US lumber yards substitute Southern Yellow Pine for dwindling Canadian and European softwood imports, impacting grade availability and market dynamics across the country.

These price assessments were previously based on underlying data from UM Paper-branded prices, which were discontinued in October 2025. Since then, the prices have been independently assessed by Fastmarkets’ price reporting team. Presenting them as a range, rather than a single number, will better reflect market developments. The proposed amendment will not affect historical prices. The […]

Tissue jumbo/parent roll prices were largely unchanged in the United States in June, as higher domestic supply and steady demand kept the market balanced.

The decision follows a one-month consultation period which ended on Monday June 15. Fastmarkets had also proposed to clarify the names of the four containerboard assessments: As part of the process of standardizing price nomenclature for forest products, their names will be as follows: The prices are part of the Fastmarkets Paper Packaging price package. To provide […]

The decision follows a one-month consultation period which ended on Monday June 15. South China, which includes the provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian, accounts for 25 million tonnes of containerboard capacity annually, about a quarter of China’s total, according to Fastmarkets’ database. The region also holds around one-third of the nation’s corrugated converting capacity and […]

Fastmarkets has corrected its FP-PLP-0016 Pulp, fluff (US southern kraft, untreated, rolls), delivered US East, $/tonne, and FP-PLP-0009 Pulp, fluff, US southern kraft untreated rolls, cif Europe, $/tonne, which were published incorrectly on Friday June 12.

Fastmarkets is proposing to change the names of six current softwood pallet prices and add 102 new softwood pallet price assessments covering the North American market, effective July 29.

US linerboard prices are set to rise again this month, marking a rare second formal increase in four months amid permanent capacity cuts and climbing manufacturing costs.

Fastmarkets has launched eight monthly price assessments for tissue jumbo/parent rolls in North America on Friday June 12, 2026.

In response to growing market participation and increased use of its daily southern yellow (SYP) assessment, Fastmarkets is updating the published methodology to provide additional transparency regarding the tally formula used in the price calculation process.