Text no.: 001 Issue PP04/2001 Publication date: 24.01.2001

Various special shows

at the Paperworld Fair

Around 2,000 exhibitors from more than 60 countries will be represented at the world’s leading trade fair for paper, office supplies and stationery, the Paperworld Fair, which will take place in Frankfurt from January 27 to January 31, 2001.... more

Text no.: 005 Issue PP03/2001 Publication date: 17.01.2001

So far no bid for

Lenzing finally accepted

Another delay came as a surprise in the sale of the Austrian chemical fibres group Lenzing. The board of management had only been authorised by the supervisory board of Bank Austria (BA) to sell the latter’s share package in Lenzing AG by March... more

Text no.: 008 Issue PP03/2001 Publication date: 17.01.2001

Jaakko Pöyry publishes

new investment forecast

Jaakko Pöyry Management Consulting (JPMC) has published a new investment forecast for the pulp and paper industries. The forecast is meant to cast some light on the industries’ changeable investment behaviour by taking into account not only... more

Text no.: 012 Issue PP03/2001 Publication date: 17.01.2001

EUWID Price

Review - UK 2000

Prices in pound per metr. ton free delivered, 2nd quarter 3rd quarter 4th quarter 1st quarter unless otherwise stated 2000 2000 2000 2000 Waste paper (prices ex works) Mixed... more

Text no.: 001 Issue PP03/2001 Publication date: 17.01.2001

Paper mill construction

project in Borneo starts

After quite a long delay the plans for the construction of a large-scale paper mill in the Malaysian part of Borneo have been taken up once again. The large Asian paper group Asia Pulp & Paper Co. Ltd. (APP) plans to start the erection of a pulp... more

Text no.: 004 Issue PP03/2001 Publication date: 17.01.2001

News in brief

For its fourth quarter of 2000 International Paper Co expects profits per share of 30 cts., a figure far lower than analysts’ forecasts of 44 cts. The US company put this shortfall down to slower economic growth in the USA, an increase of $40m... more

Text no.: 014 Issue PP03/2001 Publication date: 17.01.2001

Pulpex futures for NBSK

(metr. ton, a.d., TCF/ECF) Settlement prices in US$ 15 January 2001 8 January 2001 18 December 2000 March 2001 545.00 556.00 550.00 June 2001 555.00 558.00... more

Text no.: 013 Issue PP03/2001 Publication date: 17.01.2001

Waste paper futures

(Contracts of 100 t) Closing prices in EUR per ton Supermarket waste Deinking (A9) at the futures exchange (kaufhaus, A4) Hanover, Germany 15 Jan. 2001 8 Jan. 2001... more

Text no.: 009 Issue PP03/2001 Publication date: 17.01.2001

The outlook in 2001 is less

rosy than in the last year

December Norscan inventories rose – Waste paper under pressure 2001 can be expected to be a difficult year for the pulp and paper industry. The outlook that appeared quite rosy at times during the course of last year has since lost most of its... more

Text no.: 003 Issue PP03/2001 Publication date: 17.01.2001

Knoeckel, Schmidt & Cie

ceased operations

At the end of October 2000 the paper machine of German Knoeckel, Schmidt & Cie. Papierfabrik GmbH was stopped. The company, 99.78% of which are owned by German Robert Cordier AG, had applied for the institution of insolvency proceedings in August.... more