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Ilim Group expands its footprint in the southwest of China

By 2025, the share of Ilim Group’s board supplies to the southwest of the People’s Republic of China will have increased three-fold from 5% to 16%, which is another 100 thousand tons of the finished products. Stepped-up deliveries will make the Company a key player on the pulp and paper market in the south-western China. […]

International Paper reports 9% year-over-year revenue growth in 2022

International Paper today reported full-year and Q4 2022 financial results.Q4 2022 net sales were $5,133 billion, compared to $ 5,086 billion in Q4 2021. Full-year 2022 net sales totaled to $21,161 billion, compared to $ 19,363 billion in 2021. Q4 2022 net earnings (loss) were $318 million including a $533 million non-cash impairment of its Ilim joint […]

Ilim Group completes successful test run of kraft linerboard machine at Ust-Ilimsk mill in Russia

Ilim Group has successfully completed the first water run of the XcelLine kraft linerboard machine (KLB machine) – the key equipment of the company’s new KLB Mill in Ust-Ilimsk, Russia. A start-up of the KLB machine is scheduled for Q2 2023. Individual tests of its main equipment are underway. In December, the KLB Mill facilities were […]

Ilim Group launches wastewater treatment system at new kraftliner mill in Ust-Ilimsk, Russia

Ilim Group is finalizing the construction of the largest kraftliner mill (KLB Mill) in Ust-Ilimsk, Russia. It is the first mill in the Russian pulp and paper industry to use a two-stage biological wastewater treatment system. The Ust-Ilimsk Mill will be the largest kraftliner production site in Russia with the output of 600 thousand tons of finished products […]

Ilim Group Reviews 2021 Performance, Plans to Expand Exports to China

Ilim Group recently published a report on its performance in 2021. The company produced 3.64 million tons of finished products, and pulp continues to make-up the major share (2.16 million tons) of Ilim’s production volumes. Ilim continued to increase the share of packaging materials in its product portfolio. Last year this segment accounted for about […]

Russia experiences sharp demand for sanitary and hygienic paper products

The demand for sanitary and hygienic paper products as well as paper packaging in Russia is steadily growing with a simultaneous decline of demand for newsprint, according to some leading Russian paper producers and local media reports.   According to analysts, there is a trend towards the re-profiling of specialized enterprises in paper sector of […]

International Paper to explore strategic options for ownership interest in Ilim Group

International Paper announced its intention to explore strategic options, including the possible sale, of its 50% ownership interest in Ilim Group. International Paper has no intention to seek suspension of operations or initiate any liquidation or bankruptcy proceedings with respect to Ilim Group. In October of 2006, International Paper and Ilim Pulp announced the signing […]

Russia experiences sharp demand for sanitary and hygienic paper products

The demand for sanitary and hygienic paper products as well as paper packaging in Russia is steadily growing with a simultaneous decline of demand for newsprint, according to some leading Russian paper producers and local media reports.   According to analysts, there is a trend towards the re-profiling of specialized enterprises in paper sector of […]

Ilim Group signs new strategic partnership agreements with Chinese companies

Ilim Group has signed two trilateral strategic partnership agreements with Shanghai High Hope Pulp and Paper, with the third parties to these agreements being Hengan Group and Mudanjiang Heng Feng Paper, which consume Ilim’s pulp and paperboard to produce their own P&P products. The largest service operator Shanghai High Hope Pulp and Paper Corporation has […]

Ilim Group tests digital twin technology at its Ust-Ilimsk mill

Ilim Group has completed testing of the Digital Twin technology at RB3 in Ust-Ilimsk. The technology implies creation of a digital copy of all processes and allows to determine an optimal equipment operating mode. Implementation of RB3 Digital Twin will allow Ilim to reduce its production costs by more than USD 400 thousand per year […]