No. 47 of 19 November 2008
Markets- UK: weak pound forcing paper manufacturers to take action
- EUWID price watch UK November 2008
- EUWID price review Italy third quarter 2008
- Pulp: market players see no end to price erosion
- Russia postpones rise in roundwood export duties
- Prices collapse on the US recovered paper market
- Economic slowdown is leaving its mark on the German paper market
- bvse criticises exaggerated recovered paper price cuts
- European recovered paper identification system available
Companies- Billerud plans to axe 125 jobs in Sweden
- Baikal pulp and paper mill stops production
- SKG curtailing production by another 80,000 tons
- Sequana: new measures to increase profitability
- Myllykoski reduces paper production
- M-real: BCTMP production in Kaskinen remains unaltered
- Korsnäs plans temporary downtime at Gävle mill
- Ahlstrom considering cut in crepe paper production
- Metso Paper starts job cuts in Finland
- Pulp and paper industry in Europe: difficult conditions in the 3rd quarter
- UPM presents restructuring plan for label division Raflatac
- Mayer-Kuvert acquires stake in A-Mail Kuverter
- IP reduces capacity for woodfree uncoated paper
- Nippon Paper Group closes three mills
- ANZ no longer involved in Penola Pulp Mill
