Correction to Latin American BEK pulp prices in November

Fastmarkets has corrected its prices for bleached eucalyptus kraft (BEK) pulp in November, published on December 6, 2022. These prices were published in our dashboard as dated as of December, due to an error.

January 11, 2023

Latin America Pricing notice Pulp

The related Market story published and Price Watch in the PPI Latin America newsletter had the correct data informing that those prices referred to November.

Date of publication: December 6, 2022

Correct prices for November, 2022:

BEK pulp Brazil domestic: $1,015-1,380 per tonne

BEK pulp delivered to Latin America: $950-990 per tonne

Date changed: January 6, 2023

Fastmarkets RISI’s pricing database has been updated to reflect this change.

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