Covid-19: Supplying Paper to Essential Services Amid Lockdown: JK Paper

Covid-19: Supplying Paper to Essential Services Amid Lockdown: JK Paper

New Delhi | 29th April 2020 | The Pulp and Paper Times:

India’s largest Paper Manufacturer, JK Paper is utilizing its capacity up to 80 to 90 percent during the lockdown. In an interview to CNBC- TV18, Mr. A.S. Mehta, President & Director at JK Paper says that Covid 19 has impacted our capacity utilization. Before the COVID 19, we were operating our plant at 107 percent capacity utilization till 29th March, and we have already re-started our facilities in Gujarat and Orissa. In Telangana, we have not started the manufacturing because State Government has not given the approval to resume.

In a reply to a question on demand and paper consumption, because schools and offices are shut, Copier paper is not being bought; Mr. Mehta said that Yes, for the domestic market, there is a demand issue due to lockdown, offices, and schools are shut. But for the essential services, we are supplying paper-like to hospitals, banks, and government offices.

“At the same time, at our Gujarat facility, we are pre-dominantly producing packaging board which is good in demand for pharmaceutical, FMCG, and other industry. In Rayagada plant, we are manufacturing paper which is used for textbooks and school books. Text Book Corporation is in urgent need of book paper for schools which are to open post lockdown,” Mr. Mehta concluded.

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