The mill was launched in 1939 in the centre of Karelian Republic by Lake Vyg. The town with a beautiful name Segezha was built together with the mill. Segezha is located 700 km to the North from Saint Petersburg .
At that time the most powerful paper machines in Europe produced kraft paper at the mill. Segezha mill became the largest producer of kraft paper, sack paper and paper sacks in Russia. The mill was awarded with the Order of Lenin, one of the highest appraisals of the Soviet State.
The mill has been continuously renovated and underwent major technological reconstruction in 1960s, and became Open Joint Stock Company in 1992.
Today the mill is able to produce up to 400'000 tons of sulphate pulp, 350'000 tons of sack paper and more than 500 million of paper sacks.
HISTORY
JSC "Segezha Pulp and Paper Mill" was put into operation in summer 1939. It took only 28 months to build the mill. The new enterprise produced paper sacks and solved the problem of their lack in the growing economics of the Soviet Union.
The site for the mill chosen was not by chance; this region was rich in raw materials. Besides Segezha is situated in the north of Karelia close to railway and motor road S-Perersburg - Murmansk and Belomor-Baltic Canal (White Sea - Baltic Sea canal). The town of Segezha was built together with the mill.
In 1948 the mill was awarded with the Order of Lenin for its contribution into economics of the country, its work during Great Patriotic War and reconstruction of the mill after the War. That was the highest government reward of the Soviet Union.
The mill has passed through several modernization and reconstruction stages, now it has facilities for production of 350,000 tons of unbleached sulfate pulp, 350,000 tons of sack kraft paper and 702 mln pieces of paper sacks.
In 1992 during the period of Russian economics reorganization the mill was reorganized into Joint Sock Company "Segezhabumprom".
In 1999 the mill was reformed into open Joint Stock Company
Segezha Pulp and Paper Mill.
