Estonian Sawmills Lack Raw-Materials
3. Estonian sawmills experience a large shortage of raw-materials, Estonian Aripaey reported. Estonian sawmills have been constantly increasing the cutting regardless of the limited national timber resources making themselves dependant upon foreign timber suppliers.
Dec 02, 2003. /Lesprom Network/. Estonian sawmills experience a large shortage of raw-materials, Estonian Aripaey reported. Estonian sawmills have been constantly increasing the cutting regardless of the limited national timber resources making themselves dependant upon foreign timber suppliers.
This autumn brought warm weather to Russia which made most of Russian forests impassable and considerably reduced Russian timber exports to Estonia. The majority of Estonian sawmills are working at 60-80% of planned capacity, the paper reported.