TOMSK, Jun 21 – RIA Tomsk. IKEA transfer orders for the supply of birch timber from other regions of the Russian Federation to the Tomsk LLC Sibirles (subsidiary of the Chinese company Song Yuan); the production volumes at the enterprise will double, told reporters on Wednesday the deputy governor on agro-industrial policy and nature management Andrey Knorr.
"Sibirles" does in a year 7 thousand cubic meters of veneer sheet and 30 thousand "cubes" of lumber and half-finished product for IKEA, including delivers to China for a furniture factory. Today (Chinese) co-investors are planning to invest another 20 million dollars and in the next 2-3 years at least to double the amount of output. Plus, IKEA transfers orders from the Irkutsk region and other regions – everything related to birch products", – Knorr said.
The deputy governor noted that the share of birch forests in the Tomsk region reaches 38% of the forest fund. At the same time this type of wood is one of the least demanded.He specified that to expand the production, Sibirles should receive additional sites for logging. Now they can be rented only through an auction, but the company "prepares documents for recognition as the priority project," which will allow it to obtain sites for logging in a simplified manner.
The subsidiary enterprise of the Chinese Song Yuan - LLC "Sibirles" – works in the Tomsk region since 2006. The main activity of the company is the production of sawn timber, mainly from birch. Together with partners from China, it cooperates with the Swedish firm IKEA. Sibirles the first in the Tomsk region received the certificate of FSC.
As the director of Sibirles Alexander Novikov specified RIA Tomsk, now the company delivers production only to IKEA.