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By 2020, the European leaders by the share of biofuels in the energy industry will be Sweden (49%), Latvia (40%) and Finland (38%), such predictions were given at the XV International Forestry Forum held on 8-9 October in...

WhatWood News & Analytics agency (based in Moscow, Russia) has implemented major update of its website. Registration option is added, which gives a 5% discount for all WhatWood products as well as access to Knowledge Base which will...

Top managers of Lesnoy Soyuz partnership and the Chamber of Commerce sent a letter to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev with the request to save the current procedure for VAT refunds to exporters of logs, as “Russian Forestry News”...

The scientists of a research institute in Irkutsk (NI IrGTU) have developed a new wood concrete production technology, an improved version of the so-called “dyurizol”, a building material from wood chips and cement. Scientists add magnesium astringent (caustic...

Sveza Group and the government of Vologda region have signed the agreement on implementation of an investment project. The project involves construction of kraft pulp mill on public-private partnership principles. Total investments into the construction of the mill...

What makes wood material and wood handling processes so special in terms of explosion hazards? This question can be answered quite simply, considering requirements of dust explosion phenomenon: combustible dust, air/oxygen and effective ignitions sources. Nearly all wood...

The Polish furniture exports to Russia are expected to exceed €200 million in 2013, as Fordaq reported quoting Polish media. In 2009, Poland delivered to Russia furniture worth €90 million, while in 2012 this value reached €166 million....

In 2012, joint net sales of the 100 largest Russian forest industry companies that participated in the WhatWood rating declined by 0.87% to RUR 279.68 billion. Joint net profit of 94 companies of the rating who disclosed this...

The final draft of the “Fundamentals of State Policy in the field of use, protection and reproduction of forests” was adopted by the Russian government at the session of September 23, as the Minister of natural resources and...

According to the Analytic centre of EIG Engineering, construction of power plants working on solid biofuels in Ukraine can attract over €6 billion of investments. Calculations are based on the fact that already available amount of unclaimed solid...

Baikal pulp and paper mill has stopped production. According to the bankruptcy supervisor Alexander Ivanov, conservation of the enterprise is now being prepared. “In the near future the project of dismantling some of the buildings of the mill...

According to the analytic centre of EIG Engineering, wood resources for bioenergy power plants in Ukraine amount to about 4 million tonnes annually. In terms of calorific value of coal, this resource is estimated at 1.9 million tonnes...