Tag: raw materials

Yuriy Ayvazov, CEO at Kondopoga Pulp and Paper Mill: a record-setting volume of timber was delivered to the mill in 2022

Here are a few highlights from his interview to Rossiyskaya Gazeta: In 2022, Kondopoga Pulp and Paper Mill received 200,000 m³ more raw material than planned. The company made a decision to increase the harvesting volumes due to several...

Sveza Mill in Sverdlovsk region to invest RUB 100 million in reconstruction of raw material heating system

Sveza Mill in Verkhnyaya Sinyachikha, Sverdlovsk region, has started an investment project related to reconstruction of raw material heating ponds. The reconstruction program covers fourteen ponds of a production site and is divided into four stages and is...

The Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia proposes to transfer the authority to rent out forest areas to the federal level

As the press office of the Federal Forestry Agency (Rosleskhoz) reports, the bill proposes a phased transition to the provision of forest areas from the forestry fund lands by an authorized federal executive body, including for purposes of...

“The country will get more timber processing capacities:” Viktoria Abramchenko about the problems that will be solved by banning roundwood export

In her interview for Russia 24 channel, Viktoria Abramchenko, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, explained which problems will be solved by banning the export of roundwood and roughly processed timber from Russia as of January 1, 2022. “Firstly,...

Sveza Kostroma is reducing raw material consumption

The company has commissioned a Japanese-made surfacing-and-jointing line for raw veneer; the investment exceeded 60 million rubles. Installation of this line will make it possible to splice small-sized veneer into full-size sheets. The equipment is an automated line...

Vostochny wood processing plant put into operation in the Amur region

Implementation of the project made it possible to create a modern production facility ensuring the full cycle of processing wood raw materials (including waste) into finished products. The wood processing facility is located in the village of Isa...

In Q1 2020 “Lesosibirsky LDK No. 1” (part of the Segezha Group) produced 136,800 m3 of sawn timber

This was a record for the last five years. Sawmill increased production by 135% from 1Q 2015 (57,900 thousand m3). 1Q 2020, the company delivered 235,400 m3 of raw materials (+ 43% yoy) to the plant through the...

Segezha Group is on the rise of log supply chain

At the beginning of 2020, Segezha Group acquired a sawmill asset of Karelian Wood Company, which has leased forest areas (please refer to the issue Russian Wood Resources Report 01-2020). In addition to additional 205,000 m3/y by AAC,...

Deficit in raw materials for pulp and paper production

The first echoes of the raw materials deficit in the market were felt by processors using spruce pulplogs (newsprint producers). Karelia Pulp has one month of stocks on the raw materials exchange. The company is actively buying spruce pulplogs,...

Features of national logging

The majority of loggers of Leningrad, Kostroma, Tver, Pskov, and Kirov regions note that they have achieved the effect of getting used to nature’s indifference and “learned” to harvest and export wood in unconventional conditions of Russian winter....

In 2020, within an investment project, Sveza Kostroma to purchase 50 railway flatcars to perform deliveries of raw materials worth 150 million rubles

Own fleet of railway transport will allow the enterprise to completely abandon technical runs and reduce the number of leased flatcars while covering 40% of its need for rolling stock. Previously, the plant rented about 170 railcars per...

New strategy: until 2028, Sveza will invest more than 1.5 billion rubles in its own logging

This year the company has registered a new legal entity – Sveza Resource  LLC , which allows to implement a pilot project of its own procurement in Totemsky and Tarnogsky districts of the Vologda region. Since the beginning...