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Saturday, November 7, 2009
North American Newsprint Mill Operating Rates Up; Price Hikes Imminent As newsprint mills in North America continue to take extensive downtime to try to tighten markets for a price increase this fall, production in September fell 33.8% year-over-year, bringing total output through 2009's first three quarters to 5.381 million tonnes -- down 30.6% from a year earlier.- October 26, 2009
FORESTWEB Report: Total Newsprint Consumption Reaches Lowest Point, Year-Over-Year Total newsprint consumption in the U.S. plummeted 27.1% year-over-year in August, exceeding the decline year-to-date low of 25.6%, according to data released by the Pulp and Paper Products Council (PPPC). Also, after improving in July, mill operating rates again fell in August.- September 28, 2009
FORESTWEB Report: U.S. Newsprint Consumption Continues Sharp Downward Trend Newsprint consumption in the United States remained on a downward slope in July, falling by 21.4% year-over-year, according to data released by the Pulp and Paper Products Council. Inventories remain lean, but publishers' stocks are higher.- September 02, 2009
FORESTWEB Report: U.S. Consumption of Newsprint Drops 25% in June North American newsprint manufacturers curtail output, and mill inventories sink to the lowest level in at least 28 years. Despite the newsprint industry's recent discipline in trimming stocks, substantially more capacity will have to be closed to bring the market in balance as the demand trend continues downward.- July 27, 2009
FORESTWEB Report: Exports of North American Newsprint, Domestic Consumption Both Down There's not a bright spot in the markets for North American newsprint, as reflected in data released June 23 by the Pulp and Paper Products Council (PPPC). In May, total U.S. consumption fell 26.6%, while exports declined 36.2%, both compared to a year earlier.- June 30, 2009
FORESTWEB REPORT: No Let-up in North American Newsprint Consumption Decline The North American newsprint market continued to deteriorate in March. Consumers still have the upper hand, as newsprint mills have been unable to slow the pace of production to match the rate of decline in orders.- April 29, 2009
FORESTWEB Report: North American Newsprint Decline Accelerates Newsprint consumption by U.S. dailies fell 26.2% year-over-year in February, the Pulp and Paper Products Council (PPPC) reported. Even more disturbing, however, is the even steeper decline reported for total U.S. demand.- April 01, 2009
FORESTWEB Report: Newsprint Output Down, But Mills Are Up North American newsprint output and production in January fell by roughly a fifth year-over-year, but mill inventories were up dramatically. In addition, the newsprint sector's curtailments were reflected in low operating rates. - March 04, 2009
FORESTWEB Report: U.S. Dailies' Newsprint Consumption Falls by 1 Million Tonnes in 2008 Newsprint consumption by U.S. daily newspapers fell last year by 16.3%, to 5.245 million tonnes, down from 6.265 million tonnes in 2007. Somewhat less depressed was total U.S. newsprint consumption, which dropped last year by 13.8% year over year, to 6.758 million tonnes. - February 02, 2009
FORESTWEB: North American Newsprint Inventories Increase, U.S. Consumption Declines Despite one extra Sunday last month, compared to August 2007 total U.S. newsprint consumption fell 13.9% year-over-year for the month, according to newsprint data released today by the Pulp and Paper Products Council (PPPC) in Montreal.- September 25, 2008
FORESTWEB: U.S. Newsprint Demand Sees Double-Digit Dip in July U.S. newsprint demand continued to decline at double-digit rates in July, but exports are helping give the market some support, according to data released last week by the Pulp and Paper Products Council (PPPC).- September 01, 2008
FORESTWEB: Analysts Say Capacity Closures Will Keep Pressure on Prices North American newsprint data in June continued to reflect a market in decline, although more of the downturn is being felt in Canada, according to data released July 23 by the Pulp and Paper Products Council (PPPC).- July 28, 2008
FORESTWEB: Continued Decline in North American Newsprint Consumption, and a Dip in Exports The 442,000 tonnes of newsprint consumed by U.S. daily newspapers in May was the lowest monthly total in at least two and-a-half years, and continues a gradual, steady decline that appears unabated due to the downward trend in newspaper readership and advertising.- June 25, 2008
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