SHANGHAI, 29 November 2022 – Nine Dragons Paper Holdings is putting two of its Chinese mills under maintenance, which will result in a decrease in containerboard output of 41,000 tonnes.

At its mill in Quanzhou city, Fujian province, two containerboard PMs will alternate downtime from November 30 to December 15 due to maintenance.

PM 39, with a capacity of 350,000 tonnes per year, will go offline on November 30, and remain offline for nine days.

PM 36, with a linerboard capacity of 300,000 tpy, will be offline for eight days starting from December 8.

The suspension of production will reduce the market supply of linerboard and corrugating medium by around 16,000 tonnes.

The Quanzhou mill still houses a corrugating medium machine, PM 35, which has a capacity of 350,000 tonnes/yr, that will not experience any downtime.

At Nine Dragons’ mill in Tianjin, PM 27, with a linerboard capacity of 400,000 tpy, stopped production on November 26 and will remain offline until December 16.

The Tianjin mill has five board PMs with a combined capacity of 2.15 million tpy.

Price cuts: In addition to downtime, Nine Dragons is also planning price cuts for some grades of containerboard at four of its mills in response to sluggish demand.

Nine Dragons lowered prices for some linerboard and corrugating medium grades from mills in Dongguan city, Guangdong province, Taicang city, Jiangsu province, Jingzhou city, Hubei province and Tianjin municipality by RMB 30-80/tonne ($4.2-11.2/tonne), effective November 29.