Asian Papermaking Growth has Countered Shrinking Capacity in America and Europe

While the paper industries in Europe and North America have been scaling back production or eking out slow growth (depending on the sector), the healthy appetite of Chinese mills for recovered fibre has helped provide the necessary demand to keep the market in balance.

If 2013 turns out to be a tipping-point year for basic materials demand in China, the consequences for the paper and board industries and the recovered fibre sector that helps feed it could be considerable.