Growth with Sustainability
As an association of large, dynamic paper manufacturers with a global vision, Indian Paper Manufacturers Association (IPMA) presents a broad-based platform to project the Indian paper industry’s views and articulate its strategy.
The overriding objective of IPMA is to promote the interests of the paper industry in India and help it achieve global competitiveness while striving to be an active participant in the policymaking process.
“Paper industry is taking new strides in India and IPMA member mills are at the cutting edge of new technology, sustainability, manufacturing excellence and poised to take the Make in India programme many notches forward.
The website offers insights in some of these new initiatives being taken by IPMA besides an overview of paper industry in India”
Pawan Agarwal
President, IPMA
OVERVIEW
The Indian paper industry accounts for about 5% of the world’s production of paper.
INITIATIVES
Over the last two decades, social forestry has brought around 125000 hectares ..
STATISTICS
Production, import & export trends of Indian paper industry in a graphical presentation.
FILMS
ABOUT US
As a national industry body, Indian Paper Manufacturers Association (IPMA) represents the resurgent and organised face of the paper industry in India.
IPMA is the apex and national body which represents the interests and development of the paper industry in the country. IPMA membership comprises large integrated pulp & paper mills from the private and public sector with a product mix of all varieties of paper (writing, printing, packaging, paperboard, speciality and newsprint) located in all regions of the country using conventional fibre such as wood & bamboo and also unconventional raw materials like recycled fibre/wastepaper, agro residue, viz. bagasse and wheat straw.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Paper is fully biodegradable and doesn’t cause any impact on the environment. Moreover, it is made from resources that are renewable and can be easily regenerated. The Paper industry is not only conserving the environment but also regenerating natural resources. Not only that, the paper industry recycles most of the wastepaper that is generated. The industry recycles agricultural waste which otherwise would have been burnt in the fields. The Paper industry has therefore struck a fine balance between growth and sustainability, unmatched by many other industries.
As opposed to the common perception, the paper industry in India is not cutting forests. Over the last few years, the industry has been encouraging the growth of trees by the farmers on degraded lands for sourcing wood. In fact, the paper industry grows more trees than what it harvests and is therefore wood-positive. Not only that, the growth of trees by the paper industry is leading to the absorption of carbon dioxide and helping the cause of mitigating climate change. The agroforestry model adopted by the Indian Paper Industry is one-of-its-kind in the world.
The Indian Pulp & Paper Industry provides direct employment to 5 lakh persons, and indirectly to around 15 lakhs, and has an annual turnover of over INR 70,000 crores (domestic market size of INR 80,000 crores).
IPMA MEMBERS
IPMA membership comprises large integrated pulp & paper mills from the private and public sector with a product mix of all varieties of paper (writing, printing, packaging, paperboard, speciality and newsprint) located in all regions of the country.
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