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In January-September 2021, the volume of wood pulp export from Russia decreased by 9.3% YoY, reaching 1.537 million tons, as reported by the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation. The value of foreign supplies increased by 34.3%...

In January-September 2021, the volume of sawn timber exported from Russia reduced by 4.8% YoY and totaled 23 million m³, as reported by the Federal Customs Service of Russia. The value of foreign sawn timber shipments from Russia...

In January-September 2021, Russia increased its plywood export volume by 9.9% YoY, reaching 2.293 million m³, as reported by the Federal Customs Service of Russia. In value terms, for the reporting period, Russian plywood supplies increased by 62.4%...

Segezha Group is planning the construction of a glued laminated timber plant in the town of Segezha in the Republic of Karelia. Investment in the project will amount to some RUB 13.4 billion. The plant’s output will be...

TK Gofrotorg LLC received a loan of 74 million rubles to upgrade its equipment. By the end of 2021, the company intends to ramp up production output by 20% and increase revenue to 231 million rubles. As the...

This is reported by TASS news agency referencing the company’s CEO Klaus Peller. The upgrading will increase the finished product output by 46% compared to the 2008 performance, while the tax payments will grow by eight times over...

Kama Karton LLC (part of KAMA Group) completed construction of a plant in Krasnokamsk that will produce bleached chemical and thermomechanical pulp from hardwood timber. The investments in the project reached 3.39 billion rubles; the product output volume...

As far as the seasonal cycle of lumber sales — thus prices — goes, normally, after the Labour Day long weekend, demand starts to drop and by U.S. Thanksgiving, demand reaches the annual low. This didn’t happen last...

Segezha Group is planning to construct its own treatment facilities at Sokol Pulp and Paper Mill in the Vologda Region. Investments in the project which includes the construction works are estimated at around RUB 2 billion. The biological...

The plant located in the Novgorod Region completed installation and setup of the cross-section measuring instrument at the raw sorting area of the sawmilling shop. The new equipment is supposed to improve the accuracy of sawn timber sorting...

The project includes building a new sawmill and additional drying kilns, an electrical substation, approach roads and a wood pellet plant with the capacity of 40,000 t of wood pellets a year. The mill commissioning is scheduled for...

The forest area was registered and the forest nursery’s footprint was expanded. They are simultaneously signing contracts for production and delivery of six new greenhouses and construction of 17 hardening sites.