Pulp price rise but paper price steady in S.E.A.

Virgin pulp and recovered paper continue to rise but in South East Asia paper prices generally remain stable.
The law of demand and supply at work. Weak demand and excess supply has kept prices at bay even with increasing costs of raw materials.

For uncoated woodfree , the new paper machines recently in China has increased volumes of supply to S.E.A.
Mills also could not hike coated prices as mills in China and Indonesia are off loading big tonnages traditionally reserved for North America.