2022: Thermal Pricing Rising Again The world's leading suppliers of thermal paper have all announced more price increases. Reasons for the increase are continuously rising costs for energy, chemicals and logistics. Appvion, Koehler Paper and Kanzaki Specialty Papers have announced 7-15% price increases that will go into effect this February and April. Appvion: 7% [...]
Background (Date: November, 2017): Connect Chemicals, the world's largest supplier of leuco dye chemical to make thermal paper, was shut down by China government due to environment reasons in September, 2017. China launched strict environment inspection from 2016. The government closed polluting factories, mines and processing facilities. For paper industry, they eliminated backward and excess capacity and [...]
Date: October, 2017 After decades of stable price, thermal paper situation has changed since 2016. Thermal paper price has been increased month by month, sometimes even week by week. Why does this happen? 1. Local environmental factor. To protect the environment, China lunched environmental inspection in 2016. They shut down polluting [...]
