Paper
47December 2013
Asia
Under pressure
November was a largely stable month
for the recovered paper market, with
no major changes seen from October.
By the end of the month, brown grades
from Europe were under slight pressure
and a drop in the OCC price was being
widely tipped for December, although
the decline is not expected to be too
steep.
India is buying hardly any recovered
fibre from Europe while Indonesia
placed small orders in November and
also for December loading.
It would appear that ocean freight rates
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are to remain largely unaltered in the
final weeks of 2013. Many mills – and
specifically the smaller operations in
China – are opting to take a back seat for
the remainder of the year and so Decem-
ber is likely to be a largely unspectacular
month in trading terms.
Contributing to the
Recovered Paper Market
Analysis:
• Melvin de Groot (Van Gelder
Recycling, the Netherlands)
• Mariëlle Gommans (Bel Fibres,
Belgium)
• Joel Litman (Texas Recycling/
Surplus Inc, USA)
UK export tally hit by newspapers
& mags
The UK, Europe’s runaway leader in terms of recovered paper exports, saw
its overseas shipments jump 7.3% in September to 358 412 tonnes. But
across the first three quarters of the year, the country’s exports fell almost
6% from 3.35 million tonnes in 2012 to 3.152 million tonnes in 2013 –
thanks almost exclusively to a precipitous decline in the newspapers &
magazines total.
Latest figures released by the Confederation of Paper Industries and HM
Revenue & Customs confirm that the UK shipped out 16.4% more mixed
paper and 1.5% more of the high grades of recovered paper in January-
September this year, whereas exports of corrugated & kraft edged just 322
tonnes lower to 1.767 million tonnes. However, deliveries of newspapers &
magazines to foreign customers plummeted 40.2% from 773 755 tonnes
in the opening nine months of 2012 to just 462 363 tonnes in the corre-
sponding period this year. UK consumption of newspapers & magazines
increased by 3.8% or just under 42 000 tonnes when making the same
nine-month comparison.
The figures also show that UK collections of all forms of recovered fibre slid
4.2% to 5.865 million tonnes in the first three quarters of 2013 as a sub-
stantial year-on-year increase for mixed papers (+19.6%) was wiped out
by declines for corrugated & kraft (-3.9%), newspapers & magazines
(-14.8%) and the high grades (-5.2%).
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