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Fastmarkets RISI price publishing schedule for 2021 are now available online. To view the schedules please visit: https://www.risiinfo.com/approach/methodology/price-assessment-methodology/price-publishing-schedule/ For questions and comments please contact pricing.risi@fastmarkets.com.
Fastmarkets RISI is proposing to increase the frequency of Russian containerboard assessments to monthly from January 2021. Currently these prices are published on a quarterly basis and reflect prices in the last month of the quarter. Fastmarkets RISI has received requests from stakeholders to increase this frequency to monthly to better capture price movements within […]
Fastmarkets RISI has corrected the location for two North American containerboard export price assessments from Latin America to United States. The two prices are: Unbleached Kraft linerboard, 42 lb, export, FOB Laredo for Mexico (Price ID 659) Unbleached kraft linerboard, 42-lb, FAS US for export to Central/South America (Price ID 11858) As these are FOB/FAS […]
Following consultation with stakeholders and as previously announced, Fastmarkets RISI has discontinued the following price assessments with effect from October 2020. Deinked pulp (US air-dried and wet-lap), US East (Price ID 172) Southern Bleached Softwood Kraft, from US, CIF Japan (Price ID 489) Northern and Southern Mixed Bleached Hardwood Kraft, from Canadian/US, CIF Japan (Price […]
Following market consultation and as previously announced, Random Lengths will make the following changes over the next few weeks. Random Lengths to move to simplify monthly average calculation With effect from September 2020, Random Lengths will simplify the process for calculating monthly averages. Monthly averages appear in the Random Lengths weekly publication and in Yardstick. […]
Despite the resumption of economic activities and signs of recovery in various sectors, paper mills are struggling to stay afloat as demand has not picked up yet, say industry operators. Sales of writing and printing paper, the key product of local mills, slumped 70 per cent to 15,000 tonnes per month since the detection of […]
Fastmarkets Benchmark Administration Oy (FBA) was incorporated in December 2020 to operate as the independent administrator of benchmarks published by price reporting agency (PRA) Fastmarkets and subject to the European Benchmarks Regulation (BMR). It is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, and supervised by the Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority (FIN-FSA).
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