This publication of 450 pages has been prepared by an FAO team headed by Arne Sundelin through a trust fund financed by trade associations and individual firms in Europe (Austria, Finland, France, Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom) and other regions (Argentina, Canada, Chile and the United States of America).
Western Europe, the study says, will have a potential export surplus of almost 2.8 million tons of paper and paperboard by 1965, this amount being the difference between normal manufacturing output and estimated requirements in western Europe. This figure is made up of 900,000 tons of newsprint, 70,000 tons of kraft (sulphate pulp) paper and paperboard, and 1.8 million tons of other paper and board grades.
Total needs for paper and paperboard in western Europe might rise from some 18.5 million tons in 1960 to 24 million in 1965, 30 million in 1970 and to almost 37 million tons in 1975: that is, an approximate doubling in the course of 15 years.
By 1975 there might be a regional shortage of raw materials to supply growing needs. The study concludes: "Western Europe is likely to become a net importer of fairly large and increasing quantities of pulp/paper and paperboard from other regions of the world."
Pulp arid paper prospects in western Europe is available from Bayerischer Landwirtschaftsverlag G.m.b.H., 8 München 13, Lothstrasse 29, Germany, Fed. Rep., price US$9. A French edition will be available later in 1964 in mimeographed form from the Forestry and Forest Products Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Via delle Terme di Caracalla, Rome, Italy.
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World Forest Inventory 1958 |
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