Markets

• German woodfree uncoated paper prices under pressure rather than on the rise
• Decor paper prices left largely untouched in the second quarter
• No major price movement seen in May on the German recovered paper market
• Germany: Ad journals register slight decline in 2012
• Paper producers await price trend reversal for pulp
• Bulgaria: production, imports, exports and consumption
• Austrian paper converting market remains volatile

Companies

• Arctic Paper planning to cut jobs at Grycksbo mill
• Cascades Djupafors to halt production for three weeks
• Metsä Board posts net result of €8m in Q1, plans further streamlining of paper business
• Gascogne’s new machine in Dax up and running
• Stora Enso to curb capacity at Forshaga coating plant
• Billerud Korsnäs raising pulp capacity at Gruvön mill
• Lwarcel Celulose to construct new pulp mill in Brazil
• Klabin signs preliminary contract for new pulp mill
• Nine Dragons to install new paper machine in Vietnam
• Altri boosts profits in the first quarter 2013
• Mondi to shut down newsprint PM in South Africa, enters Iraqi market for industrial sacks

• News in brief