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A new plywood production site will be commissioned in the Vologda Region

May 27, 2021 ` 18:55  
Bereznik has been building a plywood factory in Sokol industrial park since 2019. It is planned to commission a production site with a capacity of 40,000 m³ of birch plywood per year in early 2022. In 2025, this...

Assets of Russian Laminate are put up for bidding

May 27, 2021 ` 18:52  
Bidding on the sale of the particleboard production plant with a capacity of 300,000 m³ per year that belongs to Russian Laminate Group is scheduled for April 20, 2021. The company is located in the Kholm-Zhirkovsky District of...

Glennon Brothers has entered into an agreement with SHV Energy to buy Balcas

May 27, 2021 ` 18:46  
Balcas operates a sawmill in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, producing quality sawn timber products for the fencing, landscaping, agricultural, construction, and pallet and packaging sectors. The company also operates two renewable energy plants at Enniskillen and Invergordon,...

The Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia proposes to allow temporary restrictions on plywood and sawn timber export

May 26, 2021 ` 18:07  
The Ministry proposes to add plywood (HS Code 4412) and sawn timber (HS Code 4407) to the list of products that are materially important for the domestic market of the Russian Federation and whose export may be temporary...

Russia increased wood-based panels production in January-April 2021

May 26, 2021 ` 12:52  
According to data from the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) in January-April 2021, plywood production in Russia increased by 16.1% YoY to 1.5 mln m³. The output of fiberboard (including MDF/HDF/flooring) also increased by 18.4% YoY to 229...

Russia increased sawn timber production in January-April 2021

May 26, 2021 ` 12:36  
According to data from the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) in January-April 2021, Russia increased sawn timber production by 1.9% YoY to 9,7 million m³.

Segezha Group sends its first container train to China from Arkhangelsk region

May 24, 2021 ` 23:35  
On May 21, 2021, for the first time in its history, the Arkhangelsk region-based Onega Sawmills (Segezha Group PJSC, a subsidiary of Sistema PJSFC) has sent a high-speed container train along the Onega—Grodekovo—Ganzhou Guojigang (China) route. Sixty-two forty-foot...

US timber prices hit record high again

May 24, 2021 ` 23:23  
Softwood timber and panel (plywood and OSB) prices rose by even more the week of May 7 than they did the week before, indicating that demand for construction framing wood products is not slowing down. In the week...

JAF Group sells veneer production in Braşov to Unilin

May 18, 2021 ` 20:54  
The JAF Group has announced the sale of the veneer production in Braşov, Romania to the Belgian flooring manufacturer Unilin. The sale and production of lumber and thermo-wood on site by the JAF Group remain unaffected. The sales...

Raute receives orders from VMG Group

May 18, 2021 ` 17:05  
Raute Corporation has received orders worth approximately € 30 million from VMG Group in Lithuania. The orders consist of production machinery for a complete laminated veneer lumber (LVL) process, and the machines will be delivered to VMG’s upcoming...

Wood pulp export from Russia decreased by 7.1% in 1Q 2021

May 14, 2021 ` 19:15  
In 1Q 2021, the volume of wood pulp export from Russia decreased by 7.1% YoY, reaching 512,000 tons, as reported by the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation. The value of foreign supplies increased by 8.2% to...