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Solikamskbumprom will install a paper packaging line for 500 million rubles

December 21, 2021 ` 18:35  
Solikamskbumprom is getting ready to install a process line for transporting and packaging paper rolls. The new equipment will be supplied by Pesmel (Finland). Investments in the project will reach 500 million rubles. Commissioning is scheduled for May...

VEB.RF Group will fund the extension of a cardboard and paper plant in Tatarstan

December 21, 2021 ` 18:30  
Naberezhnochelninsky Cardboard and Paper Mill will receive 250 million rubles from the Single-Industry Town Development Fund (VEB.RF Group) for building an automated harvesting and warehouse shop. More than 1 billion rubles of investment will be channeled in the...

Plywood is growing cheaper rapidly in the Russian market

December 20, 2021 ` 16:51  
According to a monthly price review by WhatWood Agency, retail prices for the most popular thicknesses — 8 and 10 mm (interior grade plywood, 1525х1525, Grade 4) in the Volga region dropped by 19% and 16% respectively in...

Construction of a new timber processing plant for 400 million rubles is planned in the Vologda Region

December 20, 2021 ` 16:38  
The new timber processing venue is supposed to be created at the premises of Veliky Ustyug Forestry – a branch of ACS of Vologdaleskhoz Forestry. The facility is supposed to produce dry planed sawn timber; raw material will...

EcoBioTech will build a plant making veneer tableware in the Yaroslavl Region

December 20, 2021 ` 16:35  
EcoBioTech LLC is planning to start producing disposable tableware from veneer in the Danilovsky District in 2022. The investment value will reach 190 million rubles. The company is supported by the Development Corporation of the Yaroslavl Region. The...

Pulp Mill Holding will build the second corrugated cardboard plant for Arkhbum in Voronezh

December 17, 2021 ` 13:11  
Pulp Mill Holding procured an official permit from regional authorities to locate a new Arkhbum production venue in Maslovsky Industrial Park in Voronezh. The Group intends to build a plant with the capacity of 188 million m² of...

The Vladimir Region is planning to invest 15 billion rubles in producing cardboard goods

December 17, 2021 ` 12:58  
UK Nikol-Pack is planning to open a cardboard product plant in the Gorokhovetsky District of the Vladimir Region in 2025, investing approximately 15 billion rubles. The design capacity of the new plant is supposed to reach 150,000 tons...

A new OSB production facility costing 340 million rubles will open in the Tomsk Region

December 16, 2021 ` 18:51  
Sibboard LLC will invest 340 million rubles in OSB production in the Seversk Priority Social and Economic Development Area (Tomsk Region). Aspen and birch will account for 90% of wood in the product. 44 jobs are supposed to...

54.8 million rubles will be invested in upgrading a woodworking enterprise in Karelia

December 16, 2021 ` 18:47  
Krona LLC will receive a loan under Timber Industry Projects federal and regional program. The enterprise will upgrade a timber processing plant to increase the volume of sawn timber output – lining, timber, strips and planks – and...

VLP Group is planning to build a new sawmill for 3 billion rubles

December 16, 2021 ` 18:41  
Alexander Churkin, Chair of the Board of Directors at Vologodskiye Lesopromyshlenniki Group, declared that the Group was planning to invest 3 billion rubles in building a new sawmill in Kharovsk (Vologda Region) at a press conference devoted to...

Lesosibirsky LDK No.1 has completed procurement procedures for modernization equipment

December 15, 2021 ` 12:46  
Lesosibirsky LDK No.1 JSC (Segezha Group) has concluded the entire scope of contracts for the supply of equipment to build new and modernize the existing production facilities at the mill. The cost of the equipment exceeds 3 billion...

Egger will invest €300 million in upgrading its plant in the Ivanovo Region

December 14, 2021 ` 17:59  
The Austrian group will invest €300 million in upgrading its Russian production site in Shuya that has been in operation since 2006. The investment project is supposed to be completed in 2024, creating 100 new jobs at the...