Timber industry research & analytics 
“Forestry News”: wood pricing pecularities in Russia and Finland
May 21, 2013 ` 03:31
According to expert forecasts, reduction of customs duties within the framework of the WTO accession could lead to a more than threefold increase in the export of logs from Russia, as said in Russian Forestry News. This will...
DOK Kalevala produced its first OSB panels
May 21, 2013 ` 03:01
Chief Executive of DOK Kalevala (Petrozavodsk, Karelia) Valery Puchkov announced to LesPromInform journal that the mill produced its first OSB panels. At the moment, specialists of the mill complete start-up and commissioning to prepare the equipment for industrial...
In 2014, Finland to abolish rotation age for logging
May 1, 2013 ` 18:23
Next year, the new Forest Code will come into effect in Finland, which, in particular, involves the abolition of rotation age. Now the project of the document goes public examination. In an interview with Forest portal of Karelia...
New Ilim Group’s softwood line in Bratsk produced first market pulp
May 1, 2013 ` 17:34
New line of Ilim Group at its mill in Bratsk (Irkutsk region) produced its first volume of market pulp. This is the key stage of Big Bratsk project of the company. Within next six months, the line will...
RusForest to shift sales from Middle East to Japan and China
May 1, 2013 ` 02:59
Rusforest Group issued annual report for 2012. Company’s total turnover for 2012 amounted to SEK 564.3 million ($85.5 million) compared to SEK 409.4 million ($62 million) in 2011. These results were affected by the inclusion of income and...
Finland may become wood supplier for Karelia
April 26, 2013 ` 20:37
Private Finnish forest owners are ready to supply wood to the Russian market, as head of the forest division of the Central Union of agricultural producers and forest owners in Finland Juha Hakkarainen said in an interview to...
Expert Council: A Challenging Start
April 26, 2013 ` 03:46
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....
Board chairman of Solombala pulpmill: “We need a new mill and have a ready project of it”
April 18, 2013 ` 14:36
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 to impose export duties on roundwood and wood chips
April 18, 2013 ` 14:31
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...
VAT return cancellation, wood commodity exchange and state co-financing: proposals of regional governors to Putin at the State Council
April 16, 2013 ` 22:28
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...
Back from the beginning: Mikhail Papylyov appointed CEO of two RusForest enterprises
April 12, 2013 ` 11:44
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...
Customs Union has reduced again duties on imports of coated paper and board down to 5%
April 12, 2013 ` 14:09
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...
