Tag: Irkutsk region

Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the Irkutsk region Sergey Sokol: “People who earn on the forest, prevent the industry from coming out of the shadow”

In the forest complex of the Irkutsk region, there is a whole complex of unsolved problems. People who earn on the forest, as well as designed to regulate the industry, are interested to tighten its output from the...

Russian timber industry news #22/23-2016

– On December 6, 2016 the Solomenskiy sawmill (Petrozavodsk, Karelia) put into operation a new line of sawmilling. Thus, the plant has completed the next stage of modernization and expansion of production. – Ladozhsky DSK CJSC postponed commissioning...

Russian timber industry news #9-2016

– The Central Asian and Northern African markets remained difficult in the Q1 2016, as Rusforest mentioned in its quarterly report. However, the company managed to redirect more low-quality product sales to the Japanese market instead. – Pomorskaya...

Russian timber industry news #17-2015

– RusForest announces plans to develop harvesting operations in its Ust-Ilimsk forest lease areas. The company has recently been subcontracting forest lease areas in Ust-Ilimsk for harvesting by third party. While the subcontracted volumes have been successfully increased,...

Russian timber industry news #13-2015

– By the end of 2014, Volga pulpmill (Balakhna, Nizhny Novgorod region) has produced 494,700 tonnes of newsprint, which is 10.3% less than in 2013. The selling price has increased from 16,305 roubles per tonne in 2013 to...

Russian timber industry news #4-2015

– In the autumn of 2015, three new pellet mills delivered by Hekotek will be put into operation in the Irkutsk region. – The EU requested the establishment of a dispute settlement panel at the World Trade Organization...

RusForest sold Arkhangelsk assets and may consolidate with Lesresurs

Swedish company RusForest announced sale of Arkhangelsk assets in Northwest Russia for approximately $31 million, including the related debt. The company executed a definitive sale and purchase agreement with several buyers, including Lesozavod 25 (Arkhangelsk, belongs to Titan...

Russian Timber Group to build a 95,000 t pellet mill

Russian Timber Group plans the construction of a plant for pellet production with capacity of 95 thousand tonnes per year in the village of Novaya Igirma (Irkutsk region). Pellet plant will be built on the existing site of...

Baikal pulpmill will officially close on December 25

“A landmark event for the whole environmental community – official closure of the Baikal pulp and paper mill – will be held on December 25, 2013,” said the Minister of natural resources and ecology Sergey Donskoy at the...

Baikal pulpmill stopped production

Baikal pulp and paper mill has stopped production. According to the bankruptcy supervisor Alexander Ivanov, conservation of the enterprise is now being prepared. “In the near future the project of dismantling some of the buildings of the mill...

Baikal pulpmill closure will take up to six months, “Inmost Russia” theme park to appear there

Closure of Baikal pulpmill will possibly take up to six months, as VEB-Engineering Chief Executive Dmitry Sheibe said in an interview to Prime agency. “Presently the mill employs 1646 people, one third of them will remain at the...

Ilim Group inaugurated world’s largest softwood pulp line

On June 19, Ilim Group has officially inaugurated its new pulp mill in Bratsk (Irkutsk region), the largest investment project completed in the Russian pulp and paper industry over the last 30 years and the world’s largest softwood...