Woodworking

Tyumen, November 12. Germany’s Schattdecor company that specializes in production of furniture decor printing is going to build a mill in Tyumen. It is expected that the mill will reach rated capacity (60 million sq m annually) in...

In the first half-year, lumber production in Russia amounted to 13.8 million cu m, which is 1.3% higher than in H1 2011, while export declined by 2.7%; import fell by 15.5%. In the export pattern, DAF and FCA...

Solombala LDK (Arkhangelsk) is going to launch its new sawmill in the summer of 2013. Processing capacity of the mill is 800,000 cu m of wood… If you want to read full article, please subscribe for our Weekly...

WTO accession will possibly lead to closures of low-efficiency and old mills that don’t have possibilities to cut internal costs, as said by Dmitriy Krylov, Deputy CEO, Foreign Relations of Lesozavod-25 mill (belongs to Titan Group). ‘’Acute competition...

For the six months ended June 30, 2012 Ilim Timber produced 1 258 791 cubic meters of wood products. Production volume increased 21% compared to same period of 2011. Total output of sawn timber on Ust  Ilimsk Sawmill (Russia), Ilim...

Novator plywood mill (Velikiy Ustuyg, belongs to Sveza Group) installed new veneer reparation line made by Raute (Finland). COO of the mill, Vladimir Pelevin, said that this new line will cut costs in veener production threefold and improve...

Demand for MDF, HDF and fiberboard in 2012 started to grow earlier than expected. This was the result of financial and operation problems at some companies earlier, as said by Board & Lumber division director of Investlesprom Dmitriy...

Austrian Binderholz company that gave up plans to construct a mill in Kem (Karelia) in early 2012 is now going to build a new enterprise on the base of Kondopoga wood-exporting mill LLC, as company’s representative Georg Braun...

Sales of the only woodworking capacity of Continental Management company, Lesozavod-2 (Arkhangelsk), fell considerably in the first half-year. Compared to a year-ago figures, sales decreased … times to … million roubles, the company said. In Q2 compared to Q1, sales grew...

Chief Executive of Verkhneketskiy LPK mill Vladimir Shatalin announced possible bankruptcy due to high railway tariffs. He said that competition in railway transportation so far influenced forest industry negatively. ‘’Several years will pass until the market becomes stable and consumption...

Net benefit of Dyatkovo-DOZ mill (Bryansk region) increased four times in the first half-year up to … million roubles. Sales increased by …% to … million roubles. Dyatkovo-DOZ makes white and laminated particleboard, furniture, decoration paper as well as synthetic...

Chief Executive of Investlesprom holding Anton Zavalkovskiy said that housing construction in Russia ceased to be massive and shifted to retail sector… If you want to read full article, please subscribe for our Weekly — kb@whatwood.ru