New log sorting lines for Russian sawmills Hekotek signed new contracts – two log sorting lines are to be supplied to the sawmills of Eastern Siberia (Irkutsk region and Krasnoyarsk area).
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Irkutsk region to get two pulp and paper mills CJSC Priangarye Investment Group is to construct two new pulp and paper mills in the Irkutsk region – in Taishet and Ust-Kuta. Investment volume amounts to USD 3.4 bln and will be provided by China Development Bank and Vneshekonombank (Russia).
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Komi to develop OSB production - SyktyvkarSafwood (Italy) is to launch OSB production in the Komi Republic by February 2012. The mill will be constructed from scratch with investment volume amounting to EUR 125 mln, of them EUR 72.5 mln to be provided by banks.
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Tomsk region to develop pellet production LLC Sandzhikles (Tomsk region) - harvesting and woodworking mill – put an advanced sawmilling plant in 2010, which allows selling high quality sawn timber.
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Arkhangelsk region to continue realization of investment projects There are 5 investment projects that are currently being realized in the Arkhangelsk region and are included in the list of priority investment projects. Total investment volume amounts to RUR 20 bln (EUR 0.5 bln).
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Karelia: OSB mill to be launched in 2012The Administration of Komi Republic and DOK Kalevala has recently signed a Protocol on cooperation in construction of a woodworking mill in Petrozavodsk. DOK kalevala is to become the first company in Russia that will produce different kinds of OSB.
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Chinese wood deficit good news for NZ wood exportersChina’s potential fibre-supply gap (the difference between total demand and total domestic supply) is projected to reach approximately 150 million m3 (roundwood equivalent) by 2015 - or a volume that is more than the entire Canadian timber harvest in 2009 - a strong indication that China’s wood imports must continue to rise in the short- to medium-term period to match with projected consumption reports International WOOD Markets Group,.
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Russian Wood Statistics: wood processing in the first half of 2010
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Export duties on roundwood: Russia vs. EUAccording to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, Russia is to come to the terms in the field of export duties on roundwood. Moreover, Russia itself offered the EU to significantly increase export duties on deciduous wood.
Russia is ready to increase export duties by tens %. It will mostly concern birch that is widely used in the Finnish industry, whereas in Russia this kind of wood is not practically processed by the Russian companies.
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Tatarstan to construct new Forest Breeding and Seed CentreTimber industry is becoming more and more innovative with increasing amount of advanced technologies and machinery being involved. Russia is to construct 5 modern breeding and seed centers using Lannen Plant Systems technology (Finland). Thus, new centers will appear in the Moscow, Voronezh, Kostroma regions, Altay area and Tatarstan.
Forest Breeding and Seed Centre is to be constructed in the Sabinsk district (Tatarstan) at the site of 7ha.
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Devastating wildfires in Russia underline the need for integrated fire managementThe many wildfires in Russia which are currently raging, in particular in the Nizhny Novgorod, Voronezh and Ryazan regions, follow an unprecedented heat wave with temperatures reaching past 38C.
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Arkhangelsk region to get new projectNovye Lesnye Technologies (New Timber Technologies, St. Petersburg) is to invest over RUR11.8 mln (€ 300 th.) in construction of a mill for advanced timber processing in the Arkhangelsk region.
The mill is to produce wooden boards and chipboards with annual capacity making up 250 th. cubic meters and 325 th. cubic meters respectively.
Besides, the mill will have a sawmilling facility (100 th. cubic meters per year) and glued log production (15 th. cubic meters per year).
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Omsk to develop bio-energyMinistry of Industry of the Omsk region is to produce bio fuel from lignum fossil and woodworking wastes. The project is to be realized in cooperation with LLC Proryv-Invest.
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Russian Technologies to Build Biofuel Factory
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S&P forecasts increased Russian carbon deals
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Komi socioeconomic development successful – republic headSYKTYVKAR, September 28 (Itar-Tass) -- Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived in Komi on Tuesday for chairing a conference on timber industry investments and visiting Mondi Syktyvkar, one of Russia’s largest paper and pulp producers, and the Syktyvkar timber industry plant.
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Rated output reached at Novoyeniseysky LKhK Project manager of Novoeniseysky LKhK pellet mill construction (Krasnoyarsk Kray) Alari Roosi has visited the enterprise again after a month and a half since the launch of production.
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Collaboration between stakeholders in sustainable forest managementNew research on sustainable forest management (SFM) initiatives in Russia and Sweden has indicated that the main challenges to SFM are combining top-down and bottom up approaches to management, coordinating the different sectors involved and including all actors and stakeholders.
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New issue of MOST Digest - Russian Timber Industry
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EXPECTED INCREASE IN THE RUSSIAN TIMBER TARIFFThere are no signs that the planned Russian timber duty increase to 50 euros per cubic meter from 1 January 2011 will be postponed said the Swedish Minister for Trade Ewa Björling when she spoke to the Swedish news agency Direkt.
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Growth is back in Baltics, Poland and RussiaAfter some tough years, the economic crisis is over for the Baltic states, Poland and Russia, at least in terms of growth, according to Nordea´s Baltic Rim Outlook. Estonia's forthcoming accession of the euro underlines that a new era has begun for the Baltics. Exports have initially been th
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Nature smashes all barriers During the abnormally hot summer of 2010 fires and hurricanes damaged more than 935 thousand hectares of the Russian forest area. This emergency situation pushed the reform of timber industry complex (TIC) management system.
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Ruukki Group to pull out of pulp mill and sawmill project in RussiaRuukki Group, a Finland-based company that focuses on wood-based industrial business operations, has scrapped its plans to build a large pulp mill and sawmill in the Kostroma Oblast in Russia. reports Helsingin Sanomat..The company did not accept the contract changes requested by the Kostroma authorities and decided to pull out of the project.
Ruukki is accusing the Kostroma local administration of contract violations and plans to seek damages in a local court of first instance.
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What problems does sustainable forest management face in Russia?Discrepancies in the system of the Russian forest legislation is the main reason for that. This was the common opinion of participants of the Roundtable organized by WWF at the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in early November 2010.
Representatives of the Russian legislative bodies, Russian federal Forest Service, regional authorities, forestry businesses, supervising and control entities of forest management and environmental NGOs were invited to this meeting.
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Reduction of Russian timber duties after negotiations with WTO Russia will reduce its wood tariffs probably within a year. Russia has given this promise to reduce timber dutis in negatiations to the European Commission in exchange for membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) according to the Finnish TV Yle.
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EU - Russia deal could end log export tariffsReuters reported this week that Russia and the European Union struck a deal on Wednesday to phase out Russian export tariffs on raw materials.This is designed to smooth the way for Moscow’s entry into the WTO.
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World’s largest wood pellet plant plannedVyborgskaya Cellulose, a Russian pulp and paper maker, said that it expected to start producing pellets that can be used in heat and electricity generation from its plant in Vyborg by the end of the year reports Tree Frog Daily Forestry NewsThe plant, located in northwest Russia, wil
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Wikileak document reveal how the Russia's Forest Mafia operatesThe US cables reveal the problem with illegally harvesting and how Chinese and Russian logging companies operates. According to the cables smugglers use different methods to illicitly export illegal timber, most of which are able to pass through customs inspections and established border cro
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Positive outcome to Russian timber export duty issue
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Large Pulp Mill Project in RussiaSödra, the Russian bank VEB and Angara Paper have signed a Letter of Intent regarding a pulp mill project in Russia with a capacity of 1.1 million ton softwood pulp per year.
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Swedish Forest Society Doubts the Russian Wood Tariff ReductionSwedish Forest Society's timber manager Magnus Juntikka is critical to the speculation about the lower Russian wood tariffs.
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Polish company to produce biochar in Altai Territory The negotiations between forest holding Altailes and representatives of Ribegla company took place in Altai Territory.
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Russia provides 1/3 of timber import in China
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Pellet production plant has already been opened in Arkhangelsk region
New pellet production mini-plant has already been put into operation in Nyandoma (Arkhangelsk region).
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“Luzales” company wood-sawing production modernization project is going to become a priority
"Luzales" company sent an application to become production modernization priority investment project. It was done on the meeting of Industry and Energy Ministry (Jan 19), which was chaired by Alexander Gibezh, deputy minister.
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UPM's associated company Pohjolan Voima is negotiating with the State of Finland and Ilmarinen on the transaction of Fin
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Arkhangelsk Region to Become a Front-Runner in the Development of Biofuel Technologies
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Pine oil instead of Palm oil
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A new actor at the timber market of Arkhangelsk Region to compete for the leading positions
Haing received Russian anti-monopoly approval RusForest AB (Sweden) has completed the acquisition of 86 percent of OAO "LDK-3", a sawmilling operation located in Arkhangelsk and 100 percent of OOO "Infa", a planing mill at the same site from Nothern Shipping Company JSC (NSC).
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RusForest acquires forestry company in Boguchany, Krasnoyarsk region in Russia
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Federal Forestry Agency has named Siberian OSB mill construction to be a high priority investment
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25 % of light-weight coated paper in Russia will be produced in Perm Territory
KAMA Pulp and paper mill (Krasnokamsk, Perm Territory) which is a part of Investlesprom Group will become the first company in Russia to produce light-weight coated paper.
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Association of Wooden Construction welcomes the timber industry companies to take part in a meeting
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The shareholders of Arkhangelsk PPM to discuss the Pulp Mill Holding proposal
The Board of Directors of Arkhangelsk PPM has decided to hold an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders on March 9, 2011. As reported by the company, the meeting will be held in vote in absentia principle. The shareholders shall give their approval to major interrelated transactions.
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The total revenues from timber exported from Siberia in 2010 amounted to more than USD 2.3 bln
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Koryazhma Forestry Branch of Ilim Group Receives New Equipment
St. Petersburg, Russia, Feb 14, 2011 - In 2010, Ilim Group invested USD 19 million to purchase advanced harvesting and auxiliary equipment for the Company’s Forestry Branch in Koryazhma. The amount of investments is more than 10 times greater than in 2009.
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Arkhangelsk Region became the third for investment growth rate in the Northwestern Federal District
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The timber industry complex of Vologda Region is fast growing
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Irkutsk Region is going to encourage USA investments to the sawmilling and woodworking industry
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The Finnish experience to enhance the development of Karelian biofuel technologies
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The investments in the timber industry complex of the Perm Territory to reach RUR 25 bln
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Timber industry complex of the Leningrad Region came out of a recession
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The results of the VIII Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum: solid investments will flow to Siberia
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The international project in timber industry complex will be implemented in the Republic of Buryatia
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The Delegation of the holding company «Altayles» to participate in «WoodMac China 2011»
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New industry investment appearing in Russia
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The investments in the timber industry complex of Karelia doubled
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Arkhangelsk International Forestry Forum will take place in April, 6-8
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The Governor of Arkhangelsk Region to encourage the use of timber residues in biofuel
Ilya Mikhalchuk, the Governor of Arkhangelsk Region, held a meeting with Vladimir Shishov, the Vice-Governor for Natural Resources Management, Agricultural Sector and Ecology and Yuri Trubin, the Minister for Natural Resources and Timber Industry Complex of Arkhangelsk Region.
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Ilim Group Receives FSC Forest Management Certificate
St. Petersburg, Russia, Mar 15, 2011 - OJSC Ilim Group received a multi-site FSC Forest Management Certificate, which also applies to the Group’s harvesting operations in Siberia (the Bratsk and Ust-Ilimsk District Branches). This FSC Certificate covers that largest area of certified forest in Russia and the second largest in the world, 3.7 million hectares.
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Ilim Timber Industry having acquired Tolleson Lumber becomes Top-10 largest global sawmill producer
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The timber harvesting volume in the Republic of Bashkortostan is projected to increase by 30%
The timber harvesting volumes will increase by 30 %, as estimated by Rajap Nabiullin, the Minister for Forestry Complex of the Republic of Bashkortostan. This index was accepted by the Forest Plan and the Program of Development of the regional Timber Industry Complex.
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The Russian forests are at the focus and under close examination
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Ilim Group Starts Construction Works at Bratsk Within Investment Project's Realization
St. Petersburg, Russia, Mar 29, 2011 - Ilim Group obtained permission to start construction works in Bratsk within over 700 million dollars investment project. The permission was issued by Bratsk administration. Not long ago Ilim Group also obtained consent from the Main State Expert Review Board on this project.
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PEFC withdraws endorsement of Russian forest certification scheme
Russia’s national forest certification system has had its PEFC membership terminated because of non-payment of fees.
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GEF Project in Komi Republic Saves Emissions by Reducing Fires and Illegal Logging
5 April 2011: A Global Environment Facility Project is reported to be helping the Government of Komi (Russian Federation) to improve the sustainability of the national protected area system and measure carbon stocks and reduced emissions from deforestation.
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The plant for low-grade timber processing will be launched in the Republic of Tatarstan
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UPM to sell its logging company in Russia to International Paper
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Five priority projects with the total cost of 25 bln rubles are implemented in Arkhangelsk Region
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JSC Volga to start the rebuilding of PM No 6
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Stora Enso will decide upon the construction of PPM in the Nizhny Novgorod Region by the end of 2011
The Finnish company Stora Enso Oyj will decide upon the construction of Pulp-and-Paper-Mill (PPM) in the Nizhny Novgorod Region by the end of 2011, announced Valery Shantsev, the Governor of the region.
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OOO “Russian Pellet” will recieve a credit at the amount of 202.8 mln rubles
«Russian Pellet» company was established in order to implement the investment project aimed at creation of the state-of-the-art production with the rated output of up to 32.4 tsnd tons of pellets per year. According to the project one of the major plants in the Volga Region will satisfy the demand of European consumers and provide them with the most up-to-date eco friendly biofuel.
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Rosleshoz will develop new relationships with regions durinf the VII Baikal Economic Forum
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Wood harvesting in the Kuzbass Area will increase by a factor of 3.2
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The production of OSB boards in Karelia is approved as a priority project
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Ilim Group to start the construction of a plant in the scope of investment project in Bratsk
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Ilim Group Mills in Siberia Manufacture 367,000 tons of Pulp and Paper Products
St. Petersburg, Russia, May 3, 2011 - Over the first quarter of 2011 the Bratsk and Ust-Ilimsk Branches of Ilim Group has manufactured 367,000 tons of pulp and paper products. This is 2.5% more than in January — March of the previous year.
This includes 309,000 tons of market pulp, which is a 2% percent increase from the similar period performance in 2010.
Market containerboard production has reached 58,000 tons, having gained 7%.
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Russian log and lumber exports increased substantially in 1Q/11 thanks to higher wood demand in China, Finland and Japan
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OAO Kondopoga received a loan of 35 mln USD
Bank Vozrozhdenie provided the loan to OAO Kondopoga, one of the leading producers of newsprint in Russia and Europe, with a credit limit of 35 mln USD
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The Komi Republic to start the assessment of its bioenergy potential
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The wood processing in the Leningrad Region rose by a factor of 1.8
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The investments to the timber industry complex of the Perm Territory will reach 25 bln rubles
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Forests Growing in Quantity, Not Quality
UGRA NATIONAL PARK, Kaluga Region — Viktor Grishenkov uses the weight of his spade to open a slit in the sandy ground, inserts a 30-centimeter oak seedling into the hole and packs the earth tight around it with his foot.
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Softwood lumber demand jumps 18% last year
Global demand for softwood lumber increased by about 18 percent in 2010. This came after a year when wood consumption worldwide was the lowest it had been in almost 50 years. This upward trend in consumption has continued thus far in 2011, with total volume consumed being more than 20 percent higher than the same period in early 2010, according to the market publication Wood Resource Quarterly.
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The price for chip-boards in Russia grew by 25.4%
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Solombalales is going to raise about USD 3.95 bln of credits to upgrade the production
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A new Swedish woodworking company will open in the Angara Area
The first Swedish woodworking company in the East Siberia OOO "Rusforest-Magistralny" will be launched by RusForest group of companies in the first half of June in Magistralny village of Kazachinsko-Lensky District of Irkutsk Region. The rated output of the plant is projected at 150 tsnd cu m of sawn wood products per year. The main marketing area of the plant will be the European countries, primarily Germany and Austria, the countries of Middle East, as well as Japan, South Korea, China. Also there is a possibility to supply the products in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg.
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Russian Federation expects further co-op with China
The Sakha Republic had signed several documents on cooperation with China focusing mainly on timber extraction and processing but the two sides were also discussing joint oil and gas exploration projects according to China Daily last week.
Yegor Borisov said the focus of these documents was mainly on "China is eyeing construction of a sea transport corridor via the Sakha Republic and the Arctic Ocean, while Russian republics which wanted to establish links with Europe are also interested in the project," Borisov said.
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Finnish-Russian collaboration in forest sector will strengthen
The project will get funding of 175 000 euros from South-Karelia - Russia ENPI programme. ENPI (European Neighborhood and Partnership Instrument) -programme is financed by EU, the Republic of Finland and the Russian Federation. One of the aims during the project is to find a suitable form for strengthening the research and education collaboration between Finnish and Russian forest sector. The father of the idea of Finnish-Russian Forest Academy has been Mr Timo Puttonen, Executive Director of Regional Council of South Karelia.
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Status of proposed Russian log export tax reduction
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Ilim Group Allocated Over RUR 310 Million to Implement the Project Aimed to Increase Own Power Generation Capacity in BratskSt. Petersburg, Russia, Jul 11, 2011 - Ilim Group is completing the second stage of the Rebuild of Facilities for Preparation, Storage, and Feeding Wood and Bark Waste for Incineration project launched last year. The total cost of the work under the project exceeds RUR 310 million.
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Over the First Six Months Ilim Group Locations in Siberia Have Manufactured 738,000 Tons of P&P ProductsSt. Petersburg, Russia - Jul 21, 2011 - Over the first six months of 2011 the Branches of Ilim Group in Bratsk and Ust-Ilimsk have produced 738,000 tons of pulp and paper products, which is 3% more as compared to the same period of the previous year.
This includes 623,000 tons of market pulp. This is 2% more than in January-June of 2010.
Market containerboard production has gained 9%, amounting nearly to 115,000 tons. Pulp cooking has grown by 2.5% and reached 779,000 tons.
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The Sale of UPM’s Logging Company in Russia to International Paper is ClosedHelsinki, Finland, Jul 28, 2011 - All the necessary approvals concerning the sales of UPM’s Russian logging company ZAO Tikhvinsky Komplexny Lespromkhoz to International Paper have been obtained and the transaction has been closed.
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Russian forests burn for second successive year
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Mondi Syktyvkar launches Forest of the Future projectRussia, Aug 17, 2011 - Last month Mondi Syktyvkar launched the large-scale Forest of the Future project to further strengthen its forestry operations. The program is scheduled to close in 2013.
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Russian plywood imports surge in EU
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Ilim Group Expanded Coverage of FSC Forest Management Certificate Over all Leased TimberlandsThe Forestry Branch of OJSC Ilim Group in Koryazhma (Arkhangelsk Oblast) has gone through audit verifying the compliance with the FSC Forest Management requirements. No significant incompliances with the international standards have been identified during the audit which was carried out by GFA (Germany). After the audit the Forestry Branch was included in the list of Ilim Group Branches covered by the multi-site Forest Management FSC Certificate.
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RusForest intends to acquire Clean Tech East Holding’s pellet businessRusForest's Board has signed a tender letter to Clean Tech East regarding an acquisition of all shares in Clean Tech East's wholly owned subsidiaries EBH and BEN - which together form Clean Tech East's Biomass Fuels business segment, whose business is to manufacture and sell wood pellets.
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ANDRITZ to Rebuild Paper Machine for SFT Group, RussiaInternational technology Group ANDRITZ has received an order by SFT Group, a rapidly growing packaging producer in Russia, to rebuild and modernize a mothballed kraft paper machine after dismantling it at UPM’s Kymi mill in Finland and relocating it to SFT’s Kamenskaya mill in the Tver region, Russia.
The modernized board machine for the production of fluting and testliner will have a capacity of 215,000 t/a (design speed 1,050 m/min, trim width 4,600 mm). Start-up is scheduled for October 2012.
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RusForest strengthens the management team by appointing a Chief Operating Officer Jeppe Strange, a Danish citizen born in 1953, has held several top management positions within leading foreign controlled companies in Russia during the past 15 years. Over the past four years Mr.
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