Pulp benchmarking results now available

Friday 4 Apr 2014

 
In the pulp sector, major changes have been occurring in the past decade in kraft market pulp production and applications. In particular, production is moving to South America and Southeast Asia, while markets are shifting to Asia, with China now the world's largest producer and consumer of paper and board with a rated capacity of more than 110 million tonnes in 2011 and an annual growth rate of 5.5% for next 10 years. Northern bleached softwood kraft is increasingly used in specialty tissue and towel products, which are gradually replacing the more traditional printing and writing grades.

With all this transformation and a major market shift towards Asia and other emerging markets, significant advantages can be gained through benchmarking. Embracing this process should be an essential part of any business, especially because benchmarking is an embedded management practice used extensively in the management process among many of the world's best firms.

To assist Canadian pulp manufacturers in competing more effectively in global markets, FPInnovations conducts benchmarking programs every five years to assess the quality of bleached kraft market pulps from major pulp-producing countries worldwide.

Results of the 2013 benchmarking report has already been sent to participating companies and a report on the results of two previous benchmarking programs has now been released to the public. A total of 84 pulps – 50 softwood and 34 hardwood – from Eastern and Western Canada, Southeast USA, Scandinavia, Southern Europe, Russia, South America, Australasia, and South Africa were included in these programs.

The two-part report provides access to a wide databank of information, from an independent ISO-accredited laboratory, not available otherwise. The report is available in PDF and XLS format and includes the data for all pulps and illustrates the relationships between several property pairs. For more information, contact Wayne Bichard at wayne.bichard@fpinnovations.ca or 001 514-782-4640.
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