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Mayr-Melnhof Group to sell its Eerbeek and Baiersbronn virgin fiber cartonboard mills
June 23, 2021 ` 15:13
The Mayr-Melnhof Group and a subsidiary of funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. (“Oaktree”) have reached a firm intention on the sale of MM’s virgin fiber cartonboard mills located in Eerbeek, Netherlands, and Baiersbronn, Germany, to Oaktree... 
Karelia Pulp to perform a large-scale upgrade of Kondopoga Pulp and Paper Mill
June 22, 2021 ` 20:00
Artur Parfenchikov, Head of Karelia, Victor Ventimilla Alonso, Chairman of Severo-Zapadny Bank of Sberbank, and Vladimir Bobin, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Karelia Pulp Holding LLC, signed a trilateral cooperation agreement to implement an investment project... 
Smurfit Kappa to invest over 1 billion rubles to expand its production in the Leningrad region
June 21, 2021 ` 19:04
Smurfit Kappa Group will upgrade its sites in Kommunar and Vsevolozhsk. The investments in the project will total over 1 billion rubles of own funds. It is scheduled to start the works in the summer of 2021. Thanks... 
Segezha Group increases plywood production capacity
June 21, 2021 ` 17:45
Segezha Group, as part of its plywood production development strategy, is investing in the Vyatsky Plywood Mill capacity expansion project. The company has upgraded existing equipment, and new units have been selected for installation. The design is almost... 
Huhtamaki to build a second plant in Alabuga SEZ (Tatarstan)
June 18, 2021 ` 18:47
The new plant with a total area of 8,300 m² will produce 211 million egg boxes per year. The investments in the project are estimated at 1.4 billion rubles. The construction of the facility has already begun, the... 
Mondi Syktyvkar LPK performs a scheduled overhaul of equipment
June 18, 2021 ` 18:40
The company suspended production for a scheduled annual overhaul of process equipment, that will last 2.5 weeks, on May 23, 2021. Repairs of papermaking machines are scheduled to be completed in about five days; the rest of the... 
Belarusian Ivatsevichdrev to make more particleboards and furniture
June 18, 2021 ` 17:56
The Belarusian woodworking company Ivatsevichdrev intends to make more particleboards and furniture. The plans were discussed during a working trip of Prime Minister of Belarus Roman Golovchenko to Ivatsevichi District, Brest Region. Ivatsevichdrev specializes in making particle boards.... 
A new veneer surfacing-and-jointing line put into operation at Sveza’s mill in St. Petersburg
June 17, 2021 ` 16:44
The value of investments in the project amounted to about 50 million rubles. The new line is capable of “sewing” up to 10,000 m³ of veneer per year, which will increase the annual output of large-sized plywood. The... 
Segezha Group to increase the capacity of Vyatsky Plywood Mill by a third
June 17, 2021 ` 16:37
As the Kommersant newspaper reports, Segezha Group is going to invest 6 billion rubles to increase the production capacity of its plant in Kirov to 255,000 m³ of plywood per year. The production site is scheduled to be... 
Government of the Tver region to allocate 189 million rubles from the regional public funds to support investment projects in the field of value-added wood processing
June 16, 2021 ` 18:47
The funds are intended to facilitate the development of the timber industry in the region. Starting from 2021, timber enterprises will be provided with soft loans for the purchase of industrial and harvesting equipment and the construction of... 
Korol Divanov LLC to start producing plywood and particleboard in the Kirov region
June 16, 2021 ` 18:38
The Russian manufacturer of upholstered furniture is ready to start construction of the production facility at the end of 2021. The investments will amount to over 500 million rubles. It is estimated that the tax revenues will exceed... 
Sveza Mill in Sverdlovsk region to invest RUB 100 million in reconstruction of raw material heating system
June 16, 2021 ` 14:11
Sveza Mill in Verkhnyaya Sinyachikha, Sverdlovsk region, has started an investment project related to reconstruction of raw material heating ponds. The reconstruction program covers fourteen ponds of a production site and is divided into four stages and is... 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.
