Clarification of Fastmarkets’ wood products price names

Fastmarkets is standardizing the names of its forest products prices for recovered paper, pulp, paper packaging, graphic paper, nonwovens, timber, biomass and softwood products. Principally to ensure consistent and clearly define the markets.

Fastmarkets is standardizing the names of its forest products prices for recovered paper, pulp, paper packaging, graphic paper, nonwovens, timber, biomass and softwood products. Principally to ensure consistent and clearly define the markets.

Fastmarkets is in the process of standardizing price nomenclature for forest products. This initiative does not alter the existing methodology for price discovery, which remains unchanged. However, we will update our documentation on price methodologies to incorporate the standardized naming conventions, ensuring clarity and consistency across our publications.

Please refer to the link to the tables below for detailed information on the standardized forest product price names as part of this process:

Please click here for a list of standardized price names and a FAQ ahead of their implementation on September 30, 2025.

To provide feedback on these prices or if you would like to provide price information by becoming a data submitter, please email: pricing@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “FAO: Re: Standardization of Fastmarkets’ Forest Products Price Names.”

To see all Fastmarkets’ pricing methodology and specification documents, please go to https://www.fastmarkets.com/methodology/forest-products/.

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