Corrugated board

In the German market for corrugated case material kraftliner prices were seeing no movement in prices in December. Buyers were having no success with their attempts to lower prices. Price cuts in the recycled corrugated case material segment had spread to white-top testliner, too, since December at the latest. Demand...

After a slight uptick in the second quarter, activity started slowing again as of July on the British market for corrugated case material and corrugated products....

The year 2022 was a difficult one for the paper and board converting industry in Austria. On the occasion of a press conference in Vienna, Propak, the trade association of Austria's industrial manufacturers of paper and board products, reported that inflation and increasing destocking on the part of buyers cut...

Describing the mood among companies doing business on Poland’s paper market, market players said that the worse things became, the higher the hopes of an improvement seemed to be. But insiders doubt that such hopes are justified, at least looking at the market as a whole and the next few months. Some contacts active on...

As far as deliveries are concerned, the VDW member companies registered a year-on-year decline of 635 million m2 or 7.3 per cent...

The dramatic downward trend in the corrugated industry has by now also reached companies that had long been unaffected....

Not all companies have already cut shifts, but inadequate workloads are evident across the board....

For years, the Italian corrugated board industry has ranked second in Europe behind Germany. The industry’s performance last year again consolidated this position. It has significantly grown in the two years of the pandemic with deliveries rising from 7.14 billion m² in 2019 to 7.35 billion m² in 2020 and 8.31 m² last...

One of the aspects presented, among others, is the use of recycled material for the production of new corrugated board packaging, which came to an average of 88% in the year 2021....

Demand for corrugated case material in Poland continued to recede in the second quarter....

According to figures published by AFCO, Spanish companies produced 570 million m² more than in the previous year....

The supply situation for packaging paper has stabilised in recent weeks....

Passing on costs is difficult for corrugated board industry due to long contract terms...

In order to work through the orders on hand, the industry is introducing additional shifts, so employees and plants are producing around the clock....

Lead times of four weeks are now the standard for packaging, even for "the most basic corrugated board solutions”....