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Sveza, a world leader in birch plywood production, will establish new deep wood processing facilities in the Vologda region. The total investment will amount to 8.6 billion rubles. The project has a payback period of 8 years. A...

The value of investments in the assets of Stora Enso amounted to 459 million rubles: 388 million rubles were invested in a sawmill and 71 million rubles – in the development of the forest infrastructure. In total, the...

The press office of the government of the Ivanovo region reports that Ivanovo Timber Industry Company, with the support of the Industrial Development Fund, implemented an investment project in 2020, thanks to which the enterprise increased the output...

Ladozhsky DSK launched CLT production in the village of Avrovo (Leningrad region). The installed equipment was manufactured by Minda, a German company. Upon reaching the design capacity, the enterprise will produce products worth 19 billion rubles per year....

The Finnish company abandoned the intention to update and expand the production facilities of Setnovo LLC, its subsidiary company in the Novgorod region. Investments in the project were estimated at 520 million rubles. According to Novy Prospekt, the...

In 1Q 2021, Segezha Group’s revenue grew by 27.4% YoY to RUB 18.2 bn. OIBDA grew by 93.5% YoY to RUB 5.0 bn. The OIBDA margin was 27.6%, up 9.2 p.p. YoY.

In January-February 2021, Russia increased its plywood export volume by 4.5% YoY, reaching 481,700 m³, as reported by the Federal Customs Service of Russia. In value terms, for the reporting period, Russian plywood supplies increased by 17.7% YoY...

In January-February 2021, the volume of sawn timber exported from Russia reduced by 15.7% YoY and totaled 2.7 million m³, as reported by the Federal Customs Service of Russia. The value of foreign sawn timber shipments from Russia...

In the week ending April 16, 2021, the price of benchmark softwood timber commodity item Western S-P-F KD 2×4 #2&Btr rose another +$80, or +6%, to $1,210 mfbm ($465 per m³), from $1,130 the previous week, said Madison’s...

Eacom Timber Corporation announces an investment of $8.9 million to equip its Elk Lake sawmill with a new, state-of-the art continuous dry kiln (CDK). Expected to be fully operational by early fall, the CDK will allow for continuous...

According to data from China’s Customs, 2020 sawnwood imports totalled 33.86 million m³ valued at $7.68 billion, a year on year decrease of 11% both in volume and in value. Of total sawnwood imports, sawn softwood imports fell...

According to the data of the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) in 1Q 2021, the output of Russian wood pulp grew by 0.1% YoY to 2.2 million tons. Paper and cardboard production increased over the reporting period by...