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The Industry Development Fund will finance the RFP Group pellet project in the amount of 500 million rubles. The products will be exported to Japan and Korea
February 9, 2019 ` 14:00
The Industrial Development Fund approved a loan of LLC “RFP Drevesny granuly” in the amount of 500 million rubles, reported the press service of the company RFR Group. The project provides for the construction of a new enterprise... 
In the Sverdlovsk region created 42 jobs in the new wood processing plant in Volchansk
February 8, 2019 ` 19:00
Thanks to the state support and implementation in the Middle Urals of priority investment projects in the field of forest development, new production has been launched in the North of the region. Deputy Minister of industry and science... 
The plenipotentiary representative of the President in the far East Yuri Trutnev proposed to use the Internet service for the provision of forest areas
February 8, 2019 ` 16:00
At the press conference “Far East: points of growth-2019”, which was held on February 07, 2019, Yuri Trutnev summed up the results of 2018 and spoke about the work done to implement the instructions of the President of... 
For violations of environmental legislation has assigned 7.5 million rubles of fines
February 8, 2019 ` 14:00
The regional Ministry of environmental protection summed up the results of the regional state environmental supervision. In the Kirov region in 2018, 200 inspections were carried out in the field of environmental legislation. As a result of inspections,... 
“Luzales” implements the project on construction of a sawmill in Chovyu
February 7, 2019 ` 19:00
The purpose of the project– the construction of new sawmills and bioenergy facilities to increase the production of lumber normalized humidity and reduce production costs woodworking complex LLC “Luzales”, as noted in the press center of the company.... 
A wooden Metsä pavilion for the 2020 Olympic Games will be built in Tokyo
February 7, 2019 ` 16:00
Metsä Group and Business Finland are joining forces in building a wooden Metsä pavilion to be used in Tokio during the Olympic games. The pavilion will be built on the grounds of the Finnish Embassy in the center of... 
In April 2019 in Syktyvkar engineering company K-BEG will open a biofuel plant
February 7, 2019 ` 14:00
This is reported by the press service of the Ministry of investment, industry, and transport of the Republic of Komi. “Now we are entering a new level of development and we are becoming biofuel producers ourselves,” said Artur... 
In 2018, in Buryatia, tax revenues from the forest industry increased seven times
February 6, 2019 ` 19:00
Tax revenues to the budget of Buryatia from the enterprises of the timber industry in the fourth quarter of 2018 increased more than seven times – from 5.9 million to 43.3 million rubles. On behalf of the head... 
The Ministry of natural resources of Russia tightens control over the appointment of sanitary cuttings. The bill provides for an increase in fines for officials
February 6, 2019 ` 16:00
The developed amendments to the Code of administrative offences of the Russian Federation relate to the establishment of administrative liability for the concealment of information about the sanitary and forest pathology or the inclusion of inaccurate information about... 
Lesosibirsk LDK №1 broke the record of January shipments of sawn timber over the past 10 years
February 6, 2019 ` 14:00
January 2019 became the most productive month since the beginning of the year for Lesosibirsk LDK No. 1 (Segezha Group, part of Sistema) in the last 10 years. This was reported by the press service of Segezha Group.... 
Based on the results of 2018, Segezha Group entered the TOP 50 largest Russian companies by corporate transparency rating
February 5, 2019 ` 19:00
According to the rating, Segezha group (AFK ”Sistema”) is ranked 42nd in the corporate transparency rating of the largest Russian companies. Only completeness of the information disclosed by the Russian Regional Network (RRS) for integrated reporting was evaluated... 
In the Central Federal district, more than 10 million hectares of forest lands were put on cadastral registration
February 5, 2019 ` 16:00
According to the Federal Forestry Agency, in the territory of the Central Federal district(CFD) work was carried out on the territory of the 164 forestries 15 constituents of the district. Now it is put on cadastral accounting and... About WhatWood project
WhatWood agency is the only Russian consulting company with core specialization in the timber industry analytics. Within five years of timber market research we have provided services to 130 clients in 15 countries from Finland to Canada, from UK to Korea: industrial companies, banks, investors, government agencies, scientific organizations, and individual entrepreneurs. We have unique contact and knowledge base, as well as deep understanding of the regional industry and market in Russia. We give presentations at major industry events and are cited by the main Russian business media. To get in touch with us, please visit the About Us page. You can also browse the catalogue of our products.
