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Fastmarkets provides paper packaging data, expert economic analysis and more for all grades of containerboard, linerboard, boxboard and kraft papers. It is critical to track market shifts and monitor prices to anticipate changes throughout the supply chain. Our essential price data and market coverage informs critical decision-making and offers a neutral ground to conduct business.
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Breaking news and market-reflective prices covering 80 products and 2,800 sub-grades
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Cost and performance benchmarking covering more than 4,500 companies and 16,500 projects
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Our subscribers are among the first to learn about critical acquisitions, capacity changes, mill closures, and machine upgrades and conversions. They also receive up-to the minute alerts on key import and export news and government regulations. Here’s just a small selection of the new and analysis our packaging experts produce.
How packaging buyers in the food and beverage sector overcame challenges in cost, compliance and sustainability in 2024
Read a snippet of the monthly paper packaging monitor, analyzing key trends in the North American paper packaging demand, production, shipments, inventories, capacity, operating rates and trade.
Get the key takeaways from our recent webinar on the state of the containerboard industry ahead of this year’s International Containerboard Conference in Chicago
“If demand increases, even slightly, we may experience further price increases as early as October,” a source said.
Three factors that shaped the first half of 2024 for European paper packaging markets – and our outlook for the second half
Global oversupply has brought new challenges to the packaging market, but growth is on the horizon for containerboard, boxboard, graph and Kraft paper.
Fastmarkets forest products give market participants and investors the transparency and clarity to make critical and strategic business decisions.
Market-reflective price data covering more than 2,800 commodities and 80 sub-grades with Fastmarkets forest products prices
Asset analysis and 5 – and 15-year economic outlooks
Near-term economic outlooks for the pulp, paper and wood products markets
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