Price reporting Italy

After price reductions at the start of 2024, the paper industry is trying to turn the tide with price hike attempts in various segments in the first quarter....

A slight uptick in demand for ordinary recovered paper grades was observed in March. Market participants reported a slight bump in incoming orders from Northern Europe as well as from Italian paper producers. There were occasional downtimes in the packaging paper, cartonboard and coreboard industries in March, but...

The sentiment on the Italian recovered paper market is positive. Although the general private consumption situation has not improved, the outlook is brightening and prices of some grades are trending higher. Price increases were reported in March for mixed paper and board (1.02), supermarket paper and board (1.04) and...

A few leading coated and uncoated woodfree paper manufacturers’ intentions to raise prices for deliveries from January or February have not received a warm reception from customers in Italy....

Italy’s recovered paper market did not experience any wide-ranging changes in February. Exports have normalised somewhat after the initial shock sparked by the crisis in the Red Sea and demand in Italy remained generally subdued....

As the new year began, Italy’s recovered paper merchants faced complications with exports to the Far East. Attacks by Houthi rebels on Red Sea commercial shipping forced merchant ships to take a an alternative route beginning in the second half of December, stalling recovered paper exports for the time being. Transport...

Price talks were taking place in all parts of the Italian market in December. On the one hand, these negotiations focused on fixing the final prices for December....

Recovered paper remains expensive in Italy, in the view of converters. Market players in Italy have observed hardly any changes in prices or demand on the Italian market in December....

Recycled paper and cartonboard markets remain very subdued in Italy in the penultimate month of 2023. Downtimes are routinely being taken at paper and board mills, and hardly any recovered paper is needed....

Coated and uncoated woodfree paper manufacturers in Italy plan to take action after long months of falling prices and have sounded the bell for a fresh round of price talks....

Prices for ordinary recovered paper grades increased again in Italy in October, even though demand remained subdued on the domestic market, with many corrugated case material and cartonboard mills taking downtime....

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Demand for recovered paper from Italian and other European paper manufacturers remained lacklustre in Italy over the summer. After a very quiet August, September did not bring the hoped-for recovery in demand....

The state of affairs on Italy’s paper and board markets altered little over the summer months. Manufacturers and their customers are universally complaining of poor demand and inadequate capacity utilisation....

Italy’s cores and coreboard industry has another tough quarter in the rear-view mirror. The fundamental situation did not change: orders were still not being placed and coreboard prices declined, although less than in previous quarters when dramatic mark-downs already occurred....