The article focuses on the impact of solid paper demand from packaging companies on its prices in the U.S. Topics discussed include an overview on the paper recycling chains, the increasing prices of recovered paper, the increase of corrugated prices, and the problems encountered by recovered paper exporters.
The article offers information on several markets including ferrous and non-ferrous metal scrap, paper, and plastic. Topics discussed include the leveling of the price for ferrous scrap after the trend increase, the drop of price for scrap aluminium due to weak demand and robust supply, and the comeback of old news print (ONP) grade with growing demand from China.
The article reports on the forecasts of the recycling market players which indicates that the paper markets has recovered in 2011 while the high volumes of fiber at the end of 2010 has been driven by the bale inventory in paperboard mills and improved retail sales.
The article offers information on the market prices of various products for 2009. It notes that the pricing of scrap metal fell as the winter season came, in which the industry analysts say that there is a slight increase in the inventories of scrap due to weaker demand in domestic and foreign aspect. There is an increase in the prices of aluminum in the third quarter. The pricing for recovered paper had a plateau level in the fourth quarter due to the export demand of bales which remained flat.
Published
2009
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