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.

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Prices and news

Breaking news and market-reflective prices covering 80 products and 2,800 sub-grades

Short-term forecasts

Analysis of the forces moving your markets and how they’ll play out over the next 1-2 years across seven major grades

Long-term forecasts

5- and 15-year forecasts underpinned by deep industry expertise, macroeconomic analysis and 50 years of historical data

Asset analysis

Cost and performance benchmarking covering more than 4,500 companies and 16,500 projects

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    What’s happening in the packaging market?

    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.

    There is a lot of uncertainty around how disruptive the Red Sea crisis will be on trade flows. Reports suggest that it is adding costs and extending shipping times as major shipping companies opt to sail around the Cape of Good Hope rather than through the Red Sea. In some instances, it appears that for […]

    After two difficult years, we anticipate demand for containerboard and corrugated board in Europe will start to recover this year. However, sluggish growth in the European economy will likely continue to be sluggish and consumer spending remains uncertain in the near term. Challenges will increase as containerboard capacity grows faster than demand during the next […]

    Constrained international shipments contribute to higher prices Prices for locally produced containerboard continued to rise in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries in February, after our indices registered increases of approximately $20 per tonne in January. In the largest market, Saudi Arabia, many contracts are inked for the quarter, and price contributors already reported increases […]

    With rising costs, food and beverages (F&B) companies are seeking more transparency to understand the nuances of packaging procurement. In this article we explore some of the factors shaping F&B sustainable and strategic packaging decisions.

    In an unusual, awkward marketplace where demand was mixed, and one large producer this week even announced mill and sheet plant permanent closures, linerboard prices increased narrowly by $40/ton in North America’s open market, according to a survey of buyers and sellers by Fastmarkets’ PPI Pulp & Paper Week. Looking to stay updated on price trends […]

    Upward pricing pressure for US old corrugated containers (OCC), new double-lined kraft corrugated cuttings (DLK), and mixed paper showed no signs of slowing down, maintaining yearlong pricing increases that improved US OCC’s average further above its 10-year average to $91/ton in February 2024. Want to know what’s behind your packaging price? Our cutting-edge index builder tool […]

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