investments

Metsä Tissue (part of Metsä Group) has launched the expanded and modernized tissue mill in Mariestad, Sweden. The company invested €370 million in the project. The mill’s annual capacity has increased to 145,000 tonnes with the addition of...

The official portal of the Vologda Region government reported that the wood processing company Biolesprom LLC plans to set up production capacities for 60,000 m³ of OSB boards and 90,000 m³ of sawn timber in the Verkhovazhsky municipal...

The Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade has included Elit LLC’s project for the modernization of wood processing facilities and the establishment of a chemical-thermomechanical pulp (CTMP) production line in the list of priority investment projects. This was...

The plywood plant of the Sveza forestry group in the town of Uralsky, Perm Krai, invested nearly 70 million rubles in upgrading production facilities and key equipment components in Q3 2025, the company’s press service reported. The funds...

A new paper towel production facility, operated by HAYAT Russia, a subsidiary of the international holding HAYAT, has been commissioned in the Kaluga Special Economic Zone, located in the Borovsk District of the Kaluga Region. The facility is...

Russian Timber Journal 06–2025: Interview with Vladimir Kerchensky, head of sales at the Housing Construction Development Directorate, Novotorzhsky LPK JSC; Federal Forestry Agency releases final 2024 regional timber harvesting figures; Rosstat: Timber harvesting down in first five months...

Employee-Owned CJSC “Naberezhnye Chelny Paper Mill named after S.P. Titov” (Republic of Tatarstan) has completed negotiations for the supply of equipment for a new facility that will produce pulp-based base paper. According to the company’s press service, construction...

LLC Taiga has launched an automated production line for fuel pellets with an annual capacity of up to 9,000 tons, according to the press service of the Yugra Development Fund. The facility will allow for the processing of...

SFT Group is nearing completion of a modernization project at its SFT Packaging facility in the town of Kuvshinovo (Tver Region), the company’s press service reports. The project, titled “Seven Winds,” is scheduled for completion by fall 2025,...

Russian Timber Journal 05-2025: Interview with Henric Endoff, CEO of AGENDA Business Development AB; OSB price trends in Russia: a five-year market overview in 2019–2024; Plywood production in Russia reaches highest level since February 2022; In 2024, members of the Association of...

MoloPak started up a new production venue to make aseptic packaging in Chekhov, a town near Moscow, according to Interfax. Timur Guschin, CEO at MoloPak LLC, noted that the plant had already been producing packaging for 20 years....

Russian Timber Journal 04-2025: Stanislav Serov, Russia Business Development Director at EGGER: “We have intentionally reoriented our sales from furniture factories to professional distribution”; Russian timber industry performance in 2024: WhatWood’s version; Russian timber harvest increased by 3.4% YoY in...