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WhatWood attended the first meeting of the Forest Industry Expert Council at State Duma on Friday, April 19. The main topic at the event was draft law on control and inventory of roundwood trade to fight illegal logging....

The management of Solombala pulpmill notified the Employment Centre and the trade union organization of the forthcoming reduction of staff numbers. On July 10, 2013, the company will cut 974 employees. The department for biological treatment of industrial...

Ukraine plans to establish raw wood duty to reduce exports of raw materials from the country. Rada Committee on Industrial and Investment Policy supported the bill #2325 “On establishing the rates of export duties on timber”, which is...

President Vladimir Putin held a meeting of the State Council in Ulan-Ude (Buryatia Republic, Siberia) dedicated to the problems of the forest industry. The participants of the meeting discussed a lot of issues of the industry and proposed...

On Thursday, February 21 it was announced that Mikhail Papylyov resigned as CEO of the Arkhangelsk Pulp and Paper Mill (Novodvinsk, Arkhangelsk region). He held this post over 1.5 years. He was followed by the mill’s Director, Economics...

Moscow, April 12. The Board of Eurasian Economic Commission decided to reduce temporarily import duties on certain types of paper and board from 15% to 5% of the customs value. Since late April, import duties for most grades...

Moscow, April 11. Bumprom (Russian association of pulp & paper companies) has created a new NGO, League of Wastepaper Processors. An article by its president Andrew Guryanov posted at the website (liga-pm.ru) explains the mission and goals of...

Helsinki, April 10. Sales of UPM in 2012 reached €10.44 billion, which is 4% higher on-year. However, operating profit of the company declined by 22% to €530 million, as reported in the annual report of UPM. Log prices...

This new two-part infographics discloses the OSB market in Russia in 2012: consumption and supply regional pattern, statistic customs import value, and Russian OSB mill projects under way. You can learn more on the matter in the recent...

Petrozavodsk, March 13. Arbitrage court of Karelia regarded Kondopoga mill’s request on bankruptcy on March 06 and approved to introduce bankruptcy administration at the mill, with Andrei Yenkov appointed external mill manager. Liabilities of the mill exceed 13...

Russian forest industry earned 733.6 billion Rubles (€18.46 billion) in 2012, which is 6.5% higher than in 2011, as said in the annual report published by WhatWood analytic department. Sales profit amounted to 52.88 billion Rubles, which is...

This infographics is a brief review of particleboard market in Russia in 2012: prices and largest producing regions. Details on the topic are available in the recent annual report of WhatWood analysts. Click on the image to enlarge it: