Pulp & Paper

Segezha Group is considering the selling its European assets or forming joint ventures with a minority stake. The Company has already received three offers from potential buyers, but decision has not yet been made, explains Mikhail Shamolin, President of...

The Mayr-Melnhof Group (MM) has sold its two Packaging sites in Russia, St. Petersburg and Pskov, to the local investor Granelle following approval by the governmental authorities. The selling price amounts to approx €134 million. In 2021, the...

Russian Timber Journal 10-2022: WhatWood Analytics Agency prepared the next rating of TOP 100 Russian timber industry companies in 2021; Russian timber enterprises are asking the authorities to lift the restrictions on transiting dried sawn timber through Kazakhstan...

The company intends to build a factory worth 2 billion rubles to make corrugated cardboard and a whole range of other products, including secondary corrugated packaging for milk and juices in Kashira, a town in the Moscow Region,...

Top managers of printing houses told Vedomosti that their companies were facing a shortage of equipment and spare parts because of the sanctions and the fact that producers from Europe, North America, and Japan were refusing to supply....

Analysts from the Center of Macroeconomic and Regional Analysis and Forecasting at Rosselkhozbank estimate that the volume of the Russian packaging market may increase by 30% and reach 1.7 trillion rubles by the end of 2025. Eco packaging...

Russian Timber Journal 09-2022: Vadim Fidarov, Government Relations Manager, Wooden Housing Construction Association: “Private housing projects are a market of cut-throat competition”; will the Russian market of wooden housing construction be able to compensate for the lost export...

Sylvamo, the world’s paper company, is announcing it reached an agreement and completed the sale of its Russian operations to Pulp Invest Limited Liability Company for $420 million. After foreign currency exchange rates and transaction fees, Sylvamo received...

Large Russian timber companies have lately been purchasing design institutes to make them a part of their groups. Such institutes perform a series of design operations and render other services on renovation and greenfield construction of pulp and...

Dobroflot Group that specializes in canned fish production built a plant to produce cardboard packaging in Bolshoy Kamen (“Big Stone”) Advanced Development Territory within its own import substitution project, as reported on the company website. The investment value...

The city will provide a 2.4 ha area to the investor to build a production facility in Mitino District, according to the official website of the Moscow Mayor. The investment in the project is estimated at 1.6 billion...

The European Commission announced that the EU countries have approved the eighth package of sanctions against Russia. Additional restrictions include a ban on imports of wood pulp and paper from Russia. All imports of products from Russia, which...