Russian Timber Journal 05-2025: Interview with Henric Endoff, CEO of AGENDA Business Development AB; OSB price trends in Russia: a five-year market overview in 2019–2024; Plywood production in Russia reaches highest level since February 2022; In 2024, members of the AMDPR received preferential loans from the Industrial Development Fund totaling over RUB 2 billion; Arkhbum Tissue Group launches second phase of hygiene products plant; SFT Group launches new Kartontara-2 plant in Adygea; Segezha Group raises RUB 113 billion through additional share issue to reduce debt load; Cesar-Invest has officially rebranded as Taiga Group
Russian Timber Journal 05-2025: Interview with Henric Endoff, CEO of AGENDA Business Development AB; OSB price trends in Russia: a five-year market overview in 2019–2024; Plywood production in Russia reaches highest level since February 2022; In 2024, members of the Association of Furniture and Woodworking Enterprises of Russia received preferential loans from the Industrial Development Fund totaling over RUB 2 billion; Arkhbum Tissue Group launches second phase of hygiene products plant; SFT Group launches new Kartontara-2 plant in Adygea; Segezha Group raises RUB 113 billion through additional share issue to reduce debt load; Cesar-Invest has officially rebranded as Taiga Group.
Featured Article:
— Interview with Henric Endoff, CEO of AGENDA Business Development AB;
— OSB price trends in Russia: a five-year market overview in 2019–2024;
— Plywood production in Russia reaches highest level since February 2022;
— In 2024, members of the Association of Furniture and Woodworking Enterprises of Russia received preferential loans from the Industrial Development Fund totaling over RUB 2 billion;
— Arkhbum Tissue Group launches second phase of hygiene products plant;
— SFT Group launches new Kartontara-2 plant in Adygea;
— Segezha Group raises RUB 113 billion through additional share issue to reduce debt load;
— Cesar-Invest has officially rebranded as Taiga Group.
Global Timber Markets News:
— Finland: industrial roundwood amounted to 4 million m³ in April 2025
— Decline in China’s log imports
— USDA allocates $200 million to boost timber harvest
— Weyerhaeuser to Sell Princeton, B.C., Lumber Mill to Gorman Group
— Swiss Krono Group to acquire Collins Pine Company
— Metsä Group completes sale of its wood supply business in Latvia
— MM closes sale of TANN Group
— Gorman Group buys Weyerhaeuser’s lumber mill in Canada
— Vietnam’s wood and wood product exports continue to grow in early 2025
— EU27 imports of tropical sawnwood just surpass last year’s record low
— Brazil’s wood product exports rise 4% in April
— N. America: tight Supply Keeps Lumber Prices Flat
— Canada: sawn timber production up 17.3% in March
— Germany’s furniture industry recorded a 4.6% drop in the first quarter
— U.S. housing starts edged higher in April
— Japan’s Housing Starts Drop Sharply in April
— Valmet to supply a major paper machine rebuild to Sylvamo in North America
— UPM invests Euro 10 million in its Tervasaari mill
— Wood pellet prices in Germany continued to decline in May
— Interfor’s Q1 sales decreased by 9.6%
Russian News:
— Russia: timber harvesting down 1.9% Y-o-Y in January–April 2025
— Sveza Group deploys machine vision at its mill in the Vologda Region
— Sveza Group launches in-house glue consumption control system to improve production efficiency
— Luzales to install plywood production equipment
— Russia: pulp production declines while paper and board output increases in January–April 2025
— KAMA and Global Chemical discussed prospects for cooperation
— Perm CCM boosts corrugated packaging output through equipment upgrades
— Federal Forestry Agency: net profit of state-owned timber harvesting companies from log commodity exchange trading rose by 14.7% in Q1 2025
— Perm Pulp and Paper Company increased its containerboard exports by 2%, reaching 3,542 tons in Q1 2025
— VLP Group plans to increase sawn timber exports to Iran
— Wood products exports from the Vologda Region up 5.7% in January–May 2025
— Segezha Group increases biofuel shipments in the Krasnoyarsk region
— Chinese components replace German matrices for pelletizing at Ustyansky LPK
— VLP Group launches pellet packaging line
— The volume of production of timber products in January-April 2025
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