Paper packaging
Anticipate major market disruptions and track paper packaging grades with market-reflective prices, forecasts and expert insight
Gain clarity on the current status of the paper packaging market to know exactly what is happening, why and what might come next.
Fastmarkets provides paper packaging data, expert economic analysis and more for all grades of containerboard, linerboard, boxboard and kraft papers. It is critical to track market shifts and monitor prices to anticipate changes throughout the supply chain. Our essential price data and market coverage informs critical decision-making and offers a neutral ground to conduct business.
As a subscriber, be the first to learn about price shifts, supply and demand trends, capacity changes, critical acquisitions, mill closures and machine upgrades and conversions. You’ll also receive up-to-the-minute alerts on key import and export news and government regulations.
Subscribe to our paper packaging insights to access:
Breaking news and market-reflective prices covering 80 products and 2,800 sub-grades
Analysis of the forces moving your markets and how they’ll play out over the next 1-2 years across seven major grades
5- and 15-year forecasts underpinned by deep industry expertise, macroeconomic analysis and 50 years of historical data
Cost and performance benchmarking covering more than 4,500 companies and 16,500 projects
Find out why more than 90% of our customers renew each year. Schedule a demo to see for yourself how Fastmarkets price data and market insights can help you make better decisions.
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Find out how we assess and forecast prices for pulp, wood, biomass and more
Unlock smarter decisions in a volatile forest industry. Our whitepaper reveals how third-party indices, real-time price data, expert forecasts, and market analysis empower you to stay ahead. Discover key drivers like global events, recycled materials, and M&A activity shaping the industry’s future.
Our subscribers are among the first to learn about critical acquisitions, capacity changes, mill closures, and machine upgrades and conversions. They also receive up-to the minute alerts on key import and export news and government regulations. Here’s just a small selection of the new and analysis our packaging experts produce.
Fastmarkets’ 2025 outlook for key raw materials and ingredients used in the production and distribution of fast-moving consumer goods.
Understand the impact of avian flu on Brazil’s poultry exports and the packaging sector’s critical challenges in the coming months.
Discover how Klabin, Brazil’s largest producer, leads in packaging paper and innovates with its Eukaliner product.
Discover key takeaways from the North American packaging market webinar, essential for supply chain and procurement leaders in 2025.
Explore the impact of the trade war on the Chinese paper market with insights into April’s data and economic signals.
Get insights into the European pulp & paper sector and how US tariff discussions could influence future trade agreements.
Fastmarkets forest products give market participants and investors the transparency and clarity to make critical and strategic business decisions.
Market-reflective price data covering more than 2,800 commodities and 80 sub-grades with Fastmarkets forest products prices
Asset analysis and 5 – and 15-year economic outlooks
Near-term economic outlooks for the pulp, paper and wood products markets
Keep up to date with the latest pulp, paper, and wood products news, and be in the know about critical market shifts
Formerly RISI events, these are the places to discuss, debate, and learn about the latest trends and challenges in pulp, paper, packaging and more
Your partner in creating value and managing risk
Fastmarkets Forest Products brings together and builds on decades of expertise from RISI and Random Lengths. In order for you to stay ahead of industry trends and plan for what’s ahead, our forest products price data, forecasts, mill intelligence and reporting cover more than 3,500 grades.
In March 2017, Fastmarkets announced its acquisition of RISI.
RISI has been a leading provider of insight to the forest products industry for many decades, and is well known for its analysis, news and conferences.
Fastmarkets has built on this foundation to bring you news, forecasts, mill intelligence and price reporting cover over 3,500 grades across the globe to inform and prepare you for the risks and opportunities ahead. Learn more here.
In 2018, RISI, as part of Fastmarkets, acquired Random Lengths.
Random Lengths, still the most widely circulated and respected source of information for the wood products industry, continues to provide unbiased, consistent, and timely reports of market activity and prices, related trends, issues, and analyses. The company’s focus has traditionally been on North American markets, but as international trade in wood products has increased, we have expanded our coverage to prices and developments in overseas supplying regions. We also strive to deliver information to our customers in a timely and economical manner, utilizing modern technology. Learn more here.
Minimize your risk today with our market-reflective prices, specialist forecasts and expert analysis for the forest products market.
Navigate uncertainty and make business decisions with confidence using our price data, forecasts and critical intelligence.