Raute received orders worth approximately €16 million to Russia
July 7, 2021 ` 17:49
Raute Corporation has received orders worth approximately €16 million from Segezha Group to Russia. The scope of orders includes new production lines and modernizations of existing lines to increase the veneer production capacity, and also production lines to...
Pfeifer successfully completes the second expansion stage at the CLT plant in Schlitz
July 6, 2021 ` 16:35
The cross laminated timber plant of the Pfeifer Group, which went into operation at the beginning of 2020, is doubling its capacity to 100,000 m³ annually this year as planned. In order to increase the joinery performance and...
Junnikkala to build new sawmill in Finland
July 6, 2021 ` 14:45
Finnish Junnikkala is preparing for a big investment that will launch the construction of a modern sawmill unit in Oulu, Finland. Construction will begin in 2022 and will be finished by the end of 2023. €70 million investment...
Russia increased sawn timber production in January-May 2021
June 24, 2021 ` 12:03
According to data from the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) in January-May 2021, Russia increased sawn timber production by 2.6% YoY to 12.2 million m³.
Russia significantly increased wood-based panels production in January-May 2021
June 24, 2021 ` 11:23
According to data from the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) in January-May 2021, plywood production in Russia increased by 16.2% YoY to 1.9 mln m³. The output of fiberboard (including MDF/HDF/flooring) also increased by 26.7% YoY to 293...
Segezha Group increases plywood production capacity
June 21, 2021 ` 17:45
Segezha Group, as part of its plywood production development strategy, is investing in the Vyatsky Plywood Mill capacity expansion project. The company has upgraded existing equipment, and new units have been selected for installation. The design is almost...
Belarusian Ivatsevichdrev to make more particleboards and furniture
June 18, 2021 ` 17:56
The Belarusian woodworking company Ivatsevichdrev intends to make more particleboards and furniture. The plans were discussed during a working trip of Prime Minister of Belarus Roman Golovchenko to Ivatsevichi District, Brest Region. Ivatsevichdrev specializes in making particle boards....
A new veneer surfacing-and-jointing line put into operation at Sveza’s mill in St. Petersburg
June 17, 2021 ` 16:44
The value of investments in the project amounted to about 50 million rubles. The new line is capable of “sewing” up to 10,000 m³ of veneer per year, which will increase the annual output of large-sized plywood. The...
Segezha Group to increase the capacity of Vyatsky Plywood Mill by a third
June 17, 2021 ` 16:37
As the Kommersant newspaper reports, Segezha Group is going to invest 6 billion rubles to increase the production capacity of its plant in Kirov to 255,000 m³ of plywood per year. The production site is scheduled to be...
Government of the Tver region to allocate 189 million rubles from the regional public funds to support investment projects in the field of value-added wood processing
June 16, 2021 ` 18:47
The funds are intended to facilitate the development of the timber industry in the region. Starting from 2021, timber enterprises will be provided with soft loans for the purchase of industrial and harvesting equipment and the construction of...
Korol Divanov LLC to start producing plywood and particleboard in the Kirov region
June 16, 2021 ` 18:38
The Russian manufacturer of upholstered furniture is ready to start construction of the production facility at the end of 2021. The investments will amount to over 500 million rubles. It is estimated that the tax revenues will exceed...
Sveza Mill in Sverdlovsk region to invest RUB 100 million in reconstruction of raw material heating system
June 16, 2021 ` 14:11
Sveza Mill in Verkhnyaya Sinyachikha, Sverdlovsk region, has started an investment project related to reconstruction of raw material heating ponds. The reconstruction program covers fourteen ponds of a production site and is divided into four stages and is...