Comieco auction attracts high bids for recovered paper

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...

Paper producer Leipa Group has been granted funds to run a project at its mill in Schwedt, Germany to augment deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) in the paper industry. The German ministry for economics and climate protection (BMWK) will allocate €3.2m for the purpose. Michael Kellner (Greens), parliamentary...

2022 was a challenging year for Italy’s paper recycling sector, too. Energy prices reached unprecedented levels in the first half of the year, in particular, which was followed by a second half with weak consumption and dwindling demand for paper. These factors also left their mark on the amount of recovered paper...