Release date: 2018-12-03 Source: Specialty Paper Industry Network
China's paper-related industries are now facing such a problem: the domestic waste paper inclusion rate is not up to standard, the price only rises and falls; the US-made waste paper is subject to various restrictions due to the Sino-US trade war. Without the influence of waste paper, it has now penetrated into the paper industry in China. Packaging paper production plants without OCC can also choose to stop production from time to time. What can we do without the newsprint factory of ONP? The largest newsprint machine in the country is converted into cultural paper.
At the beginning of July, China’s largest newsprint machine officially ended its mission of producing newsprint at Chenming Group. After more than half a year of transformation, the paper machine officially changed its production of cultural paper, mainly producing double-adhesive paper and electrostatic copy paper.
This paper machine is located in Shouguang Chenming 5 Factory, which is provided by Finnish Valmet. The paper machine has a net width of 11.15 meters and a designed speed of 1,800 m/min. It was put into production in 2006 and uses ONP to produce high-grade newsprint with an annual output of 500,000 tons. . It is the largest newsprint machine in China.
Due to the lack of waste paper raw materials (in 2018, Chenming Group failed to obtain the import waste paper license), since the fourth quarter of 2017, the paper machine has undergone technical transformation, eliminating the original deinking pulp production line and replacing ANDRITZ. The slurry preparation system mainly produces double-adhesive paper and electrostatic base paper of whole wood pulp, with an annual output of 550,000 tons.
Lack of waste paper, only three newsprint mills left
Since the 2008 Olympic Games, due to the decline in the use of domestic newsprint, newsprints have experienced serious supply and demand, newsprint production plants are becoming less and less, and there are constantly newsprint machines to produce other paper types. Take Huatai Group, China's largest newsprint producer, as an example. In the past five years, five newsprint machines have been transformed. Dongying Huatai No. 9 machine has been changed to produce cultural paper, Dongying Huatai No. 10 machine has been changed to produce cultural paper, Dongying Huatai No. 11 Machine changed packaging paper, Guangdong Huatai paper machine changed packaging paper, Hebei Huatai paper machine changed production culture paper. The group only has Dongying Huatai No. 12 machine and also produces newsprint.
Since last year, due to the restrictions on imported waste paper, the market situation has undergone drastic changes. Due to the lack of raw materials for production, the production of newsprint has fallen sharply. The news papers that have not been available for many years in the country are in short supply, and the price of newsprint has also soared.
However, without the US waste of import, the production of newsprint is difficult to maintain. Under normal circumstances, US waste accounts for more than 70% of the newsprint raw materials, and the quality of newsprint produced only with domestic waste paper is difficult to meet the standard. Therefore, in addition to the transformation of Chenming’s newsprint machine this year, another newsprint factory in Shandong, Shandong Jinhai Paper, also changed the two newsprint machines to cultural paper. This company also did not obtain the import license for waste paper this year.
Up to now, only the Huatai Group, Guangzhou Paper and Shanying Paper have been produced in the domestic production of newsprint. According to the statistics of the China Press Association, the national newsprint output from January to June this year was about 620,000 tons, a significant drop from the same period of last year. There is still a big gap between the demand for news paper in the national newspaper industry for half a year, and the supply of newsprint market is extremely tight. It is not allowed to import about 200,000 tons of newsprint. At the same time, the price of waste paper raw materials is running at a high level, resulting in a sharp increase in the price of newsprint. From the beginning of this year to the present (July), newsprint producers have repeatedly raised the price of newsprint. So far, the national average price of domestic newsprint has reached 6,350/ton, up 1250 from 5100/ton in the same period last year. China Paper Media
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