Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you.
The future of pulp seems a happy one for pulp manufacturers. 2010 is starting with a bang. Many mills are declaring pulp price increase.
Botnia, Canfor Pulp, Domtar, Mercer International, Sodria Cell and Tembec are announcing hikes for NBSK [northern bleached softwood kraft]. In Asia particularly in China the price will be, on 1st Jan. 2010, USD 720 PMT ; both Tembec and Botnia for example announced an increase of USD 20.
Other grades seem to be heading " north " as well.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Vatican celebrates Christmas in environment friendly way
The Pope is getting a Christmas tree as usual but this time an environment friendly one, a PEFC certfied tree from the PEFC certified forests of Walloon Region of Belgium.
This tree placed in St. Peters Square , at the Vatican City , is incidentally, huge. It has a gigantic circumference of 2.65 metres and weighs a heavy 14 metric tons!
PEFC stands for Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Conservation is a well known forest accreditation system.
This tree placed in St. Peters Square , at the Vatican City , is incidentally, huge. It has a gigantic circumference of 2.65 metres and weighs a heavy 14 metric tons!
PEFC stands for Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Conservation is a well known forest accreditation system.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Asia Pulp Paper
APP is a major paper supplier in the world especially in Malaysia. Sinar Mas, IKPP, Tjiwi Kimia and Pindo Deli are all familiar names to us here. Of course there are others as well, especially the APP mills in China.
This December APP is busy on a campaign to persuade the world that they are environmentally and socially responsible. On CNN International you can see APP's activities for conservation and biodiversity, reforestation, poverty reduction and concerns for climate change.
APP is committed to to fight against global warming, greenhouse gas emission and at the same time promoting sustainable economic development in Indonesia.
This December APP is busy on a campaign to persuade the world that they are environmentally and socially responsible. On CNN International you can see APP's activities for conservation and biodiversity, reforestation, poverty reduction and concerns for climate change.
APP is committed to to fight against global warming, greenhouse gas emission and at the same time promoting sustainable economic development in Indonesia.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
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.
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.
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