Russian Timber Journal 04-2025: Interview with Stanislav Serov, Russia Business Development Director at EGGER; Russian timber industry performance in 2024: WhatWood’s version; Russian timber harvest increased by 3.4% YoY in 2024, up to 194.3 million m³; plywood production in Russia grew by 1.9% in Q1 2025; MoloPak started up a new production site worth 1.3 billion rubles in the Moscow Region; waste paper prices in Russia exceeded 20,000 rubles per ton; record-breaking amount of paper and cardboard was produced in Russia in March 2025
Russian Timber Journal 04-2025: Stanislav Serov, Russia Business Development Director at EGGER: “We have intentionally reoriented our sales from furniture factories to professional distribution”; Russian timber industry performance in 2024: WhatWood’s version; Russian timber harvest increased by 3.4% YoY in 2024, up to 194.3 million m³, according to the press office of the Federal Forestry Agency; according to Rosstat, the volume of Russian plywood production increased by 1.9% YoY in Q1 2025, up to 856,000 m³; MoloPak started up a new production venue to make aseptic packaging in Chekhov; the value of waste paper in Russia has grown by more than 30% since the beginning of 2025, having surpassed the psychologically important level of 20,000 rubles per ton for the first time; according to the Rosstat, a record-breaking monthly volume of paper and cardboard — 955,000 t.
Featured Article:
— Interview with Stanislav Serov, Russia Business Development Director at EGGER;
— Russian timber industry performance in 2024: WhatWood’s version;
— Russian timber harvest increased by 3.4% YoY in 2024, up to 194.3 million m³;
— Plywood production in Russia grew by 1.9% in Q1 2025;
— MoloPak started up a new production site worth 1.3 billion rubles in the Moscow Region;
— Waste paper prices in Russia exceeded 20,000 rubles per ton;
— Record-breaking amount of paper and cardboard was produced in Russia in March 2025.
Global Timber Markets News:
— Industrial roundwood harvest in Finland increased by 4% in March
— Tariffs on Canadian lumber could double
— Stora Enso completes the acquisition of the Finnish sawmill company Junnikkala
— HOMAG Group acquires remaining shares in Kallesoe Machinery A/S
— India imports almost no wood-based panel products because of its domestic Quality Control Order
— In Q1 2025, Vietnam’s exports of wood and wood products grew by 11%
— Exports of wood products from Brazil rose 18% in March
— European plywood imports rebound 14% in 2024
— Sales of wood products in Canada declined in February
— Lumber production in Canada decreased in February
— Lumber prices in North America return to levels of pre-tariff threat
— Global furniture supply chain facing shock after new US tariffs
— U.S. housing starts rebound in March
— Housing starts in Japan rose significantly in March
— Average price of a new condominium in Japan at four year high
— Mondi successfully starts up recycled containerboard machine in Duino, Italy
— Smurfit Westrock announces capacity reductions and facility closures
— German pellet production increased in Q1 2025
— German pellet price falling as expected in April 2025
— Weyerhaeuser reports solid Q1 2025 results
— Raute reports record high quarterly EBITDA in Q1 2025
Russian News:
— Forest users will be able to submit forest use reports upon completion of timber harvesting
— Russian timber harvest reduced by 1% in Q1 2025
— Timber harvest in the Primorsky Region dropped by 11% in Q1 2025
— Sveza started making plywood panels for interior finishing in Saint Petersburg
— DOK Kalevala’s management team declared the tentative dates of plant restoration
— Association of Furniture and Woodworking Enterprises of Russia suggests imposing safeguard duties on imported furniture
— Karelia Pulp is optimizing production in response to market changes
— Kuzbassky Skarabei will shut down its production site for upgrading
— Segezhsky PPM increased its product output by 9%
— UniTekhUpak will increase the production of corrugated cardboard goods in the Moscow Region
— Pavlovo-Posadskiy Gofrokombinat commissioned a packaging line
— Naberezhnochelninsky Cardboard and Paper Mill invested more than 9 billion rubles over five years
— KAMA produced 820,000 t of coated cardboard
— 1.2 million m³ of timber was sold at the Petersburg Exchange in Q1 2025
— Segezha Group started exchange trading of timber
— Over 1.2 million m³ of timber was exported from the Irkutsk Region in Q1 2025
— Karelia Pulp is upgrading its logistics to increase export to Asia
— First boiler house running on biofuel was started up in the test mode in the Primorsky Region
— Segezha Group shared its IFRS financial performance in 2024
— The volume of production of timber products in Q1 2025
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