Following consultations and expressions of support from a broad range of market participants, Fastmarkets has decided to launch new price assessments of northern bleached softwood kraft (NBSK) and bleached eucalyptus kraft (BEK) pulp spot prices for Europe, starting in January 2026.

During London Pulp Week 2025, industry participants gathered to discuss the pulp market outlook amid challenging conditions. Despite current lows in sentiment and profitability, the consensus was that tighter market conditions and potential supply-side shocks could lead to a more positive outlook for pulp prices as we move into 2026.

Fastmarkets has not changed the methodology for price discovery. Fastmarkets has updated its documentation on price methodologies to incorporate the standardized naming conventions, ensuring clarity and consistency across our forest products publications. Please refer to the link to the tables below for detailed information on the standardized forest product price names as part of this […]

Fastmarkets has corrected its mid-month Pulp North America market prices Wednesday September 24. These prices were published without identifying that these prices are “preliminary” on September 12. FP-PLP-0009: Fluff, Europe FP-PLP-0013: Northern Bleached Softwood Kraft (Canada) FP-PLP-0014: Southern Bleached Softwood Kraft, from US FP-PLP-0015: Unbleached softwood kraft (Canadian/US) FP-PLP-0016: Fluff (US southern kraft, untreated softwood […]

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 […]

Explore the implications of the 50% tariff on the pulp market, impacting trade dynamics and costs for industries reliant on pulp.

This change was not initially noted on the Fastmarkets’ 2025 publication schedule. It has now been updated. The grades that are covered are: Eucalyptus FP-PLP-0042 Northern Bleached Hardwood Kraft, mixed FP-PLP-0043 Southern Mixed Hardwood Kraft FP-PLP-0044 Bleached Hardwood Kraft, Acacia FP-PLP-0045 Bleached Chemi-Thermomechanical Pulp, Aspen FP-PLP-0046 Northern Bleached Softwood Kraft FP-PLP-0047 Bleached Softwood Kraft, Radiata […]

Fastmarkets proposes to continue to publish all delivered prices net of tariffs. The specifics of the global pulp markets likely to be most affected are detailed below. Asia Fastmarkets’ prices for pulp imports into China are on a CIF basis. Consequently, Fastmarkets will continue to assess these prices net of tariffs. To date, US pulp […]

Feedback was received regarding North American prices published by Fastmarkets. Thus far, a majority of buyers and sellers have indicated plans to invoice/settle tariffs separately from the actual price for physical material rather than negotiating a price inclusive of all import duties. Fastmarkets therefore proposes to continue to publish all delivered US price assessments net […]

Starting 2025, concerns about potential tariffs left North American pulp market participants on edge. As they closed January prices and negotiated new orders for February, the landscape could starkly change. In the European pulp market, pulp producers have announced price increases for both bleached eucalyptus kraft (BEK) pulp and northern bleached softwood kraft (NBSK) pulp. […]