Markets

• Packaging paper manufacturers announce plans to charge more in the UK in March
• EUWID Price Watch UK February 2012
• Sentiment in German magazine paper market ranges from muted optimism to despair
• Bulgaria: production, imports, exports and consumption
• ECBA reports improved demand for core board
• Upswing in titanium dioxide prices slowing down amidst good supply and reduced demand
• EUWID Price Watch Western Europe titanium dioxide (TiO2)
• Firm BEK pulp market expected to clear the way for more price increases
• Inventories and consumption of pulp consumers in Europe
• Energy prices not expected to surge in Germany in the immediate future
• Fitch sees a difficult first half of 2012 for European pulp and paper manufacturers
• Stocks of woodpulp in European ports

Companies

• Mayr-Melnhof to cut jobs in the UK
• Mondi Group wants to acquire remaining shares in Mondi Swiecie and delist the Polish company
• Arjowiggins to raise capacity at Greenfield DIP mill in France
• Gascogne considers selling Swiss subsidiary
• Syassky Pulp and Paper starts up new tissue machine
• Segezha Pulp and Paper Mill to resume paper production
• CPH to close down its Irish Biouetikon subsidiary
• Kornsäs to cut workforce by 1% per year
• Metro to part with further operations in Europe and NA
• Norske Skog to sell excess power to Statkraft

• News in brief