2021: 2020 is an extraordinary year. Now it is finally over. From beginning of 2021, thermal paper price is increasing month by month. According to the announcement for March, price has been increased by up to 15%. In April, it’s announced that the price will increase 10% again. Why: Since November of 2020, the prices [...]
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 [...]
