Ilim Group develops customer network in the South-West of China

Last Thursday, February 28, 2019, in China (Sichuan province, Chengdu) was held a joint conference of the top management Of the group “Ilim” with the largest producers of packaging and paper products of the South-Western provinces of China-Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou. This was reported by the press service of the Group.

The event was organized By the group “Ilim” in partnership with Xiamen C&D Paper and Pulp Co., Ltd. – one of the key partners of “Ilim” for the supply of products to the Chinese market. The topics of the meeting were global trends in the CBP market, a large-scale investment program of Ilim, as well as growth prospects supplies to the southwest of the country.

In 2019, the Ilim Group plans to increase the production and supply of pulp to the Chinese market. With the launch of the new pulp and cardboard plant in Ust-Ilimsk and its release to full capacity by 2025, deliveries to China will grow by another 600 thousand tons of packaging products per year and will total 2.4 million tons of finished products per year (in 2018, the volume of deliveries amounted to 1.5 million tons).

“The main promising growth segments in the structure of CBP products are packaging and silence,” said Timofey Sokolenko, Senior Vice President for sales and supply chain management of the Ilim Group. – Given that the Ilim plants are favorably located in relation to the key partner – China, we plan to increase the supply of our products – pulp and packaging materials –to all regions of the country. The South-Western provinces are a new direction for us, where we come together with our long-standing Chinese distribution partners.”

As President of Xiamen C&D Paper and Pulp Lin Mao (Lin Mao) stressed, “today the state program “one belt, one road” unites Chinese and Russian enterprises. Our company, as a professional service operator in the supply chain of pulp and paper, has been working in the industry for more than 26 years. But the company’s success would not have been achieved without the trust and support of customers and, of course, without a key supplier and a reliable partner – the Ilim Group. I am sure that work in new regions of China will be a continuation of our fruitful cooperation.”