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Kama PPM started producing base paper for wallpaper production

August 27, 2020 ` 18:38  
The company’s press office informs that papermaking machine No. 7 of Kama PPM (Krasnokamsk, Perm region) produced the first batch of base paper for wallpaper production weighing 80 g/m². New products in batches of 40, 100, and 160...

UPM to restructure several paper businesses

August 27, 2020 ` 18:02  
To ensure future competitiveness of UPM Communication Papers, UPM announces plans for permanent closing of UPM Kaipola paper mill in Finland, sale of UPM Shotton paper mill in Wales and streamlining Communication Papers business function teams. In addition,...

SCA intends to invest in pulp production and initiates consultations to discontinue publication paper

August 26, 2020 ` 18:43  
SCA intends to invest SEK 1,45bn (US $165 million) in the production of chemically pre-treated thermo-mechanical pulp (CTMP) at the Ortviken paper mill in Sundsvall. In parallel, SCA is initiating consultations with trade unions and employee representatives to discontinue...

Wood processing enterprises to pay tens of millions of rubles for the damage to the soils of the Krasnoyarsk region

August 26, 2020 ` 18:16  
Inspectors of the regional Ministry of Ecology and Rational Use of Natural Resources have checked the compliance of wood processing enterprises with environmental legislation. The auditors visited Boguchansky and Yemelyanovsky districts and inspected Medeo, Tigman, Zhunghesheng, ProfSibLes, and...

Binderholz wins Klausner Lumber One auction

August 25, 2020 ` 18:13  
The Austrian binderholz Group, based in Fügen, acquired all the assets of Klausner Lumber One LLC, based in Live Oak, Suwannee County, Florida, at the auction on August 21st. With the bid of 61 million US dollars received,...

Vostochny wood processing plant put into operation in the Amur region

August 25, 2020 ` 17:52  
Implementation of the project made it possible to create a modern production facility ensuring the full cycle of processing wood raw materials (including waste) into finished products. The wood processing facility is located in the village of Isa...

Small enterprises are mastering OSB production. Interview with the head of Rozas LLC, an OSB production newcomer

August 21, 2020 ` 17:40  
The issues of effective disposal of waste from harvesting, woodworking, and value-added wood processing have been particularly topical for Russia in the post-Soviet period. Today, more and more small Russian enterprises are opening their own board production facilities, thereby...

Japan significantly reduced imports of Russian veneer logs

August 21, 2020 ` 15:44  
The Russian government has been promoting wood processing in the Russian Far East region and log export duty has been raised step by step, which reduced supply of larch logs for plywood manufacturing in Japan. The duty was...

Novy Sever LPK LLC to invest 366 million rubles in the construction of a timber enterprise in the Perm region

August 20, 2020 ` 11:56  
The initiator, Novy Sever LPK LLC, intends to invest about 366 million rubles in the construction, the project is expected to be implemented by 2023. The new production facility is designed as an integrated full-cycle enterprise: harvesting, processing,...

Russia reduced the production of wood-based panels in January-July 2020

August 20, 2020 ` 10:55  
According to data from the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) in January-July 2020, plywood production in Russia decreased by 5.9% YoY to 2.3 million m³. The output of fiberboard (including MDF/HDF/flooring) decreased as well – by 11.7% YoY...

Board production resumed at the premises of an MDF plant in Yugra

August 19, 2020 ` 17:22  
As the press office of the Yugra Government reports, board production has been resumed in the commissioning and start-up mode at the premises of the MDF plant in the urban-type settlement of Mortka (Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Yugra) in...

Wood pulp production increased by 6.4% in Russia in Jan-Jul 2020

August 18, 2020 ` 17:13  
According to the data of the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) in Jan-Jul 2020, the output of Russian wood pulp grew by 6.4% YoY to 5.1 million tons. Paper and cardboard production increased over the reporting period as...