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Production of kitchen furniture (tables, cabinets, etc.) soared the most—by 81%. The output increased by 23% YoY in monetary terms, up to 438 billion rubles (it was 356 billion rubles in 2022). Furniture prices in the domestic market...

Ametis-Pharm, a new resident of the Amurskaya Advanced Development Territory, is implementing a project on building a value-added wood processing plant to extract unique natural substances from Dahurian larch — dihydroquercetin and arabinogalactan that have antioxidant and prebiotic...

A medium-density fiberboard plant in Zheshart, Komi, started producing laminated MDF. This is a new product and a new finishing material for the region as a whole. According to Vladimir Pelevin, Production Site Manager at Zheshart PBL, the...

In December, Segezha Group made the first shipment of laminated beams and CLT to Chinese customers. The train with two containers of laminated beams (105 m³) and two containers of CLT panels (100 m³) has already arrived in...

As of late December 2023, WhatWood estimates the 2023 particleboard output in Russia (including laminated particleboard) at 7.7 million m³ (+15 YoY). The annual utilization of production facilities was 86% (not counting non-operational facilities) compared to 74% in...

Upak Group LLC and the Administration of Armavir have signed an investment agreement that stipulates building a packaging materials plant with a total investment value of 580 million rubles and 140 new jobs. The company produces and sells...

L-PAK started building Phase I of the corrugated cardboard and packaging products production plant in the Kashira Special Economic Zone. The investor has already procured the corresponding permit. This was reported by the press office of the Ministry...

The construction of a pulp-and-cardboard mill by Ilim Group finished in Ust-Ilimsk, as reported by the State Residential Construction Supervision Authority of the Irkutsk Region that issued a statement of compliance with the facility’s design documentation requirements. The...

Moscow sees no reason not to increase the number of checkpoints equipped for roundwood export from Belarus across the Russian territory; it only requires the corresponding infrastructure. This was announced by Alexey Overchuk, Deputy Prime Minister of the...

After 9 months of 2023, the difference was -6% (-5% for softwood and -7% for hardwood harvesting), but after 10 months of 2023, the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) has recorded a difference of -4% (-4% for softwood...

Q1 2022 saw the historic high of timber enterprises’ quarterly revenue (740 billion rubles). The financial performance began to deteriorate drastically starting from Q2 2022 as European markets became unavailable. According to an estimate by WhatWood, in 2022,...

Russian Timber Journal 11-2023: Segezha Group shared its performance over 9 months of 2023, WhatWood quotes the company’s key production and financial performance indicators and presents an adapted management report; According to an estimate by WhatWood, in 2022,...