Fastmarkets removes synthetic history for European cartonboard, US kraft paper assessments

Effective March 5, Fastmarkets has removed the synthetic history added to European cartonboard prices and US kraft paper in October 2023, to improve the quality of the dataset.

Synthetic histories from January 2012 to December 2020 were removed from the following price series:

FP-CBB-0094   Cartonboard/boxboard, folding boxboard (GC2) 270-280 g, free delivered United Kingdom, £/tonne

FP-CBB-0098   Cartonboard/boxboard, folding boxboard (GC2) 270-280 g, free delivered France, €/tonne

FP-CBB-0099   Cartonboard/boxboard, white-lined chipboard (GD2) 300 g, free delivered France, €/tonne

FP-CBB-0100   Cartonboard/boxboard, folding boxboard (GC2) 270-280 g free delivered Germany €/tonne

FP-CBB-0101   Cartonboard/boxboard, white-lined chipboard (GD2) 300 g, free delivered Germany, €/tonne

FP-CBB-0102   Cartonboard/boxboard, folding boxboard (GC2) 270-280 g, free delivered Italy, €/tonne

FP-CBB-0103   Cartonboard/boxboard, white-lined chipboard (GD2) 300 g, free delivered Italy, €/tonne

FP-CBB-0104   Cartonboard/boxboard, folding boxboard (GC2) 270-280 g, free delivered Spain, €/tonne

FP-CBB-0105   Cartonboard/boxboard, white-lined chipboard (GD2) 300 g, free delivered Spain, €/tonne

Synthetic histories from January 2012 to May 20218 were removed from the following price series:

FP-SKB-0017    Sack kraft, unbleached extensible multiwall, 50 lb/80 g, net, delivered US East, $/short ton

FP-SKB-0019    Sack kraft, unbleached natural (flat) multiwall sack, 50 lb, net, delivered US East, $/short ton

To provide feedback on this discontinuation, contact us by email at: pricing@fastmarkets.com and packaging @fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “Re: Synthetic cartonboard prices.”

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

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