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Paper and packaging and Timber

Paper and packaging depends on timber.

Paper and packaging (industry) and Timber (commodity): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 4 of 5 · Timber → Paper and packaging

3 of the enterprise types in Paper and packaging depend on timber; for the most dependent, it rates 4 out of 5 on criticality.

  • 3 enterprise types depend on it
  • 4 of 5 highest criticality

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Market pulp producers: wood chips (criticality 4 of 5)
  • Plantation and farm-forestry pulpwood growers: pulpwood logs and chips (criticality 3 of 5)
  • Integrated virgin-fibre paper and paperboard mills: pulpwood (criticality 3 of 5)

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.