Paper Association publishes latest pulp and paper figures for 2024: paper and board production and paper pulp use expected to increase year-on-year
Paper Association publishes latest pulp and paper figures for 2024: paper and board production and paper pulp use expected to increase year-on-year
Nov 15, 2024
On 12 November, at the 2024 China Pulp Market Seminar held in Nanchang, Zhao Wei, Chairman of the China Paper Association, delivered a speech introducing the operation of the pulp and paper industry from January to September this year.
From January to September this year, 25.64 million tonnes of pulp of various commodities were imported, a year-on-year decline of 4.4%. Among them, 6.31 million tonnes of bleached needle pulp, a year-on-year decrease of 570,000 tonnes; 11.31 million tonnes of bleached broad pulp, a year-on-year decrease of 510,000 tonnes; 770,000 tonnes of native pulp, a year-on-year decrease of 180,000 tonnes; 3.03 million tonnes of dissolving pulp, a year-on-year increase of 90,000 tonnes; 980,000 tonnes of chemical-organic pulp, 3.2 million tonnes of waste pulp, are basically unchanged from a year earlier.
Zhao Wei also made a forecast for the annual production and sales, is expected to paper pulp production of about 94 million tonnes, an increase of about 6.4% year-on-year. 2024 domestic production of various types of virgin pulp of about 31 million tonnes, an increase of about 7% over last year; 2024 domestic apparent consumption of virgin pulp for papermaking of about 57.5 million tonnes, an increase of about 5% year-on-year.
The total production of paper and paperboard is expected to be approximately 136 million tonnes, representing an increase of approximately 4.9% year-on-year. Apparent consumption of paper and paperboard is approximately 136.5 million tonnes, representing a year-on-year growth of approximately 3.7%.
Pulp production for paper production was approximately 94 million tonnes, an increase of approximately 6.4% year-on-year. Consumption of pulp for papermaking was about 124 million tonnes, up about 4.8% year-on-year.
He believes that the current market situation mainly includes: the economic situation is gradually stabilising, the total amount of production has increased; the amount of domestically produced pulp continues to improve, and imports of commodity pulp and paper are gradually stabilising or decreasing; competition in the market is fierce, and the difficulties are still relatively high; business revenues and profits are still not restored to the pre-epidemic level; and the phased and structural overcapacity is apparent, and competition in the market is intensifying.
