Woodworking

In January-April 2021, the volume of sawn timber exported from Russia reduced by 5.2% YoY and totaled 6.8 million m³, as reported by the Federal Customs Service of Russia. The value of foreign sawn timber shipments from Russia...

In January-April 2021, Russia increased its plywood export volume by 9.9% YoY, reaching 1.062 million m³, as reported by the Federal Customs Service of Russia. In value terms, for the reporting period, Russian plywood supplies increased by 26.4%...

Mayr-Melnhof Holz is investing €150 million in its plant in Leoben and wants to create an additional 50 jobs there. The plan is for the new cross-laminated timber plant to go into full operation in just under two...

Artem Zdunov, Acting Head of Mordovia, participated in commissioning a new automatic veneer drying and sorting line. The investment value was 2.25 billion rubles; 999 million of these are loans at 1% per annum from the Industrial Development...

Lesprom is going to invest 4.4 billion rubles in building a plywood factory with a capacity of 60,000 m³ per year. This investment project was approved by the expert panel chaired by Mikhail Vedernikov, Governor of the Pskov...

The salary debt at Karelia DSP plant in Pindushi settlement has been paid in full, as reported by Artur Parfenchikov, Head of Karelia, on his VKontakte page. “They are now preparing to upgrade the production site, implementing environmentally...

In the week ending May 14, 2021 the wholesaler price of benchmark softwood timber commodity item Western S-P-F KD 2×4 #2&Btr was $1,650 mfbm. This is up by +$90, or +5%, from the previous week when it was...

Promtech-Invest is working on a project of building production facilities for OSB production at its site in Kunib village, Sysolsky District. The company also intends to launch production of glued laminated timber and prefabricated elements for house-building. The...

According to Valentin Rozhok, Director General at Luzales, this is a new project for the company by all accounts – both by the investment value and by the product; the company has never produced MDF boards before. Whereas...

On May 20, 2021, as a part of the phased consolidation of the assets of CJSC Novoyeniseiskiy LHK , Segezha Group signed an agreement on the acquisition of a minority stake in Tegli Holdings Ltd holding a 100% stake in...

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...

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...