Tag: sawmill

VLP Group is planning to build a new sawmill for 3 billion rubles

Alexander Churkin, Chair of the Board of Directors at Vologodskiye Lesopromyshlenniki Group, declared that the Group was planning to invest 3 billion rubles in building a new sawmill in Kharovsk (Vologda Region) at a press conference devoted to...

Oktyabrsky LZK is going to invest over 1 billion rubles to build a sawmill in the Irkutsk Region

The project includes building a new sawmill and additional drying kilns, an electrical substation, approach roads and a wood pellet plant with the capacity of 40,000 t of wood pellets a year. The mill commissioning is scheduled for...

Junnikkala to build new sawmill in Finland

Finnish Junnikkala is preparing for a big investment that will launch the construction of a modern sawmill unit in Oulu, Finland. Construction will begin in 2022 and will be finished by the end of 2023. €70 million investment...

Södra buys sawmill and impregnation plant

Södra recently announced the acquisition of Ture Johanssons Trävaru and Tenhults Impregneringsverk. The sawmill in Klevshult and the pressure impregnation plant in Vaggeryd, each with an annual capacity of 100,000 m³, are intended to expand Södra’s offer for the...

A new sawmill with a capacity of 75,000 m³ per year put into operation in the Arkhangelsk region

Akvilon LLC is implementing a project for the construction of a timber enterprise in the village of Plesetsk to be completed in two years. The investments will amount to over 450 million rubles of own and borrowed funds....

Belarusian sawmill Kimabel to add new sorting line

The installation of a new timber sorting line, costing as much €3 million, is the latest step in the modernization of the woodworking enterprise LLC KimaBel in Polotsk District, Vitebsk Oblast, Belta news agency reported. The sophisticated timber...

WestRock sells South Carolina sawmill to Interfor for $59 million in cash

British Columbia-based Interfor, one of North America’s largest lumber producers, has bought WestRock’s South Carolina sawmill for $59 million in cash. The sawmill is located 65 miles southwest of Interfor’s existing Georgetown, S.C. mill and 115 miles northeast...

Region-Les started the construction of a wood pellet workshop, the next step is the construction of a sawmill

Region-Les has started the construction of a wood pellet workshop, its design production capacity is 80,000 tons per year. Production start-up is scheduled for November 2020. The next phases provide for the creation of a sawmill with a...

Kaamos Timber to establish a new sawmill in Belarus

The Estonian wood industry company Kaamos Timber entered into a 15 million € loan agreement with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) whose support will be used to establish a new sawmill owned by the Estonian...

European Organization of the Sawmill Industry (EOS) anticipates double-digit production losses

The situation of the European sawmill industry was analyzed by its representatives on June 10 during the first online general meeting of the European Organization of the Sawmill Industry (EOS). The effects of the coronavirus pandemic obviously determined...

Selena LPK (Bashkortostan) bought a sawmill from Kador LLC (Poland)

The company is going to increase wood processing by 50,000 m³ per year and thereby raise the output of dry birch boards and furniture blanks by 1.5 times. Additional investments of about 50 million rubles will be required.

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...