The birth of a new model for the procurement of recycled fiber raw materials

Waste paper can also be a brand? On November 16th, Mr. Marc Forman, Chief Operating Officer of Harmon Co., Ltd., and Mr. Rob Waller, Vice President of Global Holdings Inc., GP Group, etc., and 6 others ended the 10-day hurry in China and returned from Guangdong. Their intense trip was for the "Lotus" blooming in China.

When waste paper was used as papermaking raw material for the Chinese market more and more, an unprecedented "Lotus" was born - in August this year, the United States GP Hramon Company and Quanbaotong jointly worked together to provide the market with high-quality recycled fiber resources. The brand name is "Lotus."

GP Group Harmon is one of the largest renewable fiber suppliers in the United States and supplies 5.3 million tons of recycled fiber to the global market each year. China's purchase of American waste paper accounted for about 38% of US exports. In 2002, China imported only 6.8726 million tons of waste paper. This year, it has imported 12.5 million tons of waste paper, which is a major importer of waste paper. This is because in China's papermaking raw material structure, the proportion of waste paper is 44%, and the proportion of wood pulp fiber raw material is 23.1%, while in the world, the proportion of waste paper as raw material in the world is 34%, and wood pulp fiber raw material accounts for 62.6. %. The proportion of waste paper in China's papermaking raw materials exceeds 10% of the world's level, and it depends heavily on waste paper resources.

On November 8th in Qingdao, they held a special seminar on "The development of the world's recycled fiber market and its impact on the Chinese market". Chenming Paper Group, Huatai Paper, Yinge Industrial, Yinhe Paper, etc. More than 60 people participated in the seminar. In Guangdong, they visited three large paper mills such as Dongguan Jinzhou Paper and communicated directly with customers.

When the reporter consulted the “Lotus” brand, they laughed and said: Take it out of the sludge without meaning. This is really a good comment on the recycling of waste paper. Special goods give such a brand name and it is truly unique. Of course, “Lotus” is not a pure commodity, but a new mode of operation that reduces intermediate links and supplies recycled fiber directly to the company, and includes the brand of corporate services. In this way, it is possible to reduce business expenditures and achieve a win-win result for suppliers and customers. "Lotus" has new initiatives in terms of quality control, service, price, and stable supply. Relying on branch offices in Shanghai, Shenzhen, and other places, "Lotus" has become more and more active in China since August 2004. By the beginning of December, it has signed 35 contracts with 15 domestic companies. The total amount is more than 2300 tons. With their signing of the contract, there are "big brothers" in China's papermaking enterprises, there are also small trading companies; both wholly-owned, joint ventures, large-scale joint-stock enterprises, but also state-owned and private enterprises.

It is understood that the recycling rate of waste paper in Europe and Japan has reached 70% in the world, and the remaining space is extremely small. However, the recovery rate of waste paper in the United States is about 50%. There is still room for this. Countries are exporting after meeting the self-requirements of recycled fiber. In this regard, China's waste paper imports must have a clear understanding. The cost of waste paper imports, in addition to the recovery price, is mainly the transport link, often due to rising crude oil and other factors, leading to the sudden rise in waste paper prices, companies caught off guard. The average price of waste paper imported this year is around 137 US dollars/ton, which is 6% higher than the same period of last year.

The US GP Group Harmon Corporation backed by its strong market supply, changed the past traditional quotation methods, and adopted a sales contract based on the amount of supply that the purchasing user ordered for a continuous and stable month (eg, 3 months, one period). The price was with the two parties. Accredited price indices are linked, for example, according to the waste paper market report published weekly by SEFEX, which is authoritative and highly accurate. In this way, large fluctuations in the price of imported waste paper can be avoided, and the intermediate procedures for trade can also be reduced, which saves time and costs and allows customers to benefit from it. With stable supply, relatively stable prices are good news for paper companies with large demand. Although the current lotus is still "Little Lotus is only a sharp point," but this market is also optimistic about the market needs of the brand, will set aside in the paper industry fresh.