News in brief: Södra to hike NBSK pulp price

On the European pulp market, contract negotiations dragged on in early January to determine prices for the month of December. In some cases, it was not until the middle of the month that buyers and producers could reconcile their opposing positions and reach an outcome....

Canada’s Canfor Pulp will close for good the kraft pulp operations at its Prince George Pulp and Paper Mill in British Columbia. The mill’s fibre line produces 280,000 tpy of market NBSK (northern bleached softwood kraft) pulp. The closure is expected to be completed by the end of the first quarter and will impact...

Canfor Pulp Products, a company of Canada’s Canfor Corporation, has curbed output at the company’s Intercontinental Pulp Mill due to “lack of available economic fibre”. On 19 December, Canfor Pulp announced it would idle production at the Intercontinental Pulp Mill for a total of four weeks. Based on the timing of the...