A quarter of Russian volumes of pulp and pellets produces LPK Pomorie

According to the press center of the Arkhangelsk region, according to the operational information of the Ministry of natural resources and LPK of the Arkhangelsk region, in 2018 the enterprises of the timber industry of Pomorie produced more than 2 million cubic meters of lumber. This is almost 10 percent higher than last year.

The production of fuel pellets (pellets) is steadily growing. During the year, it increased by a third – 5.5% increased production of plywood, 2 % – paper and cardboard.

In value terms, the region’s enterprises shipped wood and pulp and paper products worth 125 billion rubles, which is plus 30% compared to last year.

In the region there are large woodworking and pulp and paper enterprises, carrying out expensive priority investment projects aimed at the creation and reconstruction of facilities for deep processing of wood.

In 2018, as part of the priority investment project in the field of forest development in the Ustyansky district, two large enterprises began to work – a plant for processing coniferous fine wood with a capacity of 900 thousand cubic meters of raw materials per year and a plant for the production of wood pellets with a capacity of 150 thousand tons of pellets per year.

Since 2011, about 15 billion rubles have been invested in the implementation of this project, 2.5 thousand new jobs have been created.