Russian Timber Journal 07-2019: Slowdown in Russian economic growth in H1 2019; for 5 months 2019, the EU has reduced the volume of import of pellets; Federal Forestry Agency: timber harvesting in the Russian constituent entities for 10 years; export of parquet from the European Union decreased; CEPI has published statistics on the securities industry for 2018

Russian Timber Journal 07-2019: Slowdown in Russian economic growth in H1 2019;  for 5 months 2019, the EU has reduced the volume of import of pellets; Federal Forestry Agency: timber harvesting in the Russian constituent entities for 10 years; export of parquet from the European Union decreased; CEPI has published statistics on the securities industry for 2018

Russian Timber Journal 07-2019:

Featured Article:

Slowdown in Russian economic growth in H1 2019 

At the beginning of 2019, the European Union reduced wood pellet imports

Federal Forestry Agency: timber harvest volumes by regions in 2018

Global Timber Markets News:

Japan: Marutama starts Hokkaido fir plywood

Egger particleboard plant in Biskupiec, Poland starts production

FanDOK (Bobruysk, Belarus) is considering the construction of an OSB plant

SCA: sales growth of 12% in Q1 2019 vs Q2 2018

Danzer coses Souvans plant in France

Stora Enso has initiated feasibility studies for a possible CLT unit in connection with its Ždírec mill in the Czech Republic and a new construction beam unit to be located at the Ybbs mill in Austria

Three new Dieffenbacher plants start operation in China and Ecuador in mid-June, 2019

European panel Federation notes a slight increase in production in the European Union

The European Parquet Market slightly contracted in 2018

Ontario Investing Almost $5 Million in Mass Timber Innovation

New Zealand Government’s to fund $19.5 million ‘Wood Cluster Centre of Excellence’ in Gisborne

Theurl to build CLT plant in Carinthia by 2020

Belarus invests €21 million in the creation of a new sawmill and pellet production

Ukrstat: Ukraine reduced plywood output by 6.6% to 90,400 m3 in 6 months of 2019

Pfleiderer Group increases output capacities of value-added products at Grajewo production plant

Former B.C. sawmill gets fresh start as wood pellet plant

Graanul Biotech receives funding for third EU project

EDA-funded infrastructure improvements to aid Enviva pellet plant

Canadian government awards nearly $1 million to WPAC

Pinnacle to build pellet plant in Alberta, signs 2 new contracts

In 2018, CEPI members produced 92.2 million tonnes of paper and board, keeping the same level of production than in 2017, and benefiting from a healthy economic environment

International Paper industrial packaging profits up in Q2 of 2019

India introduces 10% import duty on newsprint and LWC

Stora Enso to sell its stake in the Dawang paper mill to its joint venture partner Huatai

Stora Enso invests Euro 10 million in new facility in Finland

Lenzing Group successfully completes expansion of pulp production

UPM to build 2.1 million tonne greenfield eucalyptus pulp mill near Paso de los Toros in central Uruguay

Canfor Corporation: Second quarter of 2019 reported operating loss of $50 million

Russian News:

Federal Forestry Agency (Rosleskhoz) and Federal Customs Service of Russia agreed on data exchange in timber harvesting and export

Roslesinforg introduces digital methods of forest taxation

In H1 2019, timber harvesting by Titan Group amounted to 1.75 million m³

Sveza Group to start its own timber harvesting

In 6 months of 2019, Sawmill 25 increased its sawmilling by 25% to 883,000 m3

Priority investment projects in the forest sector at Sawmill 25 and ULK Group completed

Timber processing enterprises in the Irkutsk region stand idle due to forest fires

IKEA to increase its production capacity in Kirov Region

Otkritie Bank opened a line of credit for ULK Group in the amount of $725 million (~47 billion rubles)

Uralsky Zavod OSB started production of OSB

On July 18, 2019, the Sveza plant in Kostroma launched a new line for packaging in Cross Wrap stretch film (Finland)

Prodpromsnab (Udmurtia) is included in the list of priority investment projects

Ministry of Industry and Trade: escrow account system will give impetus to wooden housing construction

Zhunda Woodworking Company LLC started production of OSB and plywood in Primorsky Region

Belpromresurs (Bashkiria) to process birch for export

Kastamonu increased shipments by rail 10 times in four years

The Ilim Timber in Bratsk received a certificate of conformity for the production of FSF grade plywood of E0.5 formaldehyde emission class

WoodImpex44 to invest 1 billion rubles in a new woodworking plant in Kostroma Region

Shalakushales (Titan Group) invested 15 million rubles in the construction of a railway spur and loading platforms

Ministry of industry and trade includes investment project for construction of a plywood mill in Galich into the list of priority forest development projects

Russian Railways and FESCO expand the Trans-Siberian LandBridge geography and launch transit transportation services from South Korea to Europe by the Trans-Siberian Railway

Amkodor-Onego produced its first forwarder in Petrozavodsk

Peak-Bio to double its wood pellet production output up to 30,000 tons per year in Ust-Ilimsk (Irkutsk Region)

Biolesinvest (Kirov Region) to build a wood pellet plant with the output of 25,000 tons per year

IIKO company to build a wood pellet workshop in the Priluzsky District of Komi Republic

Segezha Group begins construction of the second phase of the wood pellet plant at the site of Lesosibirsky LDK No. 1

Segezha West started a reconstruction of Segezhsky PPM

JSC Volga’s investment project is included in the priority list

Andritz to supply a soda recovery boiler to Ilim Group for its plant in Ust-Ilimsk

A new paper machine worth €20 million is being installed at the Arkhbum Tissue Group plant

According to the results of H1 2019, revenues of Syktyvkar Tissue Group reached 3.68 billion rubles

Solikamskbumprom completed its investment project for the reconstruction of the Solikamsk CHP plant worth 4 billion rubles

Waste paper of the Arkhangelsk region to be processed in Kotlas into corrugated cardboard

WhatWood’s statistics – Russia: forest products production in 2018 — 2Q 2019

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