Russian Forestry and Wood Supply Operations Analysis

98 URAL FEDERAL DISTRICT TYUMEN OBLAST leaseholders. In terms of softwood harvesting, 26.8%.of the allowable cut is exploited. An increase in timber harvesting is restricted by the lack of softwood and low-grade timber processing capacities, the remoteness of forest districts from timber processing mills and the lack of developed infrastructure. The poor demand for low-grade raw material also has a negative effect on timber processing development dynamics (its proportion in the forest resources being 51 to 53 percent). Despite the not-so-optimistic current situation in the forestry and timber sector, the authorities of Tyumen Oblast deem it an important sector of the economy. The Forestry Sector Department of the Oblast has developed a plan of action for the development of the regional forestry and timber sector up to 2020. The document offers a multi-industrial approach to forestry sector development planning, and considers the interests of related economic sectors (energy, housing and utilities, oil service cluster and so on.) In a joint effort with business, the authorities hope to increase the share of the sector's facilities in the regional industrial output to 6%. The primary focus in the sector development is on its interrelation with the construction industry since it is intended to develop a timber industry cluster with a bias towards the construction segment. According to the Department's experts, the following areas are also promising in the timber industry cluster of Tyumen Oblast: • creating new sawing capacities, preferably for hardwood sawn timber; • added-value timber processing, setting up production of wood boards, laminated products, biofuel (including wood pellets) and pulp; ⚫ waste-free cycles at production facilities (boiler plants using waste as fuel, production of briquette fuel from sawdust etc.); ⚫ the manufacture of products for timber housing construction. Among the primary reasons preventing the development of the forestry and timber industry in Tyumen Oblast, the Department identifies the following: . rising electric power and fuel prices and Russian Railways charge rates, and as a result higher costs of raw materials and accessories; • poorly developed forest infrastructure; ⚫ remoteness of commercial forest reserves from roads and timber processing facilities; ⚫ insufficient capacities for added-value timber processing; ⚫ low innovation activity and investment attractiveness; ⚫ the high wear of fixed assets; ⚫ use of obsolete technologies, and machines and equipment with a high manual labor proportion and low efficiency; ⚫lack of skilled personnel, low wages and labor efficiency. Among the timber industry facilities of Tyumen Oblast (minus the autonomous okrugs) the following should be mentioned: Zarechye JSC (case furniture manufacturing in Tyumen), Intedi Furniture Factory JSC (modular case furniture manufacturing in Yalutorovsk), Sibzhilstroy JSC (Vinzili settlement, Tyumen District; manufacturing cement chipboards, structural units and parts, and quick-erect low-rise buildings of various types made of sandwich panels, laminated beams and glued wooden structures), Karsikko Group (this timber holding company operates in Tyumen Oblast and KhMAO; full cycle of added-value timber processing, from harvesting to finished product, such as sawn timber and quick-erect frame-panel wooden houses), Krasny Oktyabr JSC (manufacturing of chipboards and laminated chipboards, table tops, furniture facades, MDF wood trim, and case furniture in Tyumen), Zagros JSC (manufacturing of sawn timber and wood trim in Komsomolsky, Zavodoukovsk District). LARGEST INVESTMENT PROJECTS RELATED TO THE FORESTRY AND TIMBER SECTOR Tyumen Plywood Factory LLC: "Construction of a large-size plywood factory in Tyumen" investment project. Purpose: Manufacturing of large-size waterproof plywood of FSF and FK grades to be used in the construction and furniture industry. Total production output: 120,000 m³/year. #6 (2015) RUSSIAN t FORESTRY The project is to be implemented in three stages. The first two stages have been successfully completed, with the annual plywood output brought to 90,000 m³. The third stage (2013-2015) involves setting up new capacities, bringing the total plywood output to 120,000 m³/year. The investment needed to implement the project is estimated at 1,456.8 million rubles. Zagros JSC: "Construction of an up-to-date sawmill" in Komsomolsky, Zavodoukovsk District. Purpose: Construction of an up-to-date facility based on scientific innovations and efficient and sustainable forest management complying with their intended purpose, retaining and enhancing the potential of the sustainable use of the leased forest. Project implementation period: 2008 till 2016. Payback period: Six years. Investment attracted: 350,060,000 rubles. RashFor LLC, another large advanced timber-processing facility, reached its design capacity in 2013. It was launched in Golyshmanovo District in September 2012. The company makes beams, boards, dry edged and unedged sawn timber, and fuel briquettes using hardwood timber. The company's business partner is Woodprom, USA. The company's activities are timber harvesting, sawing, sawn timber drying, and manufacturing furniture blanks. The annual output is estimated at about 40,000 m³ of furniture board blanks. At the first stage, the investments were about $10 million. For the second stage (2013-2014) it was planned to set up wood waste processing capacities; according to interim estimates, the investments were $8 million. At the third stage (2015) it is intended to set up laminated furniture board and furniture parts production capacities, with investments amounting to about $15 million. AVA Company LLC is a hardwood processing facility. In February 2015, the company signed an agreement with Vladimir Yakushev, Governor of Tyumen Oblast, on cooperation for the implementation of the project. The project involves setting up a facility specializing in the processing of hardwood exclusively, primarily birch, whose reserves in the region are not in demand by other processors. The first phase of this cooperation will be participation of the Tyumen branch of the AVA Company in the bidding for timber harvesting in the southern districts of the Oblast and, in prospect, the installation and startup of a sawmill line on the RashFor LLC site is planned in the Golyshmanovo settlement. The project also comprises the launching of a floor covering and furniture blank production. In the future, the site in Golyshmanovo may become the center of a cluster for hardwood processing with a range of complementary production facilities. According to Armen Babadjanian, general mamager of AVA Company, "the investments that AVA Company is ready to make in Tyumen Oblast are measurable in several millions of euros in the short term, and in more impressive amounts in the long term." Evgenia CHABAK, Oleg PRUDNIKOV Tyumen Oblast government authorities responsible for timber industry regulation Governor of the Tyumen Oblast Yakushev Vladimir Vladimirovich Russian Federation, 625004, Tyumen UL. Volodarskogo, 45 Tel.: +7 (3542) 46-51-80, 46-77-20 fax +7 (3452) 46-55-42 [email protected] gubernator.admtyumen.ru Department of forestry complex of the Tyumen Oblast Chief Artanovsky Vladimir Vladimirovich Russian Federation, 625000, Tyumen Ul. Pervomayskaya, 34/1, office 317 Tel. +7 (3542) 60-03-55 fax +7 (3452) 69-05-03 [email protected] www.admtyumen.ru Department of investment policy and state support of entrepreneurship of the Tyumen Oblast Deputy Governor, director Shumkov Vadim Mikhailovich Russian Federation, 625004, Tyumen UL. Volodarskogo, 45, office 233 Tel. +7 (3452) 55-71-23, fax +7 (3452) 55-71-22 [email protected], www.admtyumen.ru Enterprises of the forestry industry of the Tyumen Oblast Name Adonis-Interior, ZAO Alfa Group, 000 Alpha-Stair (Bogomolov S.U., IP) Alpina, ZAO Art-Studio, 000 Avangard, MK Activity Woodworking: window and door units, staircases. Furniture production: casegoods furniture. Wooden house construction: houses from round log, and shaped timber; log cabins Furniture production: furniture from solid wood. Woodworking: millworks, doors, and staircases Furniture production: kitchens, tables, chairs Furniture production: kitchens, and casegoods furniture Address 625003, Tyumen, ul. Rozi Luxemburg, 12, korpus 5 625051, Tyumen, ul. Vasilia Gol'tzova, 8, office 4A 625013, Tyumen Oblast, Tyumen rayon, pgt Borovsky, ul. Naberezhnaya, 55 625000, Tyumen, ul. Respubliki, 56 625046, Tyumen Oblast, Tyumen, ul. Shirotnaya, 209 Contacts Tel.: +7 (3452) 45-05-07, 45-07-07 fax +7 (3452) 45-21-91 [email protected], www.adonis-interior.ru Tel.: +7 (3452) 93-49-29, 93-49-31 [email protected], www.doma.alfa72.com Tel. +7 (3452) 95-10-77, fax +7 (3452) 68-00-64 [email protected], www.alpha-stair.ru Tel.: +7 (3452) 23-40-93, 79-09-50, 23-40-96 [email protected] Tel. +7 (3452) 68-07-30 [email protected], www.studiay.ru Furniture production: casegoods furniture 625053, Tyumen, ul. Malaya Borovskaya, Tel. +7 (3452) 61-25-63 Baroque-Style, 000 Furniture production: soft furniture Bureau+, 000 Cascade, 000 Constanta, MPK, 000 Corpus Aleta (Pershenkov V.O., IP) 38/2 625000, Tyumen Oblast, Tyumen, ul. Kamchatskaya, 201/2 Furniture production: casegoods furniture 625001, Tyumen, ul. Yamskaya, 29 Furniture production: casegoods furniture. 625000, Tyumen, ul. Vakhitova, 12 Woodworking: doors, and staircases Furniture production: casegoods furniture 625034, Tyumen, ul. Zaslonova, 39 Furniture production: casegoods furniture. Wooden house construction: summerhouses Dom Dereva (Kiyko E.A., Wood-sawing: moulded strips IP) [email protected] www.avangard-mebel.tumn.ru Tel. +7 (3452) 48-12-92 [email protected], www.бapoкко-стиль.p Tel.: +7 (3452) 42-05-15, 23-80-49, 23-80-50 [email protected], www.buroplus.ru Tel.: +7 (3452) 37-53-58, 25-56-60 [email protected], www.kaskad-72.ru Tel. +7 (922) 006-66-70 [email protected], www.constanta72.ru 625541, Tyumen Oblast, Tyumen rayon, Tel. +7 (3452) 95-14-51 selo Yar, ul. P. Buzolina, 33/1 626150, Tyumen Oblast, Tobol'sk, mkr Zaschitino, per. Polevoj, 4 Furniture production: casegoods furniture, 625023, Tyumen, ul. Odesskaya, 7/2 furniture from solid wood Furniture production: casegoods furniture, 625031, Tyumen, ul. Druzhbi, 113 furniture from solid wood Furniture production: casegoods furniture 625000, Tyumen, ul. Timiriazeva, 6 Dom, 000 Edica, 000 Frontal, MF Helios Plus, 000 Woodworking: window and door units, stained-glass windows Hi-Tech, 000 Furniture production: kitchens Intedi, 000 Zagros JSC Karsikko Dom, 000 Wooden house construction: frame-board houses [email protected], www.мебельтомени.р Tel.: +7 (3456) 27-31-51, (902) 850-47-08 [email protected] Tel.: +7 (3452) 41-40-95, 53-00-89, 53-09-89 [email protected], www.dom-tmn.ru Tel.: +7 (3452) 21-52-00, 21-50-45 [email protected], www.edica72.ru Tel. +7 (3452) 31-81-51 [email protected], www.frontal.ru 627017, Tyumen Oblast, Yalutorovsk, ul. Tel. +7 (34535) 2-21-53 Zhelenodorozhnaya, 19 [email protected] 625002, Tyumen, ul. 25 Oktyabrya, 27 Tel.: +7 (3452) 59-53-29, (904) 492-37-44 [email protected], www.fm-hitek.ru Furniture production: casegoods furniture 627016, Tyumen Oblast, Yalutorovsk, ul. Tel.: +7 (345) 352-48-34, 352-47-70, 352-48-33 Rusakova, 10 625001, Tyumen Oblast, Tyumen, ul. Polevaya, 115 [email protected], www.intedi.ru Tel.: +7 (3452) 23-23-23, 23-88-70 [email protected], www.karsikko-dom.ru RUSSIAN #6 (2015) 99 FORESTRY