Discontinuation of PPI Europe Paper for Recycling Assessments – Implementation

ollowing the initial pricing notice published on January 26, 2024 and final decision published on March 7, 2024, Fastmarkets confirms the discontinuation of Paper for Recycling assessments currently featured in its PPI Europe publication starting from May 8, 2024.

May 8, 2024

By the Fastmarkets team

Europe Pricing consultations Pricing notice Recovered paper

Moving forward from this date, the discontinued PPI Europe assessments will be replaced in PPI Europe Price Watches with the full suite of PIX Recovered Paper Prices including PIX OCC 1.04 dd, PIX ONP/OMG 1.11 dd, PIX RCP Mixed 1.02 GER, and PIX SOP and PIX Multiprint. The above new price coverage will be in accordance with our PIX European Recovered Paper Price Indices Methodology.

To provide feedback on this or if you would like to provide price information by becoming a data submitter, please contact us by email at: pricing.risi@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading ‘FAO: re: PPI Europe Paper for Recycling’. 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/forest-products.

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