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Arkhangelsk, March 06. Ilim Group’s new papermaking machine at Koryazhma mill in Arkhangelsk region, built as a part of Big Koryazhma investment project, produced its first paper on March 03. During the coming weeks, Ilim Group’s specialists, supported...

Today’s visual graphics is a brief review of plywood 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...

Moscow, March 04. Arrangers of Russian Wood & Timber 2013 conference have published the detailed list of speakers at the forum. This year the programme of the forum underwent considerable changes. The first day will be a Wood &...

Moscow, February 28. The Bank of Moscow finalized sale of 100% of Kama pulpmill which was owned via Investlesprom holding, as Perm edition of Kommersant newspaper reports. Quoting kartoteka.ru website, the paper states that Kama pulpmill was sold on...

In this new piece of visual graphics we tell about production capacities of global forest industry leaders in Russia. A detailed article on the matter is available in the recent issue of our WhatWood Weekly. Click on the...

Krasnoyarsk, February 25. Priangarsky LPK in Krasnoyarsk region will start production in November 2013, as said by Nikolay Fetisov, president of Trust bank which acts as financial partner in this project. At the first stage, the enterprise will...

London/Johannesburg, February 21. Revenue of Mondi Group in 2012 amounted to €5.8 billion, compared to €5.74 billion a year ago, the company said in its full-year report. “Continued strong profitability resulted in a return on capital employed (ROCE)...

Arkhangelsk, February 21. The board of Arkhangelsk pulpmill appointed Dmitry Zylyov as new Chief Executive of the company. Since 2004, Mr. Zylyov has held the position of Director, Economy and Finance. In his new position Mr. Zylyov will...

In today’s infographics we present Top 20 exporters of Russian lumber. Click on the image to enlarge it:

St. Petersburg, February 12. Ilim Group reported full-year 2012 production results. Company’s mills in Siberia and the Russian Northwest manufactured over 2.58 million tons of pulp and paper products. Production at Koryazhma mill in Arkhangelsk region increased 4%...

Arkhangelsk, February 12. On January 28, Russian Railways made another tariff hike by 2.4% on transporting pulpwood in carriages of 13-4012-17, 13-4012-16, 13-401-06, 13-401-07, 13-198 models as well as open wagons. Transporting logs by 23-4000 and 23-469М2 wagons...

Penza, February 07. Austrian equipment producer Polytechnik Luft-und Feueurungstechnik GmbH is regarding a possibility to build biofuel heat plant in Penza region, as several Russian media reported. “Actually, we had very interesting meeting with Penza region governor. However,...