As part of Shanghai pulp week - 2019, Ilim Group top management  held negotiations with key distributors and customers of  pulp and paper products.  The meetings were attended by 13 companies, including existing and potential customers both from Asian and European markets.

Over many years, Ilim Group has been a partner of the Hawkings Wright conference, held as part of the London and Shanghai Pulp Weeks, a symposium that brings together manufacturers, economists, political analysts, ecologists and distributors, where speakers exchange views on development of the pulp and paper industry, its present and its future.

This year the main topics of the symposium were the outlook for the pulp and paper market in China, its impact on the global market and demand trends for pulp and paper products both in the short and in the long term.

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Ilim Group is one of the leaders in the pulp and paper industry globally. The Company is headquartered in St. Petersburg and has production facilities in Arkhangelsk, Irkutsk, Leningrad, and Moscow Oblasts. The annual production output of Ilim Group exceeds 3.4 mln tons of pulp and paper products, which are supplied to more than 70 countries worldwide. Our strategic focus area is the growing Asian market. Over 40% of the Company's output is supplied to the Chinese market. Ilim has been operating in this market for more than 23 years. By 2023, Ilim Group will increase its exports to China by 60% as a result of the large scale investment program aimed to increase its production volumes.