Markets

• Stable recycled containerboard prices expected for Germany in September
• German corrugated board industry with robust performance in troubled first half of 2020
• German union IG BCE calls for extra coronavirus payment
• Austria's corrugated board industry books a drop in sales despite higher deliveries
• Slowing capacity investment trend in corrugated case material segment
• Pulp port stocks lower in July, global shipments decline again
• CEPI and EPIS launch Greensource initiative
• Turkey wants to limit recovered paper imports

Companies

• Suez CEO Bertrand Camus describes Veolia's planned takeover as “disastrous for France“
• Veolia makes its case for Suez takeover
• Fedrigoni books drop in paper business sales in H1, self-adhesive labels business stays relatively strong
• Retailer Morrisons plans to ban all plastic bags
• Shanying starts construction of new complex in Haiyan
• K&N Paper exits insolvency proceedings
• Mayr-Melnhof plans to cease production on BM 4 at Hirschwang mill in Austria
• Accrol Paper posts higher sales, smaller losses
• Amazon to create 10,000 jobs in the UK in 2020
• Engineering company A.Celli acquires PMT Italia
• Mondi invests in new machinery in Szczecin
• Covid-19 affects handling volume at Lübeck port
• Heidelberg posts positive results in difficult Q1 2020/21
• Koehler Paper Group increases deliveries in 2019

• News in brief: CFO Weber nominated to the board of Feldmuehle
• News in brief: Hiltensberger joins Jass Fibre
• News in brief: SCA to hike NBSK pulp price
• News in brief: Stockmeier Chemie sells Dow products
• News in brief: Södra to hike NBSK pulp price
• News in brief: Epple Druckfarben with subsidiary in Belgium
• News in brief: Flint Group builds new plant for printing inks in Russia
• News in brief: Riccobono Imprimeurs taking over several print shops in France