The number may not yet be large but there have been significant recent investments by major Chinese paper companies in North American counterparts-with the UK also being eyed. With potential bans on imported recovered paper looming over the next couple of years,Chinese contain-erboard producers are taking steps to move some production into the United States.The most significant among a handful of US purchases this year is the acquisition of two mills in Maine and Wisconsin by ND Paper,a subsidiary of China's Nine Dragons Paper.In October,ND Paper announced that those mills would use old corrugated(OCC)and mixed paper to make almost 3 100 metric tonnes of unbleached recycled pulp per day.About 2 400 tonnes of pulp per day will be shipped to China for use in Nine Dragons containerboard mills.The remaining 700 tonnes per day will be used to feed a converted containerboard machine at the Wisconsin mill.The fibre likely to be used by those two mills represents about 9% of the average amount of recovered paper shipped from the US to China in 2016.
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