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Clarification of Fastmarkets’ wood products price names

Fastmarkets has standardized the names of its forest products prices for recovered paper, pulp, paper packaging, graphic paper, nonwovens, timber, biomass and softwood products, effective Tuesday September 30, 2025. This has been done to ensure consistency and clearly define the markets.

September 30, 2025
By Fastmarkets pricing team
Graphic paper Nonwovens Packaging Paper and Board Paper Pricing notice Pulp Recovered paper Softwood pulp Timber Wood Biomass

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 process:

Please click here for a list of standardized price names and an FAQ.

Fastmarkets originally announced this name change in a notice published on August 4, which you can view here: https://www.fastmarkets.com/insights/clarification-of-fastmarkets-wood-products-price-names/

To provide feedback on these prices or if you would like to provide price information by becoming a data submitter, please email: pricing@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “FAO: Re: Standardization of Fastmarkets’ Forest Products Price Names.”

To see all Fastmarkets’ pricing methodology and specification documents, please go to https://www.fastmarkets.com/methodology/forest-products/.

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