Activities

On 23.03.2021 a message from Gilles Gauthier, Director General of EPC was received that the application of the RPU to join the EPC was voted and approved during the General Assembly of the European Pellet Council and now the Russian Pellet Union is enlisted into the members of the European Pellet Council

May 25, 2021 10:00 – 13:30 (Moscow time)
One of the objectives of the Russian Pellet Union (RPU) is to improve the communication between the Russian pellet producers and end users.
The seminar is intended for the RPU members and partners, as well as for large international pellet distributors and consumers. Only pellet producers can be RPU eligible members. At the moment, the Union includes 25 pellet producers that export more than a million tons per year.

Zhilov Nikita Mikhailovich, Executive Director of the RUSSIAN PELLET UNION (Association of producers of solid fuel from wood waste and wood working industries) notifies you that the reporting general meeting of the Association members will be held on April 12, 2021 in person using ballots at the address: 19 Leninskaya Sloboda str., office 627, 115280, Moscow (business center "Omega Plaza") at 9:30 am, as well as through simultaneous video conferencing.

The message has been received from the Government office of the Russian Federation, that the application of the Union was submitted for consideration together with the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia and JSC Russian Railways. The results will be informed additionally.

In response to the Union's appeal on the issue of the customs control by the Baltic Customs in the region within the framework of Risk Management (RMS) in relation to the goods "Wood fuel granules, pellets", the Federal Customs Service of Russia reported that the scope of forms applied by the customs control corresponds to the principle of selectivity established by the Customs Code of EEU (Eurasian Economic Union).

On March 11-12, 2021 the RPU participated in the two-day online business forum held by the Trade department of the Austrian Embassy in Moscow that was devoted to the problems of the modern resource saving forest management involving the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Regions and Tourism of Austria and also the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation, Federal Forestry Agency (Rosleskhoz) and the representatives of the two Russian forestry universities.

RPU applied to the government of the Russian Federation with a letter of optimization of the tariff setting of pellet transportation.
The letter was sent on 23.03.20201 to the Deputy of the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Abramchenko V.V.
 

Appeal to the Head of the Federal Customs Service on optimizing the risk management system for declaring biofuel pellets.

On 20.02.20201, in response to the Union's appeal of 05.02.2021, a letter was received from the BRANCH of JSC "RUSSIAN RAILWAYS" of the CENTER FOR CORPORATE TRANSPORT SERVICES. with the assurance that the issue is fully considered and the decision will be announced later.

Currently, we have a unique opportunity to unambiguously determine the color of pellets without a verbal description!
All you need on the ground is to use the Epson V19 flatbed scanner, configured according to our recommendations.

Summary of the experts: This is a breakthrough in the system of determining the color of granules, which is very important for a number of markets. Before that, no one knew how it could be "digitized"!