On 3-4 December 2014, the exhibition Paperex Indonesia 2014 will be held at Jakarta Convention Center (JCC) in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Paperex Indonesia is organised by ECMI-ITE and P.T Prakarsa Sinergi Utama. The exhibition is a natural partner to Paperex India, which since 1993 has been Asia’s largest exhibition in the pulp and paper industry, with over 20,000 sqm. of exhibit oor area with almost 500 exhibitors and thousands of visitors from 56 different countries.
After a decade of restructuring for banks and companies, Indonesian businesses are ramping up spending on new factories and infrastructure. Investment now accounts for nearly a third of GDP. Annual imports of machinery and industrial equipment are growing at double-digit rates.
Since the late 1980s, investment over US$16 billion has enabled Indonesia’s pulp and paper industry to expand rapidly and put the country into the ranks of the world’s top 10 producers.
Between 1988 and 2010, almost 500 pulp and paper manufacturing companies helped Indonesia’s pulp production capacity grow from 600,000 to 7.9 million metric tons per year.
Meantime, the paper industry’s processing capacity rose from 1.2 million to 12.2 million tons per year. By 2010, over 250,000 people were directly employed in the sector of pulp and paper products. This generated close to US$ 6 billion in export earnings and the industry accounted for approximately 1% of Indonesia’s GDP.
Assisted by the Government which has provided substantial capital subsidies to pulp and paper producers, Indonesia is now ranked 9th in the world as a paper producer and 7th as a pulp producer.
