Craft Paper Industry

We can divide Paper industries into two categories. One is the Paper from Paper board industries and another one is News print Industries.

Paper board industries are of three types. One type of paper which is used for Writing and Printing purpose which is a type of unit. Second one is the craft paper, Duplex, Grey, White board manufacturing unit. And the last one is the Tissue paper, Fine arts paper, Greeting card paper is another kind of manufacturing industry.

Another division of Paper industry is the manufacturing of Newsprint which is used in printing of News papers and Magazines.

About Craft Paper

Craft paper is very important for the industrial usage papers. This is manufactured with Old paper pulp and a stick which is prepared from Bleaching. Even they will laminate this paper depends on the requirement of this paper to a particular industry. The craft paper usage in the Indian industrial paper usage is around 55%.

Usage of Craft Paper

Out of total Craft Paper manufactured by the industry, 85% of the craft paper is used for the Packing of Goods. For the packing different items like Refrigerators, Televisions, Air conditioners, Washing machines and fruits they uses Corgated Box which is manufactured with Craft Papers. They are even using this craft paper in the manufacturing of Cone tubes which are used in Paper mills, plastic or poly film packing tubes and Textiles tubes. In the packing of Paper bags, carry bags, Meals plates, Tiffin plates, laminated goods they are using craft papers.

Demand:

The manufacturing of the cargated boxes in the country had great demand and nearly 8% of it is produced every year. There is almost 10-20% of development in the industry according to the survey conducted. But there is no such craft markets equal to that demand. According to the statistics of HDFC there is nearly 21, 11,000 tones of craft demand in the market. And there are chances even to increase it for 28, 37,000 for the year 2010-11 and 30, 63,000 for the year 2011-12. The craft paper is prepared from the waste material and from the waste craft.

Preparation method:

The waste material and the craft are made into a pulp and bleaching is added to it according to the necessity. By the usage of bleaching the colors can be changed. Later this pulp s made into a paper by using a machine and then dried and are rolled into paper bundles and are finally packed. The cost of the craft paper is decided based on its quality, breakage capacity and on its weight.

Industry:

• It costs nearly 5 crores to establish 20 tones of craft industry by the waste material produced from the agricultural material.
• The craft recycling industry which had the capacity of producing 15 tones project costs 5.35 crores.