RusForest Magistralny

RusForest Magistralny

A new sawmill with a base capacity of 100,000 m3 of kiln dried sawnwood is under construction at RusForest Magistralny. The site foundations are ready and the sawmilling equipment has been delivered from Italy. The sawmilling site is on a skeleton operation until such times as suitably priced working capital is available to fund production start-up, which in the case of Boguchanski took 6 months.

OOO Lesprom

OOO Lesprom is a harvesting company with limited sawmilling activities, located in Magistralny in the Irkutsk region. The company's main assets are two forest leases covering an area of 30,988 hectares. Total reserves are approximately 7.6 million m3, with an annual allowable cut (AAC) of 128,100 m3. Within the leased areas there is a high concentration of mature softwood, predominately pine and larch, allowing the company to produce high value-added sawnwood for export markets. The company owns a lower landing facility, 4.5 km of railways and a 2.7 km long railhead. As is the case with TSLKK and Boguchansky, Lesprom is seen very much as an operation in conjunction with RusForest Magistralny by, in future, providing excellent raw materials for the sawmill currently under construction.

Bamlesstroi

The company is the leaseholder of a forest area with 233,000 m3 yearly cutting rights, with 198,000 m3 (85%) of softwood, covering an area of 231,554 hectares. The tree species composition is larch 70%, cedar 10%, Fir 10% and aspen 10%. Bamlesstroi currently has harvesting and transport equipment with a capacity to harvest some 242,000 m3 per year. The balance will be harvested on a contractual basis at Lesprom.