Woodworking

In 2021, the volume of sawn timber exported from Russia reduced by 6.4% YoY and totaled 29.134 million m³, as reported by the Federal Customs Service of Russia. The value of foreign sawn timber shipments from Russia increased...

In 2021, Russia increased its plywood export volume by 5.1% YoY, reaching 3.043 million m³, as reported by the Federal Customs Service of Russia. In value terms, for the reporting period, Russian plywood supplies increased by 67.3% YoY...

The Council on Land and Property Relations of the Government of the Nizhny Novgorod Region approved assigning an area to Forami LLC that intends to build a production plant for value-added wood processing and start making house kits....

According to data from the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) in 2021, Russia increased sawn timber production by 4.5% YoY to 30.6 million m³.

Russian plywood production in 2021 increased by 6.8% YoY to 4.5 million m³, according to Rosstat. Prior to this, 2019 was a record year, when Russian plywood production amounted to 4.1 million m³. Also in 2021, the production...

In the week ending January 21, 2022, the price of benchmark softwood lumber item Western Spruce-Pine-Fir 2×4 #2&Btr KD (RL) was US$1,220 mfbm, said forest products industry price guide newsletter Madison’s Lumber Reporter. This is up by +$50,...

The project is implemented by the Republic Mortgage Agency. By the end of 2021, 5 individual residential wooden houses will be built in Yakutsk by the German MHM (Massiv Holz Mauer) technology. 27 more houses like that with...

Sakhalin Engineering will start producing house kits by the wall frame technology in 2022, on some of the premises of Khabarovsk Shipbuilding Yard, as reported by the press office of the Governor and the Government of the Khabarovsk...

Sber will finance the construction of a unique timber processing plant in Pskov Region, Russia, by providing RUB 2.8 billion. Production waste will be used to make compressed wooden blocks for pallets, with low-grade wood accounting for 100%...

Russian Timber Journal 11-2021: Metin Mete, General Manager at HAYAT Russia: “The whole market of paper tissue products is growing by an average of 5% a year”; U.S. has decided to almost double the duties on Canadian softwood lumber...

Sveza, a leading Russian forest industry company and the world’s largest manufacturer of birch plywood, has developed plywood that does not conduct electricity — SVEZA Dielectric. This plywood suits applications that require light and strong non-conductive materials. The...

In January – October 2021, Russia grew its sawn timber export volumes to European countries by 26.6% YoY – up to 4.7 million m³. The key buyers of Russian sawn timber were: Estonia — 933,000 m³ (+37.4% YoY),...