MEXICO'S PAPER PROMISE

摘要

Thus, Mexico imported 67 percent-or about 603,000 mt-of the 900,000 mt of the pulp it consumed in 1994 (the most recent year for which figures are available), according to the National Chamber of the Pulp and Paper Industries (Mexico City). As for its domestic secondary supplies, Mexico recoups about 60 percent of its paper overall and 70 percent of its OCC, the grade currently in greatest import demand. Despite such high recovery rates, however, that still leaves Mexico far short of its scrap needs. In addition, the quality of its recovered paper is an issue. Explains Richard B. Garrett, executive vice president and Mexican market specialist for Shamrock Fibres Inc. (Woodstock, Ill.), a scrap paper broker: "The fiber collected in Mexico has in all likelihood been recycled a few times," and this process shortens and degrades paper fibers, he says. And that, he adds, offers "another reason Mexican mills come to get our fiber."