Russian printing houses started to buy paper from China and Turkey. The newspaper writes about it “News”.
Pavel Melikhov, Managing Director of Krasnogorsk Printing House, said that the company currently supplies 35% of coated paper from China. Also, the first batch was purchased from Turkey.
In addition, the Printing Master printing house also buys paper from China. It is also stated that products from China go to Russia for quite a long time – this waiting period can be up to eight months.
At the same time, St. Petersburg Printers’ Association believes that in the current market conditions, companies will begin to look for partners not only in China and Turkey, but also in Indonesia.
Previously, market participants as well as financial data operator OFD Platform declaration “Gazeta.ru” reported that the retail prices of almost all school paper and white products – this includes business and ordinary notebooks, textbooks, diaries – increased by 20-30% over the past year.