European decor paper manufacturers have to bridge the slump on sales markets

US chemical group Chemours is to concentrate its titanium dioxide production at the two US sites in DeLisle, Mississippi and New Johnsonville, Tennessee, as well as at the Mexican plant in Altamira, Tamaulipas, which underwent expansion measures in 2016. In turn, production at the Taiwanese plant in Kuan Yin –...

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...