Tag: Russia

Ponsse discontinues all operations in Russia and withdraws its profit guidance

Ponsse Plc has decided to discontinue temporarily all export operations to Russia and Belarus for both PONSSE forest machines and their spare parts. Also the Ponsse Group’s Russian subsidiary OOO Ponsse is discontinues temporarily its local spare parts...

Stora Enso stops all production and sales in Russia

Stora Enso announced that they will stop all production and sales in Russia until further notice. Stora Enso has three corrugated packaging plants and two wood products sawmills in Russia (according to WhatWood, the total annual sawn timber...

Russia increased sawn timber production in January 2022

According to data from the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) in January 2022, Russia increased sawn timber production by 2.3% YoY to 2.1 million m³.

Orsted stops buying wood pellets from Russia

The largest Danish energy company Orsted has announced a halt in purchases of Russian coal and biomass (including wood pellets) for its power plants. In 2021, Denmark became the largest consumer with a market share of 39% of...

Russian plywood production down 3.2% in January 2022

In January 2022, plywood production in Russia decreased by 3.2% YoY to 345,000 m³, according to Rosstat. Fibreboard production (including MDF/HDF/flooring) increased by 7.3% YoY to 62.5 million conventional m², the production of particleboard (including OSB) increased by...

Kazakh investor is planning to start producing OSB in Russia

Mega Smart, a producer of furniture from particleboard and MDF from Kazakhstan, intends to build an OSB production plant in Bashkortostan, Rustam Muratov, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Bashkiria Government, declared. According to him, the new enterprise’s...

In 2021, Russia increased the pellets export by 6.7%

According to the Federal Customs Service of Russia, in 2021, the export volume of wood pellets from Russia increased by 6.7% YoY to 2.458 million tons. The main buyers of Russian pellets in the reporting period were: Denmark...

Wood pulp export from Russia decreased by 11.5% in 2021

In 2021, the volume of wood pulp export from Russia decreased by 11.5% YoY, reaching 2.042 million tons, as reported by the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation. The value of foreign supplies increased by 31.1% to...

Russia increased sawn timber production in 2021

According to data from the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) in 2021, Russia increased sawn timber production by 4.5% YoY to 30.6 million m³.

Russia produced a record amount of plywood in 2021

Russian plywood production in 2021 increased by 6.8% YoY to 4.5 million m³, according to Rosstat. Prior to this, 2019 was a record year, when Russian plywood production amounted to 4.1 million m³. Also in 2021, the production...

Over 10 months of 2021, the Russian sawn timber export to Europe increased by almost 1 million m³

In January – October 2021, Russia grew its sawn timber export volumes to European countries by 26.6% YoY – up to 4.7 million m³. The key buyers of Russian sawn timber were: Estonia — 933,000 m³ (+37.4% YoY),...

Over 11 months of 2021, Russia equaled its record plywood output of 2019 – 4.1 million m³

Russian plywood output increased by 5.2% YoY in January – November 2021, up to 4.1 million m³, as reported by the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat). Fiberboard output (including MDF/HDF/floorings) also grew by 7.8% YoY over the reporting...