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The first half of 2013 passed under the negative impact of the crisis. As noted in the study of marketing department of Arkhangelsk pulp & paper mill, a protracted recession may await Russian economy. In January-May 2013, pulp...

At the recent meeting of regional government, officials of Khanty-Mansi autonomous district (Yugra) decided to grant subsidies to industrial companies to offset lease payments for equipment used in logging, woodworking and biofuel production. Compensation will amount to 2/3...

Chunsky LPK mill in collaboration with DozaGran company (Nizhny Novgorod) has developed a pellet project with daily processing of 12-13 m3 of wood into 3 t of pellets. Project cost is RUR 13 million. The line’s rated capacity...

Following the results of the first half of 2013, lumber sales at Russian Timber Group mills increased twice compared to a year-ago period. Within the last four months, SEL-Trade, the company which markets group’s products, was supplying steadily...

Apart from well-developed own logging, Finland also delivers wood from neighbouring countries like Russia, Estonia, Sweden, Latvia and Lithuania. They mainly supply hardwood pulplogs and plylogs for the Finnish pulp & paper and panel industry in addition to...

On July 23, St. Petersburg hosted press conference “Russian forest industry: from State Council to implementing presidential regulations” of General Director of the Research Centre for Forest Economy and Management, Nikolai Petrunin. Analysing the forest management system, Petrunin...

PTsBK Group started production of a grade which does not have analogues on the Russian corrugated packaging market and, according to the company, will become additional growth point for the whole industry. Perm pulpmill produced first test party...

Lumber export from Russia in the first half-year of 2013 amounted to 9.93 million m3, which is 6% higher year-on-year. Export value increased by 4% to reach $1.71 billion, as analysts of WhatWood News & Analytics reported. China...

For the second year in a row, WhatWood has made infographics based on the Wood Housing Association report on the housing market in Russia. More details are published in the recent WhatWood Weekly issue. Among Russian regions, wooden...

On the pages of corporate Griffin journal, top managers of UPM expressed their outlook on possible results of Russia’s WTO accession for the company. Pekka Rajala, VP, Sourcing Director North Europe, supposes that elimination of export duties will...

In the first half-year, lumber production in Russia declined by 2.6% year-on-year down to 10.2 million m3. Plywood production increased by 3.8% to 1.7 million m3, fibreboard production declined by 9.8% to 202 million nominal m2. Paper output...

UPM has signed an agreement on the sale of Pestovo sawmill with Lesnaya Innovacionnaya Kompanya (LIK) LLC, as the Finnish company said in a press release. The parties have agreed not to disclose the sales price. UPM announced...