The downstream products of pulp can be generally divided into four categories according to their use: cultural paper, packaging paper, daily paper and special paper.
Different from the other three types of paper, special paper has a wide range of downstream applications.
According to the data released by the China Paper Association, the production of special paper and cardboard reached 3.8 million tons in 2019, up 18.75% from the previous year.
The consumption was 3.09 million tons, an increase of 18.39% over the previous year.From 2010 to 2019, the average annual growth rate of production and consumption was 8.66% and 7.29% respectively.Special paper regardless of production or consumption in recent years still maintain a high – speed growth.
Specialty paper enterprise A’s main products include paper for tobacco industry, paper for home decoration, paper for low quantity publication and printing, paper for label release, base paper for transfer printing, paper for business communication and anti-counterfeiting, paper for food and medical packaging, paper for electrical and industrial use, etc.
Different special paper products are affected by different industries, so the price transmission of special paper industry chain is slow.
The enterprises said that the epidemic has limited impact on them and they are producing at full capacity. First, the foreign trade business of the company takes a relatively small proportion and the main market is still in China.Second, due to the epidemic, medical packaging paper, label paper orders surge;Third, “plastic ban” brought food and medical packaging paper market rapid growth.Specialty paper enterprise B’s main products include building decoration base paper, transfer base paper, digital media, medical packaging paper and food packaging paper, etc.
Enterprises said that affected by the epidemic, the demand for medical packaging and food packaging was strong in the first half of this year, while other paper products were relatively weak. In the second half of the year, orders for all kinds of paper products were improving.As a result of the “ban on plastic”, enterprises are optimistic about the future market of medical packaging and food packaging.
In fact, the impact of the epidemic on domestic demand is more of a superimposed effect of the Spring Festival holiday.With the domestic epidemic under effective control, the resumption of work and production went smoothly, and the monthly output of machine paper quickly recovered to the normal level since March.Global pulp demand has also recovered to the level before the outbreak at the beginning of the year, that is to say, the future macro strong recovery of anisyclical pulp demand for thorns
Post time: Jul-08-2021