Lumbering - Arkhangelsk region


Arkhangelsk Lumbering is a timber-harvesting branch of Onega Sawmills and is one of the largest timber harvesting companies in Arkhangelsk Region that has been the biggest employer in Onega for many years. 

Core operations: timber harvesting, construction and maintenance of year-round roads (over 500 km per year), reforestation, delivery of raw lumber to points of consumption. 

The company harvests timber using a PONSSE timber harvesting system that utilises a cut-to-length technology. 

The branch has its timber harvesting areas in three administrative districts of Arkhangelsk Region: Onega, Primorsky and Plesetsky, and is harvesting timber in the forests of the Severodvinsky, Onezhsky and Priozerny forestries. 


History

History

15 December 1929 saw the establishment of the Onega Forest Harvesting Company, and in 1974, the Onega, Kodinsky and Maloshuisky Forest Harvesting Companies were merged to form Onega Forest.  

Onega Forest was reorganised as a joint-stock company in 1993.  

Onega Forest became a subsidiary of Sistema's Segezha Group in 2014.  

On 30 April 2020, it was reorganised as a timber-harvesting branch of Onega Sawmills. 

The estimated logging volume is 788,000 cubic metres (1,551,000 hectares), the intermediate felling is 30,000 cubic metres. 

The company has 3 production sites. 

91% of the output is shipped to other companies of the group. 

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