Tag Archives: newsprint prices

Russia increases 51.3% newsprint supplies to China in 1Q 2023

The first quarter of 2023 has seen a year-on-year decrease of 4.5% in China’s newsprint imports, which totalled 103.1 thousand tons. The value of these imports has fallen by 18.4%, settling at $57.1 million. This contraction correlates with the average price of newsprint, which also witnessed a 14.5% decrease to $554.1 per ton. Despite the […]

Production capacity of newsprint in selected countries worldwide in 2019 and 2020 (in 1,000 metric tons)*

This statistic displays the production capacity of newsprint produced in selected countries across the globe in 2019 and 2020. In both 2019 and 2020, Canada had the largest production capacity of newsprint out of the countries recorded here, followed by Japan.

Felix Schoeller Group increasing prices 1st June 2021

Felix Schoeller Group is continuing to see steep increases in the costs for our main raw materials, freight, energy, packaging and various other products used in the manufacture of our papers. ”These cost escalations have outpaced our recent price adjustments and force us to implement another round of price increases”, the group writes in a […]

German newsprint prices still under pressure in March

  Low prices, weak demand demand and higher input costs cause headache for many a newsprint manufacturer. The newsprint market in Germany remains in critical condition. Industry insiders agree that prices are still under pressure. The advertising market is not gaining traction, as had been hoped. Both newspaper publishers and commercial printers are suffering. While […]

Demand for newspapers continues to plummet in the UK

Amid ever-decreasing newspaper circulation figures and consumption, prices for newsprint continued their downward trajectory on the British market in January. The downward trend on the British newsprint market does not seem to come to an end soon. Total newsprint consumption was down by 25-30 percent in the UK in 2020 as a whole. The slump […]