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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.

Komi started producing laminated MDF

January 22, 2024 ` 22:41  
A medium-density fiberboard plant in Zheshart, Komi, started producing laminated MDF. This is a new product and a new finishing material for the region as a whole. According to Vladimir Pelevin, Production Site Manager at Zheshart PBL, the...

In 2024, Askona is planning to open up to five new hypermarkets

January 18, 2024 ` 23:29  
Askona Group is planning to open three to five new hypermarkets in 2024, as Alexander Manenok, Group CEO, shared in an interview with TASS. In summer 2023, the company opened its first hypermarket in Moscow called Askona Home....

Segezha Group started shipping laminated beams and CLT from Sokol to China

January 18, 2024 ` 23:27  
In December, Segezha Group made the first shipment of laminated beams and CLT to Chinese customers. The train with two containers of laminated beams (105 m³) and two containers of CLT panels (100 m³) has already arrived in...

Particleboard producers are trying to load their laminating facilities as much as possible

January 18, 2024 ` 23:24  
As of late December 2023, WhatWood estimates the 2023 particleboard output in Russia (including laminated particleboard) at 7.7 million m³ (+15 YoY). The annual utilization of production facilities was 86% (not counting non-operational facilities) compared to 74% in...

Upak Group is planning to produce packaging in the Krasnodar Region

January 17, 2024 ` 20:10  
Upak Group LLC and the Administration of Armavir have signed an investment agreement that stipulates building a packaging materials plant with a total investment value of 580 million rubles and 140 new jobs. The company produces and sells...

Construction of a packaging plant worth 19 billion rubles began in the Moscow Region

January 17, 2024 ` 20:02  
L-PAK started building Phase I of the corrugated cardboard and packaging products production plant in the Kashira Special Economic Zone. The investor has already procured the corresponding permit. This was reported by the press office of the Ministry...

Ilim Group completed the construction of a pulp-and-cardboard mill

January 17, 2024 ` 19:55  
The construction of a pulp-and-cardboard mill by Ilim Group finished in Ust-Ilimsk, as reported by the State Residential Construction Supervision Authority of the Irkutsk Region that issued a statement of compliance with the facility’s design documentation requirements. The...

Half of wood pellets produced in Russia remains in the domestic market

January 16, 2024 ` 19:15  
According to WhatWood estimates, the wood pellet output in Russia was around 185,000 t in November 2023 and 1.7 million t over 11 months of 2023. The total 2023 wood pellet output in Russia will stay at the...

Russia may increase the number of border security checkpoints for transporting roundwood from Belarus

January 16, 2024 ` 19:09  
Moscow sees no reason not to increase the number of checkpoints equipped for roundwood export from Belarus across the Russian territory; it only requires the corresponding infrastructure. This was announced by Alexey Overchuk, Deputy Prime Minister of the...

Rates of timber harvest decline relative to 2022 are decelerating

January 15, 2024 ` 21:14  
After 9 months of 2023, the difference was -6% (-5% for softwood and -7% for hardwood harvesting), but after 10 months of 2023, the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) has recorded a difference of -4% (-4% for softwood...

Financial performance of the Russian timber industry began to improve but is still far from the 2021 peaks

January 15, 2024 ` 20:59  
Q1 2022 saw the historic high of timber enterprises’ quarterly revenue (740 billion rubles). The financial performance began to deteriorate drastically starting from Q2 2022 as European markets became unavailable. According to an estimate by WhatWood, in 2022,...

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.