Ex-head of Rosleskhoz Ivan Valentik we are obsessed with the idea of creating a pulp and paper mill named after ourselves. For many years he has been trying with enviable persistence to implement a priority investment project in the field of forest development worth 98 billion rubles in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. On his way, he sees only the goal and ignores any obstacle. He is not embarrassed by either the change in the owner of the project, or the sanctions pressure, or the endless shifts in the timing of the launch of capacities.
So far the bottom line, investment company Rockwell Capital Gleb Frank (son-in-law of a billionaire Gennady Timchenko), which initially invested in the project, sold it to the Segezha Group holding Vladimir Evtushenkov. The Austrian equipment manufacturer refused to support the investment project due to sanctions, and the great strategist Valentik urgently went to China in search of a replacement. However, partners from the Middle Kingdom, according to Valentik, did not have enough competencies. As a result, the concept had to be rewritten almost on the knee, and now, instead of 1 million tons of pulp, the plant will produce only 900,000 in two lines of 450,000 each.
Ivan Valentik
The change in the project shifted the timing of the creation of a new production by two years. Now Ivan Valentik is announcing another postponement of the launch of the plant, this time scheduled for the first quarter of 2028. This, in turn, required changes to the official documents of the Russian government. But was it worth it to distract the Prime Minister with such a trifle, if the prospects for the appearance of a pulp and paper mill in the Krasnoyarsk Territory remain very vague, and a lot of things can happen in six years?