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Paper Paperboard Mill based on Locally
Available Raw Materials

• Introduction
• Need Assessment
• Proposed Project
• Technical Evaluation
• Financial Evaluation

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Paper Paperboard ManufacturingIntroduction

• About 65 of local paper products use local grass
  and wheat straw as raw material
• 25 are based on locally available waste paper
• Existing 60 mills are small and medium size
• Annual installed capacity 400,000 tons
• High quality paper and newsprint is imported

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Paper Paperboard ManufacturingNeed Assessment

• Increase in local demand
• Major factors affecting demand
• Education sector developments and future
  education policy
• Economic growth trends and projections of GDP
• Trends in industrialization and future
  projections
• Imports of paper, paper products and pulp valuing
  over Rs. 3.5 billion and increasing at a high
  percentage

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Paper Paperboard ManufacturingProposed Project

• The objective of the project is to establish a
  Paper and Paperboard manufacturing unit in
  Pakistan
• Project scope
• Arrangement for acquisition of machinery,
  equipment and technology from reputed suppliers
• Arrangement for raw materials e.g. bagasse, wheat
  straw, rice husk, wood and waste paper fit for
  pulping.
• Meeting environmental challenges.
• Arrangement for land and infrastructure.
• Liaise with customers.
• Arrangement of HRD and training.
• The Project capacity is estimated to be 100,000
  tons per annum.
• The total manpower of the Project will be about
  800
• Project be located in Sindh - easy access to raw
  materials.

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Paper Paperboard ManufacturingTechnical
Evaluation

• Pulping unit, paper making machinery and
  paperboard manufacturing units
• Technology suited to local raw materials e.g.
  rice husk, wheat straw, bagasse etc
• Cleaner production technology / end of pipe
  treatment options

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Paper Paperboard ManufacturingFinancial
Evaluation

• Investment - Rs. 2.5 billion
• IRR - 20