Sberbank to finance the construction of a plywood mill in the Vologda region for 11.9 billion rubles

October 28, 2020 ` 15:16  
Sberbank confirms financing of the construction of an export-oriented birch plywood plant LLC Plitwood in the Vologda Region which is the joint venture by SC “Company group “Vologodskiye lesopromyshlenniki” and JSC Cherepovets Plywood and Furniture Plant. Financing for...

WhatWood Agency has completed an update to its annual survey MDF / HDF Market in Russia in 2019-2020

October 28, 2020 ` 12:28  
The volume of MDF/HDF, fiberboard (all types of panels) production reached 3.7 million m³ (+ 6% vs 2018). Excluding from the calculations the mature segment of the wet fiberboard, the volume of MDF / HDF production, dry fiberboard...