Tag: Far East

Launching an electronic timber accounting system in the Far East will take 2 – 3 months

Far East Development Fund is ready to launch an electronic timber accounting system in the region within 2 – 3 months; it will make the processing and export process transparent.

DNS Les launched the OSB production In the Primorsk region

June 2, 2020, DNS Les launched OSB production in Spassk-Dalniy, the design capacity of the plant is 60,000 m³/year. Investments for the implementation of the project amounted to 1.38 billion rubles. The Governor of Primorsk region Oleg Kozhemyako took...

RFP Group, the largest company in the Russian Far East, may change of ownership

The main shareholders of the RFP Group Roman Abramovich, Alexander Abramov and Alexander Frolov want to cut their shares in the company, Kommersant reports. This refers to finding a new investor who is ready to acquire an equity...

WhatWood Agency took part in a webinar for forest sector industry at Sberbank Corporate University

Marina Zotova, a senior consultant at WhatWood, gave a presentation on “Methods and tools for assessing the raw materials potential of investment projects and timber industry enterprises”. Wood resources market As noted in the report, the strongest decline...

The Russian Government to slash duties on pulpwood of Far Eastern species to zero and increase export quotas by the end of 2020

Yury Trutnev, Deputy Prime Minister and Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District, held a meeting on stimulating the timber industry in the Far East; the meeting took place in Moscow on March 26, 2020. The meeting...

Russia: the strongest decline in exports of logs since 2008 continues

In 2017, the Russian Government introduced quotas and imposed duties on exports of roundwood of Far Eastern species (Government Decrees No. 1521 and No. 1520 dated December 12, 2017). Tariff quotas were introduced for Yezo spruce, Khingan fir,...

Russian Timber Journal 08-2019: Russian economy slows down; Rosleskhoz published data on timber harvesting by regions; The Far East is cutting log exports at a record pace

Russian Timber Journal 08-2019: In the 1 H 2019, the growth rate of the Russian economy slowed down; for 5 months 2019, the European Union reduced the volume of wood pellet imports; Rosleskhoz published data on timber harvesting...

In the Far East, an inventory of forests for investment projects is being carried out

Far East Investment and Export Agency is conducting an analysis of the state of forests and identifying areas for “forest investments” to launch projects for deep processing of wood. As noted by Deputy Director General Maxim Duz, such...

Russian Timber Journal 03-2019: volume of timber in Russia has exceeded in 2018 its historical peak; the WhatWood analytical review of the market pellet in Russia; China increased its imports of birch veneer logs; export OSB from Canada doubled; negative outlook Moody’s for the global timber industry complex in 2019-2020

Russian Timber Journal No. 03-2019: the volume of logging in Russia exceeded its historical maximum in 2018; WhatWood Agency conducted a study on the pellet market in Russia; the downward trend in the export of unprocessed round timber...

WhatWood:”The downward trend of the export of unprocessed round timber from Russia is saved”

According to the information and analytical agency WhatWood, the reasons for the decline in exports are the high demand for sawn raw materials within the country, especially in Siberia and the Far East after the introduction of new...

In the Far East, the resident of the free port has launched a new wood processing production

According to the press service of the Ministry of the Russian Federation for the development of the Far East, the company “TAUNGA-LES” has begun to provide services for logging and production of sawn timber from softwood. The investment...

The plenipotentiary representative of the President in the far East Yuri Trutnev proposed to use the Internet service for the provision of forest areas

At the press conference “Far East: points of growth-2019”, which was held on February 07, 2019, Yuri Trutnev summed up the results of 2018 and spoke about the work done to implement the instructions of the President of...