Tag: Russia

UTK LLC (ULK Group) organized operation of Doppstadt 811H wood chipper in Vinogradovsky District

The machine is designed for processing wood into chips for the boiler house. The new equipment will make it possible to accumulate a sufficient volume of bio fuel for the heating season in Selmenga village to start on...

Russia is implementing a tool of growing private forests on agricultural lands for the first time

New Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1509 of September 21, 2020 “On features of using, safeguarding, protecting and reproducing forests located in agricultural lands” permits forest management activities, including timber harvesting, in agricultural lands;...

Russia: share of laminated PB vs PB

Laminated particleboard is present in the product portfolio of almost all Russian producers. The exceptions are Altai Forest, Ufa FPK, Chaadaevsky plant, Lestekh (PLPK). In 2019 the volume of laminated particleboard, production amounted to 5.9 million m³, or...

A series of Ukrainian paper and cardboard producers will be granted access to the Russian market

At a meeting with Government members on Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed with a proposal by Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin to permit three Ukrainian companies to supply their products to the Russian Federation, TASS reports. This...

WhatWood Agency has completed an update to its annual survey Russian Particleboard Market in 2019-2020

The players of the domestic PB market in 2019 faced the somewhat sluggish demand for products in the domestic market. Money income of the population did not help to support the demand for furniture. For four years, starting...

Wood pulp export from Russia grew by 7.5% in January — August 2020

In January — August 2020, the volume of wood pulp export from Russia grew by 7.5% YoY, reaching 1.475 million tons, as reported by the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation. The value of foreign supplies dropped...

WhatWood Agency has completed an update to its annual survey Russian OSB market in 2019-2020

Russian OSB market is quite young. The first imported products appeared in the late 1990s. In the period from 1997 to 2014 OSB demand has doubled annually (largely due to the low base effect). Until 2012 there was...

A plant for value-added veneer logs processing is supposed to be built in the Sverdlovsk Region (Russia)

The plant will be built in the Krasnoufimsk Municipal District within two years. The enterprise is supposed to process 100,000 m³ of veneer logs per year. The Sverdlovsk Region, the Perm Region and Bashkiria are going to be...

Russia is launching subsidized lending for wood processing

At a meeting on forest industry development and decriminalization, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave an instruction to launch subsidized loans for small and medium-size businesses starting from 2021, so that they could re-equip production sites and create value-added...

Launching an electronic timber accounting system in the Far East will take 2 – 3 months

Far East Development Fund is ready to launch an electronic timber accounting system in the region within 2 – 3 months; it will make the processing and export process transparent.

Vladimir Putin gave a directive to introduce a ban on exporting unprocessed or roughly processed timber products from Russian as of January 1, 2022

September 29, 2020 Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting on issues of developing and decriminalizing the timber industry. The President gave a directive to introduce a system of accounting for timber and transactions therewith in the pilot...

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

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...