Late last month, Firoz Nathani of Ruby Macons Limited discussed the current and future demand for recovered fiber from India and its effects on the global marketplace, at the most recent New Jersey Paper Recycling Association meeting. Nathani reported that India's demand is approximately 8 million tons and growing 10 percent per year. Eighty per- cent of the demand growth is recovered paper, based at 650,000 metric tons (MT). He also said that 65 percent of the recovered paper will have to be imported, so the growing need is approximately 400,000 MT per year. Europe and U.S. will be the major supplier of this growing need, and currently the Middle East is a big supplier but the incremental increase will be minimal.
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