Timber industry research & analytics Russian Timber Journal 03-2021: interview with Oleg Fokin, Commercial Director of Sudoma Sawmill; markets of South Korea and Japan: prospects for the development of wood pellet exports from Russia; U.S. softwood sawn timber prices unchanged from the previous week; timber exporters from Irkutsk are experiencing difficulties in shipping products to China; investments in the Russian forest industry decreased by 9.8% in 2020
8 April 2021 ` 17:03
Russian Timber Journal 03-2021: Oleg Fokin, Commercial Director of Sudoma Sawmill: “At the moment, Russia does not have enough own production facilities for processing low-grade timber in full”; WhatWood: Russian wood pellet exports outlook to the South Korea and Japan markets; U.S. softwood sawn timber prices unchanged from the previous week; timber exporters from Irkutsk are experiencing difficulties in shipping products to China; in 2020, investments in the Russian forest industry decreased by 9.8% to RUB 136.7 billion
Featured Article:
– Interview with Oleg Fokin, Commercial Director of Sudoma Sawmill
– Markets of South Korea and Japan: prospects for the development of wood pellet exports from Russia
– U.S. softwood sawn timber prices unchanged from the previous week
– Timber exporters from Irkutsk are experiencing difficulties in shipping products to China
– In 2020, investments in the Russian forest industry decreased by 9.8%
Global Timber Markets News:
– Finland reduced logging in January 2021
– Sweden: decrease in area of forest notified for final felling in February 2021
– German Federal Council agrees to restrict logging
– Siempelkamp receives an order from Guararapes in Brazil
– U.S. softwood sawn timber prices unchanged from the previous week
– Belarusian sawmill Kimabel to add new sorting line
– Kastamonu Entegre produces its first board on new Siempelkamp particleboard line
– James Jones & Sons announces the acquisition of GT Timber
– A timber processing cluster to be created in Vitebsk FEZ
– US housing starts drop 10.3% in February 2021
– Södra’s new facility for CLT will ten-fold production capacity
– Nanyang Technological University in Singapore building sustainable construction with Stora Enso material
– USTC acquires majority stake in CM BiomassAustria: wood pellets price fell by 4.9% in March 2021
– Germany: Pellet price in March 2021 remains at winter level
– Wood pellets production in Finland decreased by 11% YoY to 322,000 tons in 2020
– Switzerland: Stable pellet prices in March 2021
– Dansons set to open pellet mill in Hope, Arkansas
– British Columbia government expands Prince Rupert port
– Green Bay Packaging begins paper mill production
– Södra to raise price of NBSK to 1,220 $/tonne
– WRI: China imported 24 million tons of pulp in 2020
– Unscheduled stops at two UPM pulp mills in Finland
– DS Smith to invest £100 million In new facilities in Italy and Poland
– Andritz starts up two tissue production lines in China
– €40 million investment in North Wales for Smurfit Kappa
– Paper Excellence announces restart date of Powell River Machine
– Luke: In 2020, Finland reduced paper production by 25%
– UK tropical wood furniture imports down 22% in 2020
– Growth in wooden furniture imports continues in US
Russian News:
– Russian government introduced a de facto ban on the export of unprocessed softwood logs from January 1, 2022
– Association of Furniture and Woodworking Enterprises of Russia proposed to include birch veneer and particleboard in the list of goods subject to compulsory registration in EGAIS Les system
– Revenue of Shuyales decreased by 2.7% YoY to 957.426 million rubles in 2020
– In 2020 Segezha Group logging volumes rose by 9.5%
– Segezha Group increased the output of sawn timber by 17% in 2020
– Sveza mill in St. Petersburg has begun the production of plywood of a new format
– “Metafrax Group” increases its share in the domestic resin market
– Investments in the Russian forest industry decreased by 9.8% in 2020
– Segezha Group announces FY 2020 IFRS financial results
– Sveza mill in the Perm Region increased capacity by 25%
– Kronospan to invest 18.4 billion rubles to expand its production capacity in Bashkortostan
– Russia increased wood-based panels production in January-February 2021
– Lesosibirsky LDK No. 1 increases its production capacity
– Stora Enso abandoned the intention to expand its production facilities in the Novgorod region
– Ivanovo Timber Industry Company invested 300 million rubles in its production in 2 years
– Ladozhsky DSK started producing CLT
– An automatic veneer thickness gauge installed at Sveza’s plant in St. Petersburg
– Setles LLC completed a priority investment project in the forest sector in Karelia
– Wood pulp production decreased by 0.6% in Russia in January-February 2021
– The pulp mill in Pitkyaranta (Karelia) to increase the output of wood pulp to 140,000 tons per year
– Bellmer to supply a new papermaking machine for Sokol PPM
– Kama Karton to start producing coated cardboard
– Sveza UV Color enters markets of North America and Europe
– JSC Volga increases the share of railroad shipments
– Arkhbum LLC received a new batch of Tikhvin flat wagons
– Russian customer receives Segezha Group’s first shipment of CLT panels
– Velsky LPK (part of ULK Group) updated equipment in the wood pellet workshop
– Wood pellets export from Russia increased by 25.6% in January 2021
– Aquaton put into operation a line for the production of digitally printed furniture panels in the Kursk region
– Wood pulp export from Russia decreased by 8.7% in January 2021
– In January 2021, Russian plywood export increased by 2.4%
– Russia increased its roundwood exports by 30.1% In January 2021
– Timber exporters from Irkutsk are experiencing difficulties in shipping products to China
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