Statistics

According to latest Europulp statistics, pulp stocks at European ports fell by 252,000 t to 1.57 million tfrom June to July. The biggest dip of 116,000 t to 715,000 t was seen at Dutch/Belgian ports, followed by Italy with stocks lower by 97,000 t to 420,000 t. Pulp stocks at German ports receded by 19,000 t to 220,000...

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The business climate within Germany’s printing and media sector became again more downbeat in August 2023. Both assessments of the trend in business over the next six months and of the current climate were again worse than in the previous month. The business climate index calculated by the German Printing and Media...

The decline in British paper production and reduced consumption of recycled paper and board products in the United Kingdom left a mark on the recovered paper sector in 2022: Collection volumes fell by 6 per cent year-over-year to 6.6 million t in 2022. With that, they were slightly higher than the figures recorded...

The year 2022 brought many changes for the United Kingdom: after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, King Charles III ascended the throne, and three different prime ministers were also in office....

The effects of Russia’s war against Ukraine, which started in spring 2022, continues to cause huge economic challenges for Europe as a whole and Germany in particular. Since the beginning of the war, energy prices have risen considerably. The significant reduction of Russia’s natural gas deliveries in the summer of...

On its way to more sustainable, climate-friendly and resource-conserving methods of production, the German paper sector made good progress in 2022, German national papermaker association Die Papierindustrie says. Germany’s recovered paper utilisation rate summed up to 79 per cent in 2022, which means it was...

2022 was a challenging year for Italy’s paper recycling sector, too. Energy prices reached unprecedented levels in the first half of the year, in particular, which was followed by a second half with weak consumption and dwindling demand for paper. These factors also left their mark on the amount of recovered paper...

Germany has imported significantly less recovered paper than usual this year....

2022 was a year of strong sales revenues for Italy’s paper industry but the overall situation was very challenging. The industry experienced two very contrasting halves of the year, with difficulties mounting from one quarter to the next. In the second half of 2022, hefty costs combined with falling demand kept many...

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The business climate of the German printing and media industry receded in July 2023, according to the German printing and media industry association Bvdm. The business climate index dipped by 3.7 per cent month-on-month after adjusting for seasonal and calendar effects. However, the index stood 4.3 per cent higher at...

Paper and board output in Ukraine increased in the first half of 2023 compared with the same period last year. Talking to EUWID, Eduard Litvak, director of Ukrainian paper association Ukrpapir, quantified the growth at nearly 10 per cent. The country’s paper and board manufacturers produced a total of 260,545 t of...

After pulp stocks at European ports fell slightly in May, the months-long upward trajectory resumed in June. According to Europulp statistics, volumes grew by 23,000 t month-on-month to 1.81 million t. The largest growth was seen at Italian ports, where inventory volumes were up by 20,000 t to 517,000 t, followed by...

The paper industry has another year of multiple challenges in the rearview mirror. The knock-on effects of the Covid-19 pandemic were still leaving their mark when another crisis – the war in Ukraine – emerged and stood in the way of a market recovery, Cepi said when presenting industry statistics for 2022. Energy...