The continued rise of pulp prices affects the outlook

      Date：2017-09-16

       It is understood that the international pulp price rise has been maintained since the second quarter of 2009, 2010 of them in the middle of the year to march, pulp prices soared, with two days to March 9 and 10 domestic pulp prices rose 700 ~ 1000 yuan/ton, rose as high as 10% ~ 15%, the current domestic pulp price high level has been more than 2008 years of history, pulp price rises for pulp and paper industry has brought many effects.

       Light industry researcher Xiong Xiaokun cic consultant, pulp prices impact on the most direct and largest pulp and paper industry is pushing up the papermaking enterprises purchasing cost of raw materials, greatly compress the paper enterprise profit space. But from the point of view of the whole paper industry, the continuous rise of the plasma price will find some positive significance.

       Xiong Xiaokun pointed out that the pulp of the purchase cost accounts for papermaking enterprise to about 65% of the total production cost, increase will be passed directly to paper pulp prices production of all kinds of paper, paper prices will certainly restrain segment of the market demand, on which the paper pulp price rise is about 1.5 times of increase in record-keeping, these two factors together creates the profit space is greatly extrusion, paper mills in the first half of the domestic paper industry profitability is not optimistic.

       Xiong added that the sharp rise in the price of the slurry has some positive effects. On the one hand, the rise of the slurry price can automatically withdraw some of the backward production capacity in the market and relieve the pressure of excess capacity in the paper industry and the pressure of environmental management. On the other hand, the surging of domestic paper pulp prices of raw material purchasing channels dynamic enhanced, this will help to change the domestic paper industry raw material source to a handful of countries and regions, to increase domestic paper industry ability to resist risks. Finally, pulp price rise would lead to some enterprises to improve the product structure, production of more high value-added paper products, enhance the profitability of the enterprise, it will promote the whole paper industry to promote competitiveness.

       Xiong Xiaokun stressed that this round of pulp prices rose sharply to make a batch of high proportion of the pulping papermaking enterprise competitiveness to get a lot of ascension, and this kind of enterprises such as chenming, yueyang paper and basic is Lin bo hui paper pulp paper integration project implementation good enterprise, this will greatly stimulate other paper mills to speed up the implementation of forest paper integration project. The large-scale implementation of forest paper integration will improve the import situation of raw materials for the whole paper industry, and enhance the competitiveness of the paper industry in the world.