Woodworking

In January 2023, Russian plywood production fell by 41.2% YoY to 203,000 m³, according to Rosstat. Compared to December 2022, plywood production decreased by 10.4%.

As TASS reports based on the information obtained from the press office of Russian Railways, the company resumed accepting sawn timber for export transportation by rail through Kazakhstan. As the Group notes, the measures adopted by the government...

A government commission has approved the sale of Swedish furniture maker IKEA’s three plants in Russia to two Russian buyers. Deputy Trade and Commerce Minister Viktor Yevtukhov told the daily Izvestia that kitchen worktop manufacturer Slotex and lumber...

Furniture production in the Russian Federation remained at the level of 2021 in physical terms but increased by 15% in monetary terms. Alexander Shestakov, President of the Association, believes that the niche freed up by the leaving foreign...

The forest industry contributed around 1 trillion rubles to the Russian economy in 2022, Ivan Sovetnikov, Head of the Federal Forestry Agency (Rosleskhoz), said in an interview to Rossiyskaya Gazeta. It has grown by more than 1.5 times...

Highlights: The Russian Government realizes that the timber industry is facing objective economic challenges, a logistics blockade, and other problems. That is why state support measures introduced in 2022 will be extended for another year. In 2022, timber...

Russian Timber Journal 01-2023: Valeriy Sergeevich Sukhanov, D. Eng., Honored Worker of the Russian Forest Industry: “The Russian timber industry has degraded”; in 2022, the export of sawn timber from Russia dropped by 22% YoY, down to 23.5 million...

The export of sawn timber is the most important source of income for the Russian timber industry. The number of countries that were buying Russian sawn timber has been consistent over the past decade: 105–110. In December 2022,...

According to Rosstat, the volume of production of Russian sawn timber in 2022 decreased by 10.3% YoY to 29 million m³. In December 2022, production decreased by 13.2% compared to the same period last year, while compared to...

According to the published data of Rosstat, in 2022 the volume of Russian plywood production decreased by 28.8% YoY to 3.241 million m³, which is the minimum indicator over the past ten years. Annual production rolled back to...

US imports of hardwood plywood declined by 21% in November, falling to their lowest level since January 2021. The 220,249 m³ imported was 22.5% less than that of November 2021., ITTO reported. Imports from Russia, which inexplicably inflated in October,...

In particular, companies were granted a deferral for forest area lease payments to be paid to the regional treasury as provided for by a law “On state support of timber enterprises of the Krasnoyarsk region” adopted in June...