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The World Boxboard Study: Americas provides grade-level demand, supply and trade analysis of the global cartonboard market. It enables you to:
The World Boxboard Study: Americas is part of a product suite that also covers Asia and Europe.
The World Boxboard Study provides you with data and analytical tools that you can’t get from any other source.
Boxboard grades, unlike containerboard, are not defined and labeled consistently across major global markets. This means that the global outlook for boxboard cannot be determined by simply aggregating regional totals.
Fastmarkets’ World Boxboard Study – previously published in 2012 and 2015 – uses a proprietary global grade classification system to enable comparative analysis across all world markets.
No other research product offers such a holistic perspective of global boxboard markets – supported by the industry’s deepest and most trusted data and analysis.
The World Boxboard Study combines data and analysis from multiple Fastmarkets products into one accessible and digestible report. It also covers more grades and more countries than subscription products. And as noted above, the World Boxboard Study harmonizes product classification to enable direct comparison across countries and regions.
Based on feedback from clients worldwide, the Fastmarkets packaging team has developed a more detailed and granular analysis than ever before – and also provided you with the option of purchasing a report for the region or regions that matter most to your business – Asia, Europe, or North & South America.
Boxboard Producers Worldwide
Financial Analysts
Buyers/Converters
Fastmarkets has deleted monthly averages for January PIX Indices that were published in error on the Fastmarkets Dashboard on Wednesday January 7. Individual indices published the same day were unaffected and remain valid.
Fastmarkets invited feedback from the industry on the pricing methodology for Latin America Packaging Paper and Board, via an open consultation process between November 12 and December 29, 2025. This consultation was done as part of our published annual methodology review process.
Fastmarkets invited feedback from the industry on the pricing methodology for Latin America Graphic Paper, via an open consultation process between November 12 and December 29, 2025. This consultation was done as part of our published annual methodology review process.
Fastmarkets invited feedback from the industry on the pricing methodology for Latin America Recovered Paper, via an open consultation process between November 12 and December 29, 2025. This consultation was done as part of our published annual methodology review process.
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