Tag: construction

World Forests during the Pandemic: Germany

Germany is going to give substantial help to its economy: the total fiscal measures declared by the authorities are worth €1.3 trillion (which is 37% of its GDP). Funds will be directed to help small businesses: all enterprises...

Belarusian Svetlogorsk pulp and board mill independently to complete the construction of a plant for the production of bleached sulfate pulp with a capacity of 400,000 tons per year

The General meeting of shareholders of Svetlogorsk pulp and board mill JSC agreed on the procedure and order of completion of the contract construction contract dated 11 October 2010 made between Svetlogorsk pulp and mill JSC and Chinese...

Belarus invests €21 million in the creation of a new sawmill and pellet production

Investors plan to complete the project by 2022. This was reported in the economic Department of the Bobruisk City Executive Committee. BR-Wood LLC will implement the project in Bobruisk. 26 real estate objects which are in property of...

In 2019, a large logging company in the North-West of Russia will increase the volume of construction of forest roads by 20 %

Logging enterprises of the group of companies “Titan” in 2018 built 1 070,44 km of roads, including 179,4 km of year-round and 891,1 km of winter roads. Pinezhsky and Kholmogorsky districts became the main territory of construction (157.8...

For three years in Arkhangelsk, it will build a wooden ship 20 meters long

The Northern sea Museum presented a project on the revival and development of traditional shipbuilding in Arkhangelsk “Pomor schooner”, as the press service of the Governor and The government of the Arkhangelsk region. According to Evgeny Shkaruba, a...

By 2021, the country’s largest OSB plant with a capacity of more than 600 thousand cubic meters per year will be built in Sharia

The SWISS KRONO Group supported the proposal of the Governor of the Kostroma region Sergey Sitnikov to build a new largest wood processing plant in the country in Sharia. On February 06, 2019, the company’s intentions were confirmed...

Global timber market review #21-2016

– In the first three quarters of 2016, log imports through Taicang Port, China, totalled 6.51 million m3 valued at $920 million, ITTO reported. Of the total, the value of log imports from Russia through Taicang Port soared...

Global timber market review #19-2016

– In July 2016, seasonally adjusted production in the construction sector increased by 3.1% in the Euro area and by 1.0% in the EU28, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In...

Global timber market review #19-2015

– A Chinese company plans to invest $250 million to build a massive wood-processing plant in New Zealand. Fenglin Wood Industry Group, based in Nanning, has already been carrying out a feasibility study on building and operating a...

Global timber market review #5-2015

– Lumber prices declined for much of the fall of 2014 in both Sweden and Finland, because the export market weakened in the second half of the year, WRQ reports – According to ITTO, January housing starts in...

Global timber market review #3-2015

– On the background of oil prices being misbalanced, Canadian forestry is flourishing. – In 2014, British Columbia’s softwood lumber exports to China have fallen for the first time in nearly a decade. – The forest business in...

Global timber market review #1-2015

Dear colleagues, since 2015, the review of global timber trends will be published on the website in short only. Please consider subscription for the journal in order to get regular updates on the key events of the Russian...