Text no.: 008 Issue PP05/2006 Publication date: 01.02.2006

German producers take

plan for Russian mill calmly

Germany’s paper producers take statements by several German newspaper publishers who want to build a paper mill in Russia calmly and expect that the good long-term business relationships in this area will continue. Klaus Windhagen, Director... more

Text no.: 007 Issue PP05/2006 Publication date: 01.02.2006

News in brief

João Costa Manuel, deputy CEO of Portuguese paper merchant group Inapa – Investimentos, Participações e Gestão S.A. – and head of the company’s UK business, was appointed new CEO of Inapa France. Apart from the management of the French... more

Text no.: 002 Issue PP05/2006 Publication date: 01.02.2006

Bowater to close pulp

line at Thunder Bay

Bowater Inc. is to permanently close its pulp line A at the Thunder Bay/Ontario mill in the second quarter of the current business year. The company said the measure was to improve the site’s financial performance by reducing the costs for wood... more

Text no.: 005 Issue PP05/2006 Publication date: 01.02.2006

M-real Hallein adopts

measures to secure future

The management of Austrian M-real Hallein AG has presented a package of measures to the company’s works council. These measures are hoped to secure the location’s future in the long term. According to M-real Hallein, one aspect of the package... more

Text no.: 017 Issue PP05/2006 Publication date: 01.02.2006

EUWID Price Watch France

January 2006

Prices in € per metr. ton free delivered unless otherwise stated January 2006 December 2005 January 2005 Recovered paper (prices ex works) Mixed paper (1.02)... more

Text no.: 012 Issue PP05/2006 Publication date: 01.02.2006

Price talks in publication paper in

France becoming a trial of strength

Lower grades of recovered paper slip slightly – Some first increases in GD In France at the end of January, producers, publishers, and printers had not yet managed to come to an agreement on new publication prices in many cases. Negotiations... more

Text no.: 020 Issue PP05/2006 Publication date: 01.02.2006

EUWID Price watch Germany

Envelope and shipping bag paper 2005

(Euro/t) 1st quarter 2005 2nd quarter 2005 3rd quarter 2005 4th quarter 2005 Envelope paper 80 g woodfree white 680 - 780 680 - 780... more

Text no.: 009 Issue PP05/2006 Publication date: 01.02.2006

More pulp suppliers

announce price increases

The tough price negotiations taking place in the pulp market throughout January have entered the hot phase toward the end of the month. On 24 January, a leading Scandinavian manufacturer followed in the footsteps of overseas suppliers and... more

Text no.: 013 Issue PP05/2006 Publication date: 01.02.2006

Italy: output, imports and

exports January – September

Output Imports Exports % % % tons 2004 2005 05/04 2004 2005... more

Text no.: 018 Issue PP05/2006 Publication date: 01.02.2006

Japan: production in November

(tons) November January - November % 2005 2005 05/04 Newsprint 304,047 3,393,708 + 0.5 Printing & writing Uncoated... more