Production volume of pellets – fuel pellets from wood waste – in Russia fell by 19.6% in 2022 compared to 2021, to 2.07 million tons. About Wrote The newspaper Vedomosti cites Rosstat data.
Production was reduced the most in the Northwest Federal District by 32% to 789,000 tons. Pellet production in the territory of the Far Eastern Federal District increased by 1.5 times and reached 341 thousand tons.
As stated by the federal forest inventory agency “Roslesinforg”, pellet production in the Far East increased by 30% last year.
According to the analytical agency WhatWood, the volume of pellet exports from Russia in 2022 fell by 24% to 1.8 million tons. The biggest blow to the sector was the European restrictive measures, which caused exports to the European Union (EU) to fall by half to 929 thousand tons.
In the second half of January, the press service of the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia declarationkeeping the situation under control with the production of modified starch. Modified starch is the basis of yogurt production – it is used as a thickener.
Source: Gazeta
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