Current News on the Pulp and Paper Industry

Fraser Papers completed the sales of its specialty papers business to Twin Rivers Paper Company and of its pulp mill in Thurso, Quebec to Fo...

AbibitiBowater to Reorganize

AbitibiBowater filed a plan to reorganize in an effort to emerge from bankruptcy. The plan will be filed in both USA and Canadian courts. ...

Wednesday, May 05, 2010

Paper Prices Continue to Increase

Folio Magazine, a large consumer of paper, recently published a spreadsheet that outlined grades that increased in price from all the major...

Coated Producers begin to Announce Price Increases

UPM, Catalyst, and FutureMark all have announced price increases on their pubication grades for shipments after June 1; NewPage, will delay ...

Magazine Advertisements to Improve First Half

Bullet points on article by Lucia Moses on Advertising - After a disappointing first quarter and brutal recession, magazine ad pages finally...

Tuesday, May 04, 2010

Coupons Continue to be Strong

The redemption of coupons increased 27% in 2009 and newspapers remain the primary source of distribution. Perhaps the last frontier for news...

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Pulp Markets Stay Tight

Any day now, we expect the producers of pulp to announce yet another price increase of approximately $40/ton. The global markets continue t...

Coated Papers Demand Continue Up

Most producers are reporting on continued demand improvement for both publication groundwood coated and free sheet coated papers. Printers ...

Friday, April 30, 2010

Asia Pulp & Paper Hopes for the Best in Coated Paper Anti Dumping Case

Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), the leading exporter of coated paper from China and Indonesia (capacity of 15Million tons), fully expects the p...

Internet Advertising passes Printed Advertisements

The year 2009 was a struggle for anyone selling advertising space, but it might have been a little easier for those selling space on the in...

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Future Revenue for Printers Expected to increase

The Freedonia Group recently made a study available Study Highlights: -Revenue for the USA commercial printing industry, which includes prep...

Paper Up in March

Notes from a recent RISI report- Pulp & Paper Product's Council reported that printing and writing paper shipments up 10% in March t...

Smurif-Stone to Exit Bankruptcy

Smurfit-Stone Container, one of the industry's largest containerboard and corrugated packaging producers, announced plans to exit chapte...

UPM-Kymmene Posts Profit

The world's largest magazine paper maker,UPM-Kymmene, posted a first quarter profit of $93Million (euro70Million), compared with a 2009 ...

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

All Paper Grades up

•Uncoated free sheet (UFS) shipments up versus year-ago for fourth consecutive month. •Coated free sheet (CFS) shipment surges; this is four...

Newspaper Circulation Continues Down

Recent reports for the USA Newspapers confirms the deep circulation declining trend is continuing. The average publisher reported weekday s...

Coated Paper Anti-Dumping Update Decision Delayed

The Department of Commerce’s second preliminary decision, anti-dumping charges, in the trade case regarding certain imported coated paper f...

International Paper Buys SCA's Packaging Business

International Paper will buy SCA's packaging business in Asia for $200Million. This acquisition includes 13 box plants and $250Million i...

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

New Capacity Starts up in China

China's Sun Paper reported that #3 machine, with a capacity of 350,000TPA, is now in commercial production. The company plans to also i...

Update on Japanese Mill Curtailments

The PPI edition for Asia reported on the following- In Japan, last year, a total of 32-paper machine closures were announced, with combined ...

Pulp Markets Remain Strong

The global pulp market remains extremely tight. Recall, we have announced numerous pulp mills that were shut down due to poor economics, now...

Electronic Coupons on the Raise

Coupons that are now sent to an Internet address or a mobile devise are gaining in popularity. These are the fastest growing segment on red...

Monday, April 19, 2010

Coy Paper News Releases on Twitter

You can catch all the headlines from the Coy Paper Company LLC current news on the pulp and paper industry on Twitter. Or set up this blog...

Printed Book Sales continue to Decline

Overall book sales fell almost 2% in 2009 (vs 2008) to approximately $24Billion. One segment hard hit was the 5.2% decline in sales for adul...

ContainerBoard Stays Strong

The March figures for Containerboard are beginning to be reported and it appears inventories are down (down 40,000 tons vs. February) and bo...

Reed Closes 23 Publications

Reed Business Information (RBI), a division of Reed-Elsevier, has been unsuccessful in confirming a buyer for many of its business-to-busine...

Friday, April 16, 2010

Top Paper Companies for Alternative Fuel Credit

Much has been written about the black liquor credit many of the USA pulp and paper producers enjoyed. This tax credit allowed many of the m...

MRI Reports E-Reader Owners Read More Magazines

From a recent MRI report- In the Mediamark Research & Intelligence Survey of the American Consumer, findings show that 91% of e-reader o...

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Heard in the market – Uncoated price Increase

We have released several pieces on the recent uncoated paper price increases and many of you have commented. The most recent announcement of...

AF&PA Reports on First Quarter

Yesterday, we issued a release from UBS on the industry, today, the American Forest and Paper Association reported preliminary printing and...

Increased Pulp Prices Could Hurt Global Paper Industry

Although the vast majority of USA paper producers are integrated (produce pulp on site), the smaller mills must purchase fiber at market pri...

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Preliminary Printing and Writing Paper Figures for March 

Based on recent UBS report- UBS reported that coated freesheet shipments in the USA in March increased 27.1% vs. last year, the 5th consecut...

Advertising Pages Suffered in First Quarter

The all important index of advertising pages for magazines fell 9.4% in the first quarter of 2010 to 34,800 pages (compare to 1Q2009). This...

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Paper Demand and Prices continue Up

Demand and prices continue their upward trend for both pulp and paper. In almost every paper and pulp grade, tight markets and elevated cost...

USA Printing Shipments Down in February

USA commercial printing shipments dropped 7.2% in February, reaching $6.57 billion. Shipments were down 6.4%, for the first two months of 20...

International Paper Introduces Environmental website

International Paper launched its new environmental website, Down2earthonline.com. The site reviews issues to assist consumers to better unde...

Thursday, April 08, 2010

Another Day, another Uncoated Free Sheet Price Increase

International Paper and Domtar announced a $60/ton uncoated free sheet price increase for May shipments. The initiative applies to desk top ...

Europe Reports on Strong Shipments

Report from CEPIFINE CEPIFINE reported that fine paper shipments in Europe increased in Feb, both domestically and exports. Coated woodfree ...

Digital Book Publishing may Grow Faster

The digital media already has built in efficiencies – no warehouse costs, no make ready, cost effective small runs, no need to repulp the u...

Wednesday, April 07, 2010

Sales Down for Label Giant Avery Dennison

Avery Dennison reported sales revenue of $6Billion for 2009, a decline of 11 percent from $6.7 billion in 2008. Net sales in the company’s p...

USA Printers Profitable in 2009

As reported in these releases in past, the USA commercial printers witnessed declines in volume; however, with respective cost reductions, t...

Tuesday, April 06, 2010

IPAD Introduction Could be Game Changer

As I am sure all our readers are more than aware, Apple introduced the IPAD and sold over 300,000 IPADs. By comparison, they sold 270,000 iP...

Pulp and Paper Producers continue to Go Green

from Wood Resource Quarterly- The global pulp and paper industry has substantially increased its use of woody biomass for energy the past fe...

Price Increase for Containerboard a 'done deal'

Shipments for both January and February (and early reports for March) on box shipments appear strong and, therefore, all the major producers...

Pulp Market Update

Consistent with the Coy Paper recent releases, the global pulp market remains tight and the major producers have announced $50/MT increase ...

Friday, April 02, 2010

Economics of Printed versus Digital Books

The IPAD will be introduced this weekend, and we thought it a good time to review the economics of Digital versus print. The New York Times ...

Coated Paper Capacity Forecasted to Decline

AF&PA recently published a report on capacity, included is executive summary- The annual survey of the American Forest & Paper Assoc...

Smart Papers Announces new Recycled Grade

U.S. papermaker SMART Papers introduced Knightkote® 50 brand, FSC-certified, premium matte coated line which will have the highest amount of...

Thursday, April 01, 2010

Magazines stay the Course of Printed Publications

Notes from ABC report- Print subscriptions remain the core of consumer magazines. As reported by the Audit Bureau of Circulations, 278 milli...

Burgo also Announces Coated Price Increase

Burgo joins the major European coated paper producers in their announcement of a 6-8% increase in coated mechanical paper prices, effective ...

Catalyst Joins newsprint Price Increase

Catalyst will raise its 30 lb. newsprint prices to match the recent AbitibiBowater $25/MT on May 1 and $25/MTon June 1. Looks like all sys...

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Price Increases are Announced for Europe

Due to increased costs, particularly for pulp, Norske Skog, Myllykoski, Arctic Paper and Lecta have announced coated paper increases. Effect...

Newprint Prices to Increase

AbitibiBowater is the first to announce more price increases for Newsprint. The company has scheduled two newsprint price increases, for $2...

Monday, March 29, 2010

RISI Reports on State of Paper Industry

RISI reported the following on the Graphic Paper Outlook John Maine, RISI’s VP of World Graphic Papers, said that although the USA leading e...

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Pulp Prices continue to Rally

Coy Paper's current News on the pulp and paper Industry continues to report on the tightening of the world pulp supply and that global...

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

News from AF&PA Meetings

The American Forest & Paper Association is currently conducting their annual meeting in NYC and reported that USA paper and paperboard c...

Forecast is Growth in Demand for PaperBoard

According to market research firm Freedonia Group in a study titled “Corrugated & Paperboard Boxes,” demand for corrugated and paperboar...

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

ContainerBoard Supply Continues to Tighten

Consistent with Coy Paper's past reports, the containerboard market is witnessing an increase in shipments (up 6% February 10 vs 09) an...

Neenah Paper Announces Organizational Changes

Neenah Paper reported that John P. O'Donnell will be the Chief Operating Officer, reporting to Sean Erwin, Chairman and Chief Executive ...

Worldcolor to Close Printing Plant 

Worldcolor reported it will close another facility, Dyersburg, TN, in early 2011. This location joins four others Coy Paper had announced e...

Monday, March 22, 2010

Apple’s IPAD Confirms Publishers for the EReader

Apple just confirmed an agreement with five of the six biggest publishers for books to be included on the IBookstore application. Although ...

Finnish Strike is Over 

Union officials confirmed an agreement and this will end the Finnish stevedore strike. The Transport Workers’ Union and the employers’ repre...

Caraustar Announces Paperboard Price Increase

Caraustar announced they will increase prices by $60 per ton on all uncoated recycled paperboard grades and $45 per ton on coated recycled p...

Carbonless Price Increase

M-Real has reported that they have experienced a significant increase in raw material costs, particularly pulp and logistic costs. Accordin...

Friday, March 19, 2010

Update on Chilean Pulp & Paper Market 

Reports from Chile after the earthquake and tsunami hit the country is that paper companies are making progress on restarting their operatio...

Kruger Extends Downtime at Wayagamack Paper Mill

Kruger will extend the downtime of PM 3 at its Wayagamack Mill in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada for a period of one month starting March 31...

NewPage to Purchase Domtar Coated Product Lines

NewPage announced they reached an agreement with Domtar to purchase Domtar's coated groundwood paper product lines and all the respecti...

Deutsche Bank reports on a Potential Additional Tax Credit

from Deutsche Bank - Equity Research We have received some reports from our industry contacts that recent legislative moves may allow the in...

Update on Containerboard Market

Containerboard and box shipments for February were up 6.0% ! Also, inventories fell at mill and at box plants by 96.800 Tons - roughly 4.5%....

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Many Paper Producers Announce Price Increases

Many of the major paper producers in North America recently announced price increases on coated, uncoated and supercalendered paper of about...

Update on Paper Markets for February

The stronger shipments were reported for most of the paper and pulp grades in February, as well as December and January, this will support o...

Domtar Closes a Paper Mill

Domtar just announced it will permanently close its coated groundwood publication paper mill in Columbus, Mississippi. The Domtar coated gro...

Friday, March 12, 2010

Chilian Earthquake Disrupts Pulp Supply

Notes from Deutsche Bank - Equity Research paper Chile produces nearly 5Million MTA of market pulp or 8% of the world's supply. Nearly ...

OnLine Sales Continues to Grow

Notes from a Forrester Research Report- Online retail sales, in the US, excluding auto, travel and drugs, grew 11% in 2009 to $155.2 billion...

Thursday, March 11, 2010

St Mary's Paper will Shut Down Paper machine

St. Marys Paper will close PM 5 at its Sault Ste Marie, Ontario mill. The machine has a capacity to produce 130,000MTA of SC-A paper. The mi...

Catalyst May Restart Two Paper Machines

Catalyst has proposed a plan to the union that could restart 2 specialty paper machines at the Elk Falls paper mill. The Elk Falls mill is ...

Advertising, both Print and Digital, will Grow

The Outsell research firm released an optimistic report on a forecast growth for both digital and printed advertising. The report also outli...

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Shipping Ports in Finland Remain on Strike

Following up on the Coy Paper earlier releases, the stevedores that work the ports in Finland remain on strike. The Finnish Transport Work...

Commercial Printers Down 7.2%

Consistent with our Coy Paper earlier releases, initial reports outline shipments for commercial printers declined 7.2% in January (versus ...

January Paper Shipments Up

The official American Forest and Paper Association (AF&PA) released final figures for January and confirmed Printing and Writing paper s...

Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Fraser Paper to Emerge with New Name

When Fraser Paper completes its sale (sometime in April), the new specialty papers business will consist of the integrated pulp, energy, and...

Paper Industry Continues Growth into Alternative Energy

The worldwide producers of pulp and paper have substantially increased the use of renewal wood for biomass for their massive energy demands....

Apple IPAD Coming...could be Game Changer

Apple delayed the introduction of its new IPAD EReader to retail stores until April 3, although orders will be accepted on the web as early...

Friday, March 05, 2010

Coy Paper Expands into AF 21 Fire Proof Paper Chemicals

The Coy Paper Company has always focused on the specialty paper market and now has included chemicals to its product offerings. The company ...

Prospective on Publication Paper Pricing

Even with a slightly improved demand at the end of 2009, coated publishing paper prices are almost $150 below their mid-2009 peak. Despite t...

Pulp & Paper Companies Report Increased Profits in 4Q

The index known as the Pulp & Paper Week composite (includes 23 USA companies) reported forth quarter 2009 earnings up 60% (vs. 4Q08) wi...

Worldcolor to Close, yet another, Printing Plant

Worldcolor will close its plant in Carroll, IA which will be the fourth closure in the last 12 months. Other shutdowns previously reported o...

Thursday, March 04, 2010

Post Office Documents Plan

So many of our readers mail publications or print direct mail marketing pieces; accordingly, a summary of the newest USPS plan. Mail volume ...

USA Manufacturing, including Paper, Expanded in February

Notes on report from Business Wire The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) reported that US economic activity in manufacturing expanded in...

Finnish Mills Look at Downtime because of Strike

The Finnish Transport Workers’ Union went on strike this week. If the strike effects the Finnish ports, mills such as UPM Kymmene will lack ...

Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Preliminary Ruling on Anti-Dumping of Coated Papers

USA Department of Commerce reported on their preliminary results in its countervailing duty investigation of coated paper from China and Ind...

International Paper Closes Another Paper Mill

 International Paper, the world's largest producer of paper, will permanently shut down the two remaining paper machines at its Franklin...

Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Are E-Books Really Taking Over?

To date, electronic books only make up less than 2% of all books sold. Trade books, both hard and paperback, are 35% and mass market printe...

The Power of the Printed Word

Condé Nast, Hearst, Meredith, Time Inc. and Wenner Media with the support of Magazine Publishers of America and Bonnier Corp.; National Geog...

European Paper Output Confirmed Down in 2009

Just reading another report confirming producers of Paper and Board in Europe were down nearly 11% to 90Million tons, from 2008. This is t...

Update on Market Pulp

Domtar and SAPPI recently announced yet another increase for their market hardwood pulp of $50/ton for shipments. It was also reported that...

Monday, March 01, 2010

2010 and the Paper Industry

The last decade yielded only limited new domestic capacity for the paper industry and an unprecedented number of plant and equipment shut do...

Containerboard Price Hike Still On

As of today, all the major producers of ContainerBoard including International Paper, Georgia Pacific, and Temple Inland have increased pric...

WorldColor Closes Another Plant

The printing plant in Oberlin, Ohio owned by WorldColor will shut its doors by May 21. This facility focused on direct mail and magazine in...

Thursday, February 25, 2010

White Birch Announces Bankruptcy

As we assumed, White Birch joined AbitibiBowater in announcing they will file for bankruptcy protection. White Birch is the second-largest ...

Printing and Writing Papers Shipments Up in January

From recent report by American Forest and Paper Association  The AF&PA reported that USA printing and writing paper shipments went up 9%...

RR Donnelley to buy Bowne

RR Donnelley will acquire Bowne & Co.for $481Million and is expected to close in the second half of 2010. Bowne had revenues of $675Mill...

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Another Prospective on the Paper Industry

Most CEOs running pulp and paper companies believe the ‘worst is over’ and now look for a slow recovery over the next 2+ years. Most admit ...

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Printers Upset at Anti Dumping Case

The USA printing industry continues to lobby against the coated paper manufactures that have asked the US International Trade Commission to ...

PaperlinX Profits Down

We often report on the financial conditions for the paper and pulp producers as well as printers, but the entire supply chain has been negat...

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Container Board Pricing and Market Update

International Paper just announced a $60/ton price increase on containerboard for shipments starting in April. We assume fellow producers w...

Reader’s Digest Out from Chapter 11

The Reader’s Digest Association has officially emerged from Chapter 11 protection. As part of its restructuring, the publisher reduced its ...

Monday, February 22, 2010

Paper Producers Continue to Look for Price Increases

Most of the major paper sectors have announced price increases, and end users are paying the new price. It appears many of the raw material...

Several Magazines Rethinking Audit Bureau of Circulations

The current challenging magazine industry on publication's revenues has resulted in many reviewing their membership to the Audit Bureau ...

Anti Dumping Case Hearing March 1

Appleton, SAPPI, and NewPage continue their efforts with the USA International Trade Commission to review coated paper imports from China an...

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

UPM Kymmene Reduces Workforce

The world’s largest paper producer of magazine papers, Kymmene, just announced it will temporarily reduce its work force at both the Kaukas...

Newpage Paper will Restart Paper Machine

The NewPage mill in Rumford Maine recently started up a paper machine that was shut down in September. This machine manufactures coated pap...

Some Mills Announce Coated Paper Price Increase

Lately, pulp and transportation cost increases have forced many mills to evaluate paper prices. Sappi will increase prices on coated woodfr...

Penton Media Files for Bankruptcy

The publisher, Penton Media, will reorganization under Chapter 11. Penton Press is the parent company of such trade magazines as American P...

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Fraser Paper Reduces pay to Workers

The workers at the Fraser Paper Madawaska paper mill in Maine agreed to have their paychecks cut by 8.5% as part of a new contract mill mana...

Meredith Magazine is on Top

Reader’s Digest had historically controlled the top spot for the biggest selling consumer magazine. The Audit Bureau of Circulation’s lates...

15 Companies to Obtain FSC Certification on Forests 

15 companies recently obtained Forest Stewardship Council certification for their management practices covering a total area of over 1.5Mill...

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Can Direct Mail compete with Digital Marketing?

The major marketers are learning that traditional (mailed) direct mail becomes a more successful campaign when combined with digital marketi...

A few Words from Barclay's Paper Analyst

From a Pulp and Paper Week Report Barclay's Capital analyst, Peter Ruschmeier, estimated US uncoated mechanical paper (groundwood contai...

Monday, February 08, 2010

Finally, Some Good News for Magazines

After a punishing first half of 2009 for magazine sales at the newsstand, many of the industry’s biggest newsstand sellers witnessed sales d...

Printers Beware of Continued Pressure for 2010

Dr. Joe Webb, director of Economics and Research Center, said “2009 was a tough year for printers, and the trend of displacing print with n...

Friday, February 05, 2010

Top Printers for the USA Government

The USA Government Printing Office (GPO) awarded bids to more than 1800 printers in 2009 for $425Million (down from $421Million in 2008). To...

Time Magazine Down

Time Warner reported that its publishing unit, Time Inc., generated $3.7 million in revenue in 2009, down 19% from 2008. Those losses were f...

Thursday, February 04, 2010

Standard and Poors Outlines Slow Recovery for Paper Industry

 S&P recently generated a report that outlined a slow recovery for companies involved with USA forest products.  The document reviews a...

International Paper Posts Loss - Domtar Reports Profit

The International Paper Company, the world's largest pulp and paper producer, reported a loss for the forth quarter of $101million due t...

Wednesday, February 03, 2010

AF&PA Reports on December Paper Shipments

As announced by AF&PA Report In December, paper output in the USA was 2.9Million tons, up 3.3%, yet for the year, paper output was down ...

R.H. Donnelley is Now Dex One

R.H. Donnelley changed their name to Dex One and also announced it will emerge from Chapter 11. The 124-year-old local business directory pu...

Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Paper Industry in North America

The paper industry continues to produce fewer tons each year. Not a healthy trend! The last decade has not been friendly for the North Amer...

Corrugated Box Prices Increase

RockTenn, Graphic Packaging International, and Sonoco have all announced an increase for corrugated box prices by 10 percent and corrugated ...

Monday, February 01, 2010

All Uncoated Producers Advance Pricing

Consistent with our previous releases, as of today, Domtar and NewPage announced $40/ton price hike on its offset grades, effective Feb 22. ...

Will Books Printers loose to Electronic Devices

Verso Digital recently presented their findings on a survey based on millions of Internet users and found that avid readers forecast they wi...

Friday, January 29, 2010

Top 2009 Printers

The top printers by category for 2009 include Printer / Segment Sales –Millions-$USD / Total Sales –Millions -$USD Publication Printers Wor...

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Finding the Right Printer Partner

These are difficult and challenging environments in the paper and printing markets, it is important to review your printing platform to assu...

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Uncoated Shipments down in 2009

Total Uncoated Free shipments were down -11% for 2009 to 9.7Million tons. USA imported 855,600 tons for 11 months - 16% lower than last yea...

Uncoated Recycled Board Prices Increase

Graphic Packaging International announced a price increase of $50 per ton on all grades of PaceSetter(R) uncoated recycled board (URB), effe...

Coupon Clipping – Hope For Newspapers?

The recession of 2009 saw consumers begin to use more coupons than in recent years, in fact, it was the first increase in 17 years. Shoppe...

World Color Sold for $1.4Billion to Quad/Graphics

From Company release. Quad/Graphics Inc., the largest privately held printer in the US, will acquire Montreal based, World Color Press Inc. ...

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

December Paper Shipments Up

Excerpts from AFPA report The official report from AF&PA outlined USA shipments of Printing and Writing Paper increased 6% in December v...

China Continues to be a HUGE consumer of Pulp

In 2009, China imported a record high 13.7Million tons of market pulp, increasing 44% over the 2008 deliveries. The extra demand was consum...

Chinese Continue Uncoated Expansion

Three new pulp & paper investments in China announced by Guangxi Yongkai Sugar and one by Guangxhi Huacheng Paper adding almost 1Million...

Monday, January 25, 2010

Uncoated Price Increase Announced by ALL!

Last week we announced Domtar increased their price and, as assumed, most of the uncoated white paper mills joined Domtar in reporting a pri...

Newsprint Producers Hope for Improvement

The year 2009 was not kind to many paper markets, and Newsprint was hit especially hard. After a reduction of 14% in 2008, demand continued ...

Friday, January 22, 2010

Printing Sales Continues Down in 2009

The NAPL reported that US commercial printing sales were down -16% in 2009 to $72Billion. The rate of decline slowed significantly since las...

NY Times Charges Fee for Online News

The New York Times announced they will soon charge non subscribers for heavy use for attaining news on their website. The company will cont...

Catalyst Paper to Idle Paper Machine

The Catalyst Paper Company reported that the 1PM at its Crofton mill in British Columbia will be curtailed indefinitely due to weak newspr...

Newsprint Machines Still Feel Results of Poor Demand  

Throughout the last several years, Coy Paper has reported on shuttered newsprint equipment. Today, we confirm AbitibiBowater’s Fort Frances...

Wausau to Increase Paper Prices

Monday, March 1, 2010 Wausau Paper will increase the base price of the following grades by $2.00/cwt: Exact Index; Exact Vellum Bristol; Exa...

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Uncoated Prices May Increase

Domtar just announced a $40/ton price increase on their business paper cut size grades, effective February 15. So far, this is the only gra...

Containerboard Pricing is ‘on the move’

A price increase for both the East and the West Coast was announced in December for January shipments. We think these price increases migh...

Reader’s Digest on Target to end Bankruptcy

Reader’s Digest just reported that their restructuring plan was approved and the company could exit bankruptcy by January 31. The company’s...

NewPage Appoints New President and CEO

From NewPage News Release NewPage Corporatio announced that Richard D. Willett, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer, has resigned fro...

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. N...

Canon Still Progressing in the Acquisition of Oce

Canon, the Japanese maker of cameras, copy machines and other electronics and Oce, which sells printers and copiers and has relied heavily o...

Cenveo Plans to Close Another Plant

In addition to Cenveo closing its Charlottesville, VA printing plant, which they obtained through the purchase of Cadmus Communications they...

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Subscribe to the P. Scott Vallely Pulp and Paper Blog

You can now have these timely releases come directly to you. All new – you can now subscribe to Coy Paper’s Pulp and Paper Industry News rel...

Magazines Post 25% Decline in Advertising Pages for 2009

The Magazine Publishers of America’s Publishers Information Bureau (PIB) reported on advertising pages for 2009. Pages were down 25.6% and r...

Monday, January 11, 2010

Will 2010 be Better than 2009 for the Paper Industry?

The year, 2009, certainly created several challenges for the paper industry. Paper producers did a remarkable job of limiting price erosion...

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Friday, January 08, 2010

Two of the Biggest Publishers to Mutually Buy Paper

Two of America's largest magazine publishers, Time Inc. and Meredith, have reportedly joined forces to buy paper. The two companies iss...

US Department of Commerce Delays Anti-Dumping Decision

Department of Commerce announced it will delay the decision on the countervailing duties against Chinese and Indonesian paper producers unti...