Thursday, May 13, 2010

AF&PA Reports Increase in Shipments

The American Forest and Paper Association issued its report for April shipments for Printing and Writing papers. The numbers are up; paper shipments rose nearly 11% to 1.5Million tons in April (vs. 2009).
Coated Papers increase was 28% to 584,000 tons
Uncoatd Paper increase 2% to 899,900
Coated Free increased to 33% to 312,400
Coated Publication increased 22% to 272,000 tons
Uncoated Freesheet decreased slightly -0.6% to 745,800 tons
Uncoated groundwood increased 16.5% to 154,000 tons
Total year to date paper shipments increased 10.7% to almost 6Million tons

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Very encouraging data, but could some of the demand be more a model for restocking depressed inventory levels, or genuine demand?

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Anonymous said...

All paper grades appear to be up in May as well. Maybe a good trend coming?
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Unknown said...

"Total year to date paper shipments increased 10.7% to almost 6Million tons" According to the market research reports at the moment the number of shipments increased by 4 times.

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