SEMINAR ON MANUFACTURING OF FORERST MACHINES IN RUSSIA June 6, 2012 in the Russian Trade Representation in Helsinki

1. Ideas about forest machinery
Fedor Grabar,
expert of forest resources
Helsinki, June 2012

2. Is Russia a place to cut more woods?
removals, M3
M3/ha
3,5
3
Sweden
2,5 Finland
USA
2
1,5
1 Canada
0,5 Russia
0
75 95 115 135 155 175
stock, M3/ha

3. What are the reasons to have domestic
machinery?
Distribution of machines
100%
80%
60%
-cost of logging (2011)
40%
FT CTL
20%
0%
1991г 2011г
domestic foreign

4. Buying new machines or increasing the
efficiency of the old ones?
Distribution of time
Key indicators (final cuttings) Season&we
ather Other, 6%
downtime,
vacations,
17%
Machines age years 5,7 Works, 54%
Tree volume m3 0,18
Service,
Productivity M3/hour 9,9 spairs,
waiting for
spareparts,
23%

5. Will new volumes come out of
thinnings?
Distribution of cuttings
5%
Russia
95%
thinnings
final cuttings
35%
Finland
65%

6. Is there a chance for competition
with oil&gas?
In direction toward European gas
Cost of residues prices for Russian customers
2010 50%
2011 60%
Finland 2012 70%
Russia 2013 90%
2014 100%

7. Are the excavators going East?
Cost of forest roads construction (per km)
>40%
fact
modern technology
Rep. of Vologda and
Karelia Arkhangelsk
regions

8. What are the ways for market
developing?
 State order – great order
 Service, service, service
 Creating market – creating contractors
 Web / crowdsourcing / TVshows&games
 Making forest machines everyday life machines

9. Are there opportunities for win-win
cooperation in forest sector?
 Wood supplies and
swaps
 Logistics and
infrastructure
 Labor forces,
entrepreneurship
 Technologies, data,
knowledge

10. Thank you for attention
Contact:
grabarfedor@gmail.com
Thanks for help:
- Oleg Shubin, expert of forest industry,
oleg.shubin@mail.ru
- Elena Anufrieva, independent analyst,
anufrieva.elena@ro.ru