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Significant quantities of illegal timber products from the forests of Siberia and the Russian Far East are flowing into Japan, according to a new report by the US-based non-profit Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA). The report, “The Open Door:...

The last year has not brought any fundamentally new trends to the forest industry of Russia: companies tried to reduce the high cost of log procurement and production, also looking for new points of growth. Eventually export demand...

Overstocking of the port of Alexandria with large volumes of sawn timber in June led to price cuts in the Egyptian market, as the representatives of large exporting sawmills in the European part of Russia told WhatWood. After...

The growth of OSB imports from Romania into Russia last year occurred due to the increase of capacities at the mills of Egger and Kronospan. The latter completed an investment project in September 2013 worth EUR 40 million...

Stroy Investresurs LLC will build an enterprise for the production of bleached chemical thermomechanical market pulp (CTMP) in Karelia. The total cost of the project will reach €125 million. According to the information of the investor, CTMP is...

A consulting and engineering company from Denmark, Brix & Kamp Energy, will start construction of a plant for the production of bioenergy boilers in June 2014 on the territory of the special economic zone Moglino in the Pskov...

The total output of Russian containerboard in 2013 amounted, according to the Perm pulpmill group (PTsBK), to 3.094 million tonnes (+8.7% on 2012), and the increase is almost entirely provided by recycled grades. The production of virgin-fibre board...

In February 2014, Palmarium Academic Publishing (Germany) published the monograph “Strategy and tactics of timber industry development in Russia” by Doctor V. Sukhanov. The book is designed for timber merchants, professionals, businessmen, investors, engineers, scientists, and teachers of...

Russian National Forest Products Association has begun to collect funds for residents in remote town of Irkutsk region, where a wildfire has left 30 families homeless. Presently, 94 people (including 14 children) have found a shelter and live...

The Russian government changed again the approach to the distribution of export tariff quotas on coniferous wood, adopting the new edition of the relevant rules, which will operate temporarily until 30 June 2015, as said by the Forest...

The average price of sawn timber exported from Russia following the results of the first quarter of 2014 amounted to $176.3, which is 0.2% higher than a year ago. Compared to Q4 2013, prices increased by 1%. However,...

Russian Timber Group plans the construction of a plant for pellet production with capacity of 95 thousand tonnes per year in the village of Novaya Igirma (Irkutsk region). Pellet plant will be built on the existing site of...