© РИА Томск. Павел Стефанский
TOMSK, Mar 24 – RIA Tomsk. The MDF-boards factory of
Asino timber industrial complex (TIC) officially will begin work in last dates
of April, 2016, the deputy governor for agro-industrial policy and nature
management Andrey Knorr informed at the expanded meeting on forestry on
Thursday.
Earlier it was informed that Chinese AVIC Foresty
("daughter" of AVIC corporation) in 2016 will launch two factories -
MDF (capacity of 200 thousand cubic metres of plate per year) and sawing (220
thousand cubic metres per year) - in a newly built timber industry park in
Asino area of the Tomsk region. It is supposed that the total investments
amount in TIC creation will exceed 32 billion roubles, 20 billion has already
been invested.
"We have planned the MDF factory opening in Asino
on April, 27th, and on call we have a number of companies – "Tomsklesdrev" and a series of increasing the production at other
enterprises of small and medium business", – told Knorr.
© РИА Томск. Альфия Айбатова
He has underlined that now 95% of the wood exported
from the Tomsk region, is already the product of timber processing. It is one
of the highest indicators among Russian regions. Total amount of export of forest
industry products is – 73,5 million roubles, that is almost 40% of total Tomsk
export.
In 2011 the Russian-Chinese Joint-Stock Company
"RosKitInvest" started to build the complex on harvesting and
processing of wood, later the project joined AVIC Forestry. In the Tomsk region
it is planned to construct 10 timber processing plants with a total value of
more than 30 billion rubles. In February, 2015 has opened the first TIC factory – manufacture of veneers with the capacity of 110 thousand cubic metres. One
more factory is scheduled to open by 2019.
Asino TIC is included in the "road map" of
the concept of creation in the Tomsk region the Territorial innovation center
“INO Tomsk”, approved by the government of the Russian Federation. In total
park should give about 5,5 thousand workplaces, now is created about two
thousand.