Raw material shortage fails to dampen printers' expectations

Russian forestry companies produced 4.4 million t of pulp in the first half of 2022, 1 per cent more than in last year’s corresponding period. The country’s federal statistics office Rosstat adds that production of paper and cardboard in the reporting period is almost unchanged at 5.1 million t. The figure includes...

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Following slight recovery in May, the business climate index for the German printing and media industry receded again in June by a seasonally adjusted 4 per cent to 95.5 points, around 6 per cent lower than for the same month last year, Bvdm’s business telegram reports. The protracted impact of the Ukraine war,...