As we recently discussed, total containerboard production hit record numbers in 2021 with a 5.6% increase compared to 2020. Containerboard (which is...
On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin organized and initiated an invasion into Ukraine. As of this writing, Russian forces continue...
Although the story may have been overshadowed by news of the surge of the omicron variant of Covid-19 and Russia’s positioning of an army just across...
Anyone who reads or prepares financial reports or literature knows how important ESG (Environmental, Social & Corporate Governance) is currently, but...
Pledges toward net zero emissions have become common as global companies and industries look to address concerns about climate change – and the Pulp...
Last year, we examined how the COVID-19 pandemic supercharged the packaging and corrugated sector – a piece in which we analyzed the various effects...
At the beginning of the year, Fisher International’s VP of Sales Matt Elhardt shared his predictions for the Pulp and Paper Industry in 2022. One of...
The recent United Nations global climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, brought the world’s leaders together again to try to reach agreement on further...
As the biggest containerboard producer in China, Nine Dragons has always been an industry leader when it comes to strategic decision making that will...
Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) initiatives and investments continue to shape decision-making in nearly every industry, and as a...
Over the course of the last two years, we have written extensively about the myriad ways in which the pandemic has impacted the pulp & paper industry...
The Middle East has some of the world’s oldest recorded history and has played a significant role in developing human language, agriculture, laws and...
Recently, China was hit by one of the worst power shortages the country has experienced in a decade — creating a major energy crisis for a number of...
As COP26 delegates dissected the detail on decarbonizing our world, chemical innovators ushered in sustainable solutions of their own. Late 2021 saw...
Klabin, Brazil’s largest producer and exporter of paper and paper packaging, is challenging convention when it comes to the notion that softwood pulp...
Following a -0.5PP revision to August’s data (to -0.1 percent MoM), total industrial production (IP) fell another 1.3 percent in September (but +4.6...
We recently discussed the direct and indirect impacts the COVID-19 pandemic has had on e-commerce and the corrugated segment over the last 18 months....
The market has tightened substantially since Hurricane Ida hit the US in August. Demand for caustic soda has recovered faster than expected, however,...
Those within the tissue industry know Brazil for its robust eucalyptus pulp production, which is generally used within the tissue segment due to its...
Each month, we continue to see the innovative concepts companies are developing in order to pursue a greener economy. The Pulp and Paper industry has...
In North America, publicly traded companies such as International Paper, Procter and Gamble, and Verso own the lion’s share of papermaking capacity....
Pulp and Paper companies are making headlines as awards are received, new products are rolled out and initiatives are launched to meet sustainability...
There was a story in the business section of The Washington Post a few weeks ago with the headline “How Big Cardboard is handling the 2020 box boom.”...
The 5-year delivered price trends for pine and hardwood pulpwood, as well as wood fuel in the US South have demonstrated a fair amount of volatility;...
From new Olympic beds to boxes made from tomato stems, we’ve seen an exciting variety of projects announced from the Pulp and Paper industry over the...
As we enter 3Q2021, many companies have announced new eco-friendly plans and initiatives to help meet their sustainability commitments. From forming...
With physical stores closed during the pandemic, the boom in online shopping resulted in record numbers of packages arriving on consumers’ doorsteps....
During a recent presentation, Lin Qijun, Chairman of Forest Packaging, stated that “In order to ensure the supply of recycled paper, a subsidiary was...
Uncertainties on supply and demand globally has positioned the chlor-alkali industry in a challenging circumstance. Recent market disruptions such as...
The Southeast Asia region of Brunei, Myanmar, Cambodia, East-Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam are...
If we have learned one lesson over the course of the last year, it’s to expect the unexpected. Massive societal shifts, which began as a reaction to...
In March of this year, Bay Plenty’s Whakātane mill announced that it was expecting to shut down after nearly 80 years of operation due to the mill’s...
Suzano, a Brazilian pulp and paper company that specifically deals with eucalyptus sampling, has recently announced plans to build a new pulp mill in...
The post-COVID global landscape continues to shift in a number of new directions within the pulp and paper industry – some expected, some unexpected....
As we kick off 2Q, a number of companies have announced or launched new sustainability-driven initiatives and products, ranging from new carrier bags...
Record high lumber prices have been prominent in the news for the last several months as the North American market has struggled to strike a balance...
Australia’s log exports totaled 218 km3 in January 2021, down 9.5% on a year earlier as Chinese import bans continued to impact the trade. The result...
The 2020 edition of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) ...
Since December, the increase in pulp prices has directly ignited enthusiasm in the long dormant tissue market, driving tissue enterprises to send one...
Robust, competitive markets force participants in those markets to learn how to serve their customers in more efficient, cost effective ways, or else...
According to IndustryEdge’s latest edition of Wood Market Edge online, Australia’s combined annual exports of hardwood and softwood woodchips for the...
Growing sustainability trends and concerns about pollution and climate change are placing more and more pressure on the textile industry — one of the...
