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UK printers are being warned of possible paper shortages and price rises, as the Finnish paper industry remains at a standstill. Talks between the Finnish paper unions and employers ended [...]

The hikes announced earlier in the year have now come to fruition, writes Andy Scott. Price increases announced in February by the likes of Sappi have now started to emerge, [...]

Printers' hands fly to their foreheads at the news of paper prices going up, but is it a problem? Doesn't the customer pay? By Fleur Priestley Talk of paper price [...]

New York---High paper prices and increasing postage costs combined with a slowing economy may curb demand for paper late this year and into 2006, said John Maine, vice president of [...]

Ink and paper manufacturers upping prices at the same time as supermarkets are slashing theirs - it's an uncomfortable combination of events for the UK printer but both of them [...]

The situation remains stable in the cartonboard market with no price changes, writes Philip Chadwick. According to some sources the lack of price movement in the sector may remain until [...]

Pricing issues continue to be top of the agenda in the UK, with magazine negotiations protracted, writes Andy Scott. Industry sources have said that talks between a number of magazine [...]

Paper price rises will do little to deter publishers from using the grade that is right for them. After a period of downturn in magazine advertising revenue, the outlook is [...]

Sappi Fine Paper Europe is to increase prices for woodfree coated paper in both sheets and reels and mechanical coated paper sheets by E50 per ton from April. Prices for [...]

Mitsubishi HiTec Paper UK has increased prices for both its Giroform reels and sheets in the UK and Ireland. The price of Giroform reels have been raised 6% while the [...]

It remains unclear whether price increases by woodfree paper producers have gone through, writes Andy Scott. Although a number of producers planned price increases from the beginning of this year, [...]

Increases in the price of paper this year will help European manufacturers improve earnings for the first time since 2001, according to investment house UBS. Analysts at the company revealed [...]

Negotiations over newsprint prices are underway, as newspaper groups begin to factor the price hikes into their financial outlooks, writes Josh Brooks. As New Year price rises from all the [...]

Price increases for next year are starting to be announced by woodfree paper producers, writes Andy Scott. Last month's move by merchants to raise prices has been followed by the [...]

Paper manufacturers have been warned that the partial recovery in demand will start to recede early next year, with continued growth in the emerging markets of eastern Europe and Asia. [...]

There are three things you cannot avoid in life - death, taxes and paper price fluctuations, making this the year's biggest story as rises first failed and are now sticking. [...]

Price increases for both coated and uncoated grades have filtered through but are not universal, writes Andy Scott. The move by manufacturers to impose price increases appears to have left [...]

The latest round of third-quarter results is paving the way for paper price rises as papermakers struggle to make a profit despite strong demand. M-real's senior executive vice president and [...]

Sun Chemical last week raised packaging ink prices in North America 3- 7% for flexible, folding carton and paper packaging, blaming the cost of petrochemicals. Other factors were rising costs [...]

(With graph: New York recovered HDPE): HDPE SURGE: An unusual increase in demand and higher virgin resin prices are pushing prices for recovered high-density polyethylene upward throughout the country. Processors [...]

As companies gear up for the new year price review, there is plenty happening in the world newsprint markets, finds Josh Brooks. Announcements on price changes in January are creeping [...]

A period of price stability looks likely to end this month as merchants finally push through price increases, writes Andy Scott. Moves by manufacturers to increase prices by between 5-8% [...]

Despite reported price rises last month the cartonboard market has remained stable, writes Philip Chadwick. A price hike from suppliers in the recycled board sector has kicked in, however. It [...]

UPM president and chief executive Jussi Pesonen has said that the benefits of rising paper prices have been cancelled out by rising costs in raw materials. Speaking at the UBS [...]

Map Merchant Group has become the first merchant to confirm paper price rises. From 4 October it will raise prices by 5-8% ending months of speculation. It follows declarations by [...]

Not for the first time, the European paper industry is the focus of a European Commission (EC) investigation into alleged price fixing and cartel activity. The scope of the investigation [...]

Neusiedler is to raise the price of all Office and Offset papers between 6% and 8%, depending on the grade, for all European markets for deliveries from 13 September. Holmen [...]

The woodfree market continues to send out a mixed message but prices in Europe remain stable, writes Andy Scott. According to the Association of European Fine Paper Manufacturers, Cepifine, coated [...]

Despite signs of movement last month in cartonboard prices, the state of the market remains stable in May, writes Philip Chadwick. Merchants have not noticed any changes in the cartonboard [...]

Demand in the publication paper market remains reasonably healthy, but prices remain unchanged, writes Andy Scott. Producers such as UPM are reporting that paper deliveries in the magazine paper market [...]

Byline: Margery Weinstein As expected, paper prices have been stable so far this year. But observers offer differing opinions as to when prices will rise, and by how much. 'Our [...]

The BPIF is to monitor the behaviour of paper merchants across Europe in the wake of the imposition of price increases across the UK. 'The merger between Buhrmann and PaperLinx [...]

With price increases set for January, the woodfree market is waiting to see if these take hold, writes Andy Scott. Some paper buyers are worried that January may be too [...]

FALLING OFF A LEDGE: The export market for sorted white ledger and sorted office paper is falling, pushing prices lower. Domestic prices for those grades are approaching export prices. Newspaper [...]

Price rises for all grades of paper are coming thick and fast. M-real is the latest to start negotiations with its customers to increase prices for graphic papers in reels [...]

HH Pegg, the Hammersmith-based independent paper agent, claims UK paper prices 'cannot drop much further without endangering many paper mills in the UK and in Europe'. Since the company started [...]

Buhrmann's decision to sell its paper merchanting division, including Robert Horne and Howard Smith paper in the UK, to Paperlinx can be explained by a look at the group's second [...]

UK printers have been warned that paper prices could rise during early 2004, meaning they should plan forward and buy stock before the end of this year. According to Lawrence [...]

Stability is the watchword for LWC and SC paper grades, says Andy Scott. The paper buyer at one magazine publisher said that despite price increases being pushed through by UK [...]

On February 3 the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) published a Federal Register notice seeking comments on a draft report to Congress on the Costs and Benefits of Federal [...]

Ahlstrom's LabelPack division is to increase the price of all paper grades by E100 per tonne. The Finnish producers of specialty papers for flexible packaging and labelling has blamed a [...]

Leeds-based independent paper converter and merchant Monarch Paper has resisted the urge to increase its prices, arguing that they are not justified at the moment. The company has written to [...]

Prices remain stable in the magazine papers market, and the current low levels are encouraging buyers to experiment more and upgrade, writes Gordon Carson. Publishers, lured by low prices across [...]

Paper prices are set to fall by 5% in the first quarter of the year, according to the latest report from Morgan Stanley Equity Research. It forecasts slow demand growth [...]

PIA (Alexandria, VA) is now offering members a new system that will track paper prices. Accessible through www.gain.net, the system provides printers with month-to-month data on price changes for a [...]

Byline: Shayn Ferriolo In what's been a tough year for catalogers, there's been at least one bright spot: relatively low paper prices. But as the paper mills and suppliers try [...]

Purchasing transaction price survey results Transaction Previous price [*] month FERROUS METALS (truckload quantities, FOB producing mills) Hot-rolled steel sheet 215 230 (Midwest, $/ton) Cold-rolled steel sheet 300 310 (Midwest, [...]

What are the pros and cons of charging national park entry fees? --Robert Hill, Pensacola, FL In some ways, national parks' twin goals of preserving American ands while opening them [...]

TRANSACTION PRICES Latest Months price [*] ago FERROUS METALS (truckload quantities, FOB producing mills) Hot-rolled steel sheet (Midwest, $/ton) 240 240 Cold-rolled steel sheet (Midwest, $/ton) 320 334 HD galvanized [...]

You would think that with the economy as soft as it is right now, prices for grades like mixed paper and #6 news in the Southeast (and other regions, for [...]