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Members of the American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) remain resilient in meeting the challenges brought on by the ongoing pandemic. They continue to work safely and diligently, creating sustainable and innovative paper products for the circular economy. "Like all sectors of the economy, papermakers are responding to the challenges of the ongoing pandemic. These include global and domestic supply chain problems, such as ocean shipping bottlenecks and limited truck availability. "Nevertheless, there have still been noteworthy

According to information released by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine, coal has long been the fundamental fuel for China's economic growth and for delivering electricity to the population nationwide. The NCBI report states, "China is now the world's largest coal producer and consumer, consuming half of the world's coal output, and in 2018 20% of global coal trade was imported by China; at the same time, China is also the world's main international financing mechanism for building new coal-fired power plants

Spanish paper and packaging group Saica is preparing for further growth in the US market. The company announced it will invest $800 million over the next five years to expand its operations. According to the company, the money will be used for "strategic acquisitions or new plant construction." Saica is currently building its first production base in the US, a corrugated board plant in Hamilton, Ohio, scheduled to open in early 2022. Saica US said it will initially create 64

According to a September 19 message on the official WeChat account of "Shanghai Market Regulation," the Shanghai Municipal Administration for Market Regulation conducted on-site enforcement inspections and supervisory spot checks on excessive packaging of mooncake gift boxes, and found a total of 5 batches of mooncake gift box packaging samples with unqualified void ratios, suspected of excessive packaging, involving brands such as GOVIDA, Venchi, Chua Lam, Gui Man Long and Member's Mark. The Shanghai municipal and district-level market regulation authorities mainly targeted certain popular

Single-use plastic products being used more and more? Layer upon layer of plastic on express delivery packages? Plastic waste difficult to collect? These long-standing problems will become the focus of plastic pollution control during the 14th Five-Year Plan period. Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment jointly issued the Action Plan for Plastic Pollution Control During the 14th Five-Year Plan Period, stressing the need to carry out full-chain governance of plastic pollution and to build one "dam" after another to prevent plastic from leaking into the environment. Plastic, as an important base

In recent years, new maternal and infant subcategories have continuously won consumer favor. For traditional categories, sensory innovation is difficult, while brands on emerging niche tracks where new technologies, new materials and new concepts are still to be developed find it easier to overtake on the bend. Among them, cotton soft towels, as a subcategory with potential, are favored by many companies. According to data from Liding Industry Research Institute, China's demand for cotton soft towels grew from 2.35 billion sheets in 2015 to 233

Since August, many paper companies have issued multiple price increase notices, announcing hikes to the ex-factory price of corrugated paper. Why have paper prices suddenly risen? What exactly is the current market situation for corrugated paper? Costs keep climbing: corrugated paper priced up 4 times in 20 days. Li Zonghui is the head of a paper company in Shandong. He told reporters that since August this year, the corrugated paper they produce has seen four consecutive price increases in less than 20 days. The ex-factory price per ton rose directly from 3680 yuan to nearly 4000 yuan. Shandong

On September 13, the centralized signing event for key investment projects of the third quarter of Jinan City, Shandong Province was held at Long'ao Building in Jinan. A total of 20 projects were signed this time, including 15 manufacturing projects and 14 foreign-funded projects, involving Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Switzerland, the United States, Australia, Hong Kong (China) and other places. The reporter noted that the Shandong Bingxin intelligent packaging production base project was successfully signed at this event. The project plans a total investment of 300 million yuan and will build an intelligent

In order to fully grasp the production and operation situation of the industry, the Sichuan Paper Industry Association and the Sichuan Paper Society carried out an industry survey and research tour from August 30 to September 10, 2021, covering selected bamboo pulping and papermaking, packaging paperboard production, tissue paper production and tissue paper processing enterprises in Sichuan Province. The enterprises visited during this survey included: Meishan Fenghua Paper Co., Ltd., Sichuan Huanlong New Materials Co., Ltd., Jiajiang Huifeng Paper Co., Ltd., Sichuan Jinfu Paper Products Co., Ltd

As the Mid-Autumn Festival approaches, visits to relatives and friends are hardly complete without a box of mooncakes. In recent years, mooncake gift boxes of every description have proliferated. According to the Tianyancha App, China currently holds more than 160,000 mooncake packaging-related patents, of which about 50,000 are design patents; in terms of shape and structure, these include ordinary paper gift boxes, retro nostalgic tin boxes, multi-tier drawer-style boxes, convenient handbag-style boxes and practical bento-style boxes. Applicants for such packaging boxes are mostly enterprises, and the designs include the corresponding brand names, logos and patterns