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Following consultation with stakeholders, RISI would like to confirm plans to retire the following duplicate price series with effect from Jan. 1, 2019. Mexico Kraftliner from US, 42 lb (Price ID 1148) Bleached Hardwood Kraft, Brazilian Eucalyptus, Europe, CIF (Price ID 1246) Bleached Hardwood Kraft, Brazilian Eucalyptus, China, CIF (Price ID 1247) Bleached Softwood Kraft, […]

As every year, Crow’s will not be published the July 4 week, which runs from July 2-6 this year. We will be back on our regular schedule the week of July 9.  

The price of Brazil Unbleached extensible, Sack Kraft,78-85 g for June was incorrectly published as BRL2,600 – 2,800 June 26. The correct price should have been BRL2,700 – 2,800, unchanged from the previous month. These prices have now been corrected online. For comments or queries please contact pricing@risi.com

In response to company-specific provisional countervailing and anti-dumping tariffs announced by the US government that resulted in a wide range in price levels for US Newsprint, RISI sought industry comments and feedback on the merits of a possible change from reporting a point price for US newsprint to reporting a price range. Having reviewed this […]

COVERAGE NOTE: PPI Pulp & Paper Week’s May preliminary market pulp Price Watch will not be published on Friday, May 11, due to International Pulp Week. Instead it will be published on Friday, May 18. Bryan Smith is RISI’s Deputy Editor of Global Pulp. He is at Twitter: https://twitter.com/BryanSmithRISI

To streamline price assessment data packages, RISI is proposing to retire the following duplicate price series with effect from Jan. 1, 2019. Mexico Kraftliner from US, 42 lb (Price ID 1148) Bleached Hardwood Kraft, Brazilian Eucalyptus, Europe, CIF (Price ID 1246) Bleached Hardwood Kraft, Brazilian Eucalyptus, China, CIF (Price ID 1247) Bleached Softwood Kraft, Chilean […]

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