Paper producers in France bemoan exploding costs and procurement problems

Nine Dragons continues to reshape its raw material supply chain in response to China’s ban on imports of recovered paper. In addition to building new wood pulp mills at sites in China, the concern is expanding its recycled pulp production in neighbouring Malaysia. A part of its Malaysian expansion came through...

Amidst tight supply and good demand in the UK and Continental Europe, prices are still heading higher on the British recovered paper market. Only the export business to Asia appears to be weakening. Europe seems to be in a bubble, while recovered paper from North America, for example, has already become less expensive,...

Companies active on Italy’s paper and cartonboard markets are seeing a widespread easing at the start of summer. Prices are no longer on an upward trajectory and are even pointing lower in the first segments, e.g. in the corrugated case material market. The paper industry is not necessarily in a laid-back mood about...