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During 2005, Bratsk Pulp and Cardboard Mill belonging to Ilim Pulp Timber Corporation manufactured 702.4 thousand tons of products (+0.7% or 4.9 thousand tons). The mill cooked 695 thousand tons of market pulp (+0.3% or 1.8 thousand tons), the cardboard output comprised 217.5 thousand tons (+1.3% or 2.8 thousand tons). The total pulping output constituted 754.9 thousand tons (+0.3%).
Ust-Ilim Timber Complex belonging to Ilim Pulp cooked 642.3 thousand tons of market pulp (5.5% more than during the same period a year ago). Cooking of bleached pulp grew 6.7% to 584.6 thousand tons. Total pulping output increased 4.4% (or 9.7 thousand tons) to 698 thousand tons.
According to Vladimir Batishchev, general director of Ust-Ilim, the enterprise continues to modernize pulp lines. In Q1 2006 the mill is scheduled to reach the planned annual capacity of 630 thousand tons of bleached pulp.
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