Correction to preliminary North American market pulp prices on September 12: pricing notice

pulp pricing notice

Fastmarkets has corrected its mid-month Pulp North America market prices Wednesday September 24. These prices were published without identifying that these prices are “preliminary” on September 12.

FP-PLP-0009: Fluff, Europe

FP-PLP-0013: Northern Bleached Softwood Kraft (Canada)

FP-PLP-0014: Southern Bleached Softwood Kraft, from US

FP-PLP-0015: Unbleached softwood kraft (Canadian/US)

FP-PLP-0016: Fluff (US southern kraft, untreated softwood rolls), delivered US East

FP-PLP-0018: Bleached Hardwood Kraft – Eucalyptus, from Brazil

FP-PLP-0026: Northern and Southern Mixed BHK, US East

These prices were published correctly, just without the “preliminary” identifier. Fastmarkets’ pricing database has been updated to reflect this change.

These prices are part of Fastmarkets’ Pulp package.

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, please contact Bryan Smith by email at: pricing@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “FAO: Bryan Smith, re: market pulp prices.”

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 https://www.fastmarkets.com/methodology.

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