Supply and Demand of Wood Chips for Paper Producing and Its Worldwide Trends

Kamikawa Kiyoshi

doi:10.2524/jtappij.72.831

<p>Paper and paperboard is indispensable for human life and its main raw material is wood chips. Pulp and recovered paper are also used as raw materials for paper and paperboard producing but their raw materials are also derived from wood chips. So, it can be surely said that paper and paperboard is almost 100% produced from wood chips. The demand for paper and paperboard has been decreasing after Lehman shock mainly due to the development of IT technology. So, the production of paper and paperboard has been also decreasing thereafter. About 70% of woodchips is imported and the imports of wood chips by China have been increasing very rapidly because China has recently been No. 1 paper and paperboard producing country in the world. As for domestic wood chips, the demand of wood chips for biomass has been soaring due to the expansion of wood biomass energy generation by FIT. Therefore, the demand and supply situation of wood chips has been getting very harsh and competitive. On the other hand, Clean Wood Act has been enacted in 2017 to tackle illegal logging ensuing the degradation of forests on the earth and the traceability of wood chips is strongly required by users and consumers. Besides, the increase of certified wood chips by FSC, PEFC or SGEC is the urgent agenda to secure the sustainability of global environments.</p>

Supply and Demand of Wood Chips for Paper Producing and Its Worldwide Trends

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