Tag: MDF

Board production resumed at the premises of an MDF plant in Yugra

As the press office of the Yugra Government reports, board production has been resumed in the commissioning and start-up mode at the premises of the MDF plant in the urban-type settlement of Mortka (Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Yugra) in...

Russian Timber Journal 07-2020: small enterprises are mastering OSB production; Russian Government gave new instructions for the development of the timber industry; Viktoria Abramchenko, Russian Deputy Prime Minister, proposes to combine the powers of forestry and timber industry in one federal body

Russian Timber Journal 07-2020: small enterprises are mastering OSB production, interview with the head of Rozas LLC, an OSB production newcomer; Russian Government gave new instructions for the development of the timber industry; Viktoria Abramchenko, Russian Deputy Prime...

Mikhail Gavrilov, Vice President at Saint Petersburg Bank, became a majority co-owner of Soyuz Group

Mikhail Gavrilov owns a 55% share. The remaining 45% belongs to Yulia Bagieva, niece to Anatoly Serdyukov, report several federal-level mass media. Since 2015, Mikhail Gavrilov has owned a share in Karelia Pulp LLC (the largest Russian exporter...

Russian Timber Journal 04-2020: Opinion poll of Russian timber companies on the impacts of the coronavirus on outputs and sales; the Government of the Russian Federation approved a list of systemic timber enterprises and measures to support them; how the spread of COVID-19 affects operations of world timber companies (update)

Russian Timber Journal 04-2020: in mid-May 2020, WhatWood agency conducted an express survey of the largest timber industry players about how the coronavirus epidemic affected their production activities and the sales situation; the Government of the Russian Federation approved...

Russian Wood Resources Price Bulletin 04-2020 has published

Uncertainty in the timber harvest market is increasing. Interviewed WhatWood industry participants continue to maintain a moderate-downbeat mood. In February-March, mills actively bought the necessary raw materials from the market, saturating its stock exchanges. Russian particleboard, MDF, plywood...

Kronospan may purchase assets of Russian Laminate

Russian Laminate owns two particleboard production sites in Smolensk and Moscow regions with a total capacity of 480,000 m3 per year. Its MDF production equipment with a capacity of 400,000 m3 per year at the production site of...

Russian Timber Journal 07-2019: Slowdown in Russian economic growth in H1 2019; for 5 months 2019, the EU has reduced the volume of import of pellets; Federal Forestry Agency: timber harvesting in the Russian constituent entities for 10 years; export of parquet from the European Union decreased; CEPI has published statistics on the securities industry for 2018

Russian Timber Journal 07-2019: Slowdown in Russian economic growth in H1 2019;  for 5 months 2019, the EU has reduced the volume of import of pellets; Federal Forestry Agency: timber harvesting in the Russian constituent entities for 10 years; export...

In 2018, United Panel Group produced about 50 % of laminated wood boards

In an interview to WhatWood agency by the President of the holding company United Panel Group Igor Bekker spoke about the production results of the company in 2018: “Last year we produced 187 thousand cubic meters of plywood...

High-margin products will account for 80 to 90% in the Pavlovsky woodworking plant

On June 25, 2019, the grand opening of the Pavlovsky woodworking plant, a new industrial facility of Altailes, took place. The plant is located in the village of Pavlovsk, Altai Krai. The combine processes low-grade wood and lets...

Pavlovsky woodworking plant: “The main task is to stimulate the Russian furniture and construction market to produce products from domestic raw materials»

On June 25, 2019, the grand opening of Pavlovsky woodworking plant (Pavlovsky DOK) will take place. This is one of the largest plants in Siberia and the Far East for processing low-grade wood into products in demand on...

Ivan Klyuchnikov, CEO of Altailes: “The maximum effect in business can only be achieved by the full utilization of available resources”

Ivan Klyuchnikov, CEO of Altailes, told the WhatWood Agency about the group’s priority projects and shared his vision of promising and profitable areas of the forest sector. – How do you think the timber industry in Russia has...

Pavlovsk woodworking plant shipped the first 100 cubic meters of MDF with a thickness of 8 mm and 16 mm

Only two months have passed since the test launch at the Pavlovsk woodworking plant of MDF production and on June 03, 2019 it became known that the first batch of products was shipped to foreign buyers from the...