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Global Pulplog and Wood Chip Prices Up 10% Since 2021
Tight wood fiber supply and record high pulp prices have pushed the worldwide costs for pulplogs and wood chips upward 10% the past year. Wood fiber...
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Global Softwood Lumber Prices Down About 10% in First Half of 2022
Global trade of softwood lumber fell about 10% in the first half of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021. Most of the decline was driven by lower...
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Why Is Kraft Paper Demand Rising and Where Is it Heading?
Kraft packaging paper has maintained a roughly 4% share of all fiber-based packaging capacity since 2015, however, as of late, the relative share of...
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Anti-Forestry Insanity: The Opinion Piece That Keeps on Giving
There’s an old adage about the paralyzing effects of cognitive dissonance: The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and...
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Which Region of the US Stores the Most Carbon in its Forests?
Forest2Market’s newest analytical tool – Carbon Analysis 360 – was specifically designed to help participants across the forest value chain better...
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What is BRP and How Will It Impact the Future of the P&P Industry?
Unbleached recycled fiber market pulp, also known as brown recycled pulp or BRP, is a new grade of market pulp that didn’t exist before 2017, but is...
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Strong Demand and Tight Supply Have Driven Wood Fiber Costs for Pulp Manufacturers Higher in 2022
Prices for pulplogs and wood chips increased QoQ in early 2022 in all 19 regions worldwide as tracked by the Wood Resource Quarterly (WRQ). This...
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How Have Government Bans Impacted Capacity Growth in the P&P Industry?
When we look at the capacity trends module in Fisher International’s FisherSolve business intelligence platform, we can see that the top five...
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We Need to Tell Our Story – At Every Opportunity
The following was recently published by our friends at Forest Resources Association, and was authored by Eric Kingsley, FRA Northeastern Region...
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Batteries Made with Renewable Wood Could Help Alleviate Energy Pressures
When we think of innovative battery technologies and some of the scalable, successful products that have been developed over the last decade, one...
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Chlor-alkali 2022: Key Factors Driving China's Markets
China’s Dual Control Policy sharply reduced caustic soda production in the country in Q4 2021. The policy's impact on particular chemical value...
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Trends Impacting the European P&P Industry
European Corrugated Industry Makes Progress in Emission Reduction