Paperboard consumption

Table II. World Paper and Paperboard Consumption in Millions of Tons (Metric)...

The student should review Fig. 7.1 to see the relative size of Paper Manufacturing compared to other chemical process industries. Its 1998 U.S. shipments totalled 156 billion, about one third of the size of Chemical Manufacturing at 424 billion. It is about the same size as Petroleum and Coal at 137 billion. It has undergone a steady increase over the years, even in the 1980s when sectors like Petroleum and Coal suffered a decline. It has not grown as fast as Chemical Manufacturing. U.S. consumption of wood pulp is 67 million tons per year. The paper industry makes approximately 95 million tons of paper and paperboard products annually. This country s production of paper products is more than half the world s production. Per capita consumption of pulp has risen sharply in recent years. In 1940 it was 255 lb of pulp per person in the U.S. in recent years it is near 600 lb. 

As mentioned previously, the consumption of paper and paperboard is expected to more than double and possibly triple within the next twenty-one years. The sharp drop in volume accompanying the 1975... 

Figure 13.1. National per capita consumption of paper and paperboard in 2002.

Table 5.1.5 Annual energy consumption in tonnes of oil equivalent (toe) per capita (pc) (1 toe = 41.87 CJ), annual consumption of food, meat, and paper (including paperboard) pc (FAO, 2007, 2011), level of science and technology relative to the USA (see footnote a), share of Internet users in the population, life expectancy at birth (CIA, 2009), use of private cars per 100 people (World Bank, 2010), and annual consumption of motor gasoline and diesel oil (WRI, 2010) in selected countries.

TABLE in Projected Consumption of Wastepaper in Paper and Paperboard Manufacture for 1995... 

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