Russian Timber Journal 05-2019: WhatWood interview with CEO of Altailes; Causes of dropping prices for Russian plywood; Wood product exports hit by US tariffs; Rosleskhoz supported distant monitoring of forests; WhatWood’s study of Russian forest products exports and imports for 4 years; Sawmill profit margins fell substantially in North America

Russian Timber Journal 05-2019: WhatWood interview with CEO of Altailes; Causes of dropping prices for Russian plywood; Wood product exports hit by US tariffs; Rosleskhoz supported distant monitoring of forests; WhatWood’s study of Russian forest products exports and imports for 4 years; Sawmill profit margins fell substantially in North America

Russian Timber Journal №05-2019:

Featured Article:

WhatWood interview with Ivan Klyuchnikov, CEO of Altailes

Causes of dropping prices for Russian plywood

Global Timber Markets News:

In January-April 2019, Bellesbumprom increased exports by 11.5% to $ 190.8 million

Stora Enso’s investment in a new production unit for CLT at Gruvön sawmill in Sweden

Honkarakenne will invest €5.2 million in the development of the Karstula factory production line upgrades

Canadian Tolko Industries Ltd. announced the permanent closure of its Quest Wood sawmill in Quesnel and a reduction from two shifts to one at its Kelowna sawmill

Sawmill profit margins fell substantially in North America during the second half of 2018 after reaching record highs in the 2Q/18

Universal Forest Products, Inc. closes on acquisition of Wolverine Wood Products

Norbord Inc. reported Adjusted EBITDA of $42 million in the 1Q 2019 compared to $70 million in the 4Q 2018 and $170 million in 1Q 2018

Raute Corporation’s net sales for the 1Q 2019  €41.3 million, increased 17% on the 1Q 2018

Woodworking capacities of the Bellesbumprom concern exceed 150%

Sonoco to Acquire Corenso Holdings America

Coillte, Ireland’s company, delivered record EBITDA of €115m up 35%

Louisiana-Pacific Reports 1Q 2019: Net sales for amounted $582 million, -16% Y-t-Y

In 1Q 2019, sales of the Swedish forest owners association Mellanskog increased by 15.7% to SEK 997 million

Ontario government is investing $5.5 million over five years in Ben Hokum & Son Ltd sawmill

1Q 2019, Mayr-Melnhof Group: Significant increase in sales and EBITDA following acquisition of the Tann-Group

While MM Packaging achieved a slight increase in result, MM Karton again reached the high level of the previous year with a robust price and volume development

Wood product exports hit by US tariffs

Japan’s plywood imports drop to a record low

Graanul Invest submits winning bid for Texas Pellets assets

Nippon Paper Industries Starts Yufutsu Biomass Power Generation Business with Biomass MonoFuel Combustion

New fiber-based ready meal trays from Huhtamaki to replace black plastic

1Q 2019, Clearwater Paper Corporation reports

Naheola Mill’s $120 Million Investment To Grow Bath Tissue Business

Cascades Sonoco inaugurates major investment in new line of innovative, eco-friendly food packaging

Stora Enso Launches Wood-fibre-based Biocomposite Solutions for Cosmetics, Food and Luxury Packaging

Mondi invests € 30 million in one of its innovative corrugated packaging plants in southern Germany

Oji to reduce capacity of graphic paper by 400,000 t/year

Industrial Communication Market to hit $160bn by 2025: Global Market Insights, Inc.

Andritz launches new StrataPress felt technology for enhanced press performance

Valmet agrees on a major pulp and board technology delivery to Klabin in Brazil

Smurfit Kappa invests in its Roermond Paper Mill to meet growing demand for paper-based packaging

Revenue paper company Iberpapel Group in 1Q 2019 reached € 63.89 million

In Europe, the demand for paper and its sales continue to decline

Metsä Tissue to book an impairment and restructuring provision of approximately €107 million in total

Russian news: 

Uvadrev Holding announced a new particleboard plant worth 6.7 billion rubles in Udmurtia

Holz House will start production of glued beams and structural beams in the Kirov region

Segezha Group acquired a set of equipment for a new CLT-plant in the Vologda region

The Fund for the development of single-industry towns may co-finance the creation of  infrastructure for the construction of a plywood plant of Segezha Group in the Kostroma region

Kronospan will explore options for the construction of a plant for the production of wood boards in the Primorsky territory

China Forestry Group Corporation will build wood processing plants for China in the Far East of Russia

Raute received an order from Plyterra CJSC worth more than €12 million

General Director of Kastamonu in Russia Ali Kylych announced plans for the construction of the third stage of production at the SEZ «Alabuga»

In 2018, the import of sawn timber through the port of Taicang amounted to 500 thousand m3

In Q1 2019, the revenue of Zelenodolsky plywood plant has increased 5.7 times to 222,741 million rubles

Pestovo timber industry complex has launched a Brenta line

Asia Les, one of the largest timber industry companies in the Khabarovsk Region, may go bankrupt

RFI Consortium Ltd requires more than $6 million from the Krasnoyarsk Boguchansky LPK LLC

Downward trend in railcar loading in April 2019

Product shipments by timber industry companies in the Vologda Region grew to 18.2 billion rubles year-on-year over 4 months of 2019

Development Corporation has signed an agreement with Greenenergy Pudozh to support an investment project for the production of wood pellets in Karelia

GC “Region-les” has launched a new pellet mill in the Shenkursky district of the Arkhangelsk region with the capacity of 15 thousand tons per year

Luzales LLC has announced plans to build a pellet production plant with a capacity of 180 thousand tons per year in Chovue, Syktivkar

The Russian company will supply a plant for processing wood into liquid biofuel to Germany

Belgian Beward Investment refused to build a plant for the production of pellets for €2.6 billion in the Leningrad region

In Voronezh, Arkhbum has launched a high-tech plant for the production of corrugated packaging

Selenginsky Pulp and Cardboard Mill increased its net profit by 1.8 times in Q1 2019, reaching 253.5 million rubles with growing sales

In Q1 2019, the revenue of Mondi Syktyvkar LPK JSC increased by 4.8% to RUB 17.5 billion

In September 2019, the modernization of the cardboard production line will be completed at Ilim Group plant in Bratsk

The production of cardboard Arkhangelsk pulp and paper mill held a technical launch of a new cardboard machine №2

In Q1 2019, the revenue of Volga JSC has increased by 2.1 times and exceeded 2.65 billion rubles

Vladimir Krupchak, Member of the Board, Arkhangelsk Pulp and Paper Mill: “Consumption of corrugated packaging in Russia is growing annually”

By 2025 Naberezhnye Chelny Cardboard and Paper Mill will start production of a new product – white toilet paper made of cellulose

In Q1 2019, the revenue of Solikamskbumprom JSC increased by 24.4% and exceeded 4.2 billion rubles

Table – Russia: forest products exports and imports in 2014 — 1Q 2019

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