India has always been a net importer of Newsprint. While Newsprint consumption has been growing at an average rate of 6.4 percent, domestic production has remained inadequate and the shortfall has been met through imports. The world production of newsprint is approximately 40 million tons. Indian demand, estimated at approximately 700,000 tons by the Indian Paper Manufacturers Association, forms a meager 1.8 percent of world production.
 
Moreover reading habits and Newspaper available at cheaper rates will propel further demands. Thus the coming years trends show that Markets will be on an upward move. There are also plans for more Publishing Houses being set up at Nagpur. Indian Government as a policy of Open Economy has opened FDI in Print Media, which will also be a boosting factor. Regarding the Kraft Unit, Industrial Growth will keep the market secured despite of many newer investments in the Kraft sector.
 
The company is operating in a highly competitive market and the strategy is to enhance revenues through taking advantage of its inherent strengths and business dynamics. A highly qualified and competent team, robust R&D facilities, quality control and a strong financial structure provides the necessary platform to give impetus to the company’s objectives. The company’s focus is to increase its revenues and improve its bottomline through:

• Reducing costs by better management of funds and improved internal control systems.

• Adding additional capacity of Newsprint to have a substantial market share in Newsprint segment.

• Better realizations for its existing products.

Growth is keen for the survival of any business enterprise. Malu Paper Mills too has a future growth plans for itself. The future plans of the company is to:

• To grow organically from innovative skills, shorter product development cycles and production of value added products and having an insight into the changing consumer preferences.

• To grow inorganically by acquiring competing brands and mergers. It can give a new source of fresh ideas and access to new markets.

• Increase its brand visibility and recall through advertisements and educating the consumers of its value added propositions. The company plans to position itself as a major player in the Newsprint segment offering a range of qualities to its customers.

• Setting up a 6 MW coal based captive power plant, the company intends to rein in one of the major cost drivers, as a paper-manufacturing unit is a power intensive unit, which also uses steam for drying the paper therefore it becomes an ideal situation to have a Co-Generation Captive Power Plant in a paper mill where the spent steam from the boiler is used to dry paper.

 
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