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Metsa Svir
Vazhyny, Podporozhsky district
About the company
Metsa Svir sawmill is a part of Metsa Group which is a fore-
runner in production of wood products, pulp, fresh fibre pa-
perboards, tissue and greaseproof papers utilising renewable
wood from sustainably managed northern forests.
Metsa Svir is one of the most modern wood processing mills
in Russia which produces high quality dry spruce lumber (as
well as by-products: woodchips and sawdust).
The sawmill’s policy is that only legally sourced sawlogs are
used in processing. The company is certified by PEFC and FSC
standards. Currently 50% of raw materials are delivered to
Production of dry spruce lumber the mill by companies which have international forest man-
materials agement certificates FSC and PEFC. The other suppliers go
through strict origin checks to ensure that their wood is legally
Production capacity: 280,000 m sourced.
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of dry lumber per year, 150,000 m
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of woodchips and 100,000 m of Deliveries of sawing raw materials to the sawmill are provid-
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sawdust per year ed by Metsa Forest Podporozhye LLC which is also a part of
Metsa Group.
Investments in construction:
over 60 million euro Metsa Svir is one of very few enterprises in Russia that pro-
duce a wide range of lumber materials of different length and
Investments in development: size. The company has a Finnish approach to sawmilling pro-
up to 1 million euro annually cess. The use of different length sawlogs increases the lumber
output. Moreover, lumber materials of different lengths are
Number of jobs: 115 more demanded at the foreign construction materials mar-
kets.
The factory mostly
exports its products to the
European, Asian and
Middle-Eastern markets.
Over the last few years
export to China has
significantly increased.
Moreover, with the
diversified structure
of shipments, different
logistics schemes are used,
which allow the company
to be less dependent
on the market of container
line services.
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