Raute to deliver plywood mill to Russia’s Segezha Group
Raute Corporation has received orders worth approximately EUR 58 million from Segezha Group to Russia. The [...]
October 1, 2019
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Russia doubles export tariffs for Far Eastern softwood species
By Decree No. 1169 of September 7, 2019, the Government of the Russian Federation doubled (from 6.5% to 13 [...]
September 27, 2019
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High level of production in Russia’s wood industry: lumber +16%; pellets +21%
Over the past eight months of this year, the Russian domestic timber industry has been showing steady growth in almost [...]
September 19, 2019
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Russia’s RFP Group plans to double lumber production capacity
Over the next four years, one of the leaders in the forest industry in the Far East, the RFP Group [...]
September 17, 2019
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Russian top forestry group executive: Ban on timber exports to China useless
Mikhail Shamorin, president of the Segezha Group, one of Russia's largest forestry industrial enterprises, said that the complete ban [...]
September 11, 2019
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UPM completes plywood expansion in Russia
The expansion of UPM Chudovo plywood mill, started in the autumn of 2017, was inaugurated. The expansion has increased the [...]
September 11, 2019
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Ban on Russian timber exports to China would be inappropriate, says Minister of Industry and Trade
A complete ban on the sale of Russian timber exports to China looks inappropriate, since illegal logging is an internal [...]
September 4, 2019
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Timber exports to China: Russia and New Zealand at ”war”
Russia is currently China's largest timber source. In 2018, Russian exports to China reached 15.65 million cubic meters [...]
August 20, 2019
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Russia could ban timber exports to China
Russia could ban timber exports to China unless Beijing takes action to help mitigate the effects of illegal logging, a [...]
August 19, 2019
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Main Russian wood pellet suppliers and foreign buyers in H1/2019
Exports of wood pellets from Russia are growing at the highest rate in recent years. In H1/2019, exports grew [...]
August 13, 2019
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