Tag: Smolensk Woodworking Plant

By 2025, Smolensk Woodworking Plant is planning to increase its plywood output to 50,000 m³ per year

The new owner invested 1 billion rubles in repurposing the plant for birch plywood (exterior grade plywood) production. Plywood lamination line and RUF fuel briquettes production was also started up. Prior to the reconstruction that finished in 2018,...

Russian Timber Journal 06-2021: interview with Alexander Vysotskiy, Product Director at Data Driven; European Commission’s report on imposing a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of birch plywood originating in Russia; as of January 1, 2022, quotas on exporting softwood pulpwood and logs will be cancelled in Russia; US lumber prices fell sharply; the Ministry of Industry and Trade considers pulp and paper mills construction in the Far East to be inefficient

Russian Timber Journal 06-2021: Alexander Vysotskiy, Product Director at Data Driven: “Lockdown created the necessary conditions for the digital business”; the European Commission approved for 6 months the introduction of preliminary anti-dumping duties on birch plywood from Russia; the...