Ilim Group made 2.58M tons of pulp & paper products in 2012

St. Petersburg, February 12. Ilim Group reported full-year 2012 production results. Company’s mills in Siberia and the Russian Northwest manufactured over 2.58 million tons of pulp and paper products. Production at Koryazhma mill in Arkhangelsk region increased 4% year-on-year, in Bratsk and Ust-Ilimsk (Irkutsk region) output remained nearly flat.

This includes 1.64 million tons of market pulp, which is 2% higher on-year, 708,000 tons of market containerboard, which is flat compared to 2011 and 235,000 tons of paper grades (+5% to 2011).

Ilim Gofra, corrugated box business of Ilim Group in Leningrad region, manufactured 129.5 million sq m of products, which is 6% more than in 2011.

Own logging of Ilim Group in Arkhangelsk region reached 2.3 million cu m, while in Siberia the company harvested 6.7 million cu m of wood.