Red October sawmill CEO to speak at the conference in St. Petersburg co-hosted by LPI and WhatWood

Red October sawmill management will participate in the conference “Timber industry of Russia: searching of growth points”, co-organized by the LesPromInform business journal and WhatWood timber industry analytic agency with the support of Restec exhibition company. The event will be held on September 29 in St. Petersburg in the framework of St. Petersburg International Forestry Forum.

General Director of Red October sawmill Alexander Susloparov will speak on the possibility of getting affordable and high-quality raw wood on the example of Perm region.

As a major consumer of wood, Red October sawmill notes that the competitive advantage of Russian timber should be in its sizes and quality. However, today’s forest management (in particular, in the Perm region) provides no competitive advantages and exacerbates the economic situation of woodworking mills. With this in mind, the company started a research programme to change the forest management and later the models of timber processing in the region. This topic will be covered in the company’s report.

The conference will include two panels. In the first one, the reports will focus on market analysis and current state of the Russian timber industry. The second panel will be dedicated to practical issues, including raw material sourcing, ways to boost logging levels in Russian regions, and cost optimization methods, as well as to company cases.

Among the companies presenting their reports will be Ilim Timber, MM-Efimovsky, Novoyenisseysky LHK, Red October sawmill, Perm regional timber association, HolzProjekt Buro, Russian Timber Group, Finnish natural resources institute LUKE, SENNEBOGEN, and WhatWood.

The conference will be held on September 29 in PetroCongress centre, St. Petersburg, from 10.30 till 16.00.

Conference participation for the audience is free of charge, with preliminary registration.

All details about the event are available at the official conference page.

LesPromInform and WhatWood editorial offices have been cooperating for some time. Agency experts were preparing articles for the LesPromInform journal as well as the English-language Russian Forestry Review. WhatWood editor Kirill Baranov presented a report on the lumber export markets at the journal’s workshop on lumber business cost optimization in the autumn of 2014. In 2015, the journal and the agency decided to combine their efforts and expertise in arranging forest industry events. The conference in St. Petersburg will be the first event of this kind.