In January-March 2009 production indices as regards woodworking and manufacturing wooden products made up 70.8% as compared to January-March 2008, as regards pulp and paper sector (including publishing and printing) – 82%, and as for harvesting – 88.2%.

Changes on the outer markets (incl. market saturation, a sales slowdown and decline in prices on wood products) led to suspension of production and shipment at some enterprises, which resulted in considerable reduction of production output. January-March 2009 watched decrease in fiberboards (hard) production by 43%, plywood – 39.5%, sawn timber – 24.4% as compared to January-March 2008.

However, QI 2009 fixed continuing growth in wooden container production, i.e. production index reached 104.3%.

Pulp and paper production decreased by 14.9% due to the decreased production output of market pulp (by 26.2%), cardboard (-19.7%) and paper (-11.6%).

Article March Jan-March 2009/ Jan-March 2008, %
Timber, mln m3 9.6 -17.3
Sawn timber, mlm m3 1.7 -24.4
Glued plywood, th. m3 171 -39.5
Chipboards, th. ref. m3 326 -28.7
Fiberboards (hard), mln ref. m2 22.5 -43
Market pulp, th. tons 172 -26.2
Paper, th. tons 337 -11.6
Cardboard, th. tons 290 -19.7

Business Support Bureau “Runa” www.runa.info

via RUNA.INFO – Production indices in January-March 2009.

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