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Myanmar Targets to Produce 18,530 Tons of Paper in 2001-02
Myanmar's three existing paper plants are targeted to produce a total of 18,530 tons of various kinds of paper in the present fiscal year ending in March 2002.
According to the Ministry of Industry No.1, the three state-run paper plants under the ministry, respectively located in Mon state, Bago and Yangon divisions, are producing stationery and print paper, exercise books, brown paper, packing paper and tissue paper.
A new newsprint paper factory, in Mandalay division, set up in April this year with the assistance of the Tianjin Machinery Import and Export Corporation of China, will produce 7,500 tons of paper annually.
According to the sources, Myanmar is also building a 200-ton-daily-capacity bleached bamboo pulp factory in Ayeyawaddy division's Thabaung township, buying in machinery from the China Metallurgical Construction (Group) Corporation. When completed, the plant will produce 60,000 tons of the pulp yearly.
Meanwhile, Myanmar plans to add 14 more paper and pulp mills of 50 to 500 ton daily capacity in different states and divisions during the five-year-plan period from 2001-02 to 2005-06.
According to the ministry, Myanmar's per capita consumption of paper is 2.6 kilograms and its total domestic paper demand in the present fiscal year of 2001-02 is 117,600 tons.
The country produced 16,894 tons of paper in 2000, accounting for only 14.36 percent of the total demand, and it has still to import over 100,000 tons of the paper or 85.64 percent of the total demand.
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