{"id":77381,"date":"2019-04-10T09:41:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T09:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tin.happy-projects.ro\/outlines-for-the-russian-wood-pellet-market-in-2018\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T08:50:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:50:18","slug":"outlines-for-the-russian-wood-pellet-market-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timberindustrynews.com\/ro\/outlines-for-the-russian-wood-pellet-market-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian wood pellet market growing sharply in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"text\">\n<div class=\"listpage\">\n<p><em>In 2018, exports of wood pellets from Russia reached 1.5 million tons, which is 7% more than in 2017. In monetary terms, exports amounted to $ 186 million. The volume grows for the second year in a row by 30% per year.\u00a0Over the past 5 years, export flows show a positive trend.\u00a0Export direction increased by 72% in physical terms and 47% in value.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The difficulty of determining the volume of the market is hampered by the fact that the official statistics provided by Rosstat does not reflect the production volumes for small and medium-sized enterprises and individual entrepreneurs.\u00a0Therefore, real production volumes are slightly higher than official statistics.\u00a0According to WhatWood, in 2018, 1.8 million tons of wood pellets were produced in Russia, 300 thousand tons (about 17%) of which were sold domestically, and 1.5 million tons were exported outside the territory of the Russian Federation.\u00a0The value of the market reached 14 billion rubles, of which only 2.3 billion rubles\u00a0accounts for domestic consumption.<\/p>\n<p>The total capacity of all Russian wood pellet plants is 3.6 million tons of finished products per year, but the industry average load of the plants is 50%.\u00a0Most of the pellet enterprises are located in the North-West (Leningrad, Arkhangelsk, Vologda regions, Republic of Karelia).\u00a0In the period 2016-<span id=\"more-19382\"><\/span>2018\u00a0Siberian timber merchants have become more active, and today Siberia can be attributed to the second largest pellet cluster in production in the Russian Federation.\u00a0There is an obvious trend in the development of the pellet trend in the Far East (operating lines at Asia Forest LLC, JV Arkaim, RFP Group under construction), which is primarily due to the attractiveness of exports in the Asian direction.<\/p>\n<p>Russian wood pellet experience shows that companies that are not integrated with the sawmill business face serious raw material risks.\u00a0According to WhatWood consultants, the further development of production capacity in the Russian Federation will continue the trend under the sawmill + pellet line scheme.\u00a0Especially such a scheme will be relevant for investment projects implemented under the \"priority investment projects in the field of forest development.\"\u00a0Recent changes in legislation oblige investors to dispose of wood waste (at the dawn of the PIP mechanism, this was not the case).\u00a0Time autonomous, independent production ends.\u00a0Such an approach will allow utilization of sawmill waste and increase the profitability of sawmill.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Infographics.\u00a0Location of plants for the production of\u00a0 wood pellets in Russia.<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10039 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/whatwood.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/WoodPelletsLocations_WhatWood.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1293\" height=\"719\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In Russia, there are about 300 enterprises for the production of wood pellets of different sizes.\u00a0By the number of companies in the Russian Federation, small private companies dominate with an annual volume of up to 20 thousand tons per year.\u00a0Their total capacity is 710 thousand tons (85% of the installed pellet capacity).\u00a0The remaining large and medium-sized enterprises with an annual production capacity of more than 20 thousand tons.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that in 2018 30 companies produced 80% of the total volume of pellets in the country.\u00a030% of the market is controlled by 3 groups of companies.\u00a0An analysis of the competitive environment according to the Herfindahl-Hirschman index (its value in 2018 did not exceed 1000), makes it possible to classify the Russian pellet market to low concentration (monopolization) markets.<\/p>\n<p>2018 was marked as the period of the most favorable prices for producers in recent years.\u00a0The average selling price of pellets by manufacturers, according to official statistics, was 7700 rubles \/ ton.\u00a0(104 euro \/ t.).\u00a0The increase in average prices in rubles compared to 2017 amounted to 40%.\u00a0First, a favorable market situation in export markets influenced the price growth: exporters' contract prices rose during the year, sales prices were at their peak in recent years.\u00a0Secondly, ruble weakening in 2018 versus the dollar by 8%, versus the euro by 12% had a rise in prices in rubles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Source: Whatwood<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018, exports of wood pellets from Russia reached 1.5 million tons, which is 7% more than in 2017. 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