Timber industry research & analytics Russian Timber Journal 01-2021: Dmitry Rudenko, Vice President of Segezha Group: demand for wooden houses currently exceeds the productive capacity; the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia held the IV LPK 360° Timber Industry Forum themed A New Era of Development as part of the measures for the development of the timber industry; the Government approved the RF Forest Sector Development Strategy until 2030; how soon will Russia become the world’s largest wood pellet supplier?
11 February 2021 ` 16:14
Russian Timber Journal 01-2021: WhatWood Agency interviewed Dmitry Rudenko, Vice President of Segezha Group, about the expectations for wooden housing construction and the CLT construction technology that is relatively new for Russia; WhatWood Agency summarizes key theses of the plenary session the IV LPK 360° Timber Industry Forum, as well as the results of voting by participants and the audience on topical issues of the industry; the Government approved the RF Forest Sector Development Strategy until 2030; how soon will Russia become the world’s largest wood pellet supplier?
Featured Article:
– Interview with Vice President of Segezha Group Dmitry Rudenko
– The Government approved the RF Forest Sector Development Strategy until 2030
– The Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia held the IV LPK 360° Timber Industry Forum themed A New Era of Development
– How soon will Russia become the world’s largest wood pellet supplier?
Global Timber Markets News:
– Canadian government to plant two billion trees
– Finland increases wood imports in January-October 2020
– Germany: Forest Damage Compensation Act has negative effects on the entire timber industry
– In 2020, prices for pulpwood and sawlogs decreased in Sweden
– Austrian timber companies fined in Romania for unfair competition
– European trade of wood chips has gone up substantially
– Almost all softwood lumber prices flat in N. America
– Luke: Finland reduces forest industry products export in January-October 2020
– EU27 tropical sawnwood imports fall 17%
– US hardwood plywood imports up 9%
– In January-September 2020, the UK reduced imports of softwood lumber by 22% YoY
– In 3Q 2020, China reduced sawn timber imports by 4%
– In 2020, new home construction in Japan decreased by 10% YoY to 814 thousand units. Wooden housing construction decreased by 10.3% YoY to 469 thousand units.
– U.S. Housing starts rose to fastest pace since 2006 in December
– VMG Group (Lithuania) to build a plant to produce timber structures
– Wood pellet production in Germany increased by 9.9% in 2020
– In January 2021, wood pellets price in Austria fell by 5.6%
– Swiss pellet prices a little more expensive January 2021
– UPM plans a new biorefinery
– Germany: Stable pellet prices at the beginning of the year
– Segezha Packaging Romania moving forward with major expansion project
– SCA to stop PM5 at Ortviken paper mill in Sundsvall
– Start-up of Voith’s first MG paper machine PM 40 in China
– Containerboard production increased in the U.S. in 2020
– SCA to increase kraftliner price
– International Paper sells its corrugated packaging business in Turkey to Mondi Group
– Metsä Board completes sale of 30% stake in the Husum pulp mill to Norra Skog
– Stora Enso to secure € 150 million EIB loan for mill conversion
– Mondi starts up new speciality kraft paper machine at Štětí mill in Czech Republic
– Euro Graph: demand for magazine paper falls in Europe in November 2020
– AR Packaging optimises the boosting home deliveries with smartly constructed snack boxes
– US wooden furniture imports surpass $2 billion in November 2020
Russian News:
– The Government approved the RF Forest Sector Development Strategy until 2030
– The RF Ministry of Industry and Trade proposed to limit or prohibit the exports of particleboards, OSB, and chips
– The bill on digitalization of the forest sector passed through third reading
– Federal Forestry Agency: the total timber resources in Russia exceed 102 billion m³, and the timber harvested in 2020 totaled 220 million m³
– Sveza has increased its forest lease by more than a third in 2020
– Rosleskhoz will contribute to the experiment for the creation of a unified information system for land and real estate
– Sawmill 25 increased the output of export sawn timber in 2020
– Altailes to start producing laminated MDF boards by 2025
– Russia reduced the production of wood-based panels in 2020
– Sveza installs a new moisture meter in Tyumen
– Ilim Group has summed up the results of its export operations in China in 2020
– Segezha Group invests in the development of the production site of Onega Sawmills
– IDF expanded the range of soft loans for wood processing projects
– Three large investment projects in the forest sector completed in Komi
– IDF to finance the modernization of plywood production facility at Gremyachinsky DOK
– Sveza showed increase in revenues in 2020
– Wood pulp production increased by 6.3% in Russia in 2020
– Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russia: Priority Investment Project of APPM “Board Production Rebuild” is officially completed
– Arkhbum Tissue Group will launch a new production line of Soffione napkins in February 2021
– Segezha Group opens an Innovation Center for high-tech packaging
– Based on results of 2020, Arkhbum LLC increased the products transportation by 19.1% using its own wagons
– Sea Port of Saint Petersburg JSC increased wood pellets transshipment in 2020
– Velsky LPK improves the quality of wood pellets
– A wood pellet production line put into operation at Spassky LPK in the Primorsky region
– A wood pellet production site with a capacity of 80,000 tons per year to open in the Krasnoyarsk region
– The Government to permit mortgages for wooden houses
– Schattdecor LLC started producing films for particleboards and MDF boards in the Moscow region
– Association of Furniture and Woodworking Enterprises of Russia: the share of counterfeit furniture is growing in Russia
– Danish JYSK to open 200 stores in Russia over the next 10–15 years
– Wood pulp export from Russia grew by 13.2% in January-November 2020
– In January – November 2020, Russian plywood export increased by 4.3%
– Russia reduced its export of sawn timber by 5.9% in January – November 2020
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