Industry Statistics 2018

摘要

According to CPI figures,total UK production in 2018 increased relative to 2017;newsprint saw a 4.7% rise in output (relative to a capacity outage in 2017),tissue a 0.5% increase (Tawd came online during the year),and the speciality sector grew by 7.5%-however the largest volume product by far,corrugated,declined by 3.2% in this time period,which limited the total rise to just under 1%.The recovered paper market saw a 3% decrease in collections against 2017,totalling 7.55Mt.The destination of this recovered paper continued to show major changes.While UK consumption remained similar to 2017 at 40%,there was another sharp decline in exports to China,down to under 27% of the total collected (against 37% in 2017 and 47% in 2016).Operation National Sword has caused major changes to our recovered paper exports,with India being the major beneficiary,and a significantly wider diversification to smaller countries than had hitherto been the case.