According to Fastmarkets knowledge and available statistical updates, global tissue consumption returned to normal in many regions in 2022, but there was an exception – China

Chinese producers instigated price hikes in a bid to stop price declines amid poor packaging demand

MEPCO are a Middle Eastern packaging producer, with a production capacity of half a million tons of containerboard. We outline how they use Fastmarkets' global insights to grow their business.

Market sources anticipate a better H2 with many indicating that the containerboard prices have reached a bottom

The US steel scrap market may drag the bottom in August with the market caught in a stalemate between tight supply and low demand

We look at this year’s European lumber export rise within the US, which caused notable shifts in the global market

Dramatic changes are expected in the Japanese steel industry in the run-up to 2030, with exports of ferrous scrap expected to fall and local use of the material to soar amid the transition away from traditional blast furnace (BF) technology toward greater electric-arc furnace (EAF) capacity

The US was last a net exporter in offshore softwood lumber trade from 2009 through 2016, but Fastmarkets’ forecast predicts that the South will lead a surge from 2023 onwards

Poor newsprint demand continues to push down prices and triggers further capacity cuts

The US ferrous scrap market remains in limbo ahead of August’s ferrous trade, with participants divided as to whether summer demand from the domestic and export markets will tip the balance of extremely low scrap flows in US sellers’ favor next month