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Industry news
Many paper companies announced price increases
Recently, affected by the continued rise in raw material prices, many domestic paper products and packaging companies have announced adjustments to product prices to alleviate the huge pressure caused by rising costs. Analysts said that entering the fourth quarter, the market has entered the traditional peak consumption season, with intensive holiday factors and boosting market demand, providing support for rising paper prices. However, multiple factors such as excessive pressure on industry production capacity, uncertainty in raw material prices, and continued inventory pressure on paper mills may restrict the increase in paper prices.
2024 Tianfu Book Fair opens in Chengdu
The 2024 Tianfu Book Fair, with the annual theme of "The fragrance of books enriches Tianfu's reform and writes a new chapter", opened in Chengdu on the 11th. This book fair attracted more than 30 publishing and media groups and many cultural and creative institutions to participate in the exhibition. The main venue focused on the party's innovative theoretical works, national outstanding boutique publications, local cultural boutique publications, and recently published new books, totaling 60,000 Yuzhong; the online cloud exhibition venue has launched four themed fine book exhibitions: Chinese version of good books, Cantonese version of good books, Sichuan version of good books, and Wenxuan Zhenxuan, bringing a rich variety of fine books to readers.
Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security: Establish and improve the working mechanism for the recognition of craftsmen’s professional skill levels
According to the website of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, recently, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security jointly issued a notice to carry out the identification of professional skills levels of rural construction craftsmen, establish and improve the working mechanism for the identification of professional skills levels of craftsmen, and optimize the structure of the craftsmen team. Cultivate a team of craftsmen who take root in rural areas and serve farmers. The notice clarifies that there are five key tasks in carrying out the identification of craftsmen’s professional skill levels: First, the registration of grade identification institutions. The second is to standardize the level identification. The third is to organize evaluation and supervision. The fourth is to strengthen the supervision and management of accreditation institutions. The fifth is to strengthen the application of grade identification results.
"Green Packaging evaluation" Technology Innovation Center Approved for Construction
Recently, the State Administration for Market Regulation announced the list of key laboratories and technological innovation centers approved for construction. The "green packaging evaluation" State Administration for Market Regulation technological innovation center was approved for construction. The "Green Packaging evaluation" Technology Innovation Center was jointly built by the Shandong Product Quality Inspection Institute and the China Export Commodities Packaging Research Association. It is the only technology innovation center approved by the State Administration for Market Regulation in the domestic green packaging field.
In the next step, the "Green Packaging evaluation" Technology Innovation Center will continue to promote scientific research innovation and applied research, further improve the green packaging evaluation standard system, develop evaluation methods, establish a green packaging database, build a green packaging achievement transformation platform, and create service supervision and service The comprehensive and professional innovation center of the industry contributes to promoting the innovation and development of market supervision technology.
Another new packaging regulation has been officially implemented
The new version of the "Rules for Measurement and Inspection of Net Content of Quantitative Packaged Goods" was officially implemented on October 12. The new version of the "Inspection Rules" revised the definition of quantitatively packaged commodities; optimized the sampling plan for measurement inspection; it is recommended that the numerical part of the net content label should not exceed 3 significant figures; it clearly stipulates that the net content label "should be clearly visible, and the main content of the product packaging The prominent position of the display surface or product label is obviously different from the background color of the product packaging."
The topics for key publications in 2024 have been officially announced
Recently, the General Office of the Central Propaganda Department announced the selection of key publications for 2024. According to the "Notice of the General Office of the Central Propaganda Department on Doing a Good Job in Thematic Publishing in 2024", in this selection, various regions, departments and publishing units carefully The organization reported 2,528 topics for publication. After review and argumentation, 171 topics for key publications in 2024 were finally determined. Among them, there are 151 titles for books and 20 titles for audio-visual and electronic publications. It is reported that the National Publishing Fund Planning and Management Office will provide special support to the key publications selected this time.
Business list
Chiyu Holdings sells 100% equity of Chiyu Packaging for a total of 190 million yuan
Chiyu Holdings announced on October 11 that in order to cope with the sharp decline in cigarette packaging and printing business volume, revitalize cigarette packaging and printing-related assets, and optimize the company's asset structure and resource allocation, the company plans to sell its wholly-owned subsidiary Anhui Chiyu Paper Co., Ltd. 100% equity of Packaging Co., Ltd. The overall transaction price of the target company is set at 190 million yuan. Among them, 99% of the equity was sold to Taihu County Yongyuan Technology Industrial Development Co., Ltd. for a transaction consideration of 188.1 million yuan; 1% of the equity was sold to Taihu Yongxin Packaging Technology Co., Ltd. for a transaction consideration of 1.9 million yuan.
Several scientific and technological achievements of Sun Paper passed expert appraisal
On September 29, at the scientific and technological achievements appraisal meeting organized by the China Light Industry Federation, Sun Paper's "research and development and industrial application of key technologies for the production of high-purity lyocell grade dissolving pulp", "development and industrial application of high-end playing card paper" ", "Research and Application of Special Paper for Drug Instructions" and the "R&D and Industrialization of Key Technologies for High-End Color Cardboard" projects of enterprises affiliated to the controlling shareholder were authoritatively affirmed by the expert group. The appraisal committee unanimously believed that: the overall technology of the "R&D and Industrialization of Key Technologies for High-end Color Cardboard" project has reached the international leading level, and the other three projects have reached the international advanced level, and unanimously agreed to pass the appraisal.