Recovered Paper

Demand for OCC grades has been rather low all over the world, although in Asia it seems to be particularly weak. Fewer goods exports from China and other Asian countries to Europe and the USA mean that packaging production is declining and therefore demand and prices for OCC are weaker (...)

• Constant drop in paper reel sales prices
• Recovered fibre export sales more of a struggle
• Stocks impacted by low collection volumes

• Generally lean order situation for paper industry
• Consumer restraint denting recovered paper collection volumes
• Recycling operations supported by still-healthy exports of lower/medium qualities

• Generally stable market for OCC and mixed paper
• Decline in newsprint collection volumes
• Improvement in logistics situation

• Production volumes down a further 30%
• Steep drop in domestic recovered paper collection volumes
• Continuation of paper and board investment activity

• Slow demand based mostly on a slow economy
• Downtime widely implemented, plus a few mill closures announced
• Lower consumer consumption resulting in reduced recovered fibre generation