Woodworking

According to TransLes analytics center, during 1H 2021 railway timber transportation experienced growth due to an increase in demand for timber and pulp & paper products both in external and domestic markets. As a result, the total volume...

The price of OSB has increased 510% since January 2020, exceeding the peak price increase in lumber by nearly 180 percentage points in the USA, as the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) reported. Although plywood panel prices have substantially...

Malaysia continues to see an upward trend in the rate of Covid-19 infections with 17,045 recorded in one day in late July, the highest ever in a day since the pandemic hit the nation. The cumulative total infected...

In 1H 2021, Sveza’s sales volume was 655,000 m³, which was 7% higher than in 1H 2020. During the reporting period, the company produced 662,000 m³ of products, exceeding the figures for the same period last year by...

Pulp Mill Holding intends to invest more than 160 billion rubles in the modernization of its Russian production facilities. The priority of the strategic agenda of the holding activity will be a new large-scale investment project – construction...

In 1H 2021, Russia increased its plywood export volume by 12.9% YoY, reaching 1.587 million m³, as reported by the Federal Customs Service of Russia. In value terms, for the reporting period, Russian plywood supplies increased by 40.7%...

In 1H 2021, the volume of sawn timber exported from Russia reduced by 0.3% YoY and totaled 15.413 million m³, as reported by the Federal Customs Service of Russia. The value of foreign sawn timber shipments from Russia...

Forpostles is planning to purchase new drying kilns to reduce sawn timber moisture content to 12-15% with the subsidized loan, in order to export its products in the future. The upgrading is going to cost approximately 40 million...

The new owner invested 1 billion rubles in repurposing the plant for birch plywood (exterior grade plywood) production. Plywood lamination line and RUF fuel briquettes production was also started up. Prior to the reconstruction that finished in 2018,...

Finscan is an automatic sawn timber sorting system using Buzzard – an artificial intelligence-based application. Besides identifying wood defects, the system is capable of identifying knots and rot with high precision, improving the quality and output of produced...

Based on April 2021 performance, OSB export from Russia to the USA reached unprecedented volumes – 9,568 m³ by volume and $4.53 million by value. As a result, the US share in the export structure of Russian OSB...

Osko-Invest launched edged boards production in Spasovshchina village in the Pskov region within the first stage. The investment value was 1.5 billion rubles, about 150 jobs were created. The plant had been previously working in a test run...