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Correction to North American and European nonwovens price assessments

Following an internal editorial review, Fastmarkets identified that nonwovens assessments published on July 1, 2026, did not fully reflect the consistent application of its published assessment methodology. To ensure the methodology is applied consistently and that the assessments appropriately reflect observed market conditions and prevailing trading practices, the following assessments have been corrected:

July 9, 2026
By Fastmarkets pricing team
Europe North America Pricing notice

The affected assessments have been corrected in the Fastmarkets database and in the Nonwovens Price Watch PDF.

Fastmarkets also invites feedback on prevailing price levels, trading practices and market conventions across these nonwovens markets to help ensure its assessments continue to reflect representative market activity.

For more information or to provide feedback on this correction notice, or if you would like to provide price information by becoming a data submitter to these prices, please contact pricing@fastmarkets.com and nonwovens@fastmarkets.com.

Please indicate if comments are confidential. Fastmarkets will consider all comments received and will make comments not marked as confidential available upon request.

To see all Fastmarkets pricing methodology and specification documents, go to the Fastmarkets methodology page.

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