Future Outlook of Papermaking Industry

According to the pricing and regulatory mechanism of the papermaking industry, while striving to improve energy-saving and emission-reduction technologies in the production process, the papermaking industry can also truly achieve low-carbon production by effectively interacting with upstream forestry and integrating forestry and paper.

The so-called forestry and paper integration, its core lies in breaking the traditional model of incoordination between forestry and papermaking in the past, making full use of the market to organically combine the four major production factors of land, forestry, pulping and papermaking, and accelerating the construction of wood pulp raw material forest bases of papermaking enterprises, forming a large industry with a virtuous cycle of "using paper to support forests, using forests to promote paper, combining forests and paper, and coordinated development".

Industry insiders believe that "forestry and paper integration" will become the future development direction of the domestic papermaking industry. On the one hand, forestry and paper integration is conducive to the adjustment of the raw material structure of papermaking. Traditional straw pulp papermaking consumes a lot of energy and discharges heavy pollutants, and most of the wood pulp needed by my country's papermaking industry currently relies on imports, which is often controlled by others and very passive. The most effective solution is to produce homemade wood pulp, so developing upstream forestry and building raw material forests is an inevitable choice for the papermaking industry.

On the other hand, forest-paper integration can help the paper industry effectively improve carbon productivity. In the "forest-paper integration" production method, the upstream raw material forest not only provides wood pulp raw materials for downstream papermaking, but also absorbs carbon dioxide, greatly increasing carbon sinks, and can provide biofuels to reduce carbon sources. Some experts even said that the "forest-paper integration" of the paper industry can almost achieve zero carbon dioxide emissions.