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Pavlovo-Posadskiy Gofrokombinat commissions a new building for storing products in the Moscow region

April 5, 2021 ` 19:26  
Pavlovo-Posadskiy Gofrokombinat (the town of Pavlovsky Posad in the Moscow region) has commissioned a new building of 12,500 m² for storing raw materials and finished products. Investment in the construction amounted to 200 million rubles. The new building...

Sveza’s plant in St. Petersburg invested 689 million rubles in its investment projects in 2020

April 2, 2021 ` 18:38  
A significant share of the funds – 591 million rubles – was invested in the construction of a mini CHP plant as well as in the switching of the production processes to steam. The crosscutting site was also...

A new plywood mill to open in the Irkutsk region in 2023

April 2, 2021 ` 18:32  
Pulp-Nord (Bokhansky district of the Irkutsk region) is going to launch a new plywood mill with a capacity of 18,000 m³ per year. The investments will amount to 203 million rubles. The investment project is supported by the...

Segezha Group and Bellmer to build new paper machine at major production site in Vologda Region

April 2, 2021 ` 18:02  
Segezha Group (a subsidiary of Sistema PJSFC) and machine manufacturer Bellmer have agreed to build a new paper machine at the Group’s paper factory in Sokol, Vologda Region. The new machine will come online in 2023. This project...

Chinese hardwood log imports fell 17% in 2020

April 1, 2021 ` 19:08  
Chinese hardwood log imports in 2020 fell 17% to 12.64 million m³ (21% of the national total log imports). The average price for imported hardwood logs in 2020 was $232/m³ (CIF), down 6% on 2019.

Unscheduled stops at two UPM pulp mills in Finland

March 30, 2021 ` 18:22  
The tightness that can be witnessed on the European pulp market has been aggravated after two pulp mills of UPM had to temporarily stop production. Due to technical problems, UPM had to suspend production at two Finnish pulp...

German Federal Council agrees to restrict logging

March 29, 2021 ` 19:31  
On March 26, the German Federal Council approved the draft ordinance on the restriction of regular logging in the forestry year 2021 (HolzEinschlBeschrV2021). Thus, the permissible standard logging of spruce in the current forestry year – from October...

Segezha Group creates a think tank of the pulp and paper industry at the premises of Giprobum in St. Petersburg

March 26, 2021 ` 19:35  
Segezha Group acquired Giprobum CJSC, an institution specializing in the design of pulp and paper mills, in early 2020. At the premises of the institute in St. Petersburg, the Group is creating its own “think tank” for improving...

SVEZA UV Color enters markets of North America and Europe

March 26, 2021 ` 12:51  
SVEZA started to supply special-purpose UV-coated colour plywood to markets of North America and Europe. The new product of SVEZA UV Color is a unique one and no similar products are made in Russia. This is a prospective...

Rockwell Capital to invest $10 million in the construction of a biotechnological enterprise in the Krasnoyarsk region

March 25, 2021 ` 20:41  
Taiga Boguchany LLC (a subsidiary of Rockwell Capital) and Pöyry Rus LLC signed a contract for design and survey services for the construction of a biotechnological plant for value-added wood processing in Boguchansky district of the Krasnoyarsk region....

Siempelkamp receives an order from Guararapes in Brazil

March 25, 2021 ` 20:34  
The Brazilian wood-based materials producer Guararapes Paineis, S/A. placed an order for an MDF plant with Siempelkamp. The core component is a ContiRoll Generation 9 for MDF in the 9′ x 48.7m format. The daily capacity of the...

Investments in the Russian forest industry decreased by 9.8% in 2020

March 25, 2021 ` 19:11  
In 2020, investments in the Russian forest industry decreased by 9.8% YoY to RUB 136.7 billion. Investment in pulp and paper industry decreased by 20.8% YoY to RUB 22.55 bln; investments in forest harvesting fell by 5% YoY...