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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...

Lithuanian company VMG is going to build another woodworking complex in Belarus, as Belta agency reported quoting head of the VMG board Sigitas Paulauskas. On July 10, Mogilev special economic zone saw opening ceremony of the complex which...

Arkhbum OJSC (affiliate company of Arkhangelsk pulpmill) will launch the first line of its Istra capacity (Moscow region) on September 20 with rated capacity of 200 million m2 per year. Investment scope of the project is €60.2 million....

An insight into an important sales market of Russian lumber producers in today’s infographics. More details are published in the recent WhatWood Weekly issue. Russia competes mainly with Sweden and Finland on the Egyptian lumber market. Recently, due...

Growth of roundwood prices in the Central federal district of Russia in May was due to lack of summer timber removal and growing demand for wood at the start of the construction season, as analytic service of WhatWood...

Volume of capital investments into Russian forest industry in the first quarter of the year shrank by 17.4% to RUR 20.5 billion. In the pulp & paper sector, Irkutsk region was the leader. Here, large project of Ilim...

Finnish company Satorak Oy is going to invest €20 billion into logging and woodworking capacities in Russia within ten years, as Omsk regional press reports. An affiliate company of Satorak, ADS Finland, which was established for doing foreign...

Finnish specialists advised Kondopoga pulpmill to convert one of the papermaking machines and increase speed at two other machines, but this will require considerable investments not yet affordable to the company at the moment, as mill’s Chief Executive...

Perm region authorities and Krono Group hold negotiations on chipboard mill construction, as Kommersant paper reports quoting a source in regional government. Swiss Krono Group owns one mill in Russia, Kronostar in Kostroma region which produced 537,200 m3...