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Bereznik has been building a plywood factory in Sokol industrial park since 2019. It is planned to commission a production site with a capacity of 40,000 m³ of birch plywood per year in early 2022. In 2025, this...

Bidding on the sale of the particleboard production plant with a capacity of 300,000 m³ per year that belongs to Russian Laminate Group is scheduled for April 20, 2021. The company is located in the Kholm-Zhirkovsky District of...

Balcas operates a sawmill in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, producing quality sawn timber products for the fencing, landscaping, agricultural, construction, and pallet and packaging sectors. The company also operates two renewable energy plants at Enniskillen and Invergordon,...

The Ministry proposes to add plywood (HS Code 4412) and sawn timber (HS Code 4407) to the list of products that are materially important for the domestic market of the Russian Federation and whose export may be temporary...

According to the data of the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) in January-April 2021, the output of Russian wood pulp increased by 0.4% YoY to 3 million tons. Paper and cardboard production increased over the reporting period by...

According to data from the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) in January-April 2021, plywood production in Russia increased by 16.1% YoY to 1.5 mln m³. The output of fiberboard (including MDF/HDF/flooring) also increased by 18.4% YoY to 229...

According to data from the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) in January-April 2021, Russia increased sawn timber production by 1.9% YoY to 9,7 million m³.

Ilim Group measures its performance in 2020. The Company retained leadership in the Russian pulp and paper industry by delivering 3.637 million tons of products, which is an all-time record performance. In 2020, Ilim’s facilities produced 3.637 million...

On May 21, 2021, for the first time in its history, the Arkhangelsk region-based Onega Sawmills (Segezha Group PJSC, a subsidiary of Sistema PJSFC) has sent a high-speed container train along the Onega—Grodekovo—Ganzhou Guojigang (China) route. Sixty-two forty-foot...

Softwood timber and panel (plywood and OSB) prices rose by even more the week of May 7 than they did the week before, indicating that demand for construction framing wood products is not slowing down. In the week...

Russian Timber Journal 04-2021: WhatWood agency about possible scenarios of Russia’s unprocessed wood balance after imposing a ban on exports of softwood and hardwood logs; Yury Trutnev, Deputy Prime Minister and Presidential Envoy in the Far East, declared that...

Ireland-based packaging company Smurfit Kappa is set to spend around € 35 million on its Hoya paper mill and board manufacturing plant in northwest Germany. The company will replace the complete press section of the mill’s PM2 paper machine,...