Products

• Sawn Timber
• Planed Products
• Logs
• Grading

Logs

Parts of our annual harvest is sold unprocessed, as saw logs, both domestically and for export.

RusForest harvests greater volumes, and a certain percentage of logs have a larger diameter, than we are able to process internally. These saw log volumes are subsequently sold on the open market.

Under Russian Standards, coniferous saw logs are divided into domestic- and export quality logs: GOST 9463-88 and GOST 22298-76 respectively. The two GOSTs mainly differ on their limitations of defects per grade (knot diameter and concentration, log curvature, diameter decrease etc.). You can find more information on the Russian Grading of sawn timber and saw logs here.

Export Duties

The Russian Government was set to adopt prohibitively high export duties on roundwood (80%, or a minimum of EUR 50 per m3) in January 2009.

In December 2008, the Government elected to postpone the planned introduction of log export duties for nine to twelve months. This decision was probably a result of a combination of EU lobbying pressure coupled with the fact that only limited investment had been made in domestic sawmilling capacity prior to the year-end deadline.

For further information on specifications, terms and pricing, please contact our sales team at RusForest Trading:

RusForest Trading