Asia Pulp and Paper, Indonesia

Asia Pulp And Paper Is One Of The Global Leaders In Paper Production

Even though we use paper for almost everything in our life, one can bet that most of the people are not aware of the origin of various paper products. We use paper for everything ranging from creating shopping lists to novels to printing paper to newsprint paper to coffee cups to disposable tissues.

One may not be surprised by the fact that most of the paper production in the world takes place in United States and China. United States is not just the leading producer of paper products but it is also one of the biggest consumers of paper products. Other countries such as Canada, Germany and Japan are also not much behind and produce a lot of paper and pulp. Countries such as Finland and Sweden are also in the top 10 producers of paper products in the world.

Asia pulp and paper is one such company based in China and Southeast Asia. This company is one of the biggest producers of paper and pulp products and supplies its products to over 100 countries. However, the biggest company in the world is based in USA.

In the past two years, a lot of groups have been creating a lot of noise regarding green products and one of their biggest targets has been the paper and pulp industry. This industry is heavily dependent on trees for raw material and therefore, a lot of the forests in the world are being cut to get the required raw material for the paper and pulp industry.

Most of the organizations that target paper and pulp industry argue that even if the forests are being replanted at a much higher rate, trees take a long time to re grow and therefore, majors loss in forest cover has happened all over the world.

On the other hand, the producers of paper products argue that the demand for such products is very high and we use various paper products on a daily basis. For instance, people receive a lot of snail mail and other print materials on a regular basis. Similarly, a lot of paper is consumed for food packaging as people continue to eat outside in large numbers.

Advertising industry is also one of the major consumers of paper products as new posters, flyers and other things that are printed on paper are being rolled out continuously on a regular basis.

The good news is that we recycle a lot of paper these days and are getting less dependent on the use of trees to produce paper. Asia pulp and paper is one of the foremost producers of paper that makes use of recycled paper.