Friday, January 15, 2010
December saw Improvement for Printing and Writing Papers
Printing and writing paper shipments improved in the USA for the month of December. Total shipments yielded 1.478Million tons, up 2.8% vs. November and 5% higher than last year. Full year shipments decreased 15.6% to 17,000 tons. Coated mechanical rose 15.5% to 306,300 tons and coated freesheet rose 12.1% to 256,500 tons vs. 2008, with both increasing vs. November YTD, both were down almost 20% with coated mechanical at 3.2Million tons and coated freesheet down to 3.25Million tons. Uncoated freesheet rose 1.2% vs. December 2008 to 752,399 tons, with YTD volumes down 11.6% to 9Million tons. Uncoated mechanical remained stable vs. December last year, at 131,800 tons, but dropped 21.8% YTD to 1.6Million tons.
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We are a commercial printer in Minn and have NOT seen any uptick in sales for December. The year has been choppy - with trend slightly down in units and dollars for 2009. I see limited reason as to why 2010 (or at least the beginning of 2010 ) will improve for us printers.
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