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At the latest SPA conference, Neil Osment, Managing Director of consultant company NOA Prism, explained that after having taken a hit in 2022, the corrugated industry will take some time to recover. Growth prospects for the coming five years are good, albeit not as good as in the previous five-year period. Frauke...

The closure of the European market to Russian companies led to a decline in production in the pulp and paper industry. Statistics for 2022 largely reflect negative processes seen in the country. Pulp production reached 8.8 million t in 2022, which was 1 per cent less than in 2021. Officials also report that paper and...

In 2022, production and deliveries of German pulp, paper and board mills fell by over 6 per cent to 21.6 million t, but had thus returned to the long-standing pre-crisis level. According to Die Papierindustrie, the association of German paper mills, the increased costs for energy and raw materials have been passed on...

Spain’s corrugated board and packaging industry reported total sales of €7.62bn for 2022 compared with €6.27bn in the previous year. However, corrugated board output receded year-on-year in 2022. Companies under the umbrella of the Spanish industry association Afco (Asociación Española de Fabricantes de Envases y...

Germany imported almost 5.2 million t of recovered paper last year, 4 per cent less than in 2021. According to figures from Germany’s Federal Statistical Office Destatis, monthly imports initially increased until July 2022 to peak at a record 470,000 t but then plummeted following the abrupt fall in demand in the paper...

The Pulp and Paper Products Council (PPPC) reports a sharp fall in worldwide pulp deliveries for the first month 2023. According to its latest statistics, worldwide deliveries receded month-on-month by 602,0000 tto 4.02 million t. Bleached hardwood pulp accounts for the lion’s share, receding by 528,000 t to 2.06...

In February 2023, the business climate in the German printing and media sector improved the fourth month in a row. However, according to the bvdm business telegram, due to slightly lower business expectations, the upward trend was less pronounced. The business climate index calculated by the German Printing and Media...

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Pulp consumption at European paper mills plummeted from November to December. Utipulp statistics indicate that total pulp consumption fell by 132,000 t to 734,000 t in December 2022, a low level not seen in several years. Consumption of hardwood kraft pulp alone slipped month-on-month by nearly 17 per cent to 443,000...

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Worldwide pulp deliveries picked up steam again between November and December 2022. According to the Pulp and Paper Products Council (PPPC), shipments leapt by 311,000 t to 4.62 million t. Bleached hardwood kraft pulp deliveries alone fuelled this growth, with a 318,000 t improvement compared with November to 2.58...

Towards the end of 2022, the German Corrugated Board Industry Association (VDW) issued rather pessimistic forecasts suggesting that a degree of stability will not emerge until the third quarter. The first quarter is expected to end with a 10.1 per cent drop in sales, followed by a 5.6 per cent decrease in the second...

According to the bvdm business telegram, the business climate index of the German print and media sector rose by a seasonally adjusted 5 per cent in January 2023 compared to December to 92.2 points, but still remained 7.2 per cent below the level seen in January 2022. In January print and media industry decision-makers...

Pulp inventories at European ports totalled 1.33 million t in December and thus remained at a stable level overall compared to November. However, Europulp reports that changes occurred in the individual countries. Inventories rose by 66,000 t to 580,000 t at Dutch and Belgian ports. Likewise, France and Switzerland...

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