Woodworking

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 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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

Russian Timber Journal 04-2021: WhatWood agency about possible scenarios of Russia’s unprocessed wood balance after imposing a ban on exports of softwood and hardwood logs; Yury Trutnev, Deputy Prime Minister and Presidential Envoy in the Far East, declared that...

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 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...

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...

In 1Q 2021, Russia increased its plywood export volume by 7.1% YoY, reaching 775,100 m³, as reported by the Federal Customs Service of Russia. In value terms, for the reporting period, Russian plywood supplies increased by 22.2% YoY...

In 1Q 2021, the volume of sawn timber exported from Russia reduced by 9.6% YoY and totaled 4.64 million m³, as reported by the Federal Customs Service of Russia. The value of foreign sawn timber shipments from Russia...