2018 Shanghai Pulp Week

Since the fluctuations started in the second half of 2016, the Chinese pulp market was again impacted in 2017 by the tightening environmental policies and the import restrictions imposed on recovered paper. The Chinese pulp market has been volatile and prices have gone north, reaching the peak of all the last decade. The situation in China has inevitably had some impact on the global pulp market and development trend of the paper industry.

Entering 2018, the instability and uncertainty in the Chinese paper sector will become more prominent, environmental control effects will intensify, and there are still some pending issues regarding the recovered paper imports. As the new capacity continues to release and raw materials and paper prices continue to raise, how to fill the supply/demand gap of nearly 10 million tons of recovered paper? Will the Chinese paper industry be able to bear the USD 3 billion cost increase in sourcing raw materials? What are the potentials of domestic collections? What would be the impact of raw material substitutes on production and product portfolios? What are the potential impacts of the startup of new pulp projects on the global market? Will there be any new “black swan event” occurring? What are the future pulp price trends? There are too many uncertainties which are not only causing the lengthy volatility and panic situation in the Chinese paper industry but also the global pulp and recovered paper businesses. These issues have certainly attracted the attention of the global pulp and paper industry.

Faced with the complicated situation in the Chinese paper industry, the CPICC follows closely the changes in government policies, grasps carefully the industry’s development trend, and has prepared an exciting program for the 2018 Shanghai International Pulp Week Forum and relevant activities and invited government officials, economists, industry experts, local and international pulp and paper company executives, as well as international consultants to speak at CPICC Forum.

Meanwhile, over 30 international pulp suppliers and major Chinese pulp producers will continue to support the pulp week as strategic partners. It is expected that some 500 participants, including the senior executives from these 30 companies, will attend Shanghai International Pulp Week and the CPICC Forum.

“Understand Chinese pulp market from here” is the key objective of Shanghai International Pulp Week. CPICC, together with the leading international pulp and paper companies and service providers, tries to provide a high-level and professional international exchange and cooperation platform, in order to help build a “balanced, stable and sustainable” global pulp market.