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In February, the plant sawed 46,000 m3 of roundwood, dried 22,000 m3 and sorted over 20,000 m3 of sawn timber. ULK Group is continuing the modernization of Pestovsky LPK. In 2020, it has completed the construction of a...

The new platform provides for the comprehensive integration of existing federal information systems into a single digital platform on the forest sector. It will incorporate the state forest register, LesEGAIS, Forests of Russia Map, etc. The new web...

The Committee for Forestry, Natural Resources, and Ecology of the Arkhangelsk Regional Parliament prepared a package of proposals on amendments to the RF Forest Code and submitted it to Dmitry Kobylkin, Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of...

During the entire year of 2019, prices for forest products were remaining on a downtrend appeared at the end of Q3 2018. ‘Super profits’ received by timber enterprises at peak prices of Q1-Q3 2018 allowed companies to form...

Ilim Timber signed a contract with AriVislanda, a Swedish manufacturer of sawmill equipment, for the supply of processing equipment to replace frame head rig sawing lines at its sawmilling site in Ust-Ilimsk in the Irkutsk region. The purpose...

In 2019, harvesting enterprises of the Leningrad region harvested only 5.2 million m3 of wood, which is almost 20% less than in 2018 and 1.7 million m3 less than the targeted volume. The main reason for that was...

According to the newspaper Times of London, President Macron has ordered that new public buildings financed by the French state must contain 50% wood or other organic material by 2022 under an ambitious government plan for a greener...

Russian Timber Journal 02-2020: In 2019, wood pellet exports from Russia showed the highest growth pace among all export-oriented forest products; Mikhail Mishustin instructed the Government to consider the creation of a separate forest ministry in Russia; the...

Södra Cell is increasing the price of its northern bleached softwood kraft (NBSK) pulp in Europe by $40/tonne to $860, effective 1 February. “Demand has remained strong over the holidays and into the new decade. Södra Cell is...

In 2017, the Russian Government introduced quotas and imposed duties on exports of roundwood of Far Eastern species (Government Decrees No. 1521 and No. 1520 dated December 12, 2017). Tariff quotas were introduced for Yezo spruce, Khingan fir,...

Auction House of the Russian Federation will hold the auction to sell Ugra Timber Holding and its subsidiary Ugra-Plit on March 20, 2020. 100% of the shares of both enterprises are offered as a single lot. 100% of...

On the 12th of November 2019 the Vietnamese Minister of Industry and Trade of Vietnam signed and announced Circular No. 22/2019/TT-BCT on Temporary Suspension of border-gate transfer business and temporary import of plywood (HS 44.12) into Vietnam for...