Fastmarkets MB has corrected its weekly ferro-chrome benchmark indicator, which was published incorrectly on Tuesday December 7 because of a technical issue

Fastmarkets RISI is proposing to publish NBSK CIF China assessments during Lunar New Year and the October Golden Week holiday with effect from 2022. This would ensure an assessment is published every week of the year. Fastmarkets RISI’s NBSK CIF China assessment is used as the settlement for futures contracts listed on the NOREXECO exchange. […]

Effective December 13, 2021, Fastmarkets will standardize the names of all Random Lengths price assessments in the Fastmarkets RISI portal and mobile app for ease of use and greater transparency. The aim of this exercise is to make it as easy as possible for our licensed users to identify and use our pricing data. As […]

Fastmarkets RISI invited feedback from the industry on the pricing methodology for Recovered Paper domestic market grade White Blank News, via an open consultation process between July 23, 2021, and Sept. 27, 2021. This consultation was done as part of our published annual methodology review process. Feedback was received during the consultation period and no […]

Huge downtime mandated by the Chinese government and taken by paper and board mills across the country this month is expected to continue in October and onwards, prompting Chinese buyers to cut pulp volumes. Pricing for pulp imports has seen escalating pressure as a result. On top of weakening demand, pulp futures prices have been […]

Fastmarkets RISI is inviting feedback from the industry on the pricing methodology for Asia Graphic Papers, which include newsprint, uncoated and coated woodfree papers, as part of its announced annual methodology review process. This consultation, which is open until October 15, seeks to ensure that our methodologies continue to reflect the physical market under indexation, […]

Due to a clerical error, there was a delay in publishing the PIX Pulp China values and history data on the Foex website, RISI portal, in the mobile app and in the http file on September 24, 2021. Old data was shown from 10:00 to approximately 10:20 EET. All databases have now been updated.

A number of prices in the Douglas Fir veneer section of today’s Random Lengths Panel Report were published incorrectly in the FAME portal due to a rounding glitch in the database. The database has been corrected. The following price corrections are: PAHG West Coast Veneer Douglas Fir CD 54-inchx8-ft 1/10-inch fob mill. Incorrect Price: $85.00     […]

WestRock has informed customers of new $50/ton (CD$60/ton) price increases on solid bleached sulfate (SBS), coated unbleached kraft (CUK), and coated recycled (CRB) paperboard, effective with shipments on or after Oct. 18, Fastmarkets RISI has confirmed. The company on Sept. 17 sent letters to its folding carton and commercial print customers, according to contacts and […]

Fastmarkets RISI is inviting feedback from the industry on the pricing methodology for Asia Graphic Papers, which include newsprint, uncoated and coated woodfree papers, as part of its announced annual methodology review process. This consultation, which is open until October 15, seeks to ensure that our methodologies continue to reflect the physical market under indexation, […]