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Ilim Group signed an agreement with Xiamen C&D Corporation, one of its key partners, on pulp and paperboard supply to the provinces in Southwest China via the Silk Road. As agreed, SW pulp will be supplied to paper mills...

Stora Enso is investing € 14 million in the construction of a granulating and packaging plant for lignin at the Sunila plant in Finland. The company has been producing 50,000 t / year there since 2015 and currently....

Len Ugol is launching bio coal production from wood processing industry waste with pyrolysis method in Lodeynoye Pole (Leningrad Region). The first stage involves launching a line with the capacity of 5,000 — 6,000 tons per year, with...

The revenue of Russian timber products manufacturer Segezha Group showed a year-on-year increase of 38% as of the end of September 2020, according to the company, which is part of Russian conglomerate Sistema. Segezha had a revenue of...

In Q2 2020, a profit of $63 million was reported. Deteriorating financial performance was caused by higher planned maintenance expenses. Besides, reduced prices for wood pulp and paper in the domestic and foreign market was compensated by growing...

A new transfer line for chip feeding was launched in Krasnokamsk (Perm Region), at KAMA Paper and Cardboard (KAMA Group). The line connecting the wood yard complex with shops producing bleached chemical and thermomechanical pulp consists of two...

US’ hardwood timber giant Northwest Hardwoods has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on November 23rd, saying difficulties from trade disputes with China and the weak markets impacted by COVID-19 pandemic had stunted its ability to service more than $420...

The U.S. Department of Commerce reduced its penalties against imports of Canadian timber, primarily from B.C. producers, in the softwood timber dispute. An administrative review of countervailing and anti-dumping duties reduced the tariffs to an average of 9%...

This subject was discussed at the working meeting between Murat Kumpilov, Head of Adygea, and representatives of SFT Group — Sergey Pogodin, Executive Director at Kartontara LLC, and Denis Belkovsky, Director of Corrugated Division at SFT Group. Its...

A shop producing corrugated cardboard from waste paper is supposed to be created at the premises of a cardboard and roofing felt plant in Khabarovsk. The enterprise is going to produce recycled cardboard (testliner), pulp cardboard (kraftliner) and...

The new production began at Sokol CLT plant, where the first pilot CLT panel 3 by 6 m was produced. The plant equipment is capable of producing CLT panels up to 16 m long, 3.5 m wide and...

Upon signing a settlement between the plant owner, Lesprominvest and Regional Retail Company, production capacities were re-connected to electrical energy. Owners of Karelia DSP paid the first 1.5 million rubles out of 27 million rubles of debt to...