Guangdong Papermaking Industry in 2022: Market Status and Competitive Landscape

Guangdong's paper industry accounts for 20% of the national output

As a major papermaking province, Guangdong has an excellent technical foundation in pulp and paper processes and also shows huge advantages in developing a modern pulp molding product industry. In recent years, Guangdong's paper industry has been closely following the government's various environmental protection policies, vigorously promoting energy-saving, emission-reduction and low-carbon eco-friendly technological transformation in the industry, and urging enterprises to strictly comply with the country's latest requirements and standards, having completed the task of phasing out outdated production capacity at the beginning of the 13th Five-Year Plan.

According to statistics from the Guangdong Paper Industry Association, since 2016, the output of major products in Guangdong's paper industry has maintained a fluctuating upward trend. By 2020, Guangdong produced 24.3596 million tonnes of paper and paperboard for the whole year, up 9.6% year on year, setting a new record in output scale.

As a major papermaking province, Guangdong has always ranked first nationwide in the paper industry. Since 2017, Guangdong's share of paper and paperboard output has maintained a fluctuating upward trend, and by 2020, Guangdong's paper and paperboard output accounted for 21.6% of the country's total paper and paperboard output.

The concentration of Guangdong's paper industry continues to grow

In terms of the output structure of major products, at present the main products of Guangdong's paper industry are still packaging paper. In 2020, Guangdong's packaging paper output was 17.8444 million tonnes, accounting for 73.25% of the province's total paper and paperboard output, making it the only sub-category with output exceeding 10 million tonnes; the output of cultural paper and household paper was 2.582 million tonnes and 1.265 million tonnes respectively, accounting for 10.60% and 5.19% of the province's total output.

Looking at individual enterprises, in 2020 the concentration of Guangdong's paper industry further increased, and the overall strength of key backbone enterprises was further enhanced. As of 2020, Guangdong had 42 papermaking enterprises with paper and paperboard capacity of 100,000 tonnes/year or more, of which 6 had capacity of 1 million tonnes/year or more: Nine Dragons Paper (Holdings) Limited, Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing Limited, Dongguan Jianhui Paper Co., Ltd., Dongguan Jinzhou Paper Co., Ltd., Asia Symbol (Guangdong) Paper Co., Ltd. and Zhanjiang Chenming Pulp & Paper Co., Ltd.; the total virgin pulp output of these 6 enterprises was 819,000 tonnes, and their total paper and paperboard output was 12.534 million tonnes, accounting for 51.45% of Guangdong's total paper and paperboard output;

The operating efficiency of Guangdong's paper industry rebounds

In terms of industry operating efficiency, since 2017, the main business revenue of Guangdong's paper industry has shown a trend of rising first and then falling. In 2020, the province's paper industry achieved revenue of 240.28 billion yuan, down 1.8% year on year.

In terms of total profit, after consecutive declines in 2018-2019, the total profit of Guangdong's paper industry staged a strong rebound in 2020, achieving a total profit of 14.627 billion yuan for the year, up 22.1% year on year.

——This article is reprinted from China Packaging Network (pack.cn). Original link: http://news.pack.cn/show-378739.html