PRC India 2017: Trending upward
PRC India 2017: Trending upward
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Year-on-year, India’s population continues to consume more finished paper and its mills more recovered fibre, noted speakers at the opening session of the 2017 Paper Recycling Conference India, which took place in Mumbai in early February.
“At every step of our lives, people need paper, and where there is paper there is a need for scrap paper,” stated Devang Vora of Mumbai-based Victory Creations and PaperWorks Trading LLP.
Vora said the previous 12 months had brought with it threats to the global trading climate in the form of the Brexit vote, the election of Donald Trump and the bankruptcy of a major shipping line.
India, however, “is the fastest-growing paper market globally; therefore scrap paper will be in demand,” said Vora. He referred to India as the largest English-speaking nation in the world, with a young population that was on track to reach 1.6 billion by 2050. “The three Ds, democracy, demand and demographics, are all in India’s favour,” Vora remarked.
Anil Kumar of Shreyans Industries Ltd., Ludhiana, Punjab, India, said forecasts for how fast India’s paper industry will grow vary. It will rise from its current 17 million tonnes per year of production to as high as 47 or 50 million tonnes by 2047, according to some forecasters. “To me that is very optimistic,” said Kumar, adding, “25 to 30 million tonnes seems more realistic.”
Kumar said India’s paper industry feedstock has changed in recent years from a previous one-third wood, one-third agro-fibres and one-third recovered fibre model. Now, more than 50% of the feedstock is recovered fibre, with much of its growth coming at the expense of agro-fibres.
VD Bajaj of Mumbai-based Kejriwal International said India remains dependent on recovered fibre brought in from Europe, North America and the Middle East, in part because much of the paper consumed within India is being reused rather than recycled. He said old newspapers are used as food or fruit wrapping while cardboard boxes tend to be reused in households and shops.
Bajaj said India would be well served by striving to emulate Japan’s culture of paper recycling, where “right from primary education in the schools, every child is told how to protect the environment and recycle.” He added, “That is the culture inculcated in their minds from the age of five.
The 2017 Paper Recycling Conference India was 6 and 7 February at The Leela Hotel in Mumbai.
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Source: Recycling Today
PRC India 2017: Trending upward
<![CDATA[Year-on-year, India’s population continues to consume more finished paper and its mills more recovered fibre, noted speakers at the opening session of the 2017 Paper Recycling Conference India, which took place in Mumbai in early February. “At every step of our lives, people need paper, and where there is paper there is a need for scrap paper,” stated Devang Vora of Mumbai-based Victory Creations and PaperWorks Trading LLP. Vora said the previous 12 months had brought with it threats to the global trading climate in the form of the Brexit vote, the election of Donald Trump and the bankruptcy of a major shipping line. India, however, “is the fastest-growing paper market globally; therefore scrap paper will be in demand,” said Vora. He referred to India as the largest English-speaking nation in the world, with a young population that was on track to reach 1.6 billion by 2050. “The three Ds, democracy, demand and demographics, are all in India’s favour,” Vora remarked. Anil Kumar of Shreyans Industries Ltd., Ludhiana, Punjab, India, said forecasts for how fast India’s paper industry will grow vary. It will rise from its current 17 million tonnes per year of production to as…