Waste Market Pulp/Producer's View, 1991 International Mechanical Pulping Conference Proceedings

Waste paper is typically utilized in integrated mills. Only few market, pulp mills working on recycled raw material have existed. The age of the ventures has most often been quite short.

There are however exceptions. In some cases the backgrounding paper industry has found the market pulp the suitable way to secure the own supply. This gives the opportunity to buffer own need variation by selling pulp to the open market.

The company KERAYSKUITU OY has been in the business since 1978. It runs a 60,000 tons’ deinking plant in southern Finland producing wood containing market pulp from household waste paper. Part of the pulp goes to the domestic shareholder mills and is used in many kinds of paper grades. Up to the half of the production has been exported to European, Japanese and other market area.

The paper presented covers experiences of the technical suitability of the pulp as well as the market response to the nearly unique product. The introduction of the pulp to the customer requires a lot of cooperative work, which usually means some costs also to him. Some typical characteristics of a succesful clientship can be extracted.

The critical point of the business, economy, gets some comments in the paper. The lowering waste quality of the future can be handled with better and more expensive processing. How to comply with customers’ demands without hope of much higher price level?

Consumers’ sensitiveness to the environment reflects to the demand of nature saving products. The supply of waste paper is increased by mandatorial and voluntary activities. These fenomens seem to create the demand of new type of waste market pulp.