Charcoal production in Russia

2024: Charcoal production in Russia increased by 12% over the year and reached 91 thousand tons

Charcoal production in Russia in 2024 increased by 12% and reached 91 thousand tons. The main impetus was given by the commissioning of new production facilities. This is evidenced by the data of the study "Analysis of the charcoal market in Russia," published by BusinesStat in December 2025.

The largest producers of charcoal in Russia are:

• Priangarsky LPK;
• "Orion ";
• "Vologda Forest";
• "Eastern Trading Company";
• Amber Strand Plant.

In 2020-2024, charcoal production in the country increased by 38%: from 65 thousand tons in 2020 to 91 thousand tons in 2024. The key event was the launch of an industrial carbonization line at the Priangarsky LPK site in Ust-Ilimsk in the Irkutsk region. The first stage, introduced in May 2024, has a design capacity of up to 30 thousand tons per year. According to the portal "LPK Siberia," this is one of the largest complexes in Russia for deep processing of biomass, surpassing the scale of similar initiatives in the Vologda region, the Komi Republic and the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

The initial growth in 2020-2022 was due to an increase in domestic demand for barbecue biofuels, which allowed producers to occupy niches vacated after import cuts. In 2021, production increased by 15% and reached 75 thousand tons. In 2022, the increase was 6%, the volume of production reached 79 thousand tons.

By 2023, the market reached saturation - growth slowed to 2%, which indicated the exhaustion of the import substitution effect. Production in 2023 amounted to 81 thousand tons. A return to high growth rates in 2024 was made possible by a technological breakthrough and systemic capacity expansion.

Against the background of production growth in 2024, the first export supplies of Russian bio-coal to the markets of the CIS countries and East Asia began. As follows from the materials of the Lesnoy Gazeta and press releases of the companies, the first commercial supplies of Russian bio-coal were sent to Kazakhstan to the city of Almaty, pilot supplies were made to Mongolia.^[1]

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