PIK Group

PIK-89, which is based in Ust-Ilimsk (Russia), was originally founded in 1989 by a prominent Russian businessman, and built up from scratch into one of the largest harvesting and sawmilling operations in the Irkutsk Region.

RusForest owns a 80% share in PIK-89, the parent company of a group with an annual allowable cut (AAC) of 734,700 m3 of roundwood per year on a consolidated basis, pursuant to several forest leases, all of which run for the maximum allowable period of 49 years and cover an area of 436,033 hectares in the Irkutsk Region and in the Evenkeya Autonomous Region. The forest leases have a very high share of softwood (85%) and approximately 75% of the lease areas consist of mature and over mature forests. The forest holdings are also favourably located with an average distance of 90 km to the company's sawmills. PIK-89 primarily relies on its own harvesting operations within its lease areas, with small shares of the annual harvest being handled by third party sub-contractors.

The company processes the majority of its sawlogs at its own five sawmilling workshops and one glued products factory, producing annually some 100,000 m3 of sawnwood and 1,800 m3 of finger joint and glue-lam beams. Going forward plans include the expansion of PIK-89’s sawmilling capacity, through de-bottlenecking, to around 150,000m3 of kiln dried sawnwood annually.

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HewSaw R 200 Sawmilling Line at PIK-89 

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HewSaw R 200 Sawmilling Line at PIK-89            New Kilns installed 2008