Biofuel

In January – August 2020, wood pellets production in Russia grew by 6.7% YoY, reaching 1.6 million tons (according to Rosstat).

A wood pellets production line started operations in Mundybash village. Tayezhny LLC, a resident of Kuzbass technopark, is the producer. When the whole plant reaches its design capacity, the company will be able to process up to 170,000...

Uranium One (a company of ROSATOM State Corporation) carried out the first shipment of wood pellets to an Italian consumer company. The vessel delivered over 3 thousand tons of the product. “The Italian solid biofuel market is showing...

A conveyor for loading wood pellets into 20 feet containers is being installed at the wood pellet plant of Velsky LPK (Arkhangelsk Region). The conveyor’s productivity is 60 tons per hour.

The machine is designed for processing wood into chips for the boiler house. The new equipment will make it possible to accumulate a sufficient volume of bio fuel for the heating season in Selmenga village to start on...

Siberian Plywood Mill (Zarinsk, Altai Region) commissioned a new process line producing wood pellets. The production capacity is 6,000 tons per year.

Enviva, a leading renewable energy company specializing in wood bioenergy, today announced the release of its first Corporate Sustainability Report. The report focuses on three key topics that define Enviva’s mission: people, forests, and climate change. The report...

Russian Timber Journal 09-2020: Vladimir Putin gave a directive to introduce a ban on exporting unprocessed or roughly processed timber products from Russian as of January 1, 2022, how this decision will impact the Russian timber industry; the Government of...

Russian Timber Journal 08-2020: the total revenue of the Top-100 forestry companies in 2019 amounted to RUB 1.19 trillion, which in current prices is only 0.44% more than in 2018, and this is the minimum growth rate over...

Region-Les has started the construction of a wood pellet workshop, its design production capacity is 80,000 tons per year. Production start-up is scheduled for November 2020. The next phases provide for the creation of a sawmill with a...

The Russian Government hopes to reduce the number of wood waste landfills in the country by encouraging exports of wood pellets and briquettes that can be used as biofuel. That was announced by the press office of the...

The Industrial Development Fund (IDF) has approved a loan of 99 million rubles to VTK Invest LLC (Jewish Autonomous Region, Russia), the press service of the IDF reports. With its help, the company plans to launch the production...