Finland intends to supply chips from the Vologda region

Entrepreneurs from Finland are interested in a monthly supply of 16,000 m3 of hardwood chips from Totemsky district of the Vologda region, this was discussed at the meeting of the head of the district Sergey Selyanin with potential investors on September 17, 2014. Chips will be used as fuel for CHP in one of the Finnish towns with a population of 35 thousand people.

According to Selyanin, forest fund of Totemsky district is the largest in the Vologda region (2.3 million m3), the bulk of it being deciduous wood: aspen, birch and alder.

“We are ready to consider any mutually beneficial suggestions, from installing chipping equipment and large-scale deliveries of wood chips to the Finnish partners to prospective construction of a plywood mill,” said the head of the district.