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Roslesinforg analyzed data from the Unified State Register of Immovable Property for current information on borders of forestry units and identified the 30 most disciplined regions that were the first to complete this procedure, thus implementing the corresponding...

Four containers of sawn timber produced at VLP’s woodworking plants were shipped to India for the first time, reports the corporate press office. According to Andrey Fialkovsky, Director for Sales of Sawn Timber and Biofuel at Vologodskiye Lesopromyshlenniki...

A company from the Perm Region produced the first test batch of coated cardboard for pharmaceutical packaging. The new product named KAMA Pharma was successfully tested at the graphic arts printing facility of one of the market’s leaders...

The volume of Russian sawn timber production in January-July 2023 decreased by 9% YoY to 17 million m³, Rosstat reports. In July 2023, sawn timber production decreased by 2.6% (+0.3% YoY) compared to the previous month.

According to Rosstat, the volume of Russian plywood production in January-July 2023 decreased by 12.2% YoY to 1.883 million m³. In July 2023, plywood mills produced almost 300,000 m³ of products, which is 3.1% lower than in the...

Segezha Packaging (Lobnya, Moscow Region) ramped up the production of consumer paper bags. In 2022, the enterprise produced 52.5 million pieces, while the 2021 output was 29.8 million pieces. In H1 2023, Segezha Packaging made 35.2 million pieces....

The top 5 regions by illegal harvesting reduction are the Irkutsk Region (a reduction by 46,000 m³), the Amur Region (by 22,100 m³), the Tyumen Region (7,500 m³), the Sverdlovsk Region (by 7,000 m³), and the Zabaykalsky Region...

The restoration of Kaduysky Plywood Mill (Kaduy settlement) will begin soon, says Svetlana Gracheva, Head of the Kaduy Municipal District. According to the official, Lokotrading LLC, the land area owner, applied to the Administration of the National Economic...

In 2023, the annual upgrading of the group’s plants enabled it to utilize 95% of timber residue. Next year, the company is planning to improve this performance indicator to 100%. A considerable share of bark, chips, and sawdust...

The Federal Forestry Agency (Rosleskhoz) published the final data on harvesting volumes in 2022. According to the Agency, in 2022, the Russian timber harvest dropped by 13% YoY, down to 194.6 million m³ — the lowest since 2014....

In June 2023, Roslesinforg conducted a survey about harvesting machinery use among Russian timber enterprises.  Over 1,500 industry representatives completed the questionnaire. The timber machinery fleet of Russian harvesting enterprises is still mostly comprised of equipment made abroad....

Metsä Forest Podporozhye, a timber harvesting company that is part of Metsä Group (Finland), is planning to terminate employment contracts with all of its workers by mutual consent of the parties by October 2023, as reported by Novy...