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Russian Timber Journal 07-2024: Interview with Timur Irtuganov, Director General, AFWIER; Slow economic revival in the Russian timber industry is beginning to fade; Russian plywood production grew by 3.9% over 8 months of 2024; Legal liquidation of Baykalsky PPM is completed; Retail...

As reported by the press office of Kama PPM, (located in Krasnokamsk, Perm Region, and part of Sveza Group), the mill increased its output of FBB packaging coated cardboard by 13% YoY over 9 months of 2024, up...

According to the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat), the plywood production volume in Russia increased by 3.9% YoY in January–August 2024, up to 2.248 million m³. In August 2024, Russian mills produced 286,000 m³ of plywood, thus increasing...

Russian Timber Journal 06-2024: Interview with Chongqing Chensen Timber, a Chinese sawn timber trader: “The supply of sawn timber currently exceeds the demand”; Rosleskhoz published final harvesting volumes performance by Russian regions: the Russian timber harvest has been reducing for...

KAMA LLC (Krasnokamsk, Perm Region) purchased 64 tank containers from CIMC (China International Marine Containers) to transport hydrogen peroxide and caustic soda, as reported by the Russian company’s press office. It explains that the company is currently leasing...

VLP Podporozhye is VLP Group’s harvesting enterprise in the Leningrad Region purchased from Metsä Group in May 2024. According to VLP’s press office, there are currently six harvesting machines involved in timber harvesting; the plan is to harvest...

In H1 2024, the total payments to the federal budget for forest fund use increased by 7% YoY, up to 26.2 billion rubles, according to the press office of the Federal Forestry Agency (Rosleskhoz). The top regions by...

Sveza announced the purchase of Kama PPM (Krasnokamsk, Perm Region), as reported by the press office of the world’s largest producer of birch plywood. The company has thus entered the market of pulp and paper products, which is...

Vladimir Mazur, Governor of the Tomsk Region, and the management team of Monolit-Stroy LLC (Latat trademark) signed an agreement on creating new production venues within the industrial cluster “Forest, Timber Processing, and Forestry Chemistry”, as reported by the...

Segezha Group and KAMAZ signed a letter of intent on pursuing mutually beneficial cooperation within the program of testing, fine-tuning pilot specimens, supplying, and organizing maintenance of harvesting machines. The interaction between the two companies will mostly be...

In April 2024, JSC Volga (Nizhny Novgorod Region) launched a pilot project on implementing an electronic system of patrolling process equipment and registering failures using mobile devices and NFC tags in the thermo-mechanical mass shop within the Reliability...

In H1 2024, Vologda enterprises exported 636,000 m³ of timber, as reported by the Northwestern Inter-Regional Administration of Rosselkhoznadzor. According to WhatWood, sawn timber accounts for most of the shipped product. The greatest amount (426,000 m³) was supplied...