In the Smolensk region launched a new sawmill with a capacity of 200 cubic meters of lumber per shift

During his working visit to the municipality, Governor Alexey Ostrovsky familiarized himself with the implementation of the investment project aimed at creating a full – cycle wood-processing waste-free production, and also took part in the opening ceremony of a new enterprise-the “PLADONIT” wood sawing plant. This was reported by the press service of the Governor of the Smolensk region.

Starting in 2016 the company “PLADONIT” (specializes on the harvesting of timber), together with “Ugra-LesEksport” carries out the investment project, involving the creation in Ugranskiy the area of production of the full cycle for processing wood. Relevant agreements on its implementation were reached at the Eastern economic forum in Vladivostok, which was attended by Governor Alexei Ostrovsky. To date, the construction of the plant with a capacity of 200 cubic meters of lumber per shift has been completed, modern logging equipment has been purchased, in particular, automated systems for sawing round timber, as well as equipment for its transportation.

As told to the Governor, the General Director of the company Andrey Chigvintsev, at present, the annual output of finished products at the enterprises of “PLADONIT” and “Ugra-LesEksport”  is about 76 thousand cubic meters of round timber. At the same time, it is important that priority attention is paid to the implementation of a complex of reforestation in the areas that have been cut down. Manufactured timber comes in a large woodworking company, but also companies producing furniture, furniture blanks, finishing materials, among them – “Drevprodukt EGGER Gagarin”, “Shatura-Wood”, “Plitspichprom”, “Futura” and so forth.

Informing about the priority development plans, the General Director of “PLADONIT” said that this year it is planned to build a warehouse of finished products with an area of 1.5 thousand square meters, a drying complex with a one-time loading of 600 cubic meters of forest, as well as a plant for the production of fuel pellets from wood waste. Thus, a full cycle of waste-free production will be created.

It is assumed that the total investment in the project will be 270 million rubles.