Forest machinery manufacture does not meet the main tasks of timber industry development. Currently most plants for forest machinery manufacture stopped their activity. Most research and design bases for forest machinery manufacture have been lost.

As stated in the Development Strategy of the Ural Federal District up to 2030, there is no basis for domestic forest machinery service and maintainance.

Pulp and paper mills in the Ural federal district (Sverdlovsk and Tumen regions) use technologies developed in 1940s. Deterioration rate of main pulp and paper mills makes up 70%, that of main technological equipment reaching 80%at a number of mills.

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