Tag: sawn timber

U.S. softwood sawn timber prices keep going up in early 2021

In the week ending February 26, 2021, the price of benchmark softwood timber commodity item Western S-P-F KD 2×4 #2&Btr rose another +$28, or +3%, to US$1,040 mfbm, from $1,012 the previous week, said Madison’s Lumber Reporter. Last...

Sawmill 25 increased the output of export sawn timber in 2020

Sawmill 25 (part of Titan Group) increased the output of export sawn timber by 6% YoY to 887,000 m³ in 2020. The output of wood pellets amounted to 193,000 tons in the same year.

LLC “Unionsped” launches sawn timber production in the Lipetsk region

LLC “Unionsped” signed an agreement with the administration of the Lipetsk region. The company is implementing an investment project for the production of timber, joinery and pellets. On a 5 hectares land plot in two stages there will...

Russian Timber Journal 01-2021: Dmitry Rudenko, Vice President of Segezha Group: demand for wooden houses currently exceeds the productive capacity; the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia held the IV LPK 360° Timber Industry Forum themed A New Era of Development as part of the measures for the development of the timber industry; the Government approved the RF Forest Sector Development Strategy until 2030; how soon will Russia become the world’s largest wood pellet supplier?

Russian Timber Journal 01-2021: WhatWood Agency interviewed Dmitry Rudenko, Vice President of Segezha Group, about the expectations for wooden housing construction and the CLT construction technology that is relatively new for Russia; WhatWood Agency summarizes key theses of the plenary...

Russia reduced its export of sawn timber by 6.6% in 2020

In 2020, the volume of sawn timber exported from Russia reduced by 6.6% YoY and totaled 14.8 million m³, as reported by the Federal Customs Service of Russia. The value of foreign sawn timber shipments from Russia reduced...

Onega Sawmills shipped the first container train loaded with sawn timber

Onega Sawmills dispatched a full container train loaded with finished products to China for the first time. The train consisting of 62 large-capacity containers will deliver 2,800 m³ of sawn timber to the Celestial Empire. The train departs from...

Russia reduced sawn timber production in 2020

According to data from the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) in 2020, Russia reduced sawn timber production by 4.4% YoY to 28.6 million m³.

Russia reduced its export of sawn timber by 5.9% in January – November 2020

In January – November 2020, the volume of sawn timber exported from Russia reduced by 5.9% YoY and totaled 13.7 million m³, as reported by the Federal Customs Service of Russia. The value of foreign sawn timber shipments...

In January – October 2020, Russia reduced its sawn timber export by 5.3%

In January – October 2020, the volume of sawn timber exported from Russia reduced by 5.3% YoY, down to 12.7 million m³, as reported by the Federal Customs Service of Russia.

Sharp rise in Canadian sawn timber production

Sawn timber production in Canada increased 9.2% from August 2020 to 5 103.7 thousand m³ in September 2020. Production was 11.8% higher than in September 2019. Canadian sawmills shipped 4 881.2 thousand m³ of sawn timber in September 2020, up 6.3% from August 2020 and up 1.2% from September 2019.

Russian Timber Journal 10-2020: European Union is going to conduct an anti-dumping investigation in relation to birch plywood import from Russia, EU may impose duties; interview with Ilya Korotkov, Director General at Cherepovets Plywood and Furniture Mill; Russia is consistently growing the export of larch sawn timber

Russian Timber Journal 10-2020: the European Commission reported the start of the investigation that will determine whether Russian birch plywood import is subject to dumping and whether the European Union industry was harmed; WhatWood Agency had a conversation...

Vologdaleskhoz (Vologda Region) reached its design capacity

Wood processing capacities to produce 30,000 m3 of sawn timber and moldings have been created at the production site of Totma Forestry Enterprise The project’s investment value was 340 million rubles. A boiler house with 3MW capacity consuming...