Tag: Sveza

Russian Timber Journal 04-2021: Possible scenarios of Russia’s unprocessed wood balance after imposing a ban on exports of softwood and hardwood logs; a state company for roundwood export will be established in Russia by the end of 2021; Segezha Group announces pricing of IPO and listing on Moscow Exchange; the European Commission published tentative anti-dumping duties for Russian producers of birch plywood

Russian Timber Journal 04-2021: WhatWood agency about possible scenarios of Russia’s unprocessed wood balance after imposing a ban on exports of softwood and hardwood logs; Yury Trutnev, Deputy Prime Minister and Presidential Envoy in the Far East, declared that...

Sveza will invest 8.6 billion rubles in deep wood processing projects in the Vologda region

Sveza, a world leader in birch plywood production, will establish new deep wood processing facilities in the Vologda region. The total investment will amount to 8.6 billion rubles. The project has a payback period of 8 years. A...

Russian Timber Journal 03-2021: interview with Oleg Fokin, Commercial Director of Sudoma Sawmill; markets of South Korea and Japan: prospects for the development of wood pellet exports from Russia; U.S. softwood sawn timber prices unchanged from the previous week; timber exporters from Irkutsk are experiencing difficulties in shipping products to China; investments in the Russian forest industry decreased by 9.8% in 2020

Russian Timber Journal 03-2021: Oleg Fokin, Commercial Director of Sudoma Sawmill: “At the moment, Russia does not have enough own production facilities for processing low-grade timber in full”; WhatWood: Russian wood pellet exports outlook to the South Korea and...

In 2020 Sveza occupied about 15% of the Global “Gas Plywood” Market

Last year Sveza Group increased its sales of plywood intended for the production of insulation panels used in the construction of facilities for the transportation and storage of liquefied natural gas (LNG). Sveza mill in St. Petersburg, which...

Sveza’s plant in St. Petersburg invested 689 million rubles in its investment projects in 2020

A significant share of the funds – 591 million rubles – was invested in the construction of a mini CHP plant as well as in the switching of the production processes to steam. The crosscutting site was also...

SVEZA UV Color enters markets of North America and Europe

SVEZA started to supply special-purpose UV-coated colour plywood to markets of North America and Europe. The new product of SVEZA UV Color is a unique one and no similar products are made in Russia. This is a prospective...

Sveza mill in the Perm Region increased capacity by 25%

The Sveza mill in Uralsky completed a major investment project resulting in production capacity increase by 40,000 m³ per year. The investments amounted to over 1 billion rubles. Full-scale modernisation of woodworking facilities of the plywood mill in...

Sveza mill in St. Petersburg has begun the production of plywood of a new format

Sveza mill in St. Petersburg has launched the production of large-format plywood measuring 5×11 feet (1525х3355 mm). The introduction of a new product is due, on the one hand, to the customer demand in the transport and construction...

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...

New CNC machine has been launched at Sveza mill in St. Petersburg

Sveza has put a second CNC machine with programmed numerical control at its mill in St. Petersburg. The new equipment is capable of producing parts of any given configuration from large-format plywood sheets with a thickness of up...

Sveza has increased its forest lease by more than a third in 2020

Sveza Group continues to work on its own logging program. On investment terms, in 2020 the Company received a long-term lease for three plots in the Kostroma region and Perm region with a total area of 184 thousand hectares,...

Russian Timber Journal 12-2020: Andrey Konoplev, General Director of Group Vologodskiye Lesopromyshlenniki, on the implications of the roundwood export ban being introduced from 2022 onwards; Luzales plans to build an MDF plant worth 5 billion rubles; the Ministry of Industry and Trade may introduce a temporary ban on the export of particleboards from Russia; analysis of the current situation in the particleboard, laminated particleboard, MDF market

Russian Timber Journal 12-2020: WhatWood interviewed Mr. Andrey Konoplev, General Director of Group Vologodskiye Lesopromyshlenniki, about the ban on the export of unprocessed timber to be introduced from 2022; Luzales agreed on the conditions for the construction of an MDF...