Australian Paper Manufacturers(A)

Group 11:
Anurag (18PGP030)
Avishek Chatterjee (18PGP040)
Janumala Santha Kumar (18PGP068)
Pooja Yadav (18PGP136)
Ritesh Garg (18PGP156)
Ayushman Chowdhary (18PGP258)
Introduction

▪ 3 major companies in the Australian paper industry

 Australian Newsprint Mills (ANM)
 Australian Paper Manufacturers (APM) : Amcor’s subsidiary
 Paper company of Australia (PCA) : Maitland’s subsidiary
▪ Problem Statement : How should McRae allocate the capital budget of $50 million ?
▪ Criteria of evaluation
 Environmental Benefits
 Return on investment

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Introduction

Wood Free Wood Containing

(Chemical) (Mechanical)

E.g. Copier Paper E.g. Newsprint

Uncoated (PCA, Imports, APM post 1987) (ANM, Imports)

Coated E.g. Annual Reports News Magazine

(PCA, Imports) (Imports only)

Fine Papers

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2.How has the environment fared in this
battle?
Environmental Impact- “Reduce , Reuse , Recycle”

▪ Paper making process commence from cutting down woods leading to first hazard
of Deforestation. It takes 4 tons of wood to produce 1 ton of paper. The demand for
1987 was of 358,000 tons of paper resulting to greater forest scrutiny.
▪ After the pulp was acquired, bleaching was carried out to increase the quality and
brightness of paper on average 50-80 kilograms of bleach was required to treat 1 ton
of pulp . Bleached pulp produced 5-8kg of organo-chlorine namely dioxin.
▪ Adverse effects of dioxins cause reproductive disorders in animals, suppress
immune systems and travel through food chain from marine to ordinary life also.

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Environmental Impact- “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”

▪ Use of recycled pulp for paper production attracted the public and marketers, by
reducing the toxins and productions costs.
APM PCA

Deforestation Less( discarded High( virgin pulp)

waste)
Pulping Use of oxygen Use of chlorine
reduced the toxins increased the toxins