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Nanocellulose describes a class of high-tech engineered materials made from plant fiber. These materials can enhance strength and barrier properties in paper and paperboard, resulting in biobased and biodegradable packaging that’s stronger, lighter and less expensive.
Stora Enso, BillerudKorsnäs, and other industry giants have already committed to expanding their use of nanocellulose in packaging. This first-ever study is a primer on how these and other investments – in production and R&D – could disrupt the massive global market for product packaging. Nanocellulose: Packaging Applications and Markets provides a valuable look inside this emerging technology, and its potential impact on every business that produces or purchases packaging.
This new study from Fasrmarkets and emerging-materials authority Jack Miller gives you:
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Proprietary insight from Jack Miller – an industry authority on emerging bio-based materialsJack Miller, author of Nanocellulose: Packaging Applications and Markets, is Founder and Principal Consultant of BioBased Markets, previously known as Market-Intell LLC. For the past seven years, his focus has been on marketing and business development for emerging materials such as nanocellulose and lignin.
Jack has more than forty years of experience in market research and marketing strategy related to paper and paperboard, and previously held positions with Domtar including Director of Market Intelligence and Regional Sales Manager. He served as Business Development Consultant with CelluForce, Inc., from 2011 to 2013, and was Consulting Manager, Global Nanocellulose Sales, American Process, Inc., in 2014 and 2015. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Sweetwater Energy, a biorefinery company. Jack is the author of two previous Fastmarkets studies in 2014 and 2017, and developed two studies of nanocellulose for industry trade association TAPPI in 2017 and 2018.
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How shifting tariffs, ongoing investigations and delayed housing policy are pressuring costs, supply and margins across the 2026 wood products market.
Following an internal editorial review, Fastmarkets identified that nonwovens assessments published on July 1, 2026, did not fully reflect the consistent application of its published assessment methodology. To ensure the methodology is applied consistently and that the assessments appropriately reflect observed market conditions and prevailing trading practices, the following assessments have been corrected:
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A massive $600B wave of AI capex is crowding out residential construction, keeping interest rates high and suppressing North American wood products demand through 2026.
GCC containerboard prices remained mostly stable in June, as trade disruptions, weak exports, and seasonal demand shifts shaped market conditions across Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
Fastmarkets has corrected the Green Douglas Fir delivered prices for July 7th, which were marked as final weekly prices instead of preliminary due to a procedural lapse.