Timber industry research & analytics Russian Timber Journal 02-2021: interview with Russ Taylor, President of Russ Taylor Global; Russian sawn timber market in 2020, outlook for 2021; Metsä Fibre going ahead with € 1.6 billion Kemi bioproduct mill investment; Segezha Group acquires Novoyeniseiskiy Wood Chemical Complex; Uvadrev places an order from Siempelkamp
15 March 2021 ` 16:57
Russian Timber Journal 02-2021: interview with Russ Taylor, President of Russ Taylor Global; Russian sawn timber market in 2020, outlook for 2021; Metsä Fibre going ahead with € 1.6 billion Kemi bioproduct mill investment; Segezha Group acquires Novoyeniseiskiy Wood Chemical Complex; Uvadrev places an order from Siempelkamp
Featured Article:
– Russ Taylor, President of Russ Taylor Global: “Russia would always have an ultimate strategic advantage over other suppliers to China”
– Russian sawn timber market: results for 2020, outlook for 2021
– Metsä Fibre, part of Finland-headed forest industry major Metsä Group, has announced that it has made the investment decision to build a new bioproduct mill in Kemi, Finland
– Lesosibirsky LDK No.1 (part of Segezha Group) sent an application to participate in the auction for the sale of the assets of Novoyeniseiskiy Wood-Chemical Complex (NWCC)
– The Russian wood-based panels manufacturer Uvadrev-Holding placed an order with Siempelkamp for a new particleboard plant
Global Timber Markets News:
– Finland reduced the volume of timber harvesting in 2020
– Greif sells 28,000 ha of timberlands to Weyerhaeuser
– Sweden: Decrease in roundwood prices 2020
– Louisiana Pacific announces Peace Valley OSB mill restart
– US tropical sawnwood imports plunge in 2020
– N. American lumber prices at record levels
– Subsidiary of UFP Industries announces agreement to acquire the net operating assets of Spartanburg Forest Products and its affiliates
– Woodworking cluster is to created in the FEZ “Vitebsk” (Belarus)
– EU27 tropical sawnwood imports fall 16%
– US hardwood plywood imports rose in 2020
– WestRock sells South Carolina sawmill to Interfor for $59 million in cash
– China’s first fully automated plywood mill comes online
– U.S. housing starts fall in January 2021
– In February 2020, new home construction in Japan decreased by 12.3% YoY to 63,1 thousand units. Wooden housing construction decreased by 10.4% YoY to 35,8 thousand units.
– USDA: US exports 7.26 million metric tons of wood pellets in 2020
– Pellet prices in Switzerland continue upward trend
– Drax to acquire Pinnacle for $582 million
– Germany: Pellet prices stable despite low temperatures
– Stora Enso completes conversion of Oulu paper mill
– International Paper sells its corrugated packaging business in Turkey to Mondi Group
– International Paper to sell Kwidzyn mill in Poland
– Stora Enso to host TreeToTextile’s demonstration plant for sustainable textile fiber
– SCA to increase kraftliner prices
– SCA to develop a new container port in Sweden’s Tunadal
– EU wood furniture imports down in 2020
Russian News:
– A new procedure for maintaining the state forest register established
– VLP Group: draft of the Russian Federal Government resolution submitted for public review contradicts measures implied by president Putin’s instructions
– The RF government to create a state-owned company endowed with the exclusive right to export roundwood
– In December 2020, Russian roundwood exports to Finland peaked since summer 2007
– Segezha Group’s Vyatka Plywood Mill has been admitted to the European Federation of the Parquet Industry
– New CNC machine has been launched at Sveza mill in St. Petersburg
– Segezha Group launched the first industrial production line for CLT panels in Russia
– Ukraine extends the duty on the import of fiberboards from Russia
– Kastamonu to prepare measures to support the Russian wood-based panel market
– Russia increased the production of wood-based panels in January 2020
– An OSB plant with a capacity of 250,000 m³ per year to open near Tomsk by the end of 2021
– Unionsped LLC to launch a sawn timber plant in the Lipetsk region
– A waste-free timber enterprise to be built in Tuva
– A new plywood mill to open in the Irkutsk region in 2023
– Sveza’s plant in St. Petersburg invested 689 million rubles in its investment projects in 2020.
– A new sawmill with a capacity of 75,000 m³ per year put into operation in the Arkhangelsk region
– Wood pulp production increased by 1.3% in Russia in January 2021
– Rockwell Capital to invest $10 million in the construction of a biotechnological enterprise in the Krasnoyarsk region
– Segezha Group creates a think tank of the pulp and paper industry at the premises of Giprobum in St. Petersburg
– Segezha ClearPly Hits International Markets on a Large Scale
– Pavlovo-Posadskiy Gofrokombinat commissions a new building for storing products in the Moscow region
– A new wood briquette production facility put into operation in the Pskov region
– IDF approved a loan to Rustrans DV to increase the output of wood pellets
– DOK Enisey to increase the output of wood pellets to 200,000 tons per year
– Wood pulp export from Russia grew by 12.9% in 2020
– In 2020, Russian plywood export increased by 5.8%
– Russia reduced its export of sawn timber by 6.6% in 2020
– In 2020, wood pellets export from Russia increased by 19.1%
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