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After price increase notices on October 11 and October 15, Nine Dragons Paper issued six price increase notices within nine days — its third round — with Dongguan, Taicang, Tianjin (Hebei), Shenyang, Quanzhou and Chongqing (Leshan) set to implement new prices from October 21, October 25 and November 1, with products rising by a general 100-150 yuan/ton. In addition, a large number of small and medium-sized paper mills in Henan issued price increase notices the same day, raising raw paper prices uniformly by 200 yuan/ton on October 20.

Waste paper has become a scarce material in Vietnam, with prices continuing to climb — up about 60% since the start of the year! Owing to the Vietnamese government's COVID-19 controls and restrictions, the volume of old corrugated cardboard generated by factories and households in Vietnam has kept falling, prompting Vietnam to steadily step up its imports of waste paper. From the beginning of 2021 to date, the price of old corrugated cardboard exported from various countries to Vietnam has soared by about 60%. As an essential raw material for corrugated box production, this produ

From October 11 to 15, 2021, Shanghai Pulp Week was grandly held, hosted by the China Paper Industry Chamber of Commerce of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, and co-organized by Asia Symbol, which was also the exclusive sponsor of the "Shanghai Pulp Week Annual Conference". The conference invited leaders and experts from authoritative departments, institutions and enterprises, including the United Front Work Department, the National Development and Reform Commission, the State Administration for Market Regulation, and major domestic and international pulp and paper enterprises. Theme of the Annual Pulp Conference: new growth, rebalancing, dual carbon, dual reduction, dual control, rising energy and raw material prices and other policy

Today the world is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century. In 2020, the global COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the evolution of these changes, economic globalization met with headwinds, the world economy was in the doldrums, and international trade and investment shrank sharply. China's national economy went through a trilogy of "stabilizing, safeguarding and seizing opportunities," overcoming one difficulty after another, and the industry basically maintained steady and healthy development, leading the world's major economies in achieving positive growth; with domestic circulation as the mainstay and domestic and international dual circulation mutually reinforcing

First came Nine Dragons' "one letter, two hikes," announcing a new round of price increases starting October 16; then Shanying announced a further 100-200 yuan/ton rise, setting off the fifth round of price hikes since Mid-Autumn Festival. It looks like the paper market is in for another bloody battle in the second half of October, with the price-hike blockbuster already playing out in full passion… On October 16, Shanying will raise prices again by 100-200 yuan/ton. On October 13, Shanying International once again issued a letter announcing higher packaging paper prices. The letter stated:

On the eve of National Day, the 150,000-tonne-per-year cotton stalk high-yield clean pulping and papermaking project under construction in Shihezi City, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, with key technology provided by the Institute of Chemical Industry of Forest Products under the Chinese Academy of Forestry, has achieved major progress, with the plant buildings fully completed and all key equipment installed in place. The first phase of the project involves an investment of more than 264 million yuan and covers a total area of 434 mu, of which 180 mu is occupied by the newly built facilities. Once the first phase is completed, it will use the region's abundant cotton stalk fiber raw materials and will be able to provide each year

From January to August 2021, the total import and export value of domestic printed products, printing equipment and printing consumables reached US$15.275 billion, up 15.9% compared with the same period last year (see Table 1 for details). Among these, the import and export value of printed products was US$10.853 billion (up 6.9% year-on-year), that of printing equipment was US$3.513 billion (up 50.3% year-on-year), and that of printing consumables was US$909 million (up 31.6% year-on-year). In the same period, domestic printed products

This week, the light industry manufacturing sector index rose 2.37%, outperforming the broader market by 1.06pct; the papermaking sub-sector rose 1.06%, underperforming the broader market by 0.25pct. This week, the CSI 300 Index rose 1.31%, while the light industry manufacturing (Shenwan) index rose 2.37%, outperforming the CSI 300 Index by 1.06pct and ranking 7th among the 28 Shenwan first-level industries, a relatively high position; among the second-level industries, the papermaking sub-sector rose 1

At exactly 9:00 on October 9, the green signal light in the warehouse flashed twice, and Si Kailin hurriedly put away the half-eaten fried dough stick. That simple breakfast had already taken him an hour. "I'm afraid I'll have to save it for lunch!" Si Kailin is a forklift driver in the production workshop of Sichuan Fengsheng Paper Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Fengsheng Paper"), and his main task is to transport base paper from the warehouse to the production workshop 200 meters away. Since June, this busy state has

Recently, the National Press and Publication Administration issued the "Notice on Approving the Release of 16 Industry Standards Including the Knowledge Association Service Coding", among which the National Technical Committee for Printing Standardization organized the drafting and revision of 11 industry standards including "Terminology for Intelligent Printing Manufacturing", which will take effect on November 1, 2021. To the press and publication bureaus of all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, the Publicity Bureau of the Political Work Department of the Central Military Commission, and all relevant units: According to the National Press and Publication