OREANDA-NEWS. May 15, 2012. Over January-March 2012, Ilim Group’s Bratsk and Ust-Ilimsk Mills (Irkutsk Oblast) manufactured 363,000 tons of pulp and paper products. This almost equals the performance in the first quarter of the previous year.

This figure includes 314,000 tons of market pulp, which is a 2% percent increase from the similar period performance in 2011.

Board production has amounted to 48,500 tons, going down by 16% as compared to the output in January - March of the previous year. Improved corrugating technologies have boosted demand for thinner board. This has resulted in lower volumes in tons but almost the same number of square meters produced.

Own harvesting has increased by 4% with 1,860,000 cubic meters of wood harvested in the first three months of 2012.