Decor paper manufacturers fail to fully pass on higher costs to customers

Decor paper manufacturers and converters have gradually run down the stocks that they built up last year by taking downtime, often lasting several weeks, over the Christmas and New Year period and sometimes into January and February. Inventories have likely returned to normal levels again in most cases. However, the...

Finish foil manufacturers that until now have sourced pre-impregnated paper from German specialty and technical paper producer Kämmerer Spezialpapiere have tried to switch orders for what they will need in the next few months to other producers in the fourth quarter of 2022. Despite surplus supply throughout the decor...

The decor paper industry has experienced a further deterioration in capacity utilisation as decor printers, finish foil manufacturers and treater operators, in particular, expanded production curtailments in the fourth quarter of 2022. Several machines had already suspended production for one to two weeks each month in...