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Hualien Issue Director Qiu said that CHP produces short- fiber broadleaf pulp. The aim is to replace plastic with paper and to create a sustainable recycling system for all paper products.“Pulp has a wide range of applications, such as paper for publishing, household paper, packaging paper, cardboard boxes, specialty paper, greaseproof paper, label paper, paper plates, and lunch containers.”After six decades of experience, CHP set up a factory in eastern Taiwan in response to the government’s economic construction plan phase IV, which was a response to the government’s wish to improve forestry, develop eastern Taiwan, and improve Taiwan’s paper industry. The Hualien plant is now the only end-to-end pulp and paper production plant in Taiwan. In recent years, it has developed related products that resonate with the trend towards environmental protection, so that pulp and paper can be used not only for writing and reading, but also for a diverse range of other purposes, thereby moving towards high-value plastic-free paper and special functional paper industries.“The goal of CHP is to integrate afforestation, pulp manufacturing, and paper production to come up with innovative applications of paper materials in a way that is closer to everyday life. We hope to create a new era of‘vertically integrated, green and value-added technology’in the paper manufacturing industry.”Since 1980, CHP has cooperated with the government’s eastern Taiwan afforestation project and created five forest plantations. Then, in 1991, the Forestry Bureau announced the“natural forest logging ban”, which interrupted the forest industry chain.“Logging wood was no longer possible in Taiwan, so we imported wood chips from abroad for manufacturing and processing, and also invested in afforestation in Indonesia and China.”The wood chips purchased are FSC and PEFC certified, which means that the timber industry is cutting wood and planting new saplings at the same time, thus ensuring that forests are not depleted. 86