Germany: RCCM manufacturers seeking price increases despite record-high inventories

Producers’ hopes that demand for recycled corrugated case material would pick up at the end of the first quarter have not been fulfilled. Paper companies therefore continue to curtail their production. There is still significant price pressure as a result and further downward price corrections were reported for March....

Recycled corrugated case material manufacturers in Germany have taken downtime, some of it “dramatically long,” but it has so far failed to have any significant knock-on effects. Paper remains more than abundantly available, so prices remain under sizeable pressure in Germany. Price cuts of €50 had originally been...

Weak consumption continues to have a stranglehold on Germany’s packaging paper and cartonboard market at the start of the New Year. Recycled corrugated case material companies are already signalling that they will likely have to keep operating at reduced output because of subdued demand. January is expected to be...