Russian Timber Journal No. 11-2018: revenue of Top 100 forest industry companies in Russia continues to grow, but at a slower pace; months of this year summarizes the results of Pap-For Russia-2018; Ivan Valentik offers a conceptual reform of the system of distribution of powers

Russian Timber Journal №11-2018 

From November 13 to November 16 in St. Petersburg hosted the XV international exhibition and forum Pap-for 2018

The exhibition, which is held every two years, was attended by 209 exhibitors from 17 countries, and more than half of them were foreign. More than 340 delegates and more than 60 experts attended the Pap-for 2018 forum. This is the third time PapFor has been held at Expoforum. The event was attended by more than 5.4 thousand people.

The program of the Pap-For forum included 16 sections, where both strategic and technical topics related to the development of the pulp and paper industry in our country were discussed. The main program of the forum was held on November 13 and November 14. There were several sessions during the first day. During the plenary session “Reloading of the Russian pulp and paper industry” the experts discussed the prospects for the development of markets and new approaches to the development of pulp and paper clusters.

Chairman of the Board of RAO “Bumprom” Yuri lakhtikov believes that with the active development of bioeconomics in our country, the products of Russian enterprises will receive an additional competitive advantage in the world market. To solve the existing environmental problems, Russia can learn from the experience of greening the world’s economies on the example of countries such as China or America. In addition, the volumes should be increased…

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The head of the Federal forestry Agency Ivan Valentine made a presentation at a national forum “Forest: the dialogue of society and government for the preservation of the environment” and suggested possible solutions.

Mr. Valentik noted that “after all the powers were transferred to the regional level in 2007, the Federal authorities retained only one function – monitoring, which is not enough to control the situation. So, at the moment the Russian Federation, as the owner, can not…

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The shortened working week (November 22, the United States celebrated thanksgiving Day) has made its adjustments to the situation in the North American market of softwood lumber…

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The Austrian company Egger will build a plant for the production of chipboard. This will be the first company in the territory…

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About the investment projects of the companies “Kronospan”, “MDE”, “Holtz house” how helpful was the deal for “Ilim timber, which plans to expand production of the company “KLAS-Astar” who will build the first four-storey wooden house in Russia, which set a record the company Segezha Group, and also which companies entered the TOP 100 forest-industry enterprises of Russia read in the new issue of the analytical magazine Russian Timber Journal No. 11-2018.