Recently, the mainland paper prices continue to rise, the rate of increase is almost catching up with pork.
Comprehensive mainland media news, December 7 last year, the mainland part of the paper enterprises issued the first wave of price increase letter, less than 10 days later, Shaanxi, Hebei, Shanxi, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and other enterprises have issued a second wave of price increase letter, generally “up 200 yuan (RMB, the same below) / ton”, after that, bagasse pulp household paper main origin of Guangxi paper enterprises also announced price increases. Continental household paper 1 month ushered in three consecutive increases.
Zhuo Chuan information analyst Yin Ting said: “the price of household paper is higher, in the market is also conducted ring by ring, the original paper enterprises first began to raise prices, followed by downstream processing plants, the terminal market (such as supermarkets, e-commerce platforms, etc.) response is relatively late.
In Xi’an Yiwu Commodity Market, daily necessities store owner Lao Guo said: the current price of toilet paper is still relatively stable, but before the yellow calendar year should rise, almost 2 yuan per piece, about 200 yuan per ton.
Not only is household paper, cultural paper is also increasing prices. 2020 November, including the Sun, Chenming, Huatai and other leading paper enterprises have issued a price increase letter, the price of their own cultural paper 200 yuan / ton, starting in December 2020. And since August 2020, paper enterprises frequently issued price increase letters, some copperplate paper products have so far accumulated price increases of about 600 ~ 800 yuan / ton.
Packaging paper upstream paper price increases have also led to increased cost pressure in the downstream packaging industry. Dagong Paper Products Packaging (Beijing) Co., Ltd. staff said: “recently the company with the price of packaging paper rose some, a ton of about 100 ~ 200 yuan. Because of the increase in the purchase price, the company’s product costs increased, profits have been compressed.
As for the reason for the paper price increase, the main reason is the high price of paper raw materials pulp caused by the
Paper, tissue paper prices rose in relation to wood pulp. Information shows that the current market pulp is mainly divided into wood pulp, non-wood pulp and waste paper pulp three categories. Among them, coated paper, white cardboard and other raw materials are mainly wood pulp, household paper raw materials are also mostly wood pulp, bamboo pulp and bagasse pulp use is gradually increasing.
According to the China Paper Association, the total pulp price index rose 3.04% YoY to 93.00 points in November 2020, and the total volume index rose 0.36% YoY to 74.66 points.
In addition, a decrease in pulp supply also boosted market prices. China’s wood pulp import dependence is above 60%, and in the first 11 months of 2020, China’s needle pulp imports fell by 1.44%, and global needle pulp shipments to China fell by 9.6% in November, with a slightly tighter overall supply side; for mainland-produced wood pulp, although broadleaf pulp production increased by 2.40% year-on-year from January to November 2020, and chemical pulp production increased by 11.03% year-on-year, but in November broadleaf pulp In November, the production of broadleaf pulp and chemical pulp decreased by 3.78% and 3.29%, respectively, and the supply was also slightly tightened.
In November last year, bamboo pulp manufacturers concentrated on maintenance, monthly starts fell 6 percentage points compared with October, bamboo pulp manufacturers raised the plate 200 ~ 400 yuan / ton.
Then again, the CPC has significantly reduced the type and quantity of imported waste paper since 2017. Available waste paper is mainly used to produce boxboard, corrugated and white board paper to supply downstream packaging demand. Two-thirds of the waste paper sources are domestic waste paper and one-third are imported waste paper.
Data show that the amount of domestic imported waste paper was around 28 million tons in 2016, accounting for more than 35% of domestic waste paper consumption. By 2019, the amount of imported waste paper is reduced to more than 10 million tons, while from January to October 2020, the amount of imported waste paper will be just over 5 million tons.
These reasons have caused a general increase in the price of paper on the mainland, and directly related to the livelihood of people is toilet paper. Guo Hong, a store owner in Xi’an’s northwest wholesale market for light industry, said: this year because of the plague, the demand for paper towels has increased, and there are many people hoarding toilet paper.
For the future of paper prices will continue to rise, Sina Finance quoted the industry’s view that because of the price of overseas pulp, imports increased, and paper demand is just demand, coupled with the gradual economic recovery, demand will gradually increase, pulp prices may rise further, rising costs will thus lead to higher paper prices.
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