Prospect Of Technological Innovation In Paper Industry

Optimizing flexible supply chain

         There are many strategies to build a flexible supply chain, the key is to form an appropriate balance between efficiency, robustness, cost and risk. Having more common and interchangeable standard components in a variety of products will enable enterprises to obtain supply from multiple sources and improve the flexibility of the supply chain. In addition, reducing the types of spare parts and the proportion of exclusive suppliers can simplify the operation process and centralize the procurement cost, and improve the ability to respond to changes in demand and supply disruption.

      Optimizing the flexible supply chain will become a hot spot of technological innovation in the post epidemic manufacturing industry. Strengthening the function of supply chain risk management, laying out new supply network system, designing reliable risk management and control process, and improving the digital and intelligent level of supply chain will significantly improve the operation ability of enterprises to deal with emergencies.

Strengthen vertical integration with upstream and downstream

     Vertical integration with upstream and downstream can help enterprises control input and output efficiently and reduce the uncertainty of raw material supply and product sales. Vertical integration of papermaking with upstream pulp and downstream packaging is the development trend of international papermaking industry. After assets integration of forestry, paper and packaging enterprises, collaborative innovation is an important mechanism for enterprise groups to become bigger and stronger.

     It has aroused the interest of researchers to establish an integrated innovation ecosystem of forest products, papermaking and packaging. The newly developed forestry land is more remote, which leads to the corresponding increase of infrastructure construction and logistics costs. UAV and remote sensing technology have technical application advantages. The prediction of the future demand for paper products is integrated into forest breeding and planting. In the process of pulp and paper making, hemicellulose and other special chemical products suitable for feed addition are extracted, which has the economic benefits of deep processing in forest industry. Taking green packaging as the starting point, the "complete packaging solution" optimizes the packaging design, sample, material selection, production and transportation, and is a typical representative of collaborative innovation of packaging materials, visual communication and packaging design. Packaging paper from forest products has great potential to replace plastics and sustainable development. With the increasing competition in the post epidemic papermaking industry, the domestic papermaking industry is likely to accelerate the vertical integration and form a new situation of upstream and downstream collaborative innovation.

Continuous innovation to reduce production cost

     In terms of tapping the potential of production cost reduction, artificial intelligence, automation, mobile Internet and other information technologies have shown many prospects for future development.

    In pulping, chemical addition and energy use, the application of artificial intelligence technology can accurately formulate personalized and differentiated optimization strategies, realize the transformation of production mode, and is expected to reduce the production cost by 7%. Using artificial intelligence technology to monitor the condition of papermaking equipment and forecast the maintenance demand, the production cost is expected to be reduced by 2.5%.

     In the aspects of logistics transportation, production process, remote control and remote monitoring, the application of automation technology can reduce the production cost by about 4%; in the field work, the application of digital mobile technology platform can reduce the production cost by 1.5%.

       Establishing closer partnership network with suppliers, sellers and consumers is an important means to reduce procurement costs and sales costs. This system is an important carrier to understand the new needs of consumers, insight into the development opportunities of digital technology and biotechnology, and build a cross industry cooperation mechanism. The digital and intelligent construction of paper enterprises will contribute to the cost reduction of enterprises.

Develop new products

     In the aspect of household paper, diapers and protective clothing become the standard configuration of medical staff during the epidemic period. In the post epidemic era, the application of antibacterial and antiviral technology in household paper materials has broad market prospects.