Biofuel

Starting from October this year, the RUF fuel briquettes from Vyatsky Plywood Mill (part of Segezha Group) will bear the FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) label. The production capacity is 15,000 tons/year. The mill was audited by the Russian...

The company started hiring staff to produce fuel wood briquettes of sawdust at its plant in Novator settlement, Vologda Region. The line commissioning is scheduled for fall 2021. Investments in the new production line will exceed 20 million...

Segezha Group has started commercial activities through its representative office in Singapore, Segezha International Pte. Ltd. The new company sells the entire range of the Group’s products directly to customers in the region: kraft paper, industrial and consumer...

Pulp Mill Holding intends to invest more than 160 billion rubles in the modernization of its Russian production facilities. The priority of the strategic agenda of the holding activity will be a new large-scale investment project – construction...

In 1H 2021, KsyloTech-Siberia, the Company’s pellet asset in Krasnoyarsk Krai at the Lesosibirsk Sawmills and Woodworking Plant (LLDK No. 1), produced 43,400 tons of pellets, a 17% YoY increase. Between January and June 2021, 40,200 tons of pellets...

Segezha Group has begun a full upgrade of equipment at Onega LDK, the Company’s wood-processing asset in Arkhangelsk region. The project will be completed over a period of 2.5 years and will receive investment totaling more than RUB...

Segezha Group, a leading Russian vertically integrated holding company in the forest industry performing a full cycle of operations from logging to advanced wood processing, is continuing the construction of a pellet production facility to turn by-products and...

In 1H 2021, the volume of wood pellets output in Russia grew by 16.5% YoY, reaching 1.066 million tons, as reported by Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat).

Russian Timber Journal 06-2021: Alexander Vysotskiy, Product Director at Data Driven: “Lockdown created the necessary conditions for the digital business”; the European Commission approved for 6 months the introduction of preliminary anti-dumping duties on birch plywood from Russia; the...

The pellet prices in Switzerland increased in July 2021 their downward trend from the previous month slightly. On average the reached 329 CHF/t (-0,5%) – after a minus of 0,2% to 330,6 CHF/t in June. Compared to Juli...

SBP certification is one of the leading industry initiatives of major European energy companies using biomass pellets as fuel in large thermal power stations. The certificate enables Kraslesinvest to sell wood pellets to large energy producers in European...

In January-May 2021, the volume of wood pellets output in Russia grew by 17.6% YoY, reaching 874,000 tons, as reported by Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat).