India has emerged as the fastest growing market when it comes to consumption, posting 10.6 percent growth in per capita consumption of paper in 2017-18, reveals the ASSOCHAM paper.
10 March, 2018
The industry is self assured in terms of the growth and may touch 25 million tonnes in 2019-20 from 20.37 tonnes in 2017-18 at the rate of 10 percent per annum, according to The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) recent paper.
India has emerged as the fastest growing market when it comes to consumption, posting 10.6 percent growth in per capita consumption of paper in 2017-18, reveals the ASSOCHAM paper.
India produces many varieties of papers, namely, printing and writing paper, packaging paper, coated paper and some speciality paper. Varieties under printing and writing paper are cream wove paper, super printing paper, maplitho paper (non-surface and surface size), copier paper, bond paper and coating base paper and others. The varieties under packaging paper are kraft paper, boards, poster paper and others. The other varieties under coated paper are art paper/board, chromo paper/board and others. There are approximately 600 paper mills in India, of which twelve are major players.
Major issues confronting India’s pulp and paper industry are high cost of production caused by inadequate availability and high cost of raw materials, power cost and concentration of mills in one particular area, non-availability of good-quality fiber, uneconomical plant size, technological obsolescence and environmental challenges, highlighted the ASSOCHAM paper.
