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Jefferies analyst Philip Ng said box shipments were 'unsurprisingly' down 2.3% on an actual and average week basis for Q2 and notes that inventories are effectively back to the levels [...]

Futures contracts for corn are up 96% over the past year, while cotton and wheat have jumped 54% and 50%, respectively. Consumer staples giants like Kimberly-Clark, J.M. Smucker, Proctor & [...]

Walmart (WMT) is urging vendors including Procter & Gamble (PG), Unilever (UL, UN), Kimberly-Clark (KMB) and Clorox (CLX) to provide more merchandise priced at $10 and above in an effort [...]

Part 84 The final years before the turn of the 20th century were years of consolidation for the Confederate currency field. The Panic of 1893 had been precipitated in the [...]

Prices of old corrugated containers (OCCs) in the United States have slightly recovered. The short-term prices of OCCs has flattened for the first time in seven or eight years. Meanwhile, increased demand from China has caused an upward trend in the prices of OCCs.

Here's a consequence of escalating oil prices that many businesses have yet to contemplate, or don't want to; The supply chain management strategies spawned during the last 20 years--quick transport, [...]

Paper trading patterns in China are changing. Due to the substantial size of the Chinese market, these changes affect regional market balances and price movements.

Big brands are know for their aggressive positioning with retailers, but last week Kimberly-Clark was forced to display its strength when Sainsbury's refused to enforce a price hike. The retailer […]

This article consists of the following subsections: Raw materials; Production; Forestry product categories; Selling and distribution; Research and development; Business cycles and strategies; Government regulations; and Cost structure.

This article contains the following subsections: Paper recovery underway; Leading players consolidate; Paper and board producers cut capacity; Our paper industry forecast: starting on the road to recovery; Lumber: surplus hampers prices; and Our wood products forecast: demand may soften.

In the wood products industry, the market was depressed by bad weather and the Canadian quota tax. Moreover, the price of lumber fell because of worsening sector conditions, a trend forecasted by Standard and Poor's Corp. to continue for 2001.

Internal and external reference price segments are evaluated for liquid detergents, toilet tissue, yogurt and ketchup.

Steep price rises in raw material for paper and packaging products during the first half of 1995 have levelled off and suppliers are unwilling to increase prices further. Demand for various products differs widely, with world pulp prices not expected to see further increases. An overview of the world paper and packaging markets for third quarter 1995 is presented.

NEWS ANALYSIS Confidential conversations with independent box makers through out the country last week revealed that over the past month corrugated box prices have been slipping. Some independents have been [...]

Byline: Robert Boulanger Pricing on mixed, post-consumer polyethylene terephthalate food and beverage containers, post-consumer colored high-density polyethylene and post-consumer mixed paper has moved in recent months. Post-Consumer PET Prices Slide [...]

This year's sluggish paper market was good news for magazines' budget planners. At the beginning of the year, the average transaction price for coated groundwood #5, a popular magazine paper, [...]

This article discusses cost estimating and pricing issues in four different industries, analyzes methods and strategies used, and compares costing and pricing techniques. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

It is believed that the economic crisis that hit the world in the second half of 2008 has also hit the global pulp and paper industry. Conditions in the recovered paper market deteriorated significantly, and prices were down sharply across all grades and markets. Information about a weak demand and an oversupplied market is also presented.

COATED PAPER OUTLOOK From a paper producer's point of view, the markets for coated and uncoated printing papers can best be characterized by one word: awful. Demand is off, capacity [...]

NEWS ANALYSIS When Weyerhaeuser Co. told its customers last October that it was planning to raise its containerboard prices by $40 per ton, effective with Jan. 1 shipments, a lot [...]

PARTICIPANTS in the fragmented paper chemicals industry are unified in the opinion that raw material costs are unlikely to come down soon, and nearly all producers have been implementing price [...]

The 2005 forecasts and trends of the pulp, paper and paperboard products in the United States and Canada in comparison to the year 2004 are discussed. The operating rates, prices as well as the supply and demand are also statistically presented and discussed.

This time, we might have it right. Via a broad range of statistics analyzed with the help of Reed Research Group, Newton, MA, it appears that 2004 is the year [...]

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, [...]

As paper prices remain at historically low levels, mills are poised to pounce on the first signs of an economic uptick in the form of renewed advertising and direct marketing [...]

The article discusses the pulp market's decline in 2001. The margin between pulp and paper price levels slowly increased as the price of pulp fell.

Overcapacity, the Asian economic letdown, and a slowing domestic economy keep paper stocks high and spot market prices low. Commercial printers and publishers enjoyed a soft paper market nearly all [...]