00:0025 июня 199900:00
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00:0025 июня 1999
The Leningrad Oblast government has granted OAO Svetogorsk the right to utilise local woodland, paving the way for the plant to produce its own timber.
<BR>The Leningrad Oblast government has granted OAO Svetogorsk the right to utilise local woodland, paving the way for the plant to produce its own timber. <BR>The oblast decided to first give the American owner of the paper and pulp plant wooded areas with a total capacity of about 150,000m3 about 10% of the plant's actual timber requirement of spruce and birch.<BR>In the near future the plant management plans to gain permission to utilise enough woodland to satisfy 50% of the plant's capacity. It is currently creating its own wood preparation division. Oblast Vice Governor Andrei Nelidov, the chairman for the timber sector committee, says that the timber usage agreement gives the company wooding rights for five years, and is renewable for another 49. <BR>This is one of the first cases in the Russian Northwest, where the authorities have shown complete trust in a company, allowing them to process woodland themselves. Svetogorsk General Director Lennard Westberg commented on the approved wooding level of 150,000m3: "We need a certain level of concessions as we are on the Finnish border, and actively compete with the Finns. Today our prices virtually determine the prices in Finland." The plant's timber reserves are today only enough to last another 2-3 months. The US owners of the plant want to cover their backs for the future: the management plans to significantly increase and guarantee timber production volumes by increasing the portion of timber the company prepares itself.
