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The Finnish paper workers’ union reached an agreement with UPM to stop the strike
On Friday, April 22, the Finnish paper workers’ Union announced to the mediator Leo soma that it would unanimously approve the settlement proposal of five business operation units of UPM as a new company specific collective agreement. The Finnish paper workers’ Union said that the rel...Read more -
North American timber prices plunged 42% for six consecutive weeks
Since the war between Russia and Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the world’s major commodities have fluctuated violently. Natural gas, oil, gold, nonferrous metals, agricultural products and other commodities mainly fluctuated upward, mostly in an upward trend. However, the futures and spot p...Read more -
The Indian Parliament further abolished the printing of documents
The Lok Sabha, the house of Commons, announced that it would continue to increase the use of digital tools to reduce paper consumption. According to the Hindustan Times, the Bharatiya Janata used 21723 orders of paper in 2015 and sought anonymity. In 2021, the house of Commons used only 8374 ream...Read more -
Brazil’s cellulose, paper and paper products industry fell 3.4% month on month in February
According to the data released by Brazil’s National Bureau of geographic Statistics (IBGE) on April 1 local time, Brazil’s industrial output value increased by 0.7% month on month in February. At present, the growth of Brazilian manufacturing industry is weak and the recovery is slowi...Read more -
The corrugated box manufacturers association of India called on customers to increase purchase prices by 35%
Recently, due to the sharp rise in raw materials and processing costs and the risk of interruption of raw materials at any time, Indian corrugated box manufacturers have urged their customers to raise purchase prices. Call on customers to increase the purchase price by 35% In an article published...Read more -
Austrian paper industry: stopping natural gas imports “will be the worst case”
Austria’s Salzburg News reported on March 24 that Austria’s paper industry is being greatly affected by the sharp rise in energy prices. Mayer, CEO of Heinzel group and chairman of the Austrian Paper Industry Association, said at an online press conference held on March 23 that the pa...Read more -
Brazil’s industrial output value increased by 0.7% month on month in February, and the cellulose, paper and paper products industry decreased by 3.4% month on month
According to the data released by Brazil’s National Bureau of geographic Statistics (IBGE) on April 1 local time, Brazil’s industrial output value increased by 0.7% month on month in February. At present, the growth of Brazilian manufacturing industry is weak and the recovery is slowi...Read more -
Global food packaging materials prices continued to rise
According to a report released by Rabobank in March this year, the rise of energy, transportation and labor costs, as well as the impact of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, will lead to the continued rise of food packaging prices in the next 12 months. Paper packaging The surge in e-comme...Read more -
European timber supply potential will affect the future trend of the international timber market
With the decline of timber production in Central Europe and the suspension of timber imports from Russia, the log and timber trade in Europe will change greatly. The log market in Europe may be in an important turning period. In the past four years, due to the outbreak of spruce bark beetle, the ...Read more -
Chinese A4 copy paper exported to Australia will continue to be subject to anti-dumping duties
On March 31, 2022, the Australian anti dumping Commission issued announcement No. 2022 / 023, which said that the Minister of industry, energy and emission reduction of Australia had approved the positive and final recommendations of the first anti-dumping sunset review made by the Australian ant...Read more -
99% of New Zealand’s timber and paper trade with China will be gradually exempted from tariffs
On February 15, 2022, China and New Zealand completed the domestic approval procedures of the upgraded free trade agreement, which will enter into force on April 7, 2022. The upgraded agreement also marks the improvement of the quality and efficiency of China Singapore free trade relations on the...Read more -
Once again, UPM is not enough for Finland
The strike of workers in UPM’s Finnish factory, which began on January 1 this year, will be extended for another two weeks because an agreement has not been reached between UPM and the Finnish paper workers’ Union paperiliitto. Paperiliitto announced that the strike action at the fact...Read more