By Minh Tam - The Saigon Times Daily

HCMC – Saigon Paper JSC has reported a surge in tissue export orders.

Saigon Paper’s tissue is made by a tissue machine worth US$35 million in the My Xuan 2 paper plant project.

An executive of Saigon Paper said the most recent export order that his firm has won is from an American partner for semi-finished tissue valued at an estimated US$1 million with delivery lasting until end-March 2013. The company had earlier shipped the same product to Britain, Iran, the United States, Australia, Taiwan, Cambodia, South Korea and Kenya with a total volume of over 1,200 tons worth more than US$500,000.

Finished tissue items of Saigon Paper have also reached some other markets, with Japan needing the largest import shipment of 30 containers monthly at present and possibly 50 containers in the near future.

The tissue production line of Saigon Paper came into operation in May 2012. Since then, the output volume of all kinds of such finished tissue products as toilet paper, facial wipes and kitchen papers bound for foreign markets has totaled more than 800 tons worth a combined US$1.3 million. The figure is projected to rise to 900 tons with a value of US$1.5 million at the year’s end.