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There are about 30 000 companies involved in wood-working industry, which are mainly involved in deliveries of round timber. Most of those are small companies operating on low capacity and without any forest preservation policy, which explains the average low-efficiency of the industry.

Presently, wood-working industry accounts for slightly more than % of Russia’s BNP. Round timber still makes the biggest part of Russia’s export of wood materials, which by 2005 increased by three times compared to 1990.

About 15000 companies are regularly exporting round timber abroad. The government urges the industry to invest in wood-working facilities, but restrictive customs duties on equipment and favourable are hindering the process.

One of the biggest problem of the industry is illegal felling which causes a damage equivalent to at least R5 bn every year (approximately NOK 1,2bn), as per end of 2005. Activities in the industry are regulated by the Forest Code  which however is still under consideration in the State Duma as per summer 2006.

Sources: Bumprom.ru, State Statistical Service.

General information
Federal Agency for Timber Industry of Russia – official site of the governmental body responsible for the industry (rus)

Russian timber industry in 2000-2004 – rather comprehensive overview by Kommersant, Russia’s daily on-line (eng)

Timber and furniture manufacturers
Exportles, Moscow – one of the major Russian exporters of wood and timber products (rus) 

Felix-furniture Company, Moscow - the largest office furniture manufacturer and supplier in Russia, specializing in manufacturing and selling of modern cabinet-type furniture for offices, hotels, reception offices, and homes (eng)

North-West Timber Company, St Petersburg - vertically-integrated group of industrial enterprises with HQ in St.Petersburg, consisting of Neman Pulp-and-Paper Mill (Kaliningrad area), Kamennogorsk Offset Paper Mill (Leningrad area), Velsk Glued Timber Structures Mill (Arkhangelsk area) and the group "Basis"; the complete work cycle from timber cutting till consumer providing by paper and stationary goods all around the territory of Russia and abroad (eng)

TTC Group Wood Working Complex, Moscow - production and export of Russian hardwood and softwood lumber, block board, glued panels, furniture board, moldings and other timber products is the central element of operations (eng)

Wooden houses: manufacturing and export
Blockhaus Ltd, Petrozavodsk, Karelia - manufacturer and exporter of wooden houses from the Karelian (Polar) pine. Offers log and residential houses, cottages, log cabins, saunas, pavilions etc (eng)

Log Home Village, St.Petersburg - manufacturer of log houses, including design, production and transportation, with extensive export deliveries to Europe and Norway (eng)

Okimo Russia, Kirov, Russia – produces ecologically clean wooden houses, cabins, cottages, saunas and other constructions of round pine (northern variety) (eng)

Ra Service, Petrozavodsk, Karelia - manufacturing and realization of wooden production from the Karelia: log homes, bathhouses, saunas, cabins, garden-furniture and saw-timber: plinths, jambs and lintels, corners for the finishing-works (eng)

Equipment for forest industry
VIT Agtro Ltd, Barnaul -  supplier of wood drying equipment using the Impulse pressing method KVIS, a joint Russian-Korean engineering design, enabling daily productivity from 11m3 up to 60m3  (eng)

Kovrov Excavator Manufacturing Plant, Kovrov, Central District of Russia – manufactures and sells excavators for metal and timber industries (eng).

Promtractor, Cheboksary, Chuvash Republic of Russia – Russia’s biggest manufacturer of  dozing & ripping Equipment, tractors and pipelayers (eng)

Forest and woodworking research institutes
Forest Research Institute, Karelia
State Forest Research Institute
Russian Institute of Forest Specialists' Education and Training (only in Russian)