Packaging paper and cartonboard prices in Germany spiral upwards with no end in sight

As of early May, demand for cartonboard and folding cartons in Germany has not improved. Especially in the folding boxboard market segment, board producers are still being confronted with demands for price reductions despite signed quarterly contracts. In the recycled board segment, producers see no grounds for...

US paper and packaging giant Westrock will close its North Charleston, South Carolina, packaging paper mill with effect from 31 August 2023. The mill in North Charleston has a staff of 500 and operates two paper machines with a combined annual production capacity of 550,000 sh.t (500.000 tpy) of unbleached kraftliner,...

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....