Russia reduced sawn timber production in 2020
January 26, 2021 ` 17:50
According to data from the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) in 2020, Russia reduced sawn timber production by 4.4% YoY to 28.6 million m³.
Russia reduced the production of wood-based panels in 2020
January 26, 2021 ` 17:35
According to data from the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) in 2020, plywood production in Russia decreased by 3.2% YoY to 4 million m³. The output of fiberboard (including MDF/HDF/flooring) decreased as well – by 7.1% YoY to...
Sveza installs a new moisture meter in Tyumen
January 26, 2021 ` 15:51
The Tyumen mill of Sveza has installed a new moisture meter. Investment in the new measuring equipment amounted to around RUB 8 million. The new equipment can help to prevent parts of the high-moisture veneer from getting to...
Austrian timber companies fined in Romania for unfair competition
January 25, 2021 ` 19:23
Romania’s Competition Council fined 31 timber producers on the local market for anti-competitive arrangements in the auctions organized during 2011-2016 by the state forest management company Romsilva. The competition body found that 33 companies, out of the 96...
Russian Timber Journal 12-2020: Andrey Konoplev, General Director of Group Vologodskiye Lesopromyshlenniki, on the implications of the roundwood export ban being introduced from 2022 onwards; Luzales plans to build an MDF plant worth 5 billion rubles; the Ministry of Industry and Trade may introduce a temporary ban on the export of particleboards from Russia; analysis of the current situation in the particleboard, laminated particleboard, MDF market
January 21, 2021 ` 16:19
Russian Timber Journal 12-2020: WhatWood interviewed Mr. Andrey Konoplev, General Director of Group Vologodskiye Lesopromyshlenniki, about the ban on the export of unprocessed timber to be introduced from 2022; Luzales agreed on the conditions for the construction of an MDF...
Russia reduced its export of sawn timber by 5.9% in January – November 2020
January 19, 2021 ` 19:03
In January – November 2020, the volume of sawn timber exported from Russia reduced by 5.9% YoY and totaled 13.7 million m³, as reported by the Federal Customs Service of Russia. The value of foreign sawn timber shipments...
In January – November 2020, Russian plywood export increased by 4.3%
January 19, 2021 ` 18:42
In January – November 2020, Russia increased its plywood export volume by 4.3% YoY, reaching 2.633 million m³, as reported by the Federal Customs Service of Russia. Russian plywood shipments reduced by 0.8% YoY in monetary terms over...
Murashinskiy Plywood Plant started producing laminated plywood
January 15, 2021 ` 14:59
The line is designed to produce up to 5,000 m³ of coated plywood per month.
Hasslacherles’s investment project is included in the federal priority list
January 15, 2021 ` 13:47
The investment project of Hasslacherles LLC formulated as “Modernization of woodworking facilities and organization of production of components for wooden housing construction” obtained the status of a priority investment project of the Russian Federation in the forest sector....
Tilia in Perm to invest 100 million rubles in the production of furniture boards by 2023
January 14, 2021 ` 18:52
Tilia LLC (the town of Chernushka, Perm region) is going to invest 100.4 million rubles in the organization of value-added processing of birch timber and the creation of furniture board production by 2023. 68.2 million rubles are supposed...
Sveza modernized its production facilities in Uralsky
January 14, 2021 ` 18:42
The value of investments in the modernization of Sveza’s plant in Uralsky in Q3 2020 amounted to 230 million rubles. 40 million rubles have been invested in the installation of a new press in the second plywood workshop....
U.S. softwood timber prices continue to climb
January 14, 2021 ` 18:13
Compared to the price one-year-ago, of US$402 mfbm, last week benchmark softwood timber item Western S-P-F KD 2×4 #2&Btr was selling for US$944 mfbm which is +$542, or +135% more. Unstoppable demand over the Holiday Season pushed prices...