2026.3 Thermal Paper Coaters Announce 10% Price Increases Thermal paper coaters Domtar, Hansol, and Koehler have all announced a 10% price increase on all grades of thermal paper. The increases are being driven by tariffs, pulp prices, chemicals, other raw materials and increased manufacturing and supply chain costs. Please see a summary of the [...]
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 [...]
