Activities

The Russian government granted the Russian Pellet Union (RPU) the status of Self-Regulatory Organization (SRO). The official date of registration is August 6, 2021.

Regarding the biomass sector of Russia, the RPU is the only SRO.

On November 30, 2021, in Moscow within the framework of the Woodex exhibition, the traditional conference “Fuel pellets, briquettes and wood chips: production, sales, consumption” will be held, which IAA “INFOBIO” and the magazine “International Bioenergy” organizes every two years. Traditionally, the event gathers the largest audience of biofuel specialists in Russia.

On August 20, the filing of documents for the provision of subsidies from the federal budget to organizations to compensate for part of the costs associated with the certification of products in foreign markets starts. The corresponding order was issued by the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia. The selection of applications will last one month.

On July 30, 2021, a meeting initiated by the RPU was held at the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation.

The meeting, with the participation of representatives of the Ministry of Industry and Trade and JSC Russian Export Center, was devoted to the issues of changing the scheme of subsidizing transport costs and reducing the tariff of JSC Russian Railways.

During the meeting, we discussed the possibilities of expanding the export of Russian pellets to Japan. 

More details can be found in the proposals of the Trade Mission of Japan and the results of the meeting in the information letter to the RPU participants.

In July, the monthly review of the pellet market by the largest industry analytical agency WhatWood (No. 12 dated 07/06/2021) published an interview with the executive director of the RPM Ekaterina Mikhaylova on the development of the Russian pellet sector.

The RPU took part in the conference of the Russian-German Chamber of Commerce and the representative office of the German economy in the Russian Federation "Sustainable Development: the Climate of the Future".

Within the framework of the conference, the issues of actual opportunities and consequences for the Russian Federation and Germany in connection with the adoption of the package of draft laws "EU Green Deal" were considered, ...

We have agreed to organize offsite seminars for RPU participants and the largest Dutch industrial consumers of pellets both at the site of the Trade Representative Office in Amsterdam and at the production bases of our manufacturing plants.

On May 25, 2021 the Russian Pellet Union (RPU) held the international seminar devoted to the sustainable development of the Russian pellet sector, issues of change of certification standards as well as the improvement of the interaction between the Russian producers of pellets and end-consumers of pellets and their distributors.

In total 73 participants were registered for the participation in the Seminar.

topic  : Export to Netherlands: theory and practice
date: On June 03,  2021, On Thursday, at 13:00-15:00  (Moscow time)
format: online (ZOOM)
invited: Russian exporters, foreign trade operators, interested in coming into the market of Netherlands