Alkim Paper

Alkim Kagit Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. is an industrial company producing paper in the organized industrial zone in the Kemalpasa district of Izmir. Alkim Alkali Kimya lists the Kemalpasa paper plant among its own facilities, which makes the company the paper arm of the Alkim group. ALKA shares trade on Borsa Istanbul.

Its registered business is the manufacture and sale of woodfree paper, coated paper and copy paper. Woodfree paper is used in the production of notebooks, books and printed documents, coated paper in printing magazines, catalogues and promotional materials, and copy paper in offices. The products are aimed at printing houses, stationery manufacturers and the distribution channel. Paper production has a cost structure that relies on imported raw materials, pulp in particular, and on intensive energy use.

For paper producers, the main variables investors watch are pulp prices, energy and natural gas costs, the exchange rate, competition from imported paper and trends in demand for printed publications and stationery. On Lzzo.com you can review the price history of ALKA side by side with its group company ALKIM.