From pulp and base paper, functional materials, coating and lamination, printing and converting, packaging formats and machinery to brands, recovery and conformity: 933 company and brand entries across 9 stages of the chain — what each stage does, what it worries about, and where stages meet.
East Asia 663 entries, 71%; 6 smaller regions total 34: Southeast Asia 9 · Latin America 9 · South Asia 7 · Oceania 5 · Middle East 3 · Africa 1
Turns wood, non-wood and recovered fibre into pulp and base paper or board, setting the fibre skeleton and surface that every downstream step depends on.
Supplies barrier resins and dispersions, bio-based polymers, inks, adhesives and papermaking additives that give fibre packaging its barrier, sealing, print and processing performance.
Applies barrier, heat-seal, release or laminated layers to base paper, turning plain paper into a functional substrate that resists liquid, grease and oxygen and can be sealed.
Prints, die-cuts, folds and glues, forms cups and bags and shapes fibre, converting reels and sheets of functional board into deliverable packaging components.
Delivers finished packaging systems—corrugated cases, molded fibre, liquid cartons and integrated packaging portfolios—that carry transport, protection, display and use functions.
Provides machinery from pulping and papermaking, coating and laminating through printing, cup and bag making, molding and recycling—plus rolls, dies, ultrasonics and vacuum components—that set speed, yield and substitutability at every stage.
Define use scenarios, specifications and compliance requirements, and through procurement and sustainability commitments decide whether fibre-based solutions scale.
Takes back used fibre packaging and, through collection, sorting, repulping and deinking, composting or energy recovery, decides whether the fibre returns to papermaking.
Provide the shared language and evidence threshold—test methods, metrics, standards, regulations, certifications and industry bodies—that decide whether claims hold and products can enter a market.
Porosity, Cobb and smoothness of the base paper decide how much coating soaks in and what dry coat weight forms a closed film, which in turn fixes the coater's drying energy and speed.
BA001 Barrier paper cups for hot coffee and teaBA008 Printed paper wraps for hot burgersBA080 Barrier primers against release-agent penetration into release base paperSolids, viscosity/rheology and minimum film-forming temperature of a dispersion must fall within the coating method's and dryer's range; otherwise pinholes, blocking or streaks follow.
BA001 Barrier paper cups for hot coffee and teaBA062 Liquid-barrier paper backings for absorbent laboratory bench linersBA063 Absorbent liquid-barrier composite paper for dental bibsSurface energy of the coating drives ink adhesion and glue-seam bonding, while seal-initiation temperature and hot tack set temperature, pressure and dwell on cup and bag machines.
BA016 Folding paperboard takeaway meal boxesBA077 Moisture- and stain-resistant protective layers for printed cartonsBA008 Printed paper wraps for hot burgersBA039 Primary paper wraps for chocolate barsCrease, glue-seam and forming quality translate directly into box compression, stacking and leak resistance, deciding whether the finished pack passes logistics and cold-chain tests.
BA037 Leak-resistant load-bearing corrugated boxes for the cold chainBA047 Splash-resistant barrier surface layers for paperboard boxesBA071 Moisture-barrier paper bags for fertilizers and soil conditionersFill temperature, holding time, grease and condensation conditions belong in the specification and must be proven with finished-pack migration and in-use tests, not material data alone.
BA006 Paper cups for reconstituting dry convenience foodsBA027 Expandable grease-resistant paper bags for microwave popcornBA014 Takeaway paper bowls for hot noodle soupBA026 Paper trays for reheating chilled and frozen ready mealsSealing method (hot-air or ultrasonic), temperature control and speed decide whether a new substrate runs stably at production speed; passing only at reduced speed or special settings does not prove manufacturability.
BA001 Barrier paper cups for hot coffee and teaBA004 Gable-top paperboard cartons for chilled milkBA014 Takeaway paper bowls for hot noodle soupBA042 Aroma-retaining paper bags for roasted coffee beans and ground coffee“Recyclable” or “compostable” must match the finished structure, the soiling level and the collection and treatment actually available locally; otherwise the claim does not hold.
BA010 Grease-resistant venting paper bags for friesBA019 Grease-resistant pizza delivery boxesBA046 Moisture-resistant carrier bags for chilled drinks with condensation in mixed loadsBA008 Printed paper wraps for hot burgersGrading, stickies, mineral oil and ink residues of recovered fibre decide whether it can return to packaging board and whether it may be used in food contact.
Chinese entries cluster mid- and downstream: 94% (153/163) of organisations in printing & converting and 81% (139/172) in machinery are Chinese, versus only 19% (20/105) in functional materials & chemicals, where United States 20, Japan 14, Germany 12 lead.
Basis (Chinese): browseEligible 且 type=organization、带国家代码的条目，按本底稿环节映射计；反映目录收录结构，不代表全行业企业数量或产能。Chinese entries form clear regional clusters: Zhejiang accounts for 56 of 139 Chinese machinery organisations (40%); Zhejiang leads printing & converting (67/153); Guangdong holds 34 of 96 in packaging formats (35%).
Basis (Chinese): 中国组织条目的 region 字段解析出的省级名称（未登记省份者计入分母、不计入分子）；目录收录受资料来源（如产业集群名录）影响，不代表全国产业分布。Knowledge and actors are mismatched: testing, certification, standards & bodies holds 590 knowledge entries (33% of all) but only 29 organisations; coating & lamination has 54 process entries yet only 10 organisations whose main business it is; printing & converting is the reverse, with 163 organisations against 56 knowledge entries.
Basis (Chinese): browseEligible 条目按本底稿规则归入环节后，group=knowledge 与组织（organization + application_company）分别计数；“主营”指按组织自述产品方向归入该环节。Organisation detail pages are concentrated: of 42, 16 sit in pulp & base paper, 20 in printing & converting (17 of them Chinese converters describing a food/foodservice paper-container focus) and 3 in packaging formats; organisations in the other 4 segments (Machinery, lines & key components; Brand owners, retail & foodservice; Collection, recycling & end-of-life; Testing, certification, standards & industry bodies) have none yet.
Basis (Chinese): dist/companies/<slug>/index.html 实际存在且条目 detailEligible 为真的组织；详情页仅表示已有足够公开内容，不表示验证或推荐。Applications are thinly bridged to the directory: only 81 of 124 application–resource links (65%) resolve to a catalog entity, mostly in Forest fibre, pulp & base paper/board (34) and Packaging formats & containers (22).
Basis (Chinese): content/resource-connections.json 的 connections[].entityId 非空者，按其目录实体所属环节计。