DEFINING THE CHINA MARKET | FOR PULP, PAPER AND BOARD

New and updated -- July 2007

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Market research in China has typically been over-reliant on rudimentary assumptions regarding relationships between GDP per capita and paper consumption. More often than not, no consideration is given to the type of GDP growth (e.g. fixed asset investment rather than domestic consumption), nor to the massive inequalities which exist in China: over 800 million Chinese have incomes so low that they are unlikely ever to consume papers based on expensive primary wood pulp and imported recycled fibre.

The report ‘Defining the China Market for Pulp, Paper, and Board’ was first published in March 2003. One of our main objectives is to segment the market: to define the production and consumption of the higher quality grades of paper & board separately from the production and consumption of China’s traditional grades based largely on non-wood fibres and locally collected wastepaper.

Official statistics of paper production and consumption in China are too general and out of date to be of practical use, and in many cases are contradictory and unreliable. Although the report incorporates all available published information this is augmented by extensive primary research throughout the year.

We have been encouraged by our subscribers to review and update the research on an annual basis. The report has become recognised by the industry as the most detailed and comprehensive analysis available. In addition to the report, subscribers benefit from continuous updates on the Chinese market and individual projects on request, throughout the year.

The content of the 2007 report is shown here

A comprehensive brochure and order form can be downloaded here.

The report is available now.

Cost: UK£5,000 (or UK£2,750 for subscribers to the 2006 report). The price includes two hardcopies of the report, a copy in PDF format and a presentation meeting with the authors in London. If a meeting is requested elsewhere a charge may be made for staff travel and subsistence costs. Further copies of the report may be purchased at a nominal charge

Please contact Tom Wright or John Bingham for more information. Alternatively just use this enquiry form.

“The China Book – Wood Products Industry and Market Review”.

If you have an interest in China's paper & board markets you may be interested in this related study on China’s wood products industry from International WOOD MARKETS Group’s (IWMG).

“The China Book – Wood Products Industry and Market Review” is similar to Hawkins Wright's “Defining the China Market for Pulp, Paper and Board” reports. Both use published and semi-published information, but both are also based heavily on fieldwork carried out over a four year period.

The China Book provides the most comprehensive analysis of the Chinese wood products industry available today. The 700-page report, which comes in three volumes, includes over 250 tables and graphs, and 125 pictures, and addresses the major trends and issues within China’s wood products sector.

Please visit the IWMG website www.woodmarkets.com or contact Mike Jahraus at mikej@woodmarkets.com for additional information.