Discontinuation of legacy European sack kraft prices: pricing notice

As previously announced, Fastmarkets has discontinued its legacy assessments for bleached and unbleached European sack kraft as of January 22 2026.

These are replaced by new series that were launched on January 30 2025.

Fastmarkets made this change to provide assessments more in line with actual market prices. The two series ran in parallel over the course of 2025 to allow stakeholders to adjust to the new price assessments. During this period, a fixed differential established at the launch was applied between the two assessments.

The following prices are affected:

FP-SKB-0002   Sack kraft, bleached semi-extensible 80 g+, free delivered Italy, € per tonne

FP-SKB-0003   Sack kraft, unbleached semi-extensible 80 g+, free delivered Italy, € per tonne

FP-SKB-0004   Sack kraft, bleached semi-extensible 80 g+, free delivered United Kingdom, £ per tonne

FP-SKB-0005   Sack kraft, unbleached semi-extensible 80 g+, free delivered United Kingdom, £ per tonne

FP-SKB-0006   Sack kraft, bleached semi-extensible 80 g+, free delivered Germany, € per tonne

FP-SKB-0007   Sack kraft, unbleached semi-extensible 80 g+, free delivered Germany, € per tonne

FP-SKB-0008   Sack kraft, bleached semi-extensible 80 g+, free delivered France, € per tonne

FP-SKB-0009   Sack kraft, unbleached semi-extensible 80 g+, free delivered France, € per tonne

FP-SKB-0010   Sack kraft, bleached semi-extensible 80 g+, free delivered Spain, € per tonne

FP-SKB-0011   Sack kraft, unbleached semi-extensible 80 g+, free delivered Spain, € per tonne

A consultation on this change was launched on March 28 2024 and ended on April 18 2024.

To provide feedback on this change or if you would like to provide price information by becoming a data submitter to these prices, please contact us by email at: pricing@fastmarkets.com and paperpackaging@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading ‘RE: European Sack Kraft’.

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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