Woodworking

As far as the seasonal cycle of lumber sales — thus prices — goes, normally, after the Labour Day long weekend, demand starts to drop and by U.S. Thanksgiving, demand reaches the annual low. This didn’t happen last...

The plant located in the Novgorod Region completed installation and setup of the cross-section measuring instrument at the raw sorting area of the sawmilling shop. The new equipment is supposed to improve the accuracy of sawn timber sorting...

The project includes building a new sawmill and additional drying kilns, an electrical substation, approach roads and a wood pellet plant with the capacity of 40,000 t of wood pellets a year. The mill commissioning is scheduled for...

Sveza Group summarized the results of the first nine months of 2021. The market grew steadily recovering from the pandemic blows of 2020 allowing Sveza to enjoy increased demand domestically and abroad. From January through September 2021, Sveza...

The Sokol CLT plant located in Vologda Oblast is the first Russian enterprise to pass the European Technical Assessment (ETA) on product performance. The ETA of the plant has been conducted by the Austrian Institute of Construction Engineering...

According to data from the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) in January-September 2021, Russia increased sawn timber production by 2.5% YoY to 23 million m³.

According to data from the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) in January-September 2021, plywood production in Russia increased by 9% YoY to 3.4 mln m³. The output of fiberboard (including MDF/HDF/flooring) also increased by 16.1% YoY to 546...

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 investment project that includes creating comprehensive value-added wood processing, from timber harvesting to finished product, will be implemented by Evrosibdom LLC in Vinzili village, Tyumen Region. The planned investment value is currently 980 million rubles. At least...

GlobalPanels is a Mexican forest products trading company. WhatWood agency spoke to Ruben Colin, CEO of GlobalPanels, to learn about the main trends in the global forest industry markets, the impact of Covid-19, the specifics of working with...

Still pushing up at an unusual time of year, for the week of October 8, 2021 the price of Western S-P-F 2×4 #2&Btr KD (RL) was $580 mfbm, according to Madison’s Lumber Reporter. This is up by +$40, or...

The launch of a new automatic line will reduce the proportion of manual labor by 50% and increase the production efficiency. Investments in the project amounted to about 70 million rubles. Тhe key component of the new sorting...