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If only geopolitical events and market forces had the push-button simplicity of a CtP imagesetter or a printing press for a quick reset, do-over, or finish. Print manufacturers, particularly export [...]

Byline: Arlene Karidis Recent tumult in the global market for recovered paper, particularly for lower grades of fiber, seems to be winding down with prices creeping back up after a [...]

Uncoated and coated groundwood paper manufacturers are experiencing a growth in demand from end users. Industry observers believe that recession-related pricing woes and declining demand will undergo a reversal starting 1993. Coated paper producers disclosed that an average 7% price hike in coated groundwood papers will be implemented in the spot market in May and Jun 1993. On the other hand, the uncoated groundwood segment is implementing a discount reduction on all grades except SC-A., Coated, uncoated groundwood mills try price hikes in wake of increasing demand, but face new competition Producers of uncoated and coated groundwood papers are finally seeing markets tighten as demand [...]

Boutwell, Owens and Co., Fitchburg, Mass., will install Mitsubishi's newest press, a 40-inch Diamond Tandem lithographic press. The company picked the 10-unit press for its faster makeready and run times, [...]

Ballarpur Industries Ltd has said that it will soon announce a further hike in paper prices after hiking its selling prices of paper by Rs3,000 per tonne in Jul 2013. [...]

Metsa Board has gone against parent company Metsa Group's pledge to resist price increases. Just last month, Metsa Group said 'no significant changes in the price of uncoated fine paper [...]

Byline: RECORDER REPORT All Pakistan Paper Merchants Association (APPMA) has demanded of the millers to announce cut in paper prices as the too high paper prices badly affected their business. [...]

A bumpy ride yields a stable market After three roller-coaster years of fluctuating paper costs - rapidly rising in 1994 and 1995, then falling last year due to inventory build-ups [...]

International markets for pulp, paper and their associated packaging saw mixed performance in the first quarter of 1997. Prices declined, but volume sales continued to rise as world economies continued to expand. Future pricing trends will largely depend on economic developments in the US, where there is a very high trade deficit and some observers believe that inflation could start to cause problems. It is also possible that markets for pulp and paper will be affected by currency instability resulting from preparations for European monetary union.

The last two and one-half years have been one hell of a roller coaster ride in the paper market. 'Trying to predict the paper market is like trying to predict [...]

Despite some seasonal softness among premium grades and Wall Street concerns about a peaking economy, paper demand in the U.S. remains very strong. At the same time, no new supplies [...]

THE RECENT STEEP increases in the cost of paper, which are expected to continue through much of the year and maybe into 1996, are causing great concern among publishers--and are [...]

Manufacturers say they're damned if they do, and damned if they don't--raise prices that is. Squeezed between the demands of an intensely competitive and contracting retail marketplace and across-the-board hikes [...]

Sappi Fine Paper Europe has announced its third paper price increase for speciality products this year. The paper manufacturer will increase speciality products' prices by 8% from 1 November. The [...]

By David Hannon In various presentations at last month's Reuters Paper and Packaging Summit in Helsinki, executives and analysts painted a grim picture of demand for paper and forestry products, [...]

Staff Paper mills were paying $585/metric ton for Northern bleached hardwood kraft (NBHK) pulp in August but pulp makers Sappi Fine Paper North America and Domtar are trying to raise [...]

Staff Goldman Sachs analyst Richard Skidmore expects demand declines across the printing-writing paper grades to continue given a further slowdown. 'Although the industry has shown it will close capacity, we [...]

INDEPENDENCE, OH | Longbow Research reports in its Forest & Paper Products Weekly by analyst Joshua Zaret that US recovered paper prices have plummeted as much as $50-$100/ton in November, [...]

UPM has said there is still a need to increase paper prices in order for market prices to reflect the increase in raw material and energy costs. At a meeting [...]

By Maria Varmazis Try as they might to fight it, buyers across the board are seeing the trickle-down effects of high energy prices when they buy paper. Office paper prices [...]

Printers are to be hit with further paper price hikes after merchants warned customers to expect increases of up to 8% in the coming months. Mills have recently announced increases [...]

Paper prices must double to make the paper industry economically and environmentally sustainable, Andrew Gunman, regional director of paper manufacturer M-real, has warned. Speaking at the annual PPA Magazine Conference [...]

By Maria Varmazis Buyers are very concerned about paper prices as raw materials prices and freight rates combine with geopolitical tensions to create a very volatile market. According to a [...]

M-real's new chief executive has called for more rises in paper prices just a week after announcing the planned closure of the group's fine paper mill in Sittingbourne, Kent. Mikko [...]

Byline: Jim Tierney With the fall mailing season under way, paper prices appear to be holding steady - a relief for catalogers after a series of increases earlier this year. [...]

Further paper price increases have been predicted after two more mills revealed rises of up to 6%. Manufacturer Arjowiggins Carbonless Papers has raised the price of its Idem Superior by [...]

Printers are facing across-the-board paper price rises of up to 10% this September following a massive increase in production costs at mills. The warnings came as the Confederation of Paper [...]

Technology enabling the production of paper from straw could help stabilise UK paper price fluctuations and open up a market worth around pounds 27m to British farmers. The straw technology, [...]

The National Association of Paper Merchants (NAPM) has confirmed that there is a shortage of A4 copier sheets. NAPM members report that sales of white box copier, in particular, have [...]

While prices remain unchanged this month, speculation is growing that rising energy costs will affect cartonboard prices sooner than expected, writes Philip Chadwick. According to one manufacturing source, prices could [...]

Newsprint price negotiations continue, with a price rise of around 5% being mooted, writes Andy Scott. Producer SCA predicts that the price for newsprint in Europe is set to rise [...]

M-real has become the latest carbonless paper producer to announce a price increase. The Finnish paper manufacturer is to increase the prices for its carbonless paper copy grade, Zanders Autocopy, [...]

Price increases for both coated and uncoated woodfree grades are starting to filter through, writes Andy Scott. The price increases threatened by producers prior to the end of last year [...]

Soft market conditions continue in the lightweight coated sector, but prices still look likely to increase towards the end of the first quarter, writes James Donkin. Paper mills have been [...]

Predictions of price increases for next year have started to come to fruition, writes Andy Scott. Warnings issued last month that price increases could be on the way up for [...]

Three further paper producers have joined the ranks of those announcing price increases for next year, adding to the woes of UK printers. Finnish paper producer UPM is to increase [...]

Byline: pffc-online.com PRESS RELEASE UETERSEN, GERMANY-Stora Enso Specialty Papers will raise prices for its European customers on its wet strength Label Papers and Flexible Packaging Papers by 5% as of [...]

With rising energy costs blighting many paper manufacturers' results, the driver for price hikes is obvious. The question is, will buyers foot the bill, asks Darryl Danielli. In the past [...]

Thermally cured silicones are the largest group of silicones, dominating the market with a share of almost 90%. As their name implies, they are cured by heat and use an [...]

The anticipated price rises for woodfree grades look set go through, despite resistance, reports Andy Scott. Merchants and manufacturers indicated last month that price hikes of between 4-9% could be [...]

Price increases in cartonboard could be looming larger on the horizon while the current state of lead times is also causing concern, writes Philip Chadwick. One manufacturing source has admitted [...]

As the industry rallies against price hikes, Andy Scott asks whether the increases will stick. Citing rising energy prices and growing demand in Eastern and Central Europe, a host of [...]