But many of the mill's machines lay idle - casualties of China's fight to contain the new coronavirus.
Still, the mill is a story of relative success in Suifenhe, a remote city that has recently been hit hard by the coronavirus after being spared for weeks as the outbreak ravaged other parts of China.
The plant in the small city in Heilongjiang province, dotted with onion-domed buildings and shops signs in both Chinese and Russian, employs about 200 workers when production peaks during the logging season.
