This conference was co-hosted by:

China Technical Association of Paper Industry, China International Pulp and Paper Research Institute and ABTCP.

 

This conference was undertook by:

China Pulp and Paper Magazines Publisher.

 

This conference was organized by:

Suzano.

 

The name list of attended leaders and guests: (Only part of them is listed)

Bo Sun, the Assistant General manager of Poly Sinolight, the Chairwoman, General manager and the Secretary of the CPC Party Committee of China International Pulp and Paper Research Institute;

Fuming Jin, the dirtctor of academic exchanging committee, China Technical Association of Paper Industry and the technical director of China Light Industry International Engineering Co., Ltd.;

Guigan Fang, the deputy director of academic exchanging committee, China Technical Association of Paper Industry and the researcher of Institute of Chemical Industry of Forest Products, CAF;

Chao Tian, the Vice General manager of China International Pulp and Paper Research Institute;

Baoping Cao, the Deputy General manager of China International Pulp and Paper Research Institute.

 

The conference attracted nearly 200 people from home and abroad, upstream and downstream industries in pulp and paper industry. They are experts, scholars, enterprise representatives and teachers and students of universities.

 

 

Fuming Jin, the director of academic exchanging committee, China Technical Association of Paper Industry and the technical director of China Light Industry International Engineering Co., Ltd. gave a speech on behalf of the host. He expressed his sincere thanks to the ABTCP for its support, and extended a warm welcome to the experts and guests attending the conference.

 

He expressed that the proposal of the “carbon peaking and carbon neutrality” goal has redefined the target path of green and low-carbon transformation and the mission vision of sustainable development in pulp and paper industry. As one of the key industries of energy conservation and carbon reduction, pulp and paper industry must accelerate its transformation from clean and sustainable raw materials, digitized and intelligentized manufacturing processes, green and high-powered products.

 

We should continue to optimize the industry structure, develop biomass and new energy projects, implement energy-saving and carbon-reducing actions, promote the deep integration of industry and information technology, improve the industry upgrading of the industrial Internet, and build a green and low-carbon industrial ecological chain, so as to integrate into and serve the economy of our society better.

 

 

 

Darcio Berni, the executive director of ABTCP delivered a speech and introduced the relevant situation of pulp and paper industry in Brazil online. He said that, as one of the world’s main pulp and paper producers, Brazil will continue to expand its investments in R&D, afforestation and innovative manufacturing. At the same time, they also hope to further expand cooperation with China’s forest products processing industry, and jointly commit to developing professional technology of the whole industry chain in pulp and paper industry.

 

 

 

Guigan Fang, the deputy director of academic exchanging committee, China Technical Association of Paper Industry and the researcher of Institute of Chemical Industry of Forest Products, CAF presided over the conference. We invited 12 experts and scholars from China, Brazil and Australia to share their opinions on popular topics such as how to reform the energy saving and emission reduction technology of the paper industry under the background of “carbon peaking and carbon neutrality”, how to develop advanced paper-based functional materials under the policy of building a Scientific and Technological Powerhouse, and how to realize the innovative development of “replacing plastic with paper” under the background of plastic restricting and banning.

 

 

 

Grasp the global market dynamics to build a green and low-carbon industry

 

José Carlos da Fonseca, the executive director of Brazil Forest Industry Association addressed a keynote report on “The forest industry of brazil”. He presented the outstanding contribution of the Brazilian forest industry on achieving carbon reduction and carbon neutrality under the current climate crisis. The Brazilian forest industry has developed about 5,000 renewable, recyclable, mostly biodegradable bio-based products. The share of renewable energy generation has already reached 90%.

 

 

 

 

Mr. João Cordeiro, the principal of AFAR Group introduced the dynamics of global paper market and the development of pulp and paper industry both in China and Brazil with the title of “Market dynamics in global pulp and paper industry: especially in Brazil”. He mentioned in the report that the global trade volume of pulp has reached 70 million tons, and the demand of paper towels and wrapping paper had the fastest growing speeds compared with other paper products. The further increase in industry demand for pulp and recycled fibers had been driven.

 

 

 

 

 

Give full play to the advantages of green biomass and achieve high value utilization of resources

 

Dr. Jin Yongcan from Nanjing Forestry University introduced the main sources and development history of carbon emissions in paper industry with the theme of “The carbon properties in pulp and paper industry and the resourceful utilization of lignin”.

 

He analyzed the problems that we had to face if we want to realize the “carbon peaking and carbon neutrality” target, and pointed out that the high-quality sustainable development of paper industry needs the strengthening of recycle, the utilization of waste resources and the reduction of the consumption of energy resources. He believes that applying industrial lignin from pulping to agricultural and forestry crops is an effective way to realize lignin resource utilization and carbon balance of fiber raw materials.

 

 

 

Junming Xu, the researcher from the academic exchanging committee, China Technical Association of Paper Industry and the researcher of Institute of Chemical Industry of Forest Products, CAF released a report about “The development of lignin based chemicals and cutting-edge technologies”. He introduced the strategies for high-value utilization of wood fibers, such as the thermal conversion of matters from forest into biofuels or the separate and utilization of matters to obtain lignin and cellulose. He paid attention to the development of lignin based chemicals and leading technologies, such as lignin separation, sulfonation, capping, and derivative electrocatalytic reactions.

 

 

 

Jose Tomas Corthorn, the chief representative of CMPC China delivered a presentation about “The strategy of CMPC towards a circular bioeconomy”. He shared the experiences across the entire value chain of the wood industry enriched and expanded by CMPC, and introduced its research and innovation on the aspect of biomass products, sustainable packaging, pulp molding products and so on.

 

Construct the properties of paper-based material

Research and develop advanced functional materials

 

Linxin Zhong, the doctor from South China University of Technology made a report entitled “Paper-based flexible supercapacitor electrode”. He shared the functional characteristics and potential application of a variety of paper-based flexible supercapacitor electrode materials, such as  nitrogen-doped carbon sheet or polyaniline (PANI) nanocellulosic fiber flexible composite materials, ultra-high capacity foldable supercapacitor electrode materials, and electrostatic self-assembly paper-based flexible composite electrodes.

 

 

 

With the title of “The progress in research and application of advanced cellulose functional materials”, Shuangxi Nie, the professor of Guangxi University introduced the research progress and application prospect of advanced cellulose functional materials in energy collection and conversion, pulse direct current conversion, and water collection. He also analyzed the research of cellulose functional materials in molecular regulation, structural design, structure-activity relationship and so on.

 

 

 

Wei shen, the professor from Monash University made a report entitled “The improvement strategy of paper-based analysis device in colorimetric performance and practical application”. He summarized the working principle of paper-based colorimetric analytical devices (PADs), the strategy of improving colorimetric performance, and the designing programme of improving portability. He discussed especially on the principle of controlling liquid-paper interaction based on PADs design to increase color saturation. The image acquisition technology and the algorithms of digital image process related to color accuracy and sensitivity were introduced in detail, too. These technologies will be conducive to develop and design PADs with higher sensitivity and portability.

 

 

 

 

Dr. Xue Zhang from China International Pulp and Paper Research Institute addressed a report of “The research progress on the barrier properties of vapor of paper-based materials”. Xue Zhang started from the multi-layer structure of paper-based materials. She introduced the transmission mechanism of vapor on the multi-layer structure of paper-based materials, analyzed the difficulties of blocking the vapor, and explained the research progress about the controlling of 3D internal structure and the modification of surface structure which can improve the vapor barrier property of paper-based materials. In addition, Dr. Zhang evaluated the barrier property of vapor of superhydrophobic paper-based materials.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The innovation of multi-transformation of pulp and the green development in “using paper instead of plastic”

 

Ms. Beatriz Santucci, the senior researcher of Suzano gave a presentation on the title of “To develop eucalyptus sulfate pulp as an alternative pulp for manufacturing environment-friendly packaging products”. According to the report, Suzano produces about 10.9 million tons of eucalyptus pulp per year and has a sustainable management model and production process. Beatriz Santucci also talked about the excellent physical properties and cost competitiveness of bleached hardwood kraft pulp, which will further expand the market demand in the future, and can replace other fiber raw materials to achieve the goal of “use one kind of fiber instead of the other fibers.”

 

 

 

With the title of “The fiber source paper auxiliaries and the technological innovation of ‘using paper instead of plastic’”, Jing Shen, the professor of the Northeast Forestry University proposed a research programme to transform pulp fibers into multiple products with the help of molding by comparing the cross-over characteristics of plastics and paper fields. She said that the use of fiber source green paper auxiliaries can improve the porosity, wet strength, barrier properties of paper, etc., in order to achieve the development goal of “replacing plastic by paper”.

 

 

 

Lucas Ornelas Jacinto, the senior researcher of Suzano presented a report entitled “The eucalyptus pulp for molding”. He proposed a developing strategy to promote sustainable packaging through the pulp molding of eucalyptus fiber. Eucalyptus fiber has low energy consumption of pulping, has stable performance in the molding process, has good compressive and torsional properties.To sum up, eucalyptus fiber is suitable for pulp molding. So far, Suzano has jointly developed and evaluated the 100% eucalyptus fiber pulp molding with partners in China and Sweden, and carried out industrial trial production.

 

 

 

At the end of this technical conference, director Fuming Jin made a concluding statement. He expressed his gratitude for the high-quality reports presented by 12 domestic and foreign experts.

 

Fuming Jin said that our conference implemented the national strategic target of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality. We took green and low-carbon of paper industry as the developing concept, focused on the dynamics of the paper market at home and abroad, and jointly exchanged the research hot spots and advanced technologies of paper industry around the relevant theories and topics of “Using paper instead of plastic”, utilization of biomass resource, emission reduction carbon on pulping and papering. We made an outstanding completion of the established goals of the conference, and a successful end!

 

At the same time, we promoted to the audience who was interested our meeting around the world through live broadcast online, and nearly 1,000 viewers watched the live broadcast and reacted wonderfully.