Discontinuation of UM Paper-branded Chinese prices

Fastmarkets has discontinued its UM Paper-branded Chinese prices from Wednesday October 1, following a strategic decision to close its UM Paper-branded publications which was originally announced in a notice published on July 28.

The full list of UM Paper-branded prices that have been discontinued can be found here.

Fastmarkets remains fully committed to delivering trusted, independent, and transparent pricing for the Chinese pulp and paper market. All of Fastmarkets’ China domestic price assessments published in its PPI Asia publication and the Fastmarkets platform will continue.

Fastmarkets will continue to publish domestic Chinese market news and price assessments from its offices in China. A full list of Fastmarkets Asian pulp & paper price assessments which will continue to be published can be found here.

If you have any feedback on these prices or if you would like to provide price information by becoming a data submitter, please contact Shawn Wang by email at: pricing@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “FAO: Shawn Wang, re: UM Paper-branded Chinese prices.”

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

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