As part of our ongoing effort to provide customers with the most relevant and meaningful market coverage, Fastmarkets RISI is proposing to rationalize its coverage of pulp prices delivered to China. Currently Fastmarkets RISI offers a number of assessments for Northern Bleached Softwood (NBSK) delivered China in PPI Pulp & Paper Week, PPI Asia, World […]

  Following market consultation and to better reflect current market trading, Fastmarkets RISI will make the following change to its recovered paper (RCP) coverage in China with effect from September 27th 2019: Rename assessments for European old corrugated containers (1.05) as European premium OCC European OCC (1.05) is the grade standard set by the European […]

As previously announced, Fastmarkets RISI launched new price assessments for 30-/31-lb recycled linerboard in the US domestic market on Sept. 20, 2019. The new price assessments will be published monthly in PPI Pulp & Paper Week’s Containerboard Price Watch, the Fastmarkets RISI online portal, and the mobile app. The new assessments will appear alongside existing […]

Fastmarkets MB has corrected its weekly price assessment for steel billet exported from Turkey, which was published incorrectly on September 19 due to an error.

Exceptionally, Fastmarkets RISI will publish its next quarterly assessment for sack kraft in Europe on October 17 instead of the originally scheduled October 10. For comments and queries, please email pricing.risi@fastmarkets.com. To view Fastmarkets RISI’s price publishing schedules please see here.

Fastmarkets MB has corrected its aluminium scrap United Kingdom baled old rolled cuttings price which was published incorrectly on Wednesday September 11 due to an error.

To offer better coverage of price developments in Latin America, Fastmarkets RISI is considering expanding its graphic papers coverage in Brazil. Currently Fastmarkets RISI publishes assessments for 90 g/m2 imported CWF. Going forward we are seeking feedback from stakeholders on whether to expand the current assessment from purely 90 g/m2 to include basis weights from 90 […]

A few changes and additions to the Random Lengths lumber, panel, and Midweek price guides are coming in October. First, the price for Canadian Spruce Plywood 3/8-inch, delivered Toronto, will be added to Midweek, effective with the October 1 issue. This is an addition widely requested by the industry since Random Lengths and Crow’s merged […]

As part of an ongoing effort to better serve the markets we cover, from September 2019 Fastmarkets RISI Japan price assessments will follow the same methodology as other Asian prices. Previously Fastmarkets RISI used Nikkei as the source of all Japan pulp and paper assessments. Going forward, these assessments will be compiled by our own […]

Fastmarkets proposes to discontinue five of its precious metals prices to focus attention on our core markets.