In recent years, the change of industrial structure has been caused the change of the mainstream from paper to paperboard in paper and pulp industry.However, the demand of the paperboards in Japan hasn't shown upward trend, but has maintained a flat. Under these circumstances, the needs of customers for paperboard have shown several diversities in order to attain the cost reduction, and distinguish other's products. We have been conducted research and development in order to deal with customer's needs.On the other hand, we strive to acquire the stable profit by raising the recovery rate and blending rate of the waste paper.We will outline the future needs and trend of the paperboard, and introduce the countermeasure to take advantage of waste paper for cost reduction and meeting demand, trend and need.
The paper and pulp industry has mainly developed at the area of printing paper. The paperboard and high performance papers have been focused in recent years due to industrial structure change.The production of the paper and paperboard fell off sharply after Lehman Shock in2 0 0 9and has remained lower level in Japan. The consumption of printing paper has been decreasing year after year due to emerging of new digital device and depression. However, the consumption of paperboard has shown stable growth.On the other hand, the production of the paper and paperboard in the world keeps higher growth rates because of economic growth of China, India and other Southeast Asia. The presence of the paperboard has been increasing in the paper and pulp industry.We will describe the outline about the paperboard.
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