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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...

Most of the company’s products are represented in the Chinese market, as shared by Segezha Group’s press office in the corporate Telegram channel. This is primarily sawn timber, for which China is in fact the key market, accounting...

Naberezhnochelninsky Cardboard and Paper Mill (Naberezhnye Chelny, Tatarstan) will launch production of new three-ply products, according to Chelninskiye Izvestiya (“Chelny News”). A processing line for making three-ply toilet paper and premium paper towels from wood pulp at the...

A new plywood lamination line has been commissioned at the production site of Zheshart PBL (part of United Panel Group) in Komi. The new equipment that includes a 10-opening press for making large-sized 5×10 feet plywood is supposed...

In H1 2024, 3.3 million m³ of timber (roundwood and sawn timber) was hauled from the territory of the Krasnoyarsk Region under supervision of the regional Administration of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision (Rosselkhoznadzor). The...

According to Ilim Group’s estimates, the global consumption of wood pulp and paper products will rise by 11.6 million t per year by 2029, and China will account for almost a half of it—5.4 million t, primarily of...