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In 1H 2021, Russia increased its plywood export volume by 12.9% YoY, reaching 1.587 million m³, as reported by the Federal Customs Service of Russia. In value terms, for the reporting period, Russian plywood supplies increased by 40.7%...

In 1H 2021, the volume of sawn timber exported from Russia reduced by 0.3% YoY and totaled 15.413 million m³, as reported by the Federal Customs Service of Russia. The value of foreign sawn timber shipments from Russia...

Pratt Industries and Kentucky state officials today announced the company will build its sixth 100% recycled paper mill in the U.S. The project will break ground next year and is slated to start up in fall 2023. Pratt...

Two-side coated cardboard will be produced on cardboard machine 9 at the plant in Krasnokamsk (Perm Region); the product conforms to GC1 certification and is called Kama Bright. The first specific weight of the first batch is 250...

Forpostles is planning to purchase new drying kilns to reduce sawn timber moisture content to 12-15% with the subsidized loan, in order to export its products in the future. The upgrading is going to cost approximately 40 million...

The new owner invested 1 billion rubles in repurposing the plant for birch plywood (exterior grade plywood) production. Plywood lamination line and RUF fuel briquettes production was also started up. Prior to the reconstruction that finished in 2018,...

In 1H 2021, the branch of Segezha Packaging LLC (Segezha Group) in Salsk, Rostov Region, produced 81 million units of industrial paper packaging, doubling production volumes compared to the same period last year. By the end of this...

Finscan is an automatic sawn timber sorting system using Buzzard – an artificial intelligence-based application. Besides identifying wood defects, the system is capable of identifying knots and rot with high precision, improving the quality and output of produced...

Based on April 2021 performance, OSB export from Russia to the USA reached unprecedented volumes – 9,568 m³ by volume and $4.53 million by value. As a result, the US share in the export structure of Russian OSB...

Osko-Invest launched edged boards production in Spasovshchina village in the Pskov region within the first stage. The investment value was 1.5 billion rubles, about 150 jobs were created. The plant had been previously working in a test run...

Segezha Group announcing the beginning of the next stage of the equipment modernization program at the Segezha Packaging plant in Horn (Netherlands). The plant specializes in the production of industrial paper packaging for high-margin segments, including food products....

Trade of roundwood in Finland non-industrial private forests continued to be exceptionally active in June, with 8.2 million m³ of roundwood purchased by the forest industry. The volume of roundwood trade during in 1H 2021 was 57% higher...