OREANDA-NEWS. Over 2012 Ilim Group’s mills in Siberia and in the Northwest of Russia manufactured more than 2,580,000 tons of pulp and paper products.

The figures include 1,639,000 tons of market pulp, 2% more as compared to the previous year.

Market containerboard output remained flat as compared to 2011 and reached 708,000 tons.

Paper production increased by 5% and reached 235,000 tons.

Corrugated board production of JSC Ilim Gofra totaled 129,526,000 m2, going up by 6% as compared to 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.