WhatWood Biofuel Russian Timber Journal 03-2023: interview with Pavel Kunin, Commercial Director at Doza-Gran; Russia exports almost no unprocessed timber; list of assignments given by the President of the Russian Federation as a follow-up to a meeting on the development of the Russian timber industry; China plans to increase plywood production capacity in 2023; Association of Furniture and Woodworking Enterprises of Russia suggests increasing the import duty on European furniture to 50%; owner of Leroy Merlin will hand over its Russian business to the management team; Governmental commission approved the sale of a share in Ilim by International Paper; large timber enterprises of the Tomsk Region are suspending production; Russian plywood output rose in February; Segezha Group sold its European assets that produce paper packaging; in 2022, the Russian export of wood and articles of wood dropped by almost one-fourth

Russian Timber Journal 03-2023: interview with Pavel Kunin, Commercial Director at Doza-Gran; Russia exports almost no unprocessed timber; list of assignments given by the President of the Russian Federation as a follow-up to a meeting on the development of the Russian timber industry; China plans to increase plywood production capacity in 2023; Association of Furniture and Woodworking Enterprises of Russia suggests increasing the import duty on European furniture to 50%; owner of Leroy Merlin will hand over its Russian business to the management team; Governmental commission approved the sale of a share in Ilim by International Paper; large timber enterprises of the Tomsk Region are suspending production; Russian plywood output rose in February; Segezha Group sold its European assets that produce paper packaging; in 2022, the Russian export of wood and articles of wood dropped by almost one-fourth

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Russian Timber Journal 03-2023: Pavel Kunin, Commercial Director at Doza-Gran: “From the financial and time perspective, a wood pellet line is the most lucrative kind of investment associated with recycling sawmilling waste”; in 2022, the volume of roundwood export from Russia dropped by almost 4 times, down to 3.5 million m³ — Russia has never exported so little unprocessed timber in its contemporary history; the President of Russia approved a list of assignments as a follow-up to a meeting on the issues of the Russian timber industry development that took place on February 10, 2023; total plywood production capacity in China is expected to approach 210 million m³ per year by the end of 2023; the Ministry of Industry and Trade received a proposal from the Association of Furniture and Woodworking Enterprises of Russia to increase import duties on wooden and cushioned furniture and mattresses from Europe from 8.5-12% to 50%; ADEO, owner of the DIY franchise Leroy Merlin, intends to hand over the governance of the Russian company to the local management team; a subcommission of the governmental commission on foreign investment control allowed International Paper to sell 50% of shares in Ilim SA, a Swiss group, which, in its turn, owns 96.37% of Ilim Group; problems with export from the Tomsk Region to Asian countries force large local companies to suspend production; Russian plywood output grew by 21% in February 2023 compared to the previous month, reaching 245,000 m³; Segezha Group closed the deal on selling Segezha Packaging, the enterprise that produces paper packaging in Europe; based on the 2022 performance, Russia reduced its export of wood and articles of wood (HS Code 44) by 24.3% YoY, down to $8.975 billion.

Featured Article:

— Interview with Pavel Kunin, Commercial Director at Doza-Gran;
— Russia exports almost no unprocessed timber;
— List of assignments given by the President of the Russian Federation as a follow-up to a meeting on the development of the Russian timber industry;
— China plans to increase plywood production capacity in 2023;
— Association of Furniture and Woodworking Enterprises of Russia suggests increasing the import duty on European furniture to 50%;
— Owner of Leroy Merlin will hand over its Russian business to the management team;
— Governmental commission approved the sale of a share in Ilim by International Paper;
— Large timber enterprises of the Tomsk Region are suspending production;
— Russian plywood output rose in February;
— Segezha Group sold its European assets that produce paper packaging;

— In 2022, the Russian export of wood and articles of wood dropped by almost one-fourth.

Global Timber Markets News:

— Industrial logging in Finland exceeds 6 million m³ in January

— SCA tests electric timber truck in forest

— Vietnamese wood product exports fall sharply in January-February 2023

— U.S. sawmills produced less lumber in December

— Fierce competition for sales drops lumber prices further

— Raute supplies plywood line to Lumin in Uruguay

— Sharp decline in UK tropical hardwood plywood imports in 2022

— GreenFirst completes sale of Quebec assets for $94 million

— Domtar sells Dryden mill to First Quality Enterprises

— Domtar Canadian housing starts rise 13% in February

— US home building jumped higher in February

— Japanese housing starts gain 6,6% in January

— Pellet prices in Germany fall to last year’s level in March

— China: Slight increase in furniture exports

— North American furniture market projected to hit $400 billion by 2030

— Biesse Group reports record results in 2022

— Lenzing records an increase in sales thanks to higher fiber prices

— Enviva reports Q4/2022 results

— Stella-Jones Q4 sales increased by 22% to $665 million

— Canfor reports drop in sales for Q4/2022

Russian News:

— Authorities of the Primorsky Region suggest canceling CITES restrictions on timber export

— Government allowed chips export to unfriendly countries

— President of the Russian Federation suggested including the spending on windows, doors, and built-in furniture in amounts covered by mortgage loans for new homes

— Segezha Group announces financial and operating results for 2022

— As of March 1, 2023, LesEGAIS users can promptly introduce the necessary changes in the system

— Harvesting enterprises from the Nizhny Novgorod Region will be granted a deferral of rent payments for forest areas

— Rosleskhoz will assign forest areas for investment project implementation in Karelia

— Rosleskhoz: the second cycle of the national forest inventory count is completed in 12 Russian regions

— Rosleskhoz: implementation of 21 priority investment projects in the forest sector was completed in the Volga Federal District

— Slotex closed the deal on purchasing Ikea Industry Novgorod

— A woodworking enterprise worth 3 billion rubles will open in the Krasnoyarsk Region

— Cherepovetsles is opening a moldings production site in the Vologda Region

— Segezha Group is considering the creation of a new paper packaging production site in Egypt

— A corrugated cardboard factory is being renovated in Podolsk

— A new production site making dry mixtures for gluing corrugated cardboard opened near Moscow

— Production of toilet paper reached a historic high in Russia in 2022

— Karelia Pulp’s enterprises will continue to purchase electrical energy at regulated prices

— New furniture production site will open in the Kaluga Region

— Former IKEA plant in the Leningrad Region is planning to produce school furniture from solid wood

— Association of Furniture and Woodworking Enterprises of Russia: in January, Russian furniture output reached a 5-year record high in monetary terms

— A plant producing rattan furniture will be built in the Ulyanovsk Region

— A furniture production site worth 450 million rubles opened in Bashkiria

— Rosselkhozbank: by 2030, 7% of Russian multi-family houses will be wooden

— President of Russia instructed the Government to prepare proposals on application of biofuel for heating newly built residential properties and private houses

— FESCO launched direct maritime service from China to Saint Petersburg via Deep Sea

— TransContainer and Torgmoll are launching an intermodal service delivering railway containers with exported products from northwestern regions to China

— FESCO launched a new intermodal route from Moscow to Kaliningrad to transport paper and tissue products

— VLP Group began the navigation season by shipping sawn timber to Egypt by maritime transport

— The volume of production of timber products in January-February 2023

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