May 20, 2010. /Lesprom Network/. In January-April 2010 plywood production in Russia grew by 37.8% to 850,000 cubic meters, as Rosstat (Russian Statistic Agency) informed Lesprom Network. In this period, growth was registered almost in all sectors of the forest industry, with wood-based panels leading in production growth rates: wood particleboard production increased by 18.8% to 1.7 million nominal cubic meters, wood fiberboard production - by 14.6% to 121 million nominal square meters. In April 2010, particleboard production boosted by 38.6% compared to the previous April.
Door units production decreased by 3.3% down to 2.6 million square meters in the first four months of 2010, 1.5% less books were printed, which makes 933 million copies, and newspapers production decreased by 1.7% down to 4.4 billion items.
Along with that, industrial production ratio in January-April 2010 was 106.9% compared to the similar period of the previous year, while in April 2010, compared to April 2009, it was 110.4%.
Forest products manufacturing in Russia in Jan-Apr 2010
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January-April |
Ratio of Jan-Apr 2010 to Jan-Apr 2009, % |
Ratio of Apr 2010 to..., % | |
|
April 2009 |
March 2010 | |||
|
Roundwood having more than 6 mm of rhickness; railroad sleepers, million cubic meters |
6 |
9.4 |
10.9 |
-6.2 |
|
Wood-only plywood, thousand cubic meters |
850 |
37.8 |
26.1 |
-0.7 |
|
Wood particleboard and similar products, million nominal cubic meters |
1.7 |
18.8 |
38.6 |
-2.1 |
|
Wood fiberboard and similar products, million nominal sq m |
121 |
14.6 |
-0.4 |
-8.7 |
|
Door units (door kits), million sq m |
2.6 |
-3.3 |
-1.9 |
-1.2 |
|
Wooden furniture board parquet, thousand sq m |
703 |
2.5 |
-7.9 |
-19.8 |
|
Pulp made of wood and other fiber materials, million tons |
1.7 |
9.8 |
0.5 |
-11.8 |
|
Paper, million tons |
1.5 |
9.4 |
1.4 |
-6.9 |
|
Paperboard, million tons |
1 |
13.6 |
-0.3 |
-6 |
|
Paperboard or cardboard (two-layer, corrugated), million sq m |
6.7 |
11.1 |
1.3 |
13.1 |
|
Untreated paper bags (transportation boxing), million items |
134 |
12.3 |
8.7 |
17.8 |
|
Printed books and brochures (printed sheets), million items |
933 |
-1.5 |
-8.3 |
-15.8 |
|
Journals (printed sheets), billion items |
1.4 |
9.3 |
10.8 |
-1.2 |
|
Newspapers (nominal exemplars, in A2, 4-page format), billion intems |
4.4 |
-1.7 |
1.2 |
2.4 |
