OREANDA-NEWS. In 2012 Koryazhma Mill (Arkhangelsk Oblast) manufactured 1,101,000 tons of pulp and paper products. This is 4% above the 2011 output.

The figures include 381,000 tons of market pulp, with a 7% increase as compared to the previous year.

Market containerboard production has gained 1% to reach 486,000 tons.

Paper output increase amounted to 5%, reaching 235,000 tons. This includes 87,000 tons of sack paper, 111,000 tons of offset paper, and 36,000 tons of wallpaper.

Own logging of OJSC Ilim Group in the Arkhangelsk Oblast reached 2.3 million m3 at the year-end 2012.

JSC Ilim Gofra, corrugated box business of Ilim Group in the Leningrad oblast, manufactured 129,526 m2 of products, which is 6% more than in 2011.

Ilim Group is the leader of the Russian pulp and paper industry in terms of output volume, financial stability, corporate governance efficiency and technology.

The strategic partner of Ilim Group and the owner of 50% of its shares is International Paper, the world’s largest pulp and paper company. Ilim Group is headquartered in St. Petersburg.

The Company’s business assets located in the Leningrad, Arkhangelsk and Irkutsk Oblasts are the largest mills in the Russian forest products industry accounting for more than 65% of the total pulp production in Russia and over 21% of the Russian board production. The total annual pulp and paper production volume of the Company is more than 2.6 million tons.

Ilim Group employs 19 thousand people.

Strategic focus of Ilim Group is to make a shift from producing only semi-finished goods to also manufacturing higher value products — paper and packaging.

Ilim Group’s priorities include customer needs, advantaged technologies, effectiveness, people development, reduction of environmental impact, industrial safety, social responsibility and shareholder returns.

Ilim Group is the biggest investor of forest industry in Russia. Total amount of currently implementing investment program is over 1,4 billion dollars. As a part of this global program named Ilim-2014 2 large-scale projects is being carried out – Big Bratsk and Big Koryazhma. Big Bratsk is about creating a new up-to-date pulp line, Big Koryazhma projects include installation of new papermaking machine.