Recycled PaperBoard Pricing 'on the move'

The industry just announced price increases for September shipments of $40/ton for all grades of coated and uncoated recycled paperboard by nearly all major North American producers to offset raw material cost increases. These producers include Strathcona Paper, Graphic Packaging, RockTenn, Sonoco, PaperWorks Industries, Caraustar, Newark Group and Ox Paperboard. Challenge is two fold - demand remains poor and most end users can not pass an increase through to their respective end users. Lots of resistence here .......