WhatWood consultants made a report at the roundtable in Kirov on the prospects of development of the forest industry in Russia and the Kirov region

On February 21, 2019, a round table discussion “Development of the forest industry in the Kirov region. Tasks and prospects”, organized By the administration of the government of the Kirov region, the Ministry of Forestry of the Kirov region and Sberbank.

Consultants of Whatwood analytical Agency made a report on ” the World and Russian market of forest products. Roundwood, sawn wood, wood-based panels, pulp and paper products, pellets: production, sales, capacity, projects, and trends”.

In the report, the speakers of Whatwood summed up the work of the timber industry in Russia in 2018 and made a forecast for the medium term. A separate topic of the report was the analysis of the forest resources balance in the regions of the European part of Russia. In particular, according to the analysis of WhatWood specialists, the Kirov region today is a major forest resource “donor” for the forest supply of enterprises of other subjects of the Russian Federation. According to the calculations of months of this year, about 4.3 million m3 of round timber annually exported from the Kirov region in other subjects. This volume can be in demand within the region in the implementation of investment projects for deep processing of wood.