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This past quarter saw an interesting combination of multiple price increases as well as decreased market capacity. As mentioned in our Paper Market Unfolded Q4 2025, 2026 started with several key suppliers in the uncoated freesheet (UFS) market announcing price...
The Paper Market Unfolded series is published quarterly and summarizes updates and insights from the printing industry over the previous quarter. The release of this issue was delayed into February to ensure we included the most recent new year announcements. Our goal...
Like many areas of the economy, the global struggle and heavy turbulence due to tariffs have also destabilized the international paper market. Nobody knows how this will play out as the year unfolds, but at the moment, we’ve been able to avoid any tariff-related price...
Lower Shipment Volume Signals Softer Market in 2025The North American printing and writing shipments decline continued into Q4, hitting its lowest level of 2024 in November, potentially indicating a weaker market in early 2025. Weak performance in the uncoated free...
Stabilizing DemandThe story of 2024 continues to be the long road to demand recovery. Demand has increased by about 7% year to date. However, there was a slight decline of 0.2% in paper shipments in August, marking the first drop after six consecutive months of...
Demand Continues to Fluctuate While Prices Remain Steady In April, there was a 10% increase in North American printing and writing (P&W) demand, with shipments reaching their highest level since January 2023. However, in May demand reversed course decreasing by...
2024 kicked off with mills paying close attention to several variables that will shape the stability of the paper market: Lower order volumes Mills face the challenge of maintaining a balance between predicted lower order volumes and operational efficiency. Mills are...
The paper market remains steady heading into the new year, a much different scenario than the beginning of 2023. Printing & writing (P&W) demand is expected to show a dramatic drop in 2023, perhaps as much as 27%. Part of this dramatic drop is the overstocking...
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