Timber industry research & analytics 
A timber processing facility to open at the former Ford plant in the Leningrad region
March 2, 2023 ` 12:59
Slotex company plans to set up production at the site of the former Ford plant in Vsevolozhsk, TASS reports referring to the press service of the Committee for Economic Development and Investment Activity of the Leningrad Region. The...
UPM sells its Russian enterprise to its own subsidiary
March 2, 2023 ` 12:54
As Novy Prospekt Newpaper reports, Finnish UPM has changed the ownership structure of its Russian enterprises. According to SPARK, ASTRONAUT RUS HOLDINGS OY, a Finnish joint-stock company, has become the sole owner of UPM Kymmene LLC (trading in...
A timber processing center worth 1 billion rubles to open in the Khabarovsk region
March 2, 2023 ` 12:50
Tumninsky Priisk LLC, in cooperation with the Russian Far East and Arctic Development Corporation, intends to open a facility for the production of sawn timber, veneer, plywood, papercrete blocks, and wood pellets with a capacity of over 200,000...
Segezha Group starts selling apartments in the first CLT houses in Russia
March 2, 2023 ` 12:47
Segezha Group is officially starting selling housing in the first Russian high-rise CLT buildings. These are one-room and two-room apartments with an area of 48–63 m² in two four-storey buildings of Sokoliki Housing Estate in the town of...
Plywood production in Russia fell by 41.2% in January
February 22, 2023 ` 20:36
In January 2023, Russian plywood production fell by 41.2% YoY to 203,000 m³, according to Rosstat. Compared to December 2022, plywood production decreased by 10.4%.
Russian Railways resumed accepting sawn timber for export shipments through Kazakhstan
February 21, 2023 ` 17:43
As TASS reports based on the information obtained from the press office of Russian Railways, the company resumed accepting sawn timber for export transportation by rail through Kazakhstan. As the Group notes, the measures adopted by the government...
Luzales and Slotex acquire Russian assets of IKEA
February 16, 2023 ` 12:54
A government commission has approved the sale of Swedish furniture maker IKEA’s three plants in Russia to two Russian buyers. Deputy Trade and Commerce Minister Viktor Yevtukhov told the daily Izvestia that kitchen worktop manufacturer Slotex and lumber...
Association of Furniture and Woodworking Enterprises: the share of imported furniture in the Russian market reduced from 41% to 25% in 2022
February 14, 2023 ` 18:12
Furniture production in the Russian Federation remained at the level of 2021 in physical terms but increased by 15% in monetary terms. Alexander Shestakov, President of the Association, believes that the niche freed up by the leaving foreign...
Rosleskhoz: the forest industry accounted for 0.8% of the country’s GDP in 2022
February 9, 2023 ` 13:24
The forest industry contributed around 1 trillion rubles to the Russian economy in 2022, Ivan Sovetnikov, Head of the Federal Forestry Agency (Rosleskhoz), said in an interview to Rossiyskaya Gazeta. It has grown by more than 1.5 times...
Viktoria Abramchenko, Deputy Prime Minister supervising the timber industry in the Government, held a meeting on the issues of the timber industry development
February 9, 2023 ` 13:17
Highlights: The Russian Government realizes that the timber industry is facing objective economic challenges, a logistics blockade, and other problems. That is why state support measures introduced in 2022 will be extended for another year. In 2022, timber...
Russian Timber Journal 01-2023: interview with Valeriy Sergeevich Sukhanov, D. Eng., Honored Worker of the Russian Forest Industry; in 2022, the sawn timber export from Russia dropped to an 8-year low; North American companies continue to cut sawn timber production; the Government of Russia allowed transportation of roundwood and sawn timber to EAEU countries; in 2022, the Russian export of timber products reduced by two times and railway transportation, by 22%; over 25 billion rubles’ worth of transportation costs of industrial products export will be subsidized in 2023
February 9, 2023 ` 12:57
Russian Timber Journal 01-2023: Valeriy Sergeevich Sukhanov, D. Eng., Honored Worker of the Russian Forest Industry: “The Russian timber industry has degraded”; in 2022, the export of sawn timber from Russia dropped by 22% YoY, down to 23.5 million...
In 2022, the sawn timber export from Russia dropped to an 8-year low
February 9, 2023 ` 13:07
The export of sawn timber is the most important source of income for the Russian timber industry. The number of countries that were buying Russian sawn timber has been consistent over the past decade: 105–110. In December 2022,...
