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The American Thanksgiving holiday predictably dampened lumber market activity

December 8, 2022 ` 18:43  
As is historically usual for this season, demand — and therefore prices — of most softwood lumber items dropped during the US Thanksgiving holiday week. This time of year, is normally marked by slowing construction activity thus lower...

VLP Group: timber harvest in the Vologda Region dropped by a third in Q2 – Q3 2022

December 7, 2022 ` 18:48  
The timber harvesting volume in the Vologda Region reduced by exactly one third in Q2 and Q3 2022 compared to the same period last year, as reported by Alexander Churkin, Chairman of the Board, Vologodskiye Lesopromyshlenniki (VLP) Group,...

Government of the Russian Federation amended the procedure of identifying checkpoints for exporting certain types of timber

December 7, 2022 ` 18:37  
Decree No. 2133 dated 24.11.2022 introduces changes in some statutory instruments to specify the checkpoints for exporting certain types of timber from Russia. The Decree comes into effect on December 26, 2022. Specifically, a new subparagraph amends Decree...

Government of the Russian Federation is planning to set the priorities of sawn timber transportation eastwards by railway

December 7, 2022 ` 18:20  
On November 28, Viktoria Abramchenko, Deputy Chair of the Government of the Russian Federation, who supervises the timber industry, sent a letter to the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Transport, instructing them to consider,...

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...

Segezha Group liquidated its sawmill in Karelia

December 6, 2022 ` 16:51  
According to a post on the Spark analytics system, Segezha Group liquidated Segezha Sawmills LLC. Winding-up of the sawmill at one of the company’s oldest sites in Karelia began more than a year ago, as reported by TASS...

Amkodor may open a production site in the Voronezh Region

December 6, 2022 ` 17:22  
The possibility of opening a Belorussian machine-building plant in the Voronezh Region was discussed at the meeting between Alexander Gusev, Governor, and the management team of Amkodor (Belarus) led by Alexander Shakutin, Chair of the Board of Directors,...

L-PACK Kashira LLC will invest 2 billion rubles in producing corrugated cardboard in the Moscow Region

December 5, 2022 ` 21:01  
The company intends to build a factory worth 2 billion rubles to make corrugated cardboard and a whole range of other products, including secondary corrugated packaging for milk and juices in Kashira, a town in the Moscow Region,...

Russian printing houses may shut down due to a shortage of western equipment

December 5, 2022 ` 20:55  
Top managers of printing houses told Vedomosti that their companies were facing a shortage of equipment and spare parts because of the sanctions and the fact that producers from Europe, North America, and Japan were refusing to supply....

Rosselkhozbank: the volume of the Russian packaging market may increase by 30% by the end of 2025

December 5, 2022 ` 16:49  
Analysts from the Center of Macroeconomic and Regional Analysis and Forecasting at Rosselkhozbank estimate that the volume of the Russian packaging market may increase by 30% and reach 1.7 trillion rubles by the end of 2025. Eco packaging...

Segezha Group reviewed the priority of building new pulp and paper mills in Karelia and the Krasnoyarsk Region

December 2, 2022 ` 17:34  
Elena Romanova, Head of Investor Relations at Segezha Group, said at Smartlab Conference that Segezha Group had reviewed the priority of projects on launching new pulp and paper mills in Karelia (Segezha West) and the Krasnoyarsk Region (Segezha...

VLP Group reports a crisis in woodworking in the Northwestern Federal District

December 2, 2022 ` 17:31  
Alexey Churkin, Chair of the Board of Directors at Vologodskiye Lesopromyshlenniki Group, spoke at the meeting of the Union of Timber Manufacturers and Exporters of Russia and highlighted the acute problems currently faced by the woodworking industry in...

About WhatWood project

WhatWood agency is the only Russian consulting company with core specialization in the timber industry analytics. Within five years of timber market research we have provided services to 130 clients in 15 countries from Finland to Canada, from UK to Korea: industrial companies, banks, investors, government agencies, scientific organizations, and individual entrepreneurs. We have unique contact and knowledge base, as well as deep understanding of the regional industry and market in Russia. We give presentations at major industry events and are cited by the main Russian business media. To get in touch with us, please visit the About Us page. You can also browse the catalogue of our products.