Timber industry research & analytics Russian Timber Journal 09-2020: how a ban on exports of softwood and hardwood logs and precious hardwood will impact the Russian timber industry; the Government of the Russian Federation is adopting measures to encourage wood processing; interview with Alexey Ryzhikov, Saint Petersburg International Mercantile Exchange (SPIMEX) CEO; EU to launch anti-dumping procedure for birch plywood imports from Russia
23 October 2020 ` 17:31
Russian Timber Journal 09-2020: Vladimir Putin gave a directive to introduce a ban on exporting unprocessed or roughly processed timber products from Russian as of January 1, 2022, how this decision will impact the Russian timber industry; the Government of the Russian Federation is adopting measures to encourage wood processing, WhatWood Agency has picked some of them; EU to launch anti-dumping procedure for birch plywood imports from Russia; Alexey Ryzhikov: “Plywood, fiberboard, particleboard, wood pulp can become exchange-traded commodities. We are already trading wood pellets today.”
Featured Article:
— How a ban on exports of softwood and hardwood logs and precious hardwood will impact the Russian timber industry
— The Government of the Russian Federation is adopting measures to encourage wood processing
— Interview with Alexey Ryzhikov, Saint Petersburg International Mercantile Exchange (SPIMEX) CEO
— EU to launch anti-dumping procedure for birch plywood imports from Russia
Global Timber Markets News:
— Sweden: the gross felling increased in 2019 but is expected to decrease in 2020
— In January – September 2020, Belarusian Commodity Exchange increased roundwood sales by 29% YoY, reaching $264.1 million
— In January-July 2020, с increased log imports by 11% yoy to 7.3 million m³
— Belarus: wood processing volumes are going to exceed 20 million m3 per year in 2020
— ITTO: in July 2020, the US reduced imports of hardwood sawn timber by 40% yoy to 12.596 thousand m³
— Neiman Enterprises to acquire Interfor Corporation’s Gilchrist, OR sawmill
— Best Wood Schneider to build new sawmill
— VMG opened one of the largest particle board factories in Europe
— In January-July 2020, the EU and the UK reduced plywood imports from Russia
— Dieffenbacher will install the equipment for productions MDF plates at Nile Wood plant in Egypt
— Particleboard production line for Guangxi Xiangsheng Household Materials Technology Co., Ltd. made by Siempelkamp
— WRI: US lumber companies reached record profits in 2Q
— In early October 2020, sawn timber in the United States rose by 155%
— Egger begins operations at its first U.S. manufacturing plant in Lexington
— In August 2020, new home construction in Japan decreased by 9.1% YoY to 69.1 thousand units. Wooden housing construction decreased by 12% YoY to 38.4 thousand units
— In September 2020, the number of new housing starts in Canada decreased by 20.1%
— The country’s largest wood pellet plant has been commissioned in Belarus
— In October 2020, the price of wood pellets in Switzerland decreased by 2.3%
— In August 2020, the USA reduced the export of wood pellets by 20.6% YoY to 585,883 thousand tons
— EU to launch anti-dumping procedure for birch plywood imports from Russia
— Pinskdrev (Belarus) has launched a power supply plant consuming wood waste with the capacity of 35MW
— Stora Enso completes co-determination negotiations at Hylte Mill in Sweden
— Hamburger Containerboard to close KM1 board machine at Trostberg mill in Bavaria, Germany
— In July 2020, the demand for paper in Europe decreases rapidly
— SCA to increase Kraftliner price by €50 per tonne
— Oji Fibre Solutions builds new corrugated cardboard packaging facility in Christchurch, New Zealand
— Papier- und Kartonfabrik Varel to invest Euro 280 million in its cartonboard production
— Andritz acquires Enviroburners
— WestRock to shutdown PM at its Evadale mill in Texas
— In December 2020, Newsprint Paper Plant (Shkolv, Belarus) is going to launch a new paper production shop
— Svetlogorsk Pulp and Cardboard Mill is going to launch viscose wood pulp production by the end of 2020
— By March 2021, Dobrush Paper Factory (Belarus) is going to launch a plant producing coated and uncoated cardboard varieties
— Stora Enso invests in Forshaga to develop sustainable barrier solutions
— Stora Enso starts the production of new-generation formed fiber products free from plastic and PFAS
— Inauguration of the world’s first fossil-free biomethanol plant
— UPM begins construction of biobased chemical plant in Germany
— In June 2020, Japan Increases Imports of Bedroom Furniture by 17%
— In the 1H 2020, China reduced the export of wooden furniture by 24% y / y
— Egger to acquire minority stake in Cleaf
Russian News:
— Vladimir Putin gave a directive to introduce a ban on exporting unprocessed or roughly processed timber products from Russian as of January 1, 2022
— Federal Forestry Agency (Rosleskhoz) reported the need to pass state forest inventory count once every ten years in Russian regions
— The Government of the Russian Federation established a Forest Sector Development Committee
— The Government of the Russian Federation is adopting measures to encourage wood processing
— A series of Ukrainian paper and cardboard producers will be granted access to the Russian market
— The Government imposed stricter liability for wooden cross-ties smuggling
— Russia is implementing a tool of growing private forests on agricultural lands for the first time
— The Constitutional Court put an end to indefinite inclusion in the Bad Faith Forest Users Register
— Launching an electronic timber accounting system in the Far East will take 2 – 3 months
— LPK Almas (Yakutia) received a loan of 200 million rubles
— Forest Resources Market in Russia 09-2020 pricing bulletin
— Russia is launching subsidized lending for wood processing
— A plant for value-added veneer logs processing is supposed to be built in the Sverdlovsk Region
— The Government of the Khanty-Mansiysk Region was again unable to sell assets of Ugra Timber Holding and Ugra-Plit through bidding
— Sveza Verhnaya Sinyachiha is upgrading production capacities
— Sveza Kostroma is reducing raw material consumption
— Cherepovets Plywood and Furniture Mill and Vologodskiye Lesopromyshlenniki Group purchased Sheksna Wood Board Plant
— Vologdaleskhoz (Vologda Region) reached its design capacity
— Greenwood is going to invest 348 million rubles in organizing wood fiber production in the Sverdlovsk Region
— Wood pulp export from Russia grew by 7.5% in January — August 2020
— Segezha Group is gradually reducing export shipments of its sawn timber by water in packs
— TransLes and Sveza Group started implementing a project ensuring raw material deliveries to plywood mills
— Pinezhsky Timber Holding is going to build a new main haul road in the Arkhangelsk Region
— Segezha Group is building a new railway spur on the premises of Lesosibirsky LDK No.1
— Customs Clearance and Customs Control Department of the Kansk customs post opened at Karabula station of the Krasnoyarsk Railways
— Siberian Plywood Mill opened wood pellets production
— UTK LLC (ULK Group) organized operation of Doppstadt 811H wood chipper in Vinogradovsky District
— Velsky LPK is installing a conveyor for wood pellets loading
— Wood Pellets Market in Russia: prices are continuing to drop; wood pellets production rates in Russia reduced slightly; wood pellets export to Europe is continuing to grow
— Wood pellets production was launched in the Kemerovo Region
— Association of Furniture and Woodworking Enterprises of Russia: over 10,000 furniture shops may close in Russia in the nearest future
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