Furniture

In 2020, Pervaya Mebelnaya Fabrika started the production of its new products – interior doors for special purposes and for residential spaces. It is planned to reach the design capacity of 10,000 doors per year in 2021.

Vera Khmyrova, Head of the Department of Light Industry and Forestry Complex of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, informs that the problem with the supply of raw materials for furniture enterprises arose in September 2020, and the...

Russian Timber Journal 12-2020: WhatWood interviewed Mr. Andrey Konoplev, General Director of Group Vologodskiye Lesopromyshlenniki, about the ban on the export of unprocessed timber to be introduced from 2022; Luzales agreed on the conditions for the construction of an MDF...

In January-November 2020, the cost of furniture imports to Russia decreased by 5.2% YoY to 1.7 billion, according to the Federal Customs Service of Russia.

Monthly US imports of wooden furniture surpassed $2 billion for the first time in November. Imports rose 4%, growing for the sixth straight month. Despite the record growth, year to November imports were down about 1% from last...

According to the RF Ministry of Industry and Trade, the decline in furniture output in January–October 2020, despite the feverish demand in the summer months, totaled 2.5% YoY. An even more significant decline in sales of Russian furniture...

As the agency reports, the particleboard shortage is usually declared by “gray”, semi-legal furniture manufacturers. According to the RF Ministry of Industry and Trade, the “fever” in the particleboard market will begin to weaken at the end of...

Russian Timber Journal 11-2020: by the directive of the Sakhalin regional government, it is planned to construct one of the largest wood processing centers in all of Russia; Russian retail prices for particleboards began to rise; Yury Shishkunov: “If...

The Government of the Penza Region made a decision to grant SV-Mebel with the resident status in Otvel Industrial Park in the Bessonovsky District. The company intends to start producing cabinet furniture. The first stage of the project...

As of the end of Q3 2020, the production plan in monetary terms has been met by 76% as a cumulative total, which constitutes 1.3 billion rubles. In physical terms, the factory produced 76,000 pieces of furniture in...

Russian Timber Journal 10-2020: the European Commission reported the start of the investigation that will determine whether Russian birch plywood import is subject to dumping and whether the European Union industry was harmed; WhatWood Agency had a conversation...

UK imports of tropical wood and wood furniture products continued to rebound in September, with total value rising to USD97.6 million, 30% more than the previous month and the same level as in September 2019. UK imports strengthened...