German company to build sawmill near the Baikal-Amur highway
//BLAGOVESHCHENSK, SEPTEMBER 16, 2002 /FROM RIA NOVOSTI CORRESPONDENT OLEG KULGIN/ -— The German company EBD will build a modern sawmill near the Baikal-Amur highway, BAM. The construction was commissioned by the joint stock company Lesopromyshlenny complex Tyndales, based in the city of Tynda, the Amur region, near the Chinese border. On Monday the companies signed an agreement on delivery and assembling of the equipment.
The plant is expected to yield its first products at the end of 2003, the Tyndales administration reported.
The construction of the sawmill opens a new stage in the Amur region's lumbering industry. So far the region has supplied Russian and foreign partners mainly with round timber, the cost of which on the world market is twice as low as that of final products.
Moreover, the project of the plant's technical development provides for non-waste production. Even sawdust and bark will be used as fuel at the plant's autonomous boiler house.
Besides, the new sawmill will create 150 new jobs.
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