Tag: investments

WhatWood’s annual review: In 2013, Russian timber industry found its growth points

The last year has not brought any fundamentally new trends to the forest industry of Russia: companies tried to reduce the high cost of log procurement and production, also looking for new points of growth. Eventually export demand...

Sveza to launch pulpmill in Vologda region by 2020

Sveza company shared some details in the press about the project of softwood and hardwood kraft pulp mill in the Vologda region. The technological scheme of the mill was prepared by the consultants of Sweco (Sweden) and Poyry...

Dissolving pulp and second-generation biofuel: Solombalales presented an innovative investment project

Solombalales company presented its investment project at the session of the Russian Chamber of Commerce. Chairman of the Council on strategic development of Solombalales Nikolai Lvov noted that the project is in the stage of concept development and...

Global Trends Review, February 24 – March 09, 2014: China boosts investments into foreign timber processing; Moody’s anticipates pulp price decline

Chinese timber enterprises are rapidly increasing foreign investments. Around $1.3 billion has been already allocated in some 20 countries, mainly for logging and primary processing, but with growing interest in wood product manufacturing, as ITTO reported. Recently, both...

Sveza to build a greenfield pulpmill in Vologda region

Sveza Group and the government of Vologda region have signed the agreement on implementation of an investment project. The project involves construction of kraft pulp mill on public-private partnership principles. Total investments into the construction of the mill...

Ukrainian bioenergy complex could attract €6 billion of private investments

According to the Analytic centre of EIG Engineering, construction of power plants working on solid biofuels in Ukraine can attract over €6 billion of investments. Calculations are based on the fact that already available amount of unclaimed solid...

Helsinki to host European Timber Market conference in late September

International conference “European Timber Market” will be held in Hilton Strand hotel, Helsinki on September 26-27, 2013. The conference hosted in Finland’s capital is devoted to the situation on the timber and wood products market in Europe and...

Chunsky LPK in search for investor for pellet line

Chunsky LPK mill in collaboration with DozaGran company (Nizhny Novgorod) has developed a pellet project with daily processing of 12-13 m3 of wood into 3 t of pellets. Project cost is RUR 13 million. The line’s rated capacity...

Capital investments into Russian forest industry fell 17.4% in 1Q 2013

Volume of capital investments into Russian forest industry in the first quarter of the year shrank by 17.4% to RUR 20.5 billion. In the pulp & paper sector, Irkutsk region was the leader. Here, large project of Ilim...

Finnish company Satorak Oy to invest €20 billion in Russian forest industry

Finnish company Satorak Oy is going to invest €20 billion into logging and woodworking capacities in Russia within ten years, as Omsk regional press reports. An affiliate company of Satorak, ADS Finland, which was established for doing foreign...

CTS Invest to allocate RUR 2 billion into Pitkyaranta pulpmill modernization

CTS Invest company is going to invest RUR 2 billion into modernization and further development of Pitkyaranta pulpmill, according to the Forest portal of Karelia. This decision was announced at a press conference on July 01 attended by...

Sveza to launch new particleboard mill in the Urals region

Moscow, February 07. The Board of directors of Sveza Group approved the project of new particleboard mill construction with rated capacity of 500,000 cu m per year. The mill will supply high-quality film-faced and raw particleboard of euro-sizes...