OREANDA-NEWS. July 15, 2011. The RusForest Magistralny sawmill was officially opened in June 2011. At the ceremony, the new sawmill was started up and initial sawnwood production commenced. The first ready packages of kiln dried sawnwood from the mill are now being delivered to customers, as the company said in a press release received by Lesprom Network.

The base capacity of the sawmill is 120,000-150,000 cubic metres of kiln dried sawnwood per year. The sawlogs used in production will be obtained from RusForest's own forest leases in the region with a total annual allowable cut of 560,000 cubic metres, which is sufficient to cover the future raw material requirements of the new sawmill.

Over the past 12 months, the management of RusForest Magistralny has completed the construction and installation of the entire sawmilling facility and only fine tuning remains before larger scale production can start during the late autumn of 2011.

RusForest is forestry and sawmilling company operating in Eastern Siberia and the Arkhangelsk region of Russia. The Company controls long term forest leases with an annual allowable cut of approximately 3 million cubic metres, and utilizes these resources to produce a wide range of sawnwood products.