Russian Timber Journal 06-2020: interview with Thomas Meth, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Enviva Partners; plywood export from Russia demonstrates confident growth; according to Rosleskhoz data, timber harvesting in Russia reduced by 8% in 2019 by final Rosleskhoz data
Russian Timber Journal 06-2020: interview with Thomas Meth, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Enviva Partners; plywood export from Russia demonstrates confident growth; according to Rosleskhoz data, timber harvesting in Russia reduced by 8% in 2019 by final Rosleskhoz data
Featured Article:
– Enviva Partners’ success story is a unique and interesting case of a company that managed to build the world’s largest business on renewable wood-derived bioenergy – in the industrial wood pellets market. WhatWood Timber Industry Analytics Agency addressed a few questions to Thomas Meth, company’s co-founder and Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing.
– In June 2020, WhatWood Analytics Agency completed its annual analytic survey Plywood Market in Russia in 2019-2020. Here is the summary and key conclusions.
– Rosleskhoz: volume of timber harvested in Russia reduced by 8% in 2019
Global Timber Markets News:
– WRI: wood fiber costs declined for both softwood and hardwood pulp producers in 2019 and early 2020
– European Organization of the Sawmill Industry (EOS) anticipates double-digit production losses
– Bergs to sell its Swedish sawmills
– Ivatsevichdrev JSC will increase furniture production by three times
– Belarus Ministry of Forestry shipped the second container train with sawn timber to China
– EBRD will give loans to Belarus timber industry
– Furniture production in China decreased in January-May 2020 by 14.4%
– Chinese flooring manufacturer to invest over USD 70 million in a new USA plant
– Setra to invest in new planning mill in Hasselfors, Sweden
– Koskisen plans huge Investment in Järvelä sawmill
– European plywood sector struggles less than expected
– European panel production decreased in 2019
– UPM presents water repellent plywood
– China reduced imports of Russian sawn timber by 12.8% in January-April 2020
– Norbord Provides Update On Q2 Capacity Utilization
– Södra announces further expansion of Värö
– Mondi invests Euro 7 million in new paper sack converting machine at its Nyíregyháza facility in Hungary
– Europe increases supplies of newsprint abroad
– Germany: Pellet market going well despite coronavirus crisis
– In Germany, pellet prices continued to decline in June
– Enviva acquires two new pellet plants
– In 2019, the Netherlands doubled imports of wood pellets
– Belarus: pellets to be produced in Novogrudok region
Russian News:
– The Russian Ministry of Nature and Federal Forestry Agency (Rosleskhoz) developed a draft new revision of Strategy of Forest Industry Development in the Russian Federation Until 2030
– Rosleskhoz: volume of timber harvested in Russia reduced by 8% in 2019
– Metadynea: production in timber industry may drop by 30%
– Vyatsky Plywood Mill upgraded its lamination line
– Plitny Mir completed overhaul of process flow 2 for fiberboard production
– Russia reduced wood board production in January — May 2020
– Sveza Group is finishing upgrades on a mill in the Perm Region; the project is 95% complete
– Sveza started producing plywood with craft coating
– Mikhail Gavrilov, Vice President at Saint Petersburg Bank, became a majority co-owner of Soyuz Group
– Russia increased plywood export by 9.5% in January — April 2020
– Kohlbach supplied a boiler plant with 12 MW capacity to Vostok Resource TPK in Udmurtia
– AVA Company assets were purchased by a new investor
– Prices for Russian plywood started growing for the first time since February 2019.
– Segezha Group is selling Medvezhyegorsky LPH for 102 million rubles
– Luzales continues implementation of large-scale investment projects
– Wood pulp export from Russia grew by 8.4% in January — April 2020
– Wood pulp production in Russia grew by 5.7% in January – May 2020
– In November 2019, Region-Les LLS is commissioning a wood pellet production plant in Arkhangelsk with the capacity of 80,000 tons per year.
– Mondi Syktyvkar exported wood pulp to China by railway for the first time
– TransLes and Eurosib SPb – Transport Systems arranged a container train with sawn timber to China
– Yug OJSC is put up for bidding at the initial price of 352 million rubles.
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