Forest products prices

Market-reflective price data covering more than 2,800 commodities and 80 sub-grades with Fastmarkets forest products prices

Mitigate price risk when you subscribe to the most relied-on price assessments in the pulp, paper, packaging, timber, wood products, nonwovens and bioenergy markets, covering North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America.

Fastmarkets’ IOSCO-compliant price data represents all major markets, and incorporates input from buyers and sellers. We have more benchmark prices than any other price reporting agency in this market, and our prices are listed on exchanges such as Norexeco, SHFE and SGX.

Buyers and sellers of forest products use our price data to:

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  • Mitigate risks and anticipate threats to budget earlier whilst protecting supply chain continuity
  • Avoid costly errors when calculating contractual price adjustments
  • Negotiate more confidently and secure more favourable pricing terms
  • Achieve competitive advantage by aligning with benchmark price indices

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    • Recovered paper, deinking / news grades, solid bleached sulfate heavy print (45), legacy PPW, fob, US average, $/short ton
    • Recovered paper, deinking / news grades, white blank news (24), legacy PPW, fob, US average, $/short ton
    • Recovered paper, deinking / news grades, solid bleached sulfate, light print (45), legacy PPW, fob US Los Angeles/San Francisco, $/short ton
    • Recovered paper, deinking / news grades, solid bleached sulfate, unprinted (47), legacy PPW, fob US Los Angeles/San Francisco, $/short ton
    • Recovered paper, deinking / news grades, solid bleached sulfate, heavy print (45), legacy PPW, fob US Midwest (Chicago), $/short ton
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    What’s happening in the forest products market?

    Starting 2025, concerns about potential tariffs left North American pulp market participants on edge. As they closed January prices and negotiated new orders for February, the landscape could starkly change. In the European pulp market, pulp producers have announced price increases for both bleached eucalyptus kraft (BEK) pulp and northern bleached softwood kraft (NBSK) pulp. […]

    This consultation, which is open until April 10, 2025 seeks to ensure that our methodologies continue to reflect the physical market under indexation, in compliance with the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) principles for Price Reporting Agencies (PRAs). This includes all elements of our pricing process, our price specifications and publication frequency. You can […]

    This year’s excellently-attended European Forest Products conference in Lisbon over March 3 – 5 rolled out in an environment of increasing regional regulation, erratic international tariff announcements from the US altering conditions in real time and the changing shape of the market through mergers and acquisitions. Smurfit Westrock shut out the CEO awards, with Tony […]

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