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Svir Timber began The sawmill 1 million cubic Compliance with 3 million cubic
its investment and production metres of lumber international metres of
activity in Leningrad were launched was produced forestry certification lumber was
region was confirmed produced

Technologies and equipment

From 2014 to 2018, assuming that the vol-
ume of round timber processed remained
3
the same (about 500 thousand m ), the
volume of produced lumber increased from
3
230 to 280 thousand m per year.
The most important piece of equipment
in the sawmill is the Heinola chipper-
canter. Such machines are characterized
by their high reliability and productive
output, their constructive potential allows
carrying out modernization in accordance
with the changing aims of the sawmill.
Although the chipper-canter technology
is not the most efficient for maximum lum- Metsa Svir is one of the
ber output, the company managed to reach top 10 sawmills
an output rate in lumber production at the in Russia
level of 55-56%. in terms of the volume of production
and other performance indicators

The investment project of Metsa Group and Leningrad Contacts
region, as a result of which the region received a modern
production facility for wood processing, is a great example
of mutually beneficial partnership between business and 48 Karernaya street, Vazhiny,
the state. Today Metsa Svir sawmill is one of the best wood Podporozhsky district
processing enterprises in Russia. The key to its success
is highly technological equipment combined with a good +7 (812) 380-51-66
raw material base and professional, results-oriented elena.nikolaeva@metsagroup.com
personnel. Due to this project the wood processing
enterprise, equipped with the most advanced technologies, www.metsagroup.com
was created and is successfully developing in Leningrad
region.

Vyacheslav Kanatov
CEO of Metsa Svir

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