Tag: lumber

Global Trends Review, April 29 – May 05, 2013: Canadian quarterly reports: NBSK up, paper down, and OSB surging

Major Canadian and North-West U.S. companies posted first-quarter results last week. Mercer International Inc., operating in Canada and Germany, reported net loss of €0.4 million compared to net income of €1.2 million in 1Q 2012. Total revenues for...

RusForest to shift sales from Middle East to Japan and China

Rusforest Group issued annual report for 2012. Company’s total turnover for 2012 amounted to SEK 564.3 million ($85.5 million) compared to SEK 409.4 million ($62 million) in 2011. These results were affected by the inclusion of income and...

Global Trends Review, April 22-28, 2013: Challenging conditions for Nordic producers; market forces restructurings

The largest Scandinavian companies posted not very cheerful Q1 results. Setra’s net loss was SEK 27 million, which is on par with Q1 2012 levels. Sales decreased slightly. According to company’s CEO Stefan Lundin, strengthening Swedish krona had...

Global Trends Review, April 15-21, 2013: New products for the recovering construction industry

The spring forecast by the Pellervo Economic Research Institute (PTT) in Finland predicts rising softwood lumber exports and higher selling prices for 2013, EUWID Wood reported. The profitability of the Finnish sawmilling industry is expected to ameliorate generally....

Global Trends Review, April 08-14, 2013: Housing market drives capacity changes

Since April 15, 2013, WhatWood launches English version of Global Trends Review, as announced earlier. Sawlog prices in Europe were generally lower in 2012 than in 2011 because of lower log demand from the sawmilling sector, as reported...

Russian forest industry revenue increased by 6.5% to €18.46 billion in 2012

Russian forest industry earned 733.6 billion Rubles (€18.46 billion) in 2012, which is 6.5% higher than in 2011, as said in the annual report published by WhatWood analytic department. Sales profit amounted to 52.88 billion Rubles, which is...

Priangarsky LPK to start lumber production in November 2013

Krasnoyarsk, February 25. Priangarsky LPK in Krasnoyarsk region will start production in November 2013, as said by Nikolay Fetisov, president of Trust bank which acts as financial partner in this project. At the first stage, the enterprise will...

Top 20 lumber exporters from Russia in Q1-Q3 2012

In today’s infographics we present Top 20 exporters of Russian lumber. Click on the image to enlarge it:

Ilim Timber sales in 2012 reached $710 million, lumber production was 2.28M cu m

St. Petersburg, February 05. Ilim Timber holding announced year-end production and financial results. For the twelve months ended December 31, 2012, Ilim Timber produced 2.56 million cubic meters of wood products. Total lumber production at Ust-Ilimsk sawmill (Irkutsk...

Lumber export from Russia in Q3 2012 grew by 5.7% to 4.9M cu m – WhatWood Analytics

Moscow, January 31. Lumber production in Russia in the third quarter of 2012 amounted to 7.4 million cu m, which is 1.9% higher year-on-year, with export growing by 5.7%, import – by 2%, according to the latest report...

Estonian investors to build a sawmill in Kirov region

Kirov, January 17. New lumber mill will be launched in Oparinskiy municipality of Kirov region. The project is originated by Lesnoy Put LLC and funded by private investors from Estonia. Total investment scope of the project is around...

Pilomaterialy Krasnyi Oktyabr to launch new sawmill line in May 2013

Perm, January 17. In May 2013, Pilomaterialy Krasnyi Oktyabr company (Perm region) is going to launch new sawmill line. Investments into the project exceeded 700 million Rubles (€17.4 million) and were mainly funded with state support. Sweden’s Söderhamn...