Finnish delegation – top management of Midinvest Management Oy, Pisla Oy and consultant of Finnish-Russian Trade Chamber - visited timber companies in the Sverdlovsk region. The aim of the visit was to discuss preparation works for realization of the project on forest machinery assembly – harvesters.

There are about 400 harvesters operating in Russia currently, which is not enough. Assembly of harvesters in Russia will allow decreasing production cost of such machinery as well as adapting it to Russian climate conditions.

In the mid-Urals the delegation visited harvesting units of CJSC Fankom that has 3 advanced Scandinavian harvesting complexes. Representatives of Finnish companies watched harvesters operating in Russian climate conditions, assessed potential market of forest machinery, discussed economic perspectives of harvester assembly in the Urals area.

Negotiations were also taken with JSC Yekaterinburg Forest Machines, products of which - pruning machines, log cutting and sorting lines – are in high demand. Finally, the delegation saw a shop ready for new machinery production. 

Management of Midinvest highly appreciated the technical level of timber industry enterprises in the Urals, pointed at good potential of the branch, which allows taking decision on project realization in the nearest future.

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