21 January 2025
The Interregional Office of Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage for the Nizhny Novgorod region and the Republic of Mordovia (Rosprirodnadzor) issued a comprehensive environmental permit (CEP) to the Volga paper mill. In the Nizhny Novgorod region, this is the first CEP received by a paper manufacturing company.
21 January 2025
On December 13, 2024, a solemn awarding ceremony was held in Moscow for the winners of the All-Russian Competition within the framework of the “100 Best Products of Russia” Program.
12 December 2024
From December 5 to 6, VIII International Conference “Pulp and Paper Industry of Russia – New Realities, New Opportunities” was held in Istanbul. It was run by the Union of Timber Industrialists and Forest Exporters of Russia, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Russia, and Association of Specialists of the Pulp and Paper Industry (ASPPI). The conference members included representatives of industrial undertakings in the sector, including Volga JSC, as well as investors and manufacturers from Russia, Türkiye, China, Canada and other countries.
11 December 2024
This year, products of Volga JSC were once again awarded diplomas of laureate and winner of the all-Russian competition “100 Best Products of Russia.” Notebook cover paper (green shade) won a laureate diploma and received the honorary status of “Novelty”, three more product types (low-weight newsprint, standard newsprint and corrugating paper) became diploma winners of the competition.
11 December 2024
Volga JSC a company specializing in manufacture of 42-120 g/m² lightweight and ultra-lightweight packaging papers, as well as printing paper, is ranked 6th in the Forest and Timber category of 2023 Rating with a total GRTIndexTM index of 22, out of 200 largest Russian companies without state participation representing 17 economic sectors.
10 December 2024
Interview with Sergei Pondar, General Director of Volga JSC, about company's investment project implementations and industry consolidation
21 November 2024
At present, the Company has been completing commissioning operations on new MM-500 recycled pulp line, which is designed to supply raw materials to reoriented paper-making machine No. 6.
30 October 2024
On October 13, employees of Volga JSC joined “100 Spruce Trees” environmental campaign, which took place in a picturesque place – on the grounds of Lesnaia Opushka (Forest Edge) (Pravdinsk micro district, Balakhna).
16 October 2024
Early October, after commissioning work was completed at Volga JSC power complex (NiGRES), the condensing steam turbine was brought up to rated capacity.
11 October 2024
On October 8, Smart Forest 2024, the III Federal Forum on Digitalization and IT in the Timber Industry, hosted by ComNews Information Group, took place in St. Petersburg.
9 October 2024
Rating Agency “Expert RA” has affirmed the credit rating of the non-financial company Volga JSC at ruA+ level, the rating outlook is stable.
3 October 2024
The commercial department of Volga JSC invites partners and customers to visit the Company's booth (booth number E45, pavilion F) at PulpFor 2024 International Exhibition of pulp and paper and wood processing equipment and technology, which will be held on November 12-14, 2024 at the EXPOFORUM in Saint Petersburg.
25 September 2024
The launch of the condensing steam turbine is a landmark milestone for the power complex (NiGRES)! It will allow the generating power plant to move to a new level of energy efficiency. This project is the product of the labors of the entire plant team and its contractor entities.
17 September 2024
Volga JSC won the regional stage of the "Golden Mercury" national competition in the "Best Exporting Company" nomination in the industrial manufacture area.
17 September 2024
The day when Balakhna Paper Mill (Volga JSC, at present) was launched, in reality, marked an era in the paper industry of our country. In just two years, the heroic labor of the construction workers erected buildings of the mill among swamps and lonely woods, and the mill was supposed to solve a serious problem for the country, i.e. shortage of newsprint.
20 August 2024
The Company hit the podium in two nominations at once – it took second place in the "Responsible ESG Exporter" category and third place in the "Exporter of the Year in the Industrial Sector” category.
11 July 2024
From June 13 to June 16, 2024, Volga JSC suspended operations to perform annual scheduled preventive maintenance (SPM). All Volga JSC experts, as well as contractors, were involved in the maintenance.
4 July 2024
In the spring of 2024, Deputy General Director of Procurement Ilya Safronov and Head of the Equipment Procurement Department Artem Makarevich made a number of business trips abroad, combining visits to WEPACK exhibitions in Shenzhen (China) and the Paper & Tissue One Show in Abu Dhabi (UAE) with business visits to the plants of pulp and paper sector equipment suppliers. We talked about the results of these business trips with Artem Makarevich, Head of the Equipment Procurement Department of Volga JSC.
28 June 2024
The 28th International Exhibition for the Packaging Industry RosUpack 2024, which was attended by managers and dedicated experts of Volga JSC, ended in Moscow.
27 June 2024
Volga JSC purchased a batch of new loaders in framework of implementation a strategic project on reorienting PMM-6 for production of package papers. Six pieces of equipment arrived at the industrial complex in June this year, including three all-wheel drive multi terrain loaders to perform work in all weather conditions. The head of the waste paper warehouse of Volga JSC, Aleksandr Emelianov, told about it.