Russian timber industry news #11-2015

– At the end of May 2015, several investment agreements were signed at the third economic forum “Vladimir region: local centre of import substitution”, including the one on the construction of an MDF mill in Murom on Siempelkamp equipment.

– Dekom LLC plans to complete the modernization of the sawmill complex in Bratsk in September 2015, as the company installed a German automated sawing line.

– Plitspichprom is preparing to launch the chipping and screening department of its new particleboard plant on Pallmann equipment in July 2015.

– Vostochny LLC plans to establish a mill producing wooden houses, mouldings and pellets worth RUR 310 million in Vokhomsky district of the Kostroma region.

– Belarus has banned the exports of logs, pulpwood and raw biomass as of January 1, 2016.

– Three of the four Russian producers of newsprint – Volga, Kondopoga, and Solikamskbumprom – have promised not to raise their prices in 2015 above inflation rates, according to Vedomosti business paper.

– In the north of the Arkhangelsk region, construction of a new forest selection seed-growing centre is planned under public-private partnership terms.

– Kronostar LLC (Sharya, Kostroma region) has acquired the line based on the short-cycle press, which will be used for the lamination of chipboard.

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