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What do recent pulp and paper investments in the PNW tell us about the region″s future?

Has growth in this sector finally reached its peak? Containerboard demand took the pulp and paper industry by storm in 2020 and 2021. Various factors, from increased sustainability initiatives to a booming e-commerce sector thanks to pandemic lockdowns, fueled the need for mills to continuously up containerboard capacity. In fact, there was a roughly 10 percent increase (about 20 million ...

Demand patterns in the uncoated woodfree segment have driven manufacturers to make some difficult decisions.

BRUCE JANDA The coronavirus pandemic has touched all parts of the global forest supply chain and has brought new visibility into the pulp and paper industry (P&P) in particular. In North America and Europe, the P&P sector has been front-page news since the widespread run on toilet paper that took place from March through June. To meet the surge in ...

The hard truth is we can expect some short-term minor disruption in the bath tissue supply chain in some regions.

A disruption in a single influential market does, in fact, ripple outward to impact markets across the world.