China's paper giant Nine Dragons Paper is in Beihai, Guangxi, at the construction site of the forestry-pulp-paper integration project. about 7,000 workers are speeding up the construction, striving to put the first production line into operation in June this year, and the other two production lines will also be It is planned to start production successively in September and December.
Zheng Kailun, administrative manager of Nine Dragons Paper (Beihai) Co., Ltd., said in an interview with reporters on the 7th that Nine Dragons Paper (Beihai) Forestry, Pulp and Paper Integration Project is committed to building the world's largest single modern pulp and paper production base. It will be completed in 2025 and reach full production.
Nine Dragons Paper (Beihai) forestry-pulp-paper integration project is the 10th production base built by Nine Dragons Paper in China. Upstream and downstream industries, with a total investment of 35 billion yuan. As a major project coordinated and promoted by the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and the "Double Hundred and Double New" project, the Nine Dragons Paper (Beihai) forestry-pulp-paper integration project mainly produces high-end packaging paper, technological and environmentally friendly food-grade plastic-replacement white cardboard, etc., the project After fully completed and put into operation, the annual output value will be 70 billion yuan and the annual tax revenue will be 3 billion yuan, which will promote the complementary advantages of products and promote the development of forestry, pulp and paper integrated industries.
"Since the project officially started construction in 2022, it has completed a cumulative investment of over 8 billion yuan, and the follow-up construction is also stepping up. After full production, the production capacity will reach 7.95 million tons." Zheng Kailun said.
In recent years, Beihai City has proposed to take global paper giants such as Sun Paper, Nine Dragons Paper, and Stora Enso as leaders in the city's Tieshangang (Linhai) Industrial Zone to accelerate the introduction of downstream packaging and printing, carton making and other applications Industrial projects, build and improve the whole industrial chain cluster of high-end paper industry, and strive to build the world's largest high-end paper production base with the most complete categories. At present, Sun Paper and Stora Enso have been put into production, and Nine Dragons Paper is accelerating its construction.
Not far from Nine Dragons Paper, Guangxi Sun Paper's 3.5 million tons forestry-pulp-paper integration project has a total investment of 22.8 billion yuan and covers an area of 3,433 mu. The white cardboard workshop of the project will start construction in December 2020, and will be put into production on December 10, 2021. Currently, its three production lines of white cardboard, cultural paper, and special paper are running at full capacity every day, and are sprinting towards the goal of a 10% growth rate. .
It is reported that Guangxi Sun Paper plans to drive dozens of upstream and downstream enterprises to enter Beihai, and 15 of them are currently in operation. The entry of industry leaders has also driven the development of logistics, chemical, packaging, design and other industries. An industrial chain around papermaking has initially formed in Beihai.
According to official statistics, the output value of Beihai's high-end paper industry will increase by 212.2% year-on-year in 2022, accounting for 6.9% of the city's total industrial output value above the designated size, driving a growth of 5.4 percentage points in the city's total industrial output value above the designated size. The development of the high-end paper industry has entered the "fast lane".
The relevant person in charge of the Beihai Bureau of Industry and Information Technology said that Beihai is actively promoting key projects such as the Sun Paper Industry Forestry-Pulp-Paper Integration Project, Nine Dragons Paper (Beihai) Forestry-Pulp-Paper Integration Project and Guangxi Dongsheng Paper Auxiliaries, ViewSonic The construction of a series of upstream and downstream supporting projects such as ultra-high-end papermaking equipment manufacturing and services, and the deep processing of golden leaf high-end paper will continue to carry out the "service enterprise tackling action" to promote the rapid development of the high-end paper industry. After the above-mentioned leading projects are all completed, Beihai will form a pulp production capacity of 14.4 million tons and become the world's largest integrated production base of forestry, pulp and paper.