Burgo Group to sell stake in joint venture company Italmaceri

Companies active in the German woodfree coated and uncoated paper business found that this year’s summer break evolved into a downright summer slump. Not all paper mills have managed to break free from the general downward spiral and go back to pre-summer paper prices. Paper machine workloads are back in the spotlight....

As expected, there was little price movement for ordinary grades on the German recovered paper market in August. Collection volumes remained weak, while demand from paper mills was low. Prices for supermarket paper and board and mixed paper seem poised to remain largely unchanged in September, too. In the northern and...

In Europe, deliveries of paper and board in all market segments were down sharply in the first half of the year, and European economic data suggest that a larger part of this decline is due to falling paper consumption. The markets for printing and writing papers, where the decline in deliveries in the first half of...