Most mills are very small and serving local markets.
This structure dates back to the protectionist days of the 1970s and 1980s. But the larger machines are quietly exporting hundreds of thousands of tons to America and Europe, making up the transport costs with fiber savings. These mills, and their smaller cousins, are currently undergoing an alkaline revolution of their own. This will provide further fiber coast advantages and use indigenous mineral resources, which are high quality and plentiful. There is a distinct discontinuity between countries in the study group.