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Moscow, November 15. Federal anti-monopoly service (FAS) has fined Russian Railways OJSC for 2.24 billion Rubles (€55.5 million) for “abuse of dominance”, as the service announced. Many companies and industry associations have complained about expensive services and poor...

Krasnoyarsk, November 14. By June 2013, Enissey pulpmill (Krasnoyarsk, belongs to Continental Management holding) is planning to build a new bark-chip boiler which will generate 25 tons of steam per hour, as Continental Management press service reported. Cost...

Chita, November 14. Another media confirmed that first stage of Amazar pulpmill project, ‘’Polyarnaya’’, is launched in Zabaikalskiy region. It is a joint Russian-Chinese project with total investment scope of $215 million, including the infrastructure. The mill, however,...

Novgorod, November 12. Austrian Lukas Lang company will possibly build its first mill in Russia that will produce prefabricated low-storey wooden housing, as regional press service reported. Perspectives of the project were discussed at the meeting of vice...

Tyumen, November 12. Germany’s Schattdecor company that specializes in production of furniture decor printing is going to build a mill in Tyumen. It is expected that the mill will reach rated capacity (60 million sq m annually) in...

In the first half-year, lumber production in Russia amounted to 13.8 million cu m, which is 1.3% higher than in H1 2011, while export declined by 2.7%; import fell by 15.5%. In the export pattern, DAF and FCA...

Solombala LDK (Arkhangelsk) is going to launch its new sawmill in the summer of 2013. Processing capacity of the mill is 800,000 cu m of wood… If you want to read full article, please subscribe for our Weekly...

WTO accession will possibly lead to closures of low-efficiency and old mills that don’t have possibilities to cut internal costs, as said by Dmitriy Krylov, Deputy CEO, Foreign Relations of Lesozavod-25 mill (belongs to Titan Group). ‘’Acute competition...

Baikal pulpmill (Irkutsk region) has issued its annual report for 2011, being last of the large forest industry companies. The company underlines four enterprises as its competitors: three mills of Ilim Group and Arkhangelsk PPM. The company quotes...

For the six months ended June 30, 2012 Ilim Timber produced 1 258 791 cubic meters of wood products. Production volume increased 21% compared to same period of 2011. Total output of sawn timber on Ust  Ilimsk Sawmill (Russia), Ilim...

Permregion governor Viktor Basargin made a visit toKamapulpmill and said the premises have gloomy look, while the mill has billions of debts. According to Basargin, Investlesprom holding is not very transparent in the mill rehabilitation procedure, so the...

Novator plywood mill (Velikiy Ustuyg, belongs to Sveza Group) installed new veneer reparation line made by Raute (Finland). COO of the mill, Vladimir Pelevin, said that this new line will cut costs in veener production threefold and improve...