Woodworking

By 2020, the European leaders by the share of biofuels in the energy industry will be Sweden (49%), Latvia (40%) and Finland (38%), such predictions were given at the XV International Forestry Forum held on 8-9 October in...

The scientists of a research institute in Irkutsk (NI IrGTU) have developed a new wood concrete production technology, an improved version of the so-called “dyurizol”, a building material from wood chips and cement. Scientists add magnesium astringent (caustic...

What makes wood material and wood handling processes so special in terms of explosion hazards? This question can be answered quite simply, considering requirements of dust explosion phenomenon: combustible dust, air/oxygen and effective ignitions sources. Nearly all wood...

The Polish furniture exports to Russia are expected to exceed €200 million in 2013, as Fordaq reported quoting Polish media. In 2009, Poland delivered to Russia furniture worth €90 million, while in 2012 this value reached €166 million....

In 2012, joint net sales of the 100 largest Russian forest industry companies that participated in the WhatWood rating declined by 0.87% to RUR 279.68 billion. Joint net profit of 94 companies of the rating who disclosed this...

The final draft of the “Fundamentals of State Policy in the field of use, protection and reproduction of forests” was adopted by the Russian government at the session of September 23, as the Minister of natural resources and...

According to the Analytic centre of EIG Engineering, construction of power plants working on solid biofuels in Ukraine can attract over €6 billion of investments. Calculations are based on the fact that already available amount of unclaimed solid...

According to the analytic centre of EIG Engineering, wood resources for bioenergy power plants in Ukraine amount to about 4 million tonnes annually. In terms of calorific value of coal, this resource is estimated at 1.9 million tonnes...

Lesnaya Innovacionnaya Kompaniya (LIK, Forest innovative company) re-launched production of sawn timber at the former factory of UPM in Pestovo, Novgorod region. The company intends to invest RUR 1.2 billion into production upgrades. The investor will use both...

Perm region governor Viktor Basargin announced signing of agreement with Swiss Krono Group on the construction of a woodworking mill, as Kommersant-Perm paper reported. The rated production capacity was increased from initially planned 500 to 600 thousand tonnes...

Novosibirsk hosted the international summit “Experience of the leading European companies in the wood processing industry” on September 10-13 in the framework of the International exhibition TEKHNODREV Siberia. The representative of the Finnish consulting company Indufor Allan Flink...

Following the results of seven months of 2013, OSB imports into Russia grew 30% year-on-year to 381,300 m3, as said in the study “OSB market in Russia in 2010 – Jan-Jul 2013” published recently by the analytic department...