Russian Timber Journal 05-2023: interview with Andrey Yudin, Logistics Director of Segezha Group; regional authorities ask to support the Russian timber enterprises due to the persisting tense situation in the industry; the Government of the Russian Federation extended the list of checkpoints along the land border with Kazakhstan authorised to process exports of timber products; Ilim Group became the largest timber harvesting enterprise in Russia in 2022; VLP Group to invest 2.6 billion rubles in Hasslacherles’ former enterprise; Segezha Group sold its European paper packaging enterprises for €100 million; L-PACK to invest over 10 billion rubles to build a corrugated cardboard plant in the Moscow region
Russian Timber Journal 05-2023: Andrey Yudin, Logistics Director of Segezha Group: “We are witnessing a serious imbalance between the freight traffic flows and the availability of transport means”; the Arkhangelsk Regional Assembly of Deputies (AOSD) held an expanded meeting of the Committee for the Timber Industry, Environmental Management and Ecology, as a result of the meeting, the participants formed a number of proposals for state support measures for the Russian timber industry; Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree extending the list of checkpoints along the land border between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Kazakhstan that are authorised to process exports of certain types of timber and wood-derived products by international road transport; the largest Russian harvesting enterprise of the last year is Ilim Group: it beat its own record and harvested 12.605 million m³ of timber; VLP Group to invest 2.6 billion rubles in Hasslacherles’ former enterprise; the sale price of Segezha Packaging, that comprises seven paper packaging plants in Europe, was about €100 million; L-PACK to invest over 10 billion rubles to build a corrugated cardboard plant in the Moscow region.
Featured Article:
— Interview with Andrey Yudin, Logistics Director of Segezha Group;
— Regional authorities ask to support the Russian timber enterprises due to the persisting tense situation in the industry;
— The Government of the Russian Federation extended the list of checkpoints along the land border with Kazakhstan authorised to process exports of timber products;
— Ilim Group became the largest timber harvesting enterprise in Russia in 2022;
— VLP Group to invest 2.6 billion rubles in Hasslacherles’ former enterprise;
— Segezha Group sold its European paper packaging enterprises for €100 million;
— L-PACK to invest over 10 billion rubles to build a corrugated cardboard plant in the Moscow region.
Global Timber Markets News:
— In January-April 2023, 23,1 million cubic metres of roundwood were harvested for use by the Finland forest industries
— Decline in China’s tropical log imports
— Sweden’s biggest producer, Vida Skog raised log prices
— Canadian sawn timber production rises in March
— Vietnamese wood exports declined in January-May 2023
— Roseburg orders MDF production line from Siempelkamp
— U.S. hardwood plywood imports gain
— U.S. lumber prices hold steady
— Raute to deliver a LVL plant to Thébault Group in France
— Stora Enso completes negotiations at Anjalankoski production unit concerning the closure of one paper line
— Resolute agrees to sell the Thunder Bay Pulp and Paper Mill
— U.S. housing starts rise in May
— New housing construction in Japan fell by 11.9% in April
— Pellet prices in Germany rise in June
— Arauco sales down 18.3% in Q1 2023
— In 2022, Latvijas Finieris Group achieved significant growth in turnover and EBITDA
— Ponsse’s Q1 2023 net sales on the rise
Russian News:
— Rosleskhoz identified the best regions in forestry in 2022
— Rosleskhoz to make several updates to LesEGAIS
— Beliy Ruchey to upgrade its roundwood sorting line
— Output of Russian plywood decreased in April
— Output of Altailes Group decreased by 16% in 2022
— A woodworking enterprise is being modernized in the town of Chita
— Sveza put into operation a new veneer drying line at its plant in the Kostroma region
— 1.2 billion rubles to be invested in a plywood mill in the Pskov region
— Segezha Group to increase the production capacity of Vyatsky Plywood Mill
— HAYAT Russia expands its production in the Kaluga region
— The output of paper products in Moscow increased by 5.6% in Q1 2023
— Svetlogorsk Pulp and Cardboard Mill to continue to supply bleached sulphate pulp to Kondopoga Pulp and Paper Mill
— SFT Group to invest over 1 billion rubles to expand its production at Kamenskaya Paper and Board Mill
— Association of Furniture and Woodworking Enterprises of Russia: the output of Russian furniture increased in March 2023 for the first time in 10 months
— Luzales resumes operations at the former IKEA factory in the Leningrad region
— Pervaya Mebelnaya Fabrika to open a furniture factory in St. Petersburg worth 1.1 billion rubles
— Segezha Group and its partners to develop standard CLT projects for private housing construction
— Segezha Group and Samolet signed an agreement on cooperation in the field of CLT
— INFOBIO – It is planned to switch 25 boiler houses in Komi to biofuels in 2024
— Biofuels do not appear reasonable in Chuvashia
— VLP Group opened its own container terminal in the Leningrad region
— RZD-Partner: timber cargo handling by the infrastructure of Russian Railways remains at its lowest ebb
— Karelia Pulp opened the navigation season at Kondopoga Pulp and Paper Mill
— Segezha Group and FESCO agreed to develop multimodal transportation
— The volume of production of timber products in January-April 2023 compared to the same period last year:
— Segezha Group announces financial and operating results for Q1 2023
— Karelia Pulp summed up its IFRS results for 2022
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