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The performance of Argentina's pulp and paper industry has failed to reflect the brilliance of this 'Southern Cone' country's otherwise impressive economic recovery. Richard Higgs reviews the sector's key strengths [...]

After four stagnant years Australia's economy is gaining speed and taking flight. Clare Turner finds evidence suggesting its pulp and paper industry could be on the verge of lift-off The [...]

Recession and overcapacity are casting a long shadow over the Italian paper and board industry's performance. Corruption scandals and electoral reform steal the headlines but for Italian industry, the most [...]

Two major issues continue to absorb the attention of the European pulp and paper industry. These are economics and the environment. For most companies the economic issue predominates as one [...]

Debt and cash flow have become the bywords of corporate fiscal policies for the US industry in the past year. The black months of 1991 have plunged US companies into [...]

Recovery is under way, says Richard Cockram of NLK Consultants It is not an enviable task to write about one of the most disastrous periods for market pulp in post-war [...]

Global overcapacity, falling prices and poor economic growth formed the basis of Sweden's difficult year in 1991. Newsprint makers suffered especially badly, with production down by 13% to 1.9M tons. [...]

Hard times The first six months of this year show a drop in production of paper, board and corrugating base of 3%. Paper production increased by just 0.1%, board was [...]

If you haven't read Roger Stone's address at Pulp & Paper Week's market pulp conference last June in Chicago, then please do so (see page 38). He described how, in [...]

German companies are seeing their hard-won productivity improvements being whittled away due to currency devaluations. Barclay's Bank has reported German economic 'stagnation' will hold back recovery across Europe. Nigel Newman, [...]

The German pulp and industry has the opportunity to come out of recession. There is massive investment underway, as our German focus illustrates. Customers for the new capacities will come [...]

Predictions for the immediate future of the Chilean pulp sector do not make comfortable reading, says Margaret Orgill, who spoke with Eladio Susaeta, the long-standing president of Chile's forest industry [...]

After five years of strain, New Zealand's pulp and paper industry is smiling again, thanks to a low NZ$ and improved cost-competitiveness. New Zealand's pulp and paper industry is enjoying [...]

Ust-Ilimsk pulp mill, born in 1979 as international socialism's dearest integrated child, may now be called a martyr of Russian capitalism Constructed with the assistance of five East European states, [...]

... because it looks as if the recession is over. The British government said it officially ended 27 April. Does this mean it officially started? If so I wish the [...]

Spanish production of paper and board for the first quarter of 1992 was 1.8M tons up 2.3% on the same period last year. But cynics among the analysts of Spain's [...]

With the darker days of the recession over, the US pulp and paper industry appears to be on the verge of recovery. A year ago, most analysts agreed the US [...]

The Soviet Union and eastern Europe possess the largest coniferous resources on earth and represent a potential market of 385M people. This enormous raw material base and market potential have [...]