Flying from Vladivostok on July 20, the day of the opening ceremony, aboard chartered aircraft to Plastun in Russia’s Maritime Province, passengers worried that heavy rain would make landing on Plastun airport’s unpaved, dirt runway impossible. However, passengers were greeted by clear skies upon approach to Plastun, making for a safe landing and allowing the opening ceremony to commence.
Under rainy skies, the party boards chartered aircraft bound for Plastun.
Green trees and sunny skies create a relaxed mood at Plastun airport.
At Terneyles, speeches by the president and chairman of the provincial congress followed the ribbon-cutting ceremony. After another ceremony at the new veneer mill in which brand-new machinery operated for the first time, reporters watched as production lines produced plywood panels before conducting interviews with factory officials.
Ribbon-cutting ceremony (from left) President Sherbakov, Chairman of the Provincial Congress, Consul General Yamada, Sumitomo Corporation’s General manager Kitagawa
Reporters interview officials
Schedule:
July 19-21, 2009
Participants:
Six representatives from three media outlets
Purpose:
To help members of the media better understand the global business activities of Sumitomo Corporation’s group companies through an actual visit to the site
Main Activities:
An opening ceremony and celebratory party for a new complex (veneer mill and sawmill, completed in March) hosted by Terneyles (Plastun, Maritime Province), as well as interviews with related officials.
OAO Terneyles
Based in Plastun, in Russia's Maritime Province, OAO Terneyles is an integrated forestry company with its own private shipping port. It is engaged in forestry management and exports raw lumber, laminated woods and wood processed into lumber, veneers, chips, etc. An independent company since privatization in 1992, it aims for customer satisfaction through sustainable forest management and law-abiding practices.
FSC Certification
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is an international third party organization that certifies economically and environmentally sustainable forest management, as well as lumber and lumber products, contributing to environmental conservation and its social benefits. Terneyles is the first company in the Russian Far East and Siberia with FSC Certification for its own forest area, one of the largest natural forest areas in the world with such certification.
Ribbon Cutting
Ribbon cutting is a logging method that cuts trees from virgin forests in rows at intervals of 20-30 meters. From above, the rows resemble ribbons and allow buds from fallen seeds to grow naturally among parent trees so that forests regenerate without the need for human tree planting efforts.
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