Category : Industry Watch
Industry watch offers a look into the latest trends, newest innovations and new product development taking in the pulp and paper industry around the globe.
European Pulp & Paper Industry Statistics
Recently CEPI (Confederation of European Paper Industries) released the key statistics of European Pulp & Paper Industry covering data for 2009. It contained the key statistics necessary to give a picture of the performance of the Paper Industry in Europe. CEPI represents 95% of the European pulp and paper industry in terms of production. Members companies of CEPI in 2009...
Planned Education Budget to be Reduced by 40,000 crores
The Planning Commission, which conducted a review of the 11th Five Year Plan (2007-2012), is likely to slash budgetary allocations for higher and technical education by nearly half the original amount....
WOW – Wealth Out of Waste
Indian paper industry is growing at 10% on an average across segments and expected to touch 28 million MT per annum by 2025 from current level of 10 Million MT. This poses a big question of meeting the raw material needs of rapidly growing industry. With close to 200% growth in just 15 years, where is the raw material to...
China's paper industry provides unfair global advantage
Massive Chinese government subsidies have given China's paper industry an unfair competitive advantage that has helped fuel the industry's rapid growth in recent years according to a new study from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI)....
U.S. paper, paperboard & pulp capacity
Against the backdrop of an exceptionally weak economy, U.S. paper and paperboard capacity declined 2.5% in 2009 to 93.9 million tonnes, according to the American Forest & Paper Association's 50th Annual Survey of Paper, Paperboard and Pulp Capacity....
Few Highest Paid Executives in the Indian Paper Industry
Excerpts from Economic Survey 2009-10 related to Paper Product group like paper, leather, food and jute textiles did not evince any visible recovery. Paper and paper products 9.25 Paper & paper products grew by only 2.1 per cent during April-November 2009, as per the IIP data. This followed indifferent growth......
Recovered paper market in India
Recovered paper demand in India has increased strongly over recent decades as domestic paper production has increased. This trend seems likely to continue as paper consumption rises further. Domestically-sourced recovered paper is typically cheaper than imported recovered paper. Paper manufacturers are therefore expected to try to satisfy their increase in demand for recovered paper by stimulating domestic collections. However, there...
Treading upon thriving trails of giant strides & expansions
We visited Beijing in September for China Paper 2009 but, the visit was extended to other gracious cities of China as a part of press tour organized by Metso. Chinese media & associations helped us to understand the dynamics of the Chinese paper industry and here we present the reflections of “2008 Annual Report on China Paper Industry” compiled by...
INDIA & CHINA: The Future Bazaars…
Prologue: China & India are two global giants in terms of both population and land area. However, despite their size and despite the fact that both play large roles on the world stage, the reality is that they are just starting to experience their eventual impact on the world. But both of these enormous emerging countries have equally-giant challenges facing...