ICT and e-Business in the Pulp, Paper and Paper ... - empirica

Pulp, paper and paper products
20 member countries is composed of 850 paper producing companies and 1,250 mills.
Together, these companies employ about 275,000 people in the CEPI member countries.
Total employment has constantly decreased from close to 400,000 in 1991 (CEPI, 2006).
These figures are largely confirmed by data from Eurostat Structural Business Statistics
(SBS), which show that about 254,000 people were employed in the P&P manufacturing
industry (DE 21.1) in 2002/03 in the EU-25. According to Eurostat, the sector is
composed of about 2,270 enterprises (see Exhibit 2-3).
In contrast to paper manufacturing, the converting industries cover a larger number of
enterprises, but these are typically much smaller firms. CITPA represents "about 5,000
mostly small and medium-sized firms with about 380,000 employees" in Europe. 24 The
total sub-sector (DE 21.2) includes about 16,100 enterprises in the EU-25 and provides
jobs for about 490,000 people (Eurostat SBS).
Exhibit 2-3: The manufacture of pulp, paper and paper products in the EU-25 (2002/03)
NACE
Rev. 1.1
Activity
DE 21 Manufacture of pulp, paper
and paper products
DE 21.1 Manufacture of pulp, paper
and paperboard
DE 21.2 Manufacture of articles of
paper and paperboard
Enterprises
Production
value
Value
Added at
Factor Cost
Persons
employed
Number million euros Number
18,399 149,986 47,146 743,300
2,266 - 23,441 253,700
16,132 - 23,706 489,600
Source: Developed from Eurostat Structural Business Statistics (SBS)
Thus, total direct employment in the P&P industry is about 743,000 people. Indirectly, the
industry is estimated to provide jobs for about 2.0 million people, if the closely related
industry of wood and wood products (NACE Division DE 20) is included. From a larger
perspective, the P&P industry forms part of the forest-based industries, which include
forestry, woodworking and printing. 25 This cluster of industries together employs about 3
million people and thereby constitutes a very important industry sector in the European
Union.
About 50% of people directly employed in the P&P industry work in SMEs and the other
50% in large firms with 250 employees or more (Eurostat SBS). Large firms account for
about 3% of all enterprises, medium-sized ones for about 11%.
Production value, turnover, output
The total production value of the P&P industry (NACE DE 21) was 147 billion euros in
2002/03 (Eurostat SBS) with a value added of about 47 billion euros (see Exhibit 2-3).
More recent figures represented by CEPI for the European paper industry (DE 21.1) as
indicate a turnover of about 75 billion euros and a value added of 25 billion euros in 2004
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Cf. www.citpa-europe.org (organisation), accessed in March 2006
The aggregation of these sectors into the "forest-based industries" is also applied by the
Enterprise and Industry DG of the European Commission, cf. "Forest-Based Industries" at
http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/forest_based/fbi_en.html (March 2006)
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