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Segezha Group starts selling apartments in the first CLT houses in Russia
March 2, 2023 ` 12:47
Segezha Group is officially starting selling housing in the first Russian high-rise CLT buildings. These are one-room and two-room apartments with an area of 48–63 m² in two four-storey buildings of Sokoliki Housing Estate in the town of...
Canadian housing starts drop sharply in January 2023
February 17, 2023 ` 19:39
The standalone monthly seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) of total housing starts for all areas in Canada declined 13% in January (215,365 units) compared to December (248,296 units) according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). The SAAR...
The Government of the Irkutsk Region is planning to implement a large-scale project of comprehensive wooden housing construction in the region
February 16, 2023 ` 18:22
Federal standards actually allow the construction of individual residential houses in the region at the moment, but the regional authorities are planning to launch a large-scale project of comprehensive wooden housing construction. The first project could be the...
Russian Timber Journal 01-2023: interview with Valeriy Sergeevich Sukhanov, D. Eng., Honored Worker of the Russian Forest Industry; in 2022, the sawn timber export from Russia dropped to an 8-year low; North American companies continue to cut sawn timber production; the Government of Russia allowed transportation of roundwood and sawn timber to EAEU countries; in 2022, the Russian export of timber products reduced by two times and railway transportation, by 22%; over 25 billion rubles’ worth of transportation costs of industrial products export will be subsidized in 2023
February 9, 2023 ` 12:57
Russian Timber Journal 01-2023: Valeriy Sergeevich Sukhanov, D. Eng., Honored Worker of the Russian Forest Industry: “The Russian timber industry has degraded”; in 2022, the export of sawn timber from Russia dropped by 22% YoY, down to 23.5 million...
The Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Construction of Russia continue to elaborate a roadmap for the formation of a domestic market for the production and consumption of standardized glued laminated timber structures
January 24, 2023 ` 19:19
The roadmap is aimed at compensating for the lost exports of sawn timber and glulam structures to the countries of the European Union and at increasing the output of higher-value-added timber products. The roadmap provides for federal funding...
Segezha Group obtained a Kazakhstan certificate for its CLT panels
January 24, 2023 ` 19:14
The certificate confirms compliance with the safety requirements of the republic. Margarita Lee, Vice President of Segezha Group, notes that obtaining such certificates in Kazakhstan will facilitate the implementation of large projects with the participation of government agencies...
Russian Timber Journal 12-2022: interview with Anatoly Shcherbakov, Director for Timber Supply and Logistics at VLP Group; preliminary results of the Russian timber industry for 2022: the beginning of complex structural transformations; Lithuania tightens control over timber imports from Russia and Belarus; the Russian Government extended the increased rates of customs duties applied to exports of raw sawn timber until the end of 2025; plywood production in Russia fell to a ten-year low in 2022
January 19, 2023 ` 14:50
Russian Timber Journal 12-2022: Anatoly Shcherbakov, Director for Timber Supply and Logistics at VLP Group: “No effective state aid measures to support timber harvesting activities have been taken so far”; preliminary results of the Russian timber industry for 2022: the...
Russian Timber Journal 10-2022: Top 100 Russian timber industry companies in 2021; sawn timber transit through Kazakhstan is banned for Russian exporters; Government of the Russian Federation is planning to set the priorities of sawn timber transportation eastwards by railway; Russia increased its plywood production for the first time in a long while; timber harvest in the Vologda Region dropped by a third in Q2 – Q3 2022; Pestovsky LPK suspends production
December 14, 2022 ` 19:19
Russian Timber Journal 10-2022: WhatWood Analytics Agency prepared the next rating of TOP 100 Russian timber industry companies in 2021; Russian timber enterprises are asking the authorities to lift the restrictions on transiting dried sawn timber through Kazakhstan...
The Wooden Housing Construction Association submitted a package of measures to support the domestic timber industry to the Government of the Russian Federation
December 6, 2022 ` 17:08
The Wooden Housing Construction Association approached the expert board of the Federation Council with a package of proposed measures to support the timber industry under the conditions of sanctions pressure. Members of the Association propose, for instance, to...
Vadim Fidarov, Government Relations Manager, Wooden Housing Construction Association: “Private housing projects are a market of cut-throat competition”
December 1, 2022 ` 12:38
The segment of Russian wooden housing construction has been growing actively over the past few years. In that time, wooden structures have been used in a greater share of private housing projects, according to industry experts. The market...
Russian Timber Journal 09-2022: Interview with Vadim Fidarov, Government Relations Manager, Wooden Housing Construction Association; will the Russian market of wooden housing construction be able to compensate for the lost export of sawn timber; EU bans imports of wood pulp and paper from Russia; Egypt imports Russian plywood at record-setting rates; over 9 months of 2022, Russian plywood output reduced by a fourth; Segezha Group reviewed the priority of building new pulp and paper mills in Karelia and the Krasnoyarsk Region; Russian printing houses may shut down due to a shortage of western equipment
November 30, 2022 ` 17:44
Russian Timber Journal 09-2022: Vadim Fidarov, Government Relations Manager, Wooden Housing Construction Association: “Private housing projects are a market of cut-throat competition”; will the Russian market of wooden housing construction be able to compensate for the lost export...
US housing starts hit 18-month lows
August 18, 2022 ` 13:21
Construction of new US homes hit 18-month lows in July, according to Commerce Department data on Tuesday that suggested that interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve were boosting mortgage rates that in turn were strangling the property...
