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RISI is planning to introduce a new price series for 100% Recycled 42-lb Linerboard and 100% Recycled 23-lb Medium, East and West of the Rockies, in PPI Pulp & Paper Week‘s monthly Price Watch/Containerboard starting Mar. 17, 2017. The reason for this step is that recycled grades have become such a high percentage of containerboard […]

RISI evaluated ISRI’s notice of approved changes to the paper specifications announced on April 14, 2016, and proposes the following changes to recovered paper price assessments: Discontinue Mixed Paper (2) – OBM for both domestic and export markets Discontinue ONP (8) – OBM grade for both domestic and export markets Introduce Mixed Paper No. 54 […]

PPI Europe has corrected the French prices for testliner 2, testliner 3, recycled fluting, and white-top testliner in the May 19 Price Watch. Prices originally published were incorrect due to an administrative error.  We apologize for the inconvenience. A revised version of the March 18 issue with the correct prices is now available online. For […]

PPI Pulp & Paper Week has corrected the price of semichemical medium East and West in the March 18 Price Watch to $510-520/ton for March and February 2016. The price was unchanged in March, but in February dropped $10/ton from $520-530 in January. RISI inadvertently published the January price of $520-530/ton for the two latest […]

While the regular publication date for North American recovered paper prices is the 5th of the month, there are certain exceptions: Prices are published on the 6th or 7th when there are less than 2 business days before the 5th of the month due to the national US holidays. For example, in January 2016, the […]

PPI Pulp & Paper Week (PPW) publishes reference boxboard price assessments that represent the price negotiated each month that may serve as a basis from which customer specific contract terms are given. Over time, discounts have grown so large that PPW’s price assessments have lost some of their value as an indicator of real market […]

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