Tag: sawn timber

Canadian sawn timber production rises sharply in May 2020

Canada’s sawn timber production increased 24.7% from April 2020 to 4.36 million m³ in May 2020. Production was 18.7% lower than in May 2019, as Statistics Canada reported. Canadian sawmills shipped 4.1 million m³ of sawn timber in...

In 1H 2020, Lesozavod 25 increased the volume of sawmilling by 9% to 965,000 m³

Sawn timber exports increased by 12% YoY to 425,000 m³. Volume of wood pellets production in 1H 2020 increased by 0.9% YoY to 95,000 tons, the volume of production of industrial wood chips increased by 17% YoY to...

Segezha Group is selling Medvezhyegorsky LPH for 102 million rubles

Segezha Group put up for sale Medvezhyegorsky LPH — a sawn timber production plant located in Medvezhyegorsk, Karelia).  The holding estimates its asset at 102 million rubles. The total land plot area exceeds 172,000 m², the production capacity...

Holmen acquires Martinsons

Holmen signed an agreement to acquire Martinsons, one of Sweden’s leading players in sawn and processed wood products. The purchase price is SEK 1.0 billion ($110 million) for 100 per cent of the shares. The acquisition will almost...

China’s sawn timber imports from Russia in Jan-Apr 2020 down 12.8%

In January-April 2020, Russian sawn timber exports decreased by 6% YoY to 9.96 million м3. In April 2020, exports decreased by 13.3% YoY to 2.77 million м3. The largest importer of Russian sawn timber – China, in January-April...

Should the Russian government introduce export duties on sawn timber?

The main problem of accounting for the export of unprocessed roundwood and primary processed timber is, according to the authorities, the difference in customs duties on different commodity items of timber. For example, unprocessed or roughly processed wood,...

Declining of sawn timber exports from Russia: 2008-2009 Vs 2020

In the global financial crisis the downward trend lasted for six consecutive quarters in 2008-2009 (from Q4 2007 to Q1 2009). The strongest decline was in the European direction: exports from Russia dropped by 27% (which was the...

In January-April 2020, Onega LDK (part of Segezha Group) increased the sawn timber export by 30%

In January-April 2020, Onega LDK increased the sawn timber production by 3.1% yoy to 79,344 m³, exports for the same period increased by almost 30% to 51,360 m³, Segezha Group reports. The plant ships sawn timber to containers...

In Q1 2020 “Lesosibirsky LDK No. 1” (part of the Segezha Group) produced 136,800 m3 of sawn timber

This was a record for the last five years. Sawmill increased production by 135% from 1Q 2015 (57,900 thousand m3). 1Q 2020, the company delivered 235,400 m3 of raw materials (+ 43% yoy) to the plant through the...

Structure of investment in the Russian forest-industry sector in 2019

Starting from 2017, investments in the logging industry have been declining for the third year in a row. In 2019, the decline was 12% (yoy). up to 13.47 billion rubles. If in the year of 2018 logging companies...

Russia: sawn timber exports is falling at the high rates over the past 5 years

According to customs statistics, in 1Q 2020 the decline in sawn timber exports amounted to 7.7% to 6.83 million m³. The reason was the decrease in consumption in the Chinese market due to the restrictions introduced, against the...

Metsä to build a large sawmill in Rauma, Finland

The value of the Rauma sawmill investment is approximately EUR 200 million, and the new unit will produce around 750,000 cubic metres of pine sawn timber a year. The new sawmill will use machine vision and artificial intelligence...