South American packaging industry will usher in a new wave of investment under the "COVID-19" epidemic

   Tips: According to media reports, in the next few years, there will be 8 projects under construction or new construction in the pulp and metal packaging industries in South America, and Paraguay, a Central and South American country, will also enter the pulp and metal packaging industries. The scale of 8 construction projects.

According to media reports, in the next few years, there will be 8 projects under construction or new construction in the pulp and metal packaging industries in South America, and Paraguay, a Central and South American country, will also enter the pulp and metal packaging industries. The scale of the eight construction projects totals 18 billion U.S. dollars. Among them, the new domestic investment projects in Brazil will exceed 10 billion U.S. dollars. The oligopoly position of Brazil's pulp and metal packaging industry will be further consolidated.

It is said that starting from the end of 2021, the pulp and metal packaging industry will continue to receive large investments. In order to avoid oversupply of pulp and metal packaging and long-term pressure on prices, investors and suppliers are expected to implement new mergers and reorganizations in the industry .

According to the report, the investment in pulp and metal packaging production lines starting in 2021 will increase the annual output of packaging boxes using eucalyptus as raw materials to 14.8 million tons, which is equivalent to the current world's largest paper packaging box manufacturer Suzano short fiber. 1.3 times the pulp output.

In the announced construction project of the packaging box production line made of short fibers and water-soluble pulp, Chile's Arauco Paper will start from the fourth quarter of 2021, and its annual output will reach 1.27 million tons; from the fourth quarter of 2021, Brazil Bracell Paper The annual production capacity of the industry will also be expanded to 2.8 million tons.

Brazil LD Celulose plans to start a project with an annual output of 500,000 tons in Sao Paulo State starting in the first quarter of 2022; UMP Paper will have an annual pulp production capacity of 2.1 million tons starting in the fourth quarter of 2022.

From the fourth quarter of 2022, Paracel Paper's pulp production line will be put into operation, with an annual production capacity of 1.5 million tons of raw materials for paper packaging boxes.

Beginning in early 2023, Brazil's Suzano Paper's annual production capacity of packaging materials will reach 2.2 million tons. Starting from the fourth quarter of that year, Brazil's Euca Energy paper industry's annual production capacity of packaging materials reached 2.1 million tons. The production date of the new production line of Brazil's Eldorado Paper has not yet been determined. It is estimated that the annual production capacity of short fiber and water-soluble pulp, the raw materials for packaging boxes, will reach 2.3 million tons.

Paraguay's first entry into the pulp and metal packaging industry is Paracel Paper. In the second half of 2022 or early 2023, the company's production line in Concepcion will be put into operation. As partners, the Paraguayan fuel distributor Zapag and the Swedish investor Gilindas have established bases in Cuiaba, Mato Grosso State, Brazil, and Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, to ensure their security Paper packaging boxes--supply of eucalyptus, a raw material for pulp.

Invested by industrialist Gilberto Goellner, the Euca Energy paper production line built in Alta Araguaia, Mato Grosso, will start production at the end of 2023, but there are still problems in the supply of eucalyptus as a raw material.

LD Celulose, a joint venture between the Austrian investor Lenzing Group and Duratex Group, will start production in Minas in the first quarter of 2022, with an annual output of 500,000 tons of water-soluble pulp, the raw material for paper packaging boxes. In addition, Finnish capital UPM has invested a total of US$2.7 billion to build a production line in Uruguay, which will be put into operation at the end of 2022.