A competent strategy is the key to success

Enterprises of the forest and related industries are actively looking for their place in the new reality: they are exploring new sales markets, building new supply chains, and developing import substitution at an accelerated pace.

It is important to maintain a balance between cost optimisation and productive investments necessary to hold the key to future development when active economic growth resumes.

Current challenges

Tactical:

• Search for new sales markets
• Search for new owners for enterprises owned by foreign companies that left Russia
• Search for new suppliers or import substitution of European equipment, technologies and components
• Digitalisation based on domestic software products, import substitution of foreign software

Strategic:

• Overcoming technological dependence, especially in the manufacture of products in demand in other industries (oil and gas industry, construction, mechanical engineering, pharmaceuticals, etc.)
• Revival of the domestic school of chemical technologists, training of engineers and workers
• Improving the environmental safety of projects