Newsprint use still strong

By: Editorial Staff U.S. daily newspapers consumed 748,000 metric tons of newsprint in August, 2.5 percent more than in the same month a year earlier, according to the Newspaper Association of America (NAA).
Publishers' held end-of-month newsprint inventories that totaled 1,042,000 metric tons, a 42-day supply, down 0.2 percent from a year earlier, when inventories represented a 43-day supply.
NAA preliminary figures for September indicate that while consumption will have risen to 789,000 metric tons (1.2 percent higher than a year earlier), inventories totaling 1,031,000 metric tons will have surpassed, for the first time this year, the 1998 monthly level, by 2.5 percent.
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