Mohit Paper Mills ventured into Kraft paper manufacturing; Slump in Writing & Printing paper demand

                     

Mohit Paper Mills ventured into Kraft paper manufacturing; Slump in Writing & Printing paper demand

Bijnor | 2 January 2021 | The Pulp and Paper Times:

The big paper mills of the writing and Printing segment in India, are tweaking with new product development i.e. Kraft paper. After anticipating the short-term challenges in writing & printing manufacturing arising due to COVID 19, Mohit Paper Mills has also added various Kraft grades in its products portfolio.

“Considering the slump market conditions of writing and printing paper, we have also stepped in Kraft paper manufacturing; we conducted the production trial on our PM-1 in December 2020, which was successful. We are producing High BF Kraft, Absorbent Kraft from 100% virgin pulp,” said Mr. Mohit Jain, GM-Marketing, Mohit Paper Mills Ltd.

Mohit Paper Mills is producing Kraft & absorbent kraft paper from agro-waste with 100 to 150 GSM range (25 to 28 BF). These Kraft paper grades are being used in lamination industry and paper bag manufacturing. 

“We are manufacturing kraft paper alternatively depends on the orders. We have produced kraft paper two times on PM-1 and soon we are going to take the third run on the machine,”

“The samples of trial production have already been accepted in the market on quality parameters,” he said.

The dropped demand of W&P grade recommends that Paper mills should tweak a lot with new paper products developments, Value addition on the idle paper machine capacities and sync their market strategy on the line of customers’ behaviours.

Commenting on the W & P paper market scenario, Mr. Mohit said that there is a slump in writing and printing, but from past one month there is a revival in demand but prices are crashed by the big paper mills only to capture the market. If the rates are not increased, the viability of small paper mills will vanish.  

“We are not anticipating any improvement in demand till March 2021,” Mr. Mohit said.

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