Russian Timber Journal 03-2020: how the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) affects operations of world timber companies; the Russian Government to slash duties on pulpwood of Far Eastern species to zero and increase export quotas by the end of 2020; Russian Forest Industry Review 2019-2020
Russian Timber Journal 03-2020: coronavirus infection was recorded in many countries of the world, the development of the situation showed that COVID-19 has a direct impact on all areas of the economy, including the timber industry — forest products prices are going up; the Russian Government to slash duties on pulpwood of Far Eastern species to zero and increase export quotas by the end of 2020
Featured Article:
– How the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) affects operations of world timber companies
– The Russian Government to slash duties on pulpwood of Far Eastern species to zero and increase export quotas by the end of 2020
– Russian Forest Industry Review 2019-2020: downward price trends, lower financial indicators, a slowdown in the Russian timber industry, and new ‘black swans’
Global Timber Markets News:
– Weyerhaeuser Completes $145 Million Sale of Montana Timberlands
– Södra Skog (Sweden) will limit the timber harvest from April 1 to April 19, 2020
– China: booming roundwood supplies from the Czech Republic and Germany in 2019
– Andritz successfully starts up the world’s first fossil-free biomethanol plant at Södra, Sweden
– In March 2020, wood pellets price in Austria fell by 2.6%
– In 2019, Enviva Partners revenue grew 19.3% to $ 684.4 million
– In 2019, the European Union reduced the import of tropical plywood by 5% to 313 thousand tons
– In January 2020, the utilization rate in Canadian woodworking industry amounted to 77.3%, – 1.4% p.p.
– Metsä to build a large sawmill in Rauma, Finland
– Bergs Timber to close Gransjö sawmill in Sweden
– WRI: in 2019, Russia became the world’s largest exporter of sawn softwood
– Japan: the decline to a slower pace of housing construction
– Svetlogorsk Pulp and Cardboard Mill started to purchase supplies if raw materials by specialized timber railcars
– In 2019, global shipments of chemical pulp were up 3.5% from the previous year
– Metsä Tissue to divest its napkin business to Mutares Group
– International Paper reaches agreement to sell its Brazilian corrugated packaging business
Russian News:
– The Russian Government to slash duties on pulpwood of Far Eastern species to zero and increase export quotas by the end of 2020
– Exports of roundwood from the Far East fell by 27.4% in January-February 2020
– Public deliberation of the draft Forest Code of the Far East begins
– Ministry of Economic Development updated the list of systemic enterprises of Russia
– Arkhangelsk Pulp and Paper Mill prepared a package of amendments to the new concept of the draft Forest Code
– Timber companies of the Arkhangelsk region supported the amendments to the Forest Code
– Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East to create лесвосток.рф, an online services platform
– The revenue of Karabululas (the village of Tayezhny, Boguchansky district of the Krasnoyarsk region) in 2019 grew 2.1 times and reached 211.4 million rubles
– ULK Group continues to ship products to China by rail
– Altailes (Altai region) produced 450,000 m3 of sawn timber in 2019
– Pestovsky LPK shipped over 18,000 m3 of sawn timber in February 2020
– PIK Group to invest in the production of prefabricated house kits for modular construction in Korsakovsky district of Sakhalin
– Ultra Decor Rus (owned by Kronospan) to organize the production of base paper for decorative printing in Kaluga SEZ
– Kronospan may purchase assets of Russian Laminate
– The auction to sell Ugra Timber Holding and Ugra-Plit plant was declared void due to the absence of eligible participants
– Eastern Trading Company started plywood production with a capacity of 15,000 m³ per year in the village of Khor (Khabarovsk region)
– Novoyeniseiskiy Wood Chemical Complex (Krasnoyarsk region) submitted a notice of self-bankruptcy
– Sveza Ust-Izhora raised plywood output by 7% to 124,000 m3 in 2019
– Sveza’s plant in Uralsky to invest over 1.2 billion rubles in upgrading its production facilities in 2020
– Russian Railways: in March, for the first time in a long period, shipments of timber cargo by railway transport stabilized
– Yaroslavskaya Bumaga to modernize production
– Russian Government did not endorse Sveza’s investment project for the construction of a wood pulp mill at Rybinsk Reservoir
– Syktyvkar Tissue Group invested 600 million rubles to double production of tissue-based hygiene products in the village of Semibratovo of the Yaroslavl region
– Sokolsky DOK (Vologda region) began installation of a new Ledinek finger-jointing line for the production of wall and structural beams
– Two wood pellet plants to be opened in Pudozhsky district of Karelia
– Atlant (the village of Yantal of the Irkutsk region) modernized its wood pellet production and obtained SBP certificate
– Vyatsky Plywood Mill commissioned a new wood waste briquetting site
– Promtekh-Invest invested 413 million rubles in value-added wood processing in Komi Republic
– Association of Furniture and Woodworking Enterprises of Russia: Russian furniture enterprises may lose 10 billion rubles in 2020
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