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2015-12-18 00:00:00
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November 14th saw the opening of the Sudoma sawmill in the village of Dedovichi, Pskov region. The plant will focus on the production of environmentally friendly wood building materials and is a first for Russia. The GS Group holding company is the main investor for this project and has invested around €25 million overall.
The overall power capacity for the site will reach 61,000 cubed metres of wood products per year with 40% of these to be sold in the Russian market and the rest exported out of the country. All current international standards for technological equipment have been met at the Sudoma site and were installed from EWD, Polytechnik, WEINIG as well as other leading companies. A camera will be used for wood impregnation and three more for the thermos treatment of the material. The French technique of heating the timber to 230 degrees, using their special technology, will be used at Sudoma, the only production in Russia to do so. Sudoma sawmill also has new and modern drying chambers and trolleys which will ensure a shorter loading and unloading time.
The new site will open up 150 jobs for locals and experts from all over Russia who will benefit from GS Group’s commitment to professional training for all employees. Hardwood will be the main material used which is known for causing less damage to the regional forest resources. The Pskov site also includes a ‘forest nursery’ with the main aim of replacing deciduous trees with trees that are more valuable.
The Governor of the Pskov region, Andrey Turchak, said “The Sudoma sawmill is unique for Russia and extremely important for the Pskov region from both an economic and environmental point of view. Launching the plant is a part of the GS Group large-scale project aimed at creating the Dedovichi forest-industry complex, which should bring more than 3 billion rubles (€40.5 million) of investment to the region and provide the area with over 400 jobs.”
The Director of the GS Group forest-industry complex, Artem Starodubstev said “The GS Group holding company is a large diversified business where high technologies of wood processing play one of the major roles. The Sudoma sawmill is the general enterprise in the large-scale production facility complex for manufacturing the high-quality wood products in Russia. Its launch will significantly reduce the import of wooden building materials and provide the more intensive export of high-rated products to European countries.
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