Russian Timber Journal 09-2022: Interview with Vadim Fidarov, Government Relations Manager, Wooden Housing Construction Association; will the Russian market of wooden housing construction be able to compensate for the lost export of sawn timber; EU bans imports of wood pulp and paper from Russia; Egypt imports Russian plywood at record-setting rates; over 9 months of 2022, Russian plywood output reduced by a fourth; Segezha Group reviewed the priority of building new pulp and paper mills in Karelia and the Krasnoyarsk Region; Russian printing houses may shut down due to a shortage of western equipment
Russian Timber Journal 09-2022: Vadim Fidarov, Government Relations Manager, Wooden Housing Construction Association: “Private housing projects are a market of cut-throat competition”; will the Russian market of wooden housing construction be able to compensate for the lost export of sawn timber; The European Commission announced that the EU countries have approved the eighth package of sanctions against Russia; Egypt supplied 52,500 m³ Russian plywood in September – this is a record monthly figure for the North African country; in January – September 2022, the Russian plywood output volume dropped by 25.6% YoY, down to 2.551 million m³; Segezha Group reviewed the priority of building new pulp and paper mills in Karelia and the Krasnoyarsk Region, the Holding decided to shift the focus to the Siberian project; Russian printing houses, due to sanctions and the refusal of manufacturers from Europe, North America and Japan to supply equipment and spare parts, faced a shortage of them.
Featured Article:
– Interview with Vadim Fidarov, Government Relations Manager, Wooden Housing Construction Association
– Will the Russian market of wooden housing construction be able to compensate for the lost export of sawn timber
– EU bans imports of wood pulp and paper from Russia
– Egypt imports Russian plywood at record-setting rates
– Russian plywood output reduced by a fourth
– Segezha Group reviewed the priority of building new pulp and paper mills in Karelia and the Krasnoyarsk Region
– Russian printing houses may shut down due to a shortage of western equipment
Global Timber Markets News:
– Finnish wood imports collapsed in January-August 2022
– Lumber prices in North America strengthened slightly
– China is reducing the sawn timber import. Russia is still the largest supplier of sawn softwood to the PRC
– Fewer countries are importing Russian particleboard
– ITTO: US plywood imports more than double in August
– EIA: Russian birch products bypass US sanctions via Vietnam
– WRI: Global trade of softwood lumber down 10% in 1H 2022
– Vietnamese wood product exports down sharply in September
– Stora Enso completes €80 million wood handling upgrade
– US housing starts slide more than expected
– Vietnam imposes anti-dumping duty on Chinese furniture
– In 2023, wood pellet exports from Vietnam may reach $1 billion
Russian News:
– Harvesting enterprises from the Krasnoyarsk Region exercised their right to delay rent payments
– Rosleskhoz approved providing forest areas to Tyumensky LPK
– Amkodor may open a production site in the Voronezh Region
– In January – September 2022, the timber trading volume at SPIMEX surged by 36.4%
– Tyumen Region will launch a woodworking production site that cost 136 million rubles
– Assets of Amzinsky Lesokombinat didn’t find a buyer on an auction in Bashkiria
– Segezha Group liquidated its sawmill in Karelia
– Sudoma Sawmill started producing veneered thermally modified furniture boards
– Alexey Mordashov handed over control of Sveza Group to its top managers
– A new woodworking enterprise opened in the Sverdlovsk Region
– Plitwood finished construction of buildings for a plywood plant
– VLP Group reports a crisis in woodworking in the Northwestern Federal District
– Sylvamo completes sale of Russian operations
– Rosselkhozbank: the volume of the Russian packaging market may increase by 30% by the end of 2025
– L-PACK Kashira LLC will invest 2 billion rubles in producing corrugated cardboard in the Moscow Region
– In Q3 2022, International Paper’s profit from participating in Ilim Group reached $64 million
– A packaging production technopark will be built in Karelia
– The Wooden Housing Construction Association submitted a package of measures to support the domestic timber industry to the Government of the Russian Federation
– Segezha Group presented a new technology of wooden housing construction
– Komi is planning to launch a large wood pellet production site
– Rustrans DV is planning to increase wood pellet output
– IKEA laid off 10,000 retail employees in Russia
– New development projects will sell furnished homes
– Hoff’s furniture sales increased by a third after IKEA left the Russian market
– Vanino Port commissioned a new loader
– Segezha Group shipped the first cargo to China via the Northern Maritime Corridor
– Ilim Group will use a new logistics route of wood pulp transportation in containers
– FESCO shipped its first container train with sawn timber by a new route from Minsk to Vladivostok
– Segezha Group launched export supplies by a new logistics route
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