WhatWood Biofuel Russian Timber Journal 10-2020: European Union is going to conduct an anti-dumping investigation in relation to birch plywood import from Russia, EU may impose duties; interview with Ilya Korotkov, Director General at Cherepovets Plywood and Furniture Mill; Russia is consistently growing the export of larch sawn timber

Russian Timber Journal 10-2020: European Union is going to conduct an anti-dumping investigation in relation to birch plywood import from Russia, EU may impose duties; interview with Ilya Korotkov, Director General at Cherepovets Plywood and Furniture Mill; Russia is consistently growing the export of larch sawn timber

20 November 2020 ` 11:19

Russian Timber Journal 10-2020: the European Commission reported the start of the investigation that will determine whether Russian birch plywood import is subject to dumping and whether the European Union industry was harmed; WhatWood Agency had a conversation with Ilya Korotkov, Director General at Cherepovets Plywood and Furniture Mill, and questioned him about governmental support measures, European Union’s anti-dumping procedure in relation to Russian producers of birch plywood, the ban on exporting unprocessed timber from Russia and much more; Russia is consistently growing the export of larch sawn timber.

Featured Article:

— European Union is going to conduct an anti-dumping investigation in relation to birch plywood import from Russia, EU may impose duties

— Ilya Korotkov: “When we provide with a full utilization of our processing mills, then log exports can be banned”

— Russia is consistently growing the export of larch sawn timber

Global Timber Markets News:

— Softwood log exports from Russia have been in steady decline for the past 15 years and may be banned in 2022

— Sweden: Roundwood prices continue to decrease

— Rising roundwood prices in Finland

— Finland increased timber harvest by 1% in September 2020

— Raute observes active demand among Russian clients

— In January-August 2020, Svetlogorsk Pulp and Paper Mill doubled its export

— EU27 tropical sawnwood imports down sharply from all major supply countries

— Luke: Finland cuts exports of timber products

— Germany: VDMA reports orders down 20% in Jan-Sep 2020

— Setra sells Rolfs saw to Stockhult Holding

— Softwood lumber prices sharp drop, however remain high

— Holmen invests in new drying plant at Iggesund Sawmill

— WRI: European producers increase sawn softwood exports by 20% in 2020

— Homag sees signs of recovery in 3Q 2020

— In September 2020, new home construction in Japan decreased by 9.9% YoY to 70.2 thousand units. Wooden housing construction decreased by 10.2% YoY to 39.9 thousand units

— Honkarakenne plans to cut jobs at Karstula mill in Finland

— RWE Amercentrale plant converts fifth unit to biomass

— Another record production of wood pellets in Germany

— Slight price increase for pellets in October 2020 in Germany

— In October 2020, the price of wood pellets in Austria decreased by 3.9%

— Greif announces a $50 per ton price increase on all uncoated recycled paperboard (URB) grades

— VPK Group agrees deal for acquisition of Encase

— Kotkamills plans to establish sales in North America

— Euro Graph: demand for magazine paper falls in Europe in August 2020

— Norske Skog starts strategic review of its Tasman newsprint mill in New Zealand

— Norske Skog cuts in Halden

— Stora Enso plans to shut down one standard newsprint paper machine in Sweden

— Sappi Europe announces a price increase for the Fine Paper range for Overseas markets

— Ence registers € 16 Mn of losses in 3Q 2020 due to the minimum prices of pulp

— BillerudKorsnäs and AB Group Packaging reveal new reusable paper bag

— Ashley furniture industries plans Etna, Ohio, logistics & distribution hub

— Italian Acimall report: orders of wood and furniture equipment decreased in 3Q 2020

— Smith Leonard: Furniture Orders up 51% in August 2020 in US

Russian News:

— Alexander Kozlov became Head of the Ministry of Natural Resources

— Viktor Yevtukhov: “69 out of 150 priority investment projects in the forest sector are at the implementation stage, more than 80 are already completed”

— Digitization of forests was completed in the Zabaykalsky Region

— “The country will get more timber processing capacities:” Viktoria Abramchenko about the problems that will be solved by banning roundwood export

— Mikhail Shamolin: “Stopping roundwood exports will not only increase processing within Russia but also deliver a serious blow to quasi-legal harvesting”

— Vyatsky Plywood Mill is upgrading production

— AVA Company will be leased to Profit Group without bids

— Sveza may open a production venue processing pulplogs in the Leningrad Region.

— Record-breaking volumes of laminated particleboard were produced at Vokhtogalesdrev in October 2020

— In January – September 2020, Sveza Tyumen reduced plywood production by 6%

— Sberbank is going to fund construction of a plywood plant in the Vologda Region for 11.9 billion rubles

— A timber processing investment project was implemented in the Sverdlovsk Region

— Kronospan is going to launch production of bases for wood-based panels near Kaluga

— In January – September 2020, Karelian Wood Company increased sawn timber production by 4.8%

— Owners of Karelia DSP started repaying debts to power companies

— Segezha Group launched production of CLT panels

— Corrugated cardboard production is planned to open in Khabarovsk

— SFT Group may build a plant producing corrugated packaging in Yablonovsky Industrial Park (Adygea)

— KAMA Group commissioned the first stage of the plant producing coated cardboar

— In Q3 2020, International Paper’s loss from participating in Ilim Group reached $33 million

— In Q3 2020, timber cargo transportation by railway increased by 4%

— Sea Port of Saint Petersburg JSC increased wood pellets transshipment

— Rustrans DV exported 500 tons of wood pellets to South Korea

— Ustianskiy Timber Complex commissioned a chipping machine

— Wood pellets production is growing in Russia

— The project of building a big wood pellet terminal may be implemented in the Arkhangelsk port

— Pik-Bio (Irkutsk Region) launched the second stage of the wood pellets production plant

— Vladimir Putin instructed to come up with measures on developing wooden houses construction in Russia

— Pervaya Mebelnaya Fabrika is reaching the pre-crisis sales volume

— SV-Mebel became a resident of Otvel in Penza

— Wood pulp export from Russia grew by 11.2% in January — September 2020

— In January – September 2020, Russian plywood export increased by 1.8%

— In January – September 2020, Russia reduced its sawn timber export by 4.2%

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