In 2020, Ilim Group ramps up its production volumes by more than 12%

Ilim Group measures its performance in 2020. The Company retained leadership in the Russian pulp and paper industry by delivering 3.637 million tons of products, which is an all-time record performance.

In 2020, Ilim’s facilities produced 3.637 million tons of products, which is 12.7% or 409,000 tons above the last year’s performance. In particular, Ilim manufactured 2.2 million tons of pulp, 967,000 tons of packaging materials, 320,000 tons of white papers, and more than 120,000 tons of corrugated packaging. Driven by the growing demand for packaging both in the domestic and export markets, Ilim intends to aggressively increase its production of paperboard and packaging materials.

Despite the pandemic, last year the Company delivered its investment program worth more than $ 540.6 million. In particular, four new areas were placed into service: the debottlenecking of Line 1 of the Ust-Ilimsk Mill was completed with ramp-up to the target level and three projects were completed at the Bratsk Mill site, including construction of New Woodroom 4, construction of Vacuum Evaporation Plant 8, and KLB Line Rebuild with ramp-up to the target level, which increased the output of the Bratsk KLB machine by 50% to reach 300,000 tons.