Pulp & Paper

Pulp Mill Holding procured an official permit from regional authorities to locate a new Arkhbum production venue in Maslovsky Industrial Park in Voronezh. The Group intends to build a plant with the capacity of 188 million m² of...

UK Nikol-Pack is planning to open a cardboard product plant in the Gorokhovetsky District of the Vladimir Region in 2025, investing approximately 15 billion rubles. The design capacity of the new plant is supposed to reach 150,000 tons...

In January-October 2021, the volume of wood pulp export from Russia decreased by 10.7% YoY, reaching 1.7 million tons, as reported by the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation. The value of foreign supplies increased by 32.8%...

The volume of paper and cardboard production in Ukraine grew by 10.8% YoY over 10 months of 2021. The output of containerboard, including fluting paper, followed a very similar trend – it grew by 8%, while folding boxboard...

In January-September 2021, the volume of wood pulp export from Russia decreased by 9.3% YoY, reaching 1.537 million tons, as reported by the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation. The value of foreign supplies increased by 34.3%...

TK Gofrotorg LLC received a loan of 74 million rubles to upgrade its equipment. By the end of 2021, the company intends to ramp up production output by 20% and increase revenue to 231 million rubles. As the...

This is reported by TASS news agency referencing the company’s CEO Klaus Peller. The upgrading will increase the finished product output by 46% compared to the 2008 performance, while the tax payments will grow by eight times over...

Kama Karton LLC (part of KAMA Group) completed construction of a plant in Krasnokamsk that will produce bleached chemical and thermomechanical pulp from hardwood timber. The investments in the project reached 3.39 billion rubles; the product output volume...

Segezha Group is planning to construct its own treatment facilities at Sokol Pulp and Paper Mill in the Vologda Region. Investments in the project which includes the construction works are estimated at around RUB 2 billion. The biological...

According to the data of the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) in January-September 2021, the output of Russian wood pulp increased by 0.5% YoY to 6.5 million tons. Paper and cardboard production increased over the reporting period by...

Russian Timber Journal 09-2021: Tapani Kiiski, President and CEO of Raute Corporation: “The Russian market has been among the most important ones for Raute over the past 10 years”; current situation in the roundwood market, industry’s opportunities and restrictions...

The Segezha Packaging facility in Ploiești, Romania has just obtained its first FSC international certificate. BM Certification, an independent certification body, carried out the evaluation of the Segezha Packaging facility’s compliance with FSC requirements. It became the fifth...