Wednesday, December 12, 2012

China's Threat to US Paper Producers

Wisconsin’s struggling paper industry encounters ‘sudden, potent adversary’ in ‘bankrolled and bioengineered’ China
Over the course of the last decade, China tripled its paper production and in 2009 overtook the United States as the world's biggest papermaker. It can now match the annual output of Wisconsin, America's top papermaking state, in the span of three weeks.
Paper makes for an exceedingly unlikely focus. After decimating its natural forest cover decades ago, China lacks a fundamental necessity for printing-quality paper: wood pulp.