Woodworking

Russia is undergoing a boom of country houses construction (specifically, those made of wooden structures) that began in 2020 because of the pandemic and continued in 2021. The Russian house construction market is therefore facing an acute shortage...

Sveza’s facility in St. Petersburg has completed its scheduled preventive equipment maintenance and is now back in operation. The full scope of maintenance — 16 types of activities, affecting almost the entire production process — required 2 weeks...

As the end of September approached, the demand and sales of construction framing dimension softwood lumber commodities improved significantly, enough for prices to rise somewhat. This is an unusual time of year, after Labour Day, for solid wood...

Segezha Group has started commercial activities through its representative office in Singapore, Segezha International Pte. Ltd. The new company sells the entire range of the Group’s products directly to customers in the region: kraft paper, industrial and consumer...

Segezha Group announces that Lesosibirsk LDK (a Segezha Group company) has exercised an option agreement with Non-core assets Bank “Trust” for the acquisition of a majority stake in Tegli Holdings Ltd (the parent company of Novoeniseisk Wood Chemical...

On August 2, 2021, the Commercial Court of Bashkiria compelled Development Corporation of the Republic of Bashkortostan to sign a purchase and sale contract for lands in Kirillovo Selsovet, Ufimsky District, Bashkiria, with Kronospan Bashkortostan, as reported by...

The investment project on timber harvesting and wood processing in the Isetsky District is being implemented by TekhnoModel LLC, as reported by the local mass media. By the end of 2021, a wood pellets production line is supposed...

This is reported by the official web portal of Karelia. The investment will reach 2.5 billion rubles. This project is on the list of priority investment projects in the forest sector. It involves upgrading sawmilling assets and increasing...

Angara Les LLC will start producing OSB in Kodinsk, as reported by Interfax Real Estate quoting the company’s Director, Sergey Tarasyuk. 3.1 billion rubles will be invested in this project with the production capacity of 100,000 m³ of...

Kronospan invested 226 million rubles in restoring the lamination line at Igorevsky DOK located in the Kholm-Zhirkovsky District of the Smolensk Region. Peter Kindl, the owner of Kronospan Group, had previously declared his intention to invest 1.5 billion...

VTB Bank opened a line of credit to Uvadrev-Holding LLC — one of the biggest companies in Udmurtia’s wood processing industry. The loan of over 7.3 billion rubles is issued for the term of up to 10 years...

According to Madison’s Lumber Reporter, in the week ending September 10, 2021 the wholesaler price of benchmark softwood timber commodity item Western S-P-F KD 2×4 #2&Btr was $480 ($311/m³). This is up by +$50, or +12%, from the...