EWD to become general sponsor of the conference co-hosted by LPI and WhatWood

Major global woodworking equipment producer EWD has decided to support the conference “Timber industry of Russia: searching of growth points”, co-organized by the LesPromInform business journal and WhatWood timber industry analytic agency with the support of Restec exhibition company. The event will be held on September 29 in St. Petersburg in the framework of St. Petersburg International Forestry Forum.

EWD was founded in 1996 in Germany as a joint venture company Esterer AG (1862) and Wurster + Dietz GmbH & Co. (1867). Since 2007, the major shareholding of EWD was transferred to Gebr. Linck Maschinenfabrik Gatterlinck GmbH & Co KG. Joint 150-year experience in the forest industry has enabled the company to earn trust among the woodworkers around the world: today, the share of exports in company’s turnover exceeds 80%.

As noted by the company, the reason for the high confidence in EWD products is the technological competence and innovative potential of the company focused on customer needs and offering all sawing technologies for modern sawmills from one source. EWD is a permament participant of the most important events and exhibitions around the world.

The conference will include two panels. In the first one, the reports will focus on market analysis and current state of the Russian timber industry. The second panel will be dedicated to practical issues, including raw material sourcing, ways to boost logging levels in Russian regions, and cost optimization methods, as well as to company cases.

Among the companies presenting their reports will be Ilim Timber, MM-Efimovsky, Novoyenisseysky LHK, Red October sawmill, Perm regional timber association, HolzProjekt Buro, Russian Timber Group, Finnish natural resources institute LUKE, SENNEBOGEN, and WhatWood.

The conference will be held on September 29 in PetroCongress centre, St. Petersburg, from 10.30 till 16.00.

Conference participation for the audience is free of charge, with preliminary registration.

All details about the event are available at the official conference page.

LesPromInform and WhatWood editorial offices have been cooperating for some time. Agency experts were preparing articles for the LesPromInform journal as well as the English-language Russian Forestry Review. WhatWood editor Kirill Baranov presented a report on the lumber export markets at the journal’s workshop on lumber business cost optimization in the autumn of 2014. In 2015, the journal and the agency decided to combine their efforts and expertise in arranging forest industry events. The conference in St. Petersburg will be the first event of this kind.