Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study: Status, Trends and Prospects for Non-Wood and Recycled Fibre in China

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by

Zhu Zhaohua, Jiang Chunqian, Zhong Maogong, Wang Huafu
The International Farm Forestry Training Centre
Chinese Academy of Forestry

WORKING PAPER SERIES

Working Paper No: APFSOS/WP/35

Forestry Policy and Planning Division, Rome
Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok

January 1998

FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

The Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study is being undertaken under the auspices of the Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission. This report comes under Workplan Number E25.6.

This electronic document has been scanned using optical character recognition (OCR) software and careful manual recorrection. Even if the quality of digitalisation is high, the FAO declines all responsibility for any discrepancies that may exist between the present document and its original printed version.

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INFORMATION NOTE ON ASIA-PACIFIC FORESTRY SECTOR OUTLOOK STUDY

1. BACKGROUND

1.1 Panel Industrial and Non-wood Fibre Resources
1.2 Paper-making and Non-wood Fibre Resources

1.2.1 Introduction
1.2.2 Development

2. DEMAND FOR AND UTILIZATION OF NON-WOOD AND RECYCLED FIBRE

2.1 Wood Budget
2.2 Forestry Policy
2.3 A Broad market of non-wood fibre resources
2.4 Impact on the Rural Economy

3. RESOURCES OF NON-WOOD FIBRE IN CHINA

3.1 Resources of Natural Fibre Plants
3.2 Agricultural Residues in China

3.2.1 Agriculture Harvesting Residues
3.2.2 Agricultural Processing Residues

3.3 Bamboo

3.3.1 Bamboo-based Panels
3.3.2 Bamboo pulp and paper

3.4 Resource and Output of Reeds
3.5 The Production and Demand for Bagasse
3.6 The Resources of Hemp and Flax Fibre
3.7 Waste paper

4. ANALYSIS ON THE SITUATION AND TREND

4.1 Paper-making Industry

4.1.1 Imbalance Between Supply and Demand of Production

5. DEVELOPMENT PREDICTION

5.1 Projected Requirements for Paper and Paperboard
5.2 Wood pulp
5.3 The Estimated Production of Reeds
5.4 Prediction on Output and Demand of Bagasse
5.5 The Prediction of Bamboo Resource and Pulp Outputs
5.6 Recycled Fibre (Waste Paper)
5.7 The Estimated Supply of Different Fibre Materials in 2010
5.8 The Estimated Supply of Different Fibre Material in 2010
5.9 Artificial Panel Industry

6. CONSTRAINTS TO NON-WOOD FIBRE UTILIZATION

6.1 Paper-making

6.1.1 Market requirement
6.1.2 Poor Equipment and Techniques; Dominance of small mills
6.1.3 Serious Pollution

6.2 Panel Industry

ANNEX 1 - MAIN PHYSICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF NON-WOOD FIBRE BASED PARTICLEBOARDS

ANNEX 2 - MAIN PHYSICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF NON-WOOD FIBRE BASED MDF