The CZECH Pulp and Paper Industry Supplement of Czech Business And

The CZECH Pulp and Paper Industry Supplement of Czech Business And

2/ 2007 Supplement of Czech Business and Trade The CZECH Pulp and Paper Industry THE CZECH PULP AND PAPER INDUSTRY THE CZECH PULP AND PAPER INDUSTRY The Pulp and Paper Supplement of: Czech Business and Trade 03-04/2007 Industry Stresses CONTENTS: INTRODUCTION 3 The Pulp and Paper Industry Environmentally ANALYSIS 4 Good Prospects for the Pulp and Paper Industry 6 The Czech Pulp and Paper Industry and the Environment in the 21st Century Friendly Production LEGISLATION 7 Corrugated Cardboard - an Environmentally Friendly Material 8 The Packaging Act Amendment Brings Good, But Also Less Favourable Changes Blanka Ksandrová, Ministry of Industry and Trade, e-mail: [email protected], www.mpo.cz DESIGN 10 Innovation Supports Promotion and Marketing EDUCATION 14 Education and Research in the Pulp and Paper Sector Have Won Renown even Abroad The pulp and paper industry is one of the most forward- looking branches of the Czech manufacturing industry. ENTERPRISE In relation to the European Union, Czech enterprises 16 Paper Made to Measure from the Krkonoše within this branch account for approximately 1 % of WE ARE INTRODUCING total EU output. Pulp and paper products are used in all 18 Hand-paper Mill – Combination of Tradition and Exclusiveness branches of the manufacturing industry, especially in CZECH TOP printing and packing production. For a number of years, 20 Modern Plants, Ecology, and Popularity of Products the branch has been pursuing a sustainable 22 Biocel Paskov – One of the Important Pulp Mills in Europe 24 Clever Production Technology Gives Protection and Spares the Environment development strategy. RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT 26 Paper Research Is Building on Co-operation with Companies A Decisive Role Is Played by Large Companies In the pulp and paper industry, owing to the character of SURVEY its production, a decisive role is played by large 27 Poll of Successful Companies Operating in the Pulp and Paper Industry companies, which have approximately a 60 % share of INFORMATION revenues from the sale of their own products and 30 Exhibitions and Fairs in the Area of Pulp and Paper Industry in the Czech Republic in 2007 services and about a 50 % share of the workforce in the 30 Important Contacts branch. Of the total number of 147 companies with PRESENTATION OF COMPANIES: 20 and more employees, 35 are under foreign control 2 Böttcher ČR, k.s. (28.3 %). 15 KDN Packaging s.r.o. 17 KRKONOŠSKÉ PAPÍRNY a.s. Exports and Imports 19 PAPÍRNY BRNO a.s. 23 INAPA s.r.o. The territorial distribution of trade exchange in the 31 EMBA, spol. s r.o. branch has been practically unchanged for a number of 32 Lobby Česká republika, s. r. o. years and is showing only minimum changes in PAPOS v.o.s., Omega Hořovice spol. s r.o., ELMES s.r.o., ARTYPA Holubov, spol. s r.o., Smurfit Kappa Czech s.r.o., Duropack Bupak Obaly a.s., JIP - Papírny Větřní, a.s. comparison with the previous year. This fact is confirmation of the Czech Republic’s long-term trade MK ČR E 6379 relations with its partners, Germany, Slovakia, Poland, This magazine is published as a supplement to the economic bi-monthly issued in English and Italy. (Czech Business and Trade), German (Wirtschaft und Handel in der Tschechischen Republik), French (Industrie et commerce tchèques), Spanish (Empresas y negocios en la Optimistic Prospects of the Pulp and Paper República Checa), and Russian ( ). óe¯cÍafl Úop„o‚Îfl Ë Ôe‰ÔËÌËÏaÚeθcÚ‚o Industry Managing Editor: Jana Vápeníková Despite the dynamic growth of paper and paperboard Editor: Naďa Vávrová Graphic Design: Helena Dvořáková, Miloslav Bucvan consumption, the Czech Republic is still below the level of advanced EU states, and its further growth, to a level Address: PP Agency, s.r.o., Myslíkova 25 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic of up to 200 kg per head of the population, can be Phone: +420 221 406 623, 221 406 626 expected. This would correspond to the total Fax: +420 224 934 383 consumption of approximately 2 million tons a year. To E-mail: [email protected] attain this target, higher investments will have to be www.ppagency.cz made in the industry. The optimistic forecasts for the www.mpo.cz/cbt pulp and paper industry are underlined by the fact that Deadline: 24/1/2007 this is a branch based on renewable raw material sources Attitudes expressed by the authors of articles in this magazine are not necessarily taking advantage of an easy recovery of its production, consistent with the viewpoint of the Publisher. generally considered to be environment-friendly. PP Agency Company with the ISO 9001 certified quality management system for publishing services I Cover photo: www.photocombo.cz 3 | ANALYSIS Good Prospects for the Pulp and Paper Industry Petr Filgas, Ministry of Industry and Trade, e-mail: [email protected], www.mpo.cz The pulp and paper industry is one of from the point of view of employment, lowering of the unfavourable balance the most forward-looking branches of it accounted for 1.5 % of the workforce of trade in wood mass and paper the Czech manufacturing industry, with in the manufacturing industry as articles by nearly EUR 56 900 was a good environmental record. Its a whole. In 2005, the situation of the mainly due to higher exports than production is based on renewable raw sector within the branch did not change imports. In 2006, further lowering of materials (wood mass) and secondary in comparison with 2004. the unfavourable balance of trade is raw materials (waste and scrap paper), expected. mostly of Czech origin. Its products are Basic Production Characteristics The decisive partner of the Czech used in all the other branches of the A detailed analysis examining the Republic in exports is Germany, manufacturing industry, particularly basic production characteristics of accounting for 22 %, whose share in printing. development in the pulp and paper comparison with the previous year The industry’s high energy industry has revealed the following increased by 1 %. Its other important consumption is partly offset by its use trends: partners are Slovakia with a share of of renewable sources (mainly biomass). • Revenues from the sale of OPaS 13 % (-2 %), Poland with 12 % (+2 %), Currently this environmentally friendly (in constant prices) in branch NACE and Italy with 8 %. method of biomass incineration covers 21 in 2005 increased by 13.1 % In imports, too, Germany continues to approximately one-fourth of total gross in comparison with 2004, to EUR be our largest trade partner, with energy consumption. 2 057.5 million, showing a steady a share of 34 %, despite a 2 % decline According to the international NACE growth in the period under review. in comparison with the previous year. classification, the branch is divided into Faster growth in the past period was Coming next are Austria with 9 % two sectors: 21.1 Manufacturing of observed in sector 21.2. (+1 %), Slovakia with 8 % (+1 %) and pulp and paper and 21.2 Manufactu- • The book added value indicator (in Poland also with 8 % (+1 %). ring of articles of paper and paper- constant prices), with the exception The graph and the list show that links board. of 2003 (consequences of disastrous to EU states are decisive for this flooding in the previous year and the country’s trade exchange. In 2005, EU Shares of Sectors in Revenues effect of exchange rate changes), also states accounted for 80 % of the Czech The shares of NACE 21 sectors in shows a rising trend (2005/2004 year- Republic’s total exports and for 90 % of revenues from the sale of own products on-year index approx. 121.5 %). its imports. and services (OPaS) in current prices • The number of employees in 2005 in 2005 show that sector 21.2 increased by 234 persons in Investment Manufacturing of articles of paper and comparison with the previous year, Between 2000 and 2006, material paperboard in that year accounted for a 1.2 % year-on-year growth. investments amounted to around 53 % of revenues from the sale of • While in the paper and paperboard EUR 105 million a year, of which OPaS, 1 % more than in 2004. From the manufacturing sector employment investments in machinery and long-term point of view, the shares of rose by 4.6 %, in the pulp and paper equipment to approx. EUR 88 million. the sectors within the branch change sector it declined by 5.5 %. The volume of direct foreign only minimally. investments in the pulp and paper In the pulp and paper industry, in view Foreign Trade industry in 2004 were worth approx. of the character of production, the Most strongly represented in total EUR 776 million, 10.7 % more than in decisive role in 2004 was played by exports of SCP 21 products in 2005 was the previous year. large companies (with 205-999 group SCP 21.12 Manufacture of paper employees), which accounted for 60 % and paperboard, with 38.6 %, followed International Comparisons and of revenues from the sale of OPaS and by SCP 21.22 Manufacture of Competitiveness for 50 % of the number of employees household and sanitary goods and of After the Czech Republic’s accession to in the branch. Of the total number of toilet requisites with the highest growth the EU, the Czech paper industry 147 companies with 20 and more of exports in comparison with 2004 (by became an integral part of the all- employees, 35 are under foreign 20.6 %). European paper industry. This control (28.3 %). In group SCP 21 imports are higher happened twelve years after it was In 2005, NACE 21 accounted for 2 % than exports, especially because of the detached from its association with of the revenues of the manufacturing import of special kinds of paper articles.

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