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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
FORESTWEB Report: For Newsprint, Good News and Bad News North American newsprint mills operated in October at the best rate since March, with Canadian newsprint mills seeing the greatest improvement. Meanwhile, overseas newsprint shipments have declined more sharply in the U.S. than in Canada. Total North American newsprint shipments fell 24.4% year-over-year in October.- January 13, 2010
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
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