Analysis of the future development direction of domestic papermaking industry

The papermaking industry, which accounts for less than 1% of the country's total industrial output, has generated nearly 20% of the industrial wastewater discharge and more than 30% of COD emissions. How to realize the low-carbon dream of polluting big families? Insightful people point out that while striving to improve the energy-saving and emission-reduction technologies in the production process, the forestry-paper integration and papermaking industry can effectively realize low-carbon production while interacting effectively with the upstream forestry.

The core of forest-paper integration is to break through the traditional model of forestry and paper industry inconsistencies in the past and make full use of the market to organically combine the four major production factors of land, forest, pulp, and papermaking to speed up the pulping of papermaking enterprises. The construction of raw material forest bases has formed a virtuous circle of industries that are “afforestation by paper, forest promotion, forest-paper combination, and coordinated development”.

The industry believes that "forestry-paper integration" will become the future direction of the domestic paper industry. On the one hand, the integration of forestry and paper is conducive to the adjustment of the structure of papermaking raw materials. Traditional straw pulp papermaking consumes large amounts of energy and discharges heavy sewage. It is no longer necessary to change the traditional raw material structure by using wood pulp instead of straw pulp. At present, most of the wood pulp needed by China's paper industry depends on imports, and it is often controlled by people. It is very passive. The most effective solution is to produce homemade wood pulp. Therefore, the development of upstream forestry and the construction of raw material forests are inevitable choices for the paper industry. On the other hand, forestry and paper integration can help the paper industry to effectively increase carbon productivity. As we all know, raising carbon productivity is the core of developing a low-carbon economy, and raising carbon productivity can be achieved by various means such as improving industry efficiency output, raising carbon sinks, and reducing carbon sources. In the “forestry-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 increases carbon sinks, and provides biofuels and reduces carbon sources. Some experts even stated that the "integration of forest and paper" in the paper industry can achieve almost zero emissions of carbon dioxide.