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Thursday, November 20, 2008
FORESTWEB: North American Newsprint Inventories Increase, U.S. Consumption Declines Despite one extra Sunday last month, compared to August 2007 total U.S. newsprint consumption fell 13.9% year-over-year for the month, according to newsprint data released today by the Pulp and Paper Products Council (PPPC) in Montreal.
- September 25, 2008
FORESTWEB: U.S. Newsprint Demand Sees Double-Digit Dip in July U.S. newsprint demand continued to decline at double-digit rates in July, but exports are helping give the market some support, according to data released last week by the Pulp and Paper Products Council (PPPC).- September 01, 2008
FORESTWEB: Analysts Say Capacity Closures Will Keep Pressure on Prices North American newsprint data in June continued to reflect a market in decline, although more of the downturn is being felt in Canada, according to data released July 23 by the Pulp and Paper Products Council (PPPC).
- July 28, 2008
FORESTWEB: Continued Decline in North American Newsprint Consumption, and a Dip in Exports The 442,000 tonnes of newsprint consumed by U.S. daily newspapers in May was the lowest monthly total in at least two and-a-half years, and continues a gradual, steady decline that appears unabated due to the downward trend in newspaper readership and advertising.- June 25, 2008
North American Newsprint Export Orders Decline in March Consumption by U.S. daily newspapers fell 15.2% year-over-year in March to 463,000 tonnes, and was down 12.8% through the first quarter to 1.383 million tonnes. Those numbers are particularly dismal considering that there were five Sundays, while last March had four. - April 29, 2008
Decline in North American Newsprint Production Slows in June, as Exports Continue to Gain North American newsprint production totaled 934,000 tonnes in June, off just 2.1% from a year ago. This helped reduce from a month earlier, the year-over-year drop in first-half production (5.7 million tonnes) to 4.7%, according to the latest report from the Pulp and Paper Products Council (PPPC). - August 03, 2007