Volga, pulp and paper mill
Mother company (if appropriate):
Alfa-Eco, part of Alfa Group
Location:
Balakhna, Nizhniy Novgorod oblast
Main Activities:
paper production and trade
Contacts:
Address: ul. Gorkogo 1, 606407 Balakhna, Nizhniy Novgorod Oblast, Russia.
Tel: +7-(831)-6192017,
Fax: +7-(831)-6123599
E-mail: info@volga-paper.ru
Web: www.volga-paper.ru
Timber production/trade
Product(s) (million tons):
newsprint (0.5 million t)
Intake of wood (annual logging volume),
million cubic meters RWE (2001):
1.3
Export (million USD);
major importing countries (2001):
165; Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahrein, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Portugal, Romania, Senegal, Slovakia, Spain, Sudan, Syria, Thailand, Tunis, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, USA, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Yugoslavia
Origin of the wood (2000):
Kirov Oblast, Kostroma Oblast, Nizhniy Novgorod Oblast (logs), Arkhangelsk Oblast and Irkutsk Oblast (pulp)
Environmental Policy
Use of wood that comes from intact forests:
No
Timber tracing system in place?
No
FSC certification?
Koverninskiy Leskhoz (116 thousand ha), major supplier, is FSC certified. Member of the Association of Environmentally Responsible Timber Producers of Russia
Information available for third parties:
Company did not make public its environmental policy; it is open for contacts with NGOs
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