Woodworking

According to a post on the Spark analytics system, Segezha Group liquidated Segezha Sawmills LLC. Winding-up of the sawmill at one of the company’s oldest sites in Karelia began more than a year ago, as reported by TASS...

Elena Romanova, Head of Investor Relations at Segezha Group, said at Smartlab Conference that Segezha Group had reviewed the priority of projects on launching new pulp and paper mills in Karelia (Segezha West) and the Krasnoyarsk Region (Segezha...

Alexey Churkin, Chair of the Board of Directors at Vologodskiye Lesopromyshlenniki Group, spoke at the meeting of the Union of Timber Manufacturers and Exporters of Russia and highlighted the acute problems currently faced by the woodworking industry in...

After the Russian billionaire Alexey Mordashov was included in western countries’ sanction lists, he decided to hand over his controlling interest in Sveza Group. The timber company previously owned by Severgroup LLC was transferred to the top management...

According to WhatWood estimates, the particleboard export over 8 months of 2022 was about 1.1 million m³, which is 11% less than in the same period of 2021. The number of countries importing particleboard made in Russia reduces...

After July 8, 2022, when supplies of almost all timber products from Russia to EU countries virtually stopped, the average monthly export of Russian plywood plummeted by a half in physical terms. In May and June 2022, just...

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...

According to Rosstat, in October 2022, compared to the previous month, plywood production increased by 8.7%. In September 2022, there was also growth, but only by 0.1%, which rather indicates a halt in the decline in plywood production...

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...

Evrazles LLC started building a timber processing plant in Dachnoye village, Korsakovsky urban district, Sakhalin Region. The company will invest 13.9 billion rubles by 2026. The new enterprise will process about 700,000 m³ of logs per year, producing...

The plant in Novator has invested over 70 million rubles in projects on upgrading the existing production and improving working conditions and safety since the start of 2022, according to Sveza’s press office. This investment is supposed to...

Monolit-Stroy LLC (Latat brand) commissioned the first Siberian plant producing OSB with a capacity of 250,000 m³ near Tomsk, as reported by Tomsk Advertising and Information Agency. The investment value exceeded 6.5 billion rubles. The equipment was supplied...