Biofuel

In January – August 2021, wood pellet production capacities of Russian enterprises were expanded by a total of 160,000 t. By the most optimistic forecasts that take into account all the announced projects and those under construction by...

The Sea port of Saint-Petersburg reports an increase in the volume of pellet transshipment by 16% YoY to 578,000 tons in January-September 2021.

In January-September 2021, the volume of wood pellets output in Russia grew by 18.4% YoY, reaching 1.724 million tons, as reported by Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat).

Russian Timber Journal 09-2021: Tapani Kiiski, President and CEO of Raute Corporation: “The Russian market has been among the most important ones for Raute over the past 10 years”; current situation in the roundwood market, industry’s opportunities and restrictions...

Seasonally driven, the price of pellets rose in Germany in October 2021. The average for one ton is €248.08 (purchase of 6 t). The survey by the German Pellet Institute (DEPI) shows an increase of 4.8% compared to...

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...