Paper packaging

Anticipate major market disruptions and track paper packaging grades with market-reflective prices, forecasts and expert insight

Gain clarity on the current status of the paper packaging market to know exactly what is happening, why and what might come next.

Fastmarkets provides paper packaging data, expert economic analysis and more for all grades of containerboard, linerboard, boxboard and kraft papers. It is critical to track market shifts and monitor prices to anticipate changes throughout the supply chain. Our essential price data and market coverage informs critical decision-making and offers a neutral ground to conduct business.

As a subscriber, be the first to learn about price shifts, supply and demand trends, capacity changes, critical acquisitions, mill closures and machine upgrades and conversions. You’ll also receive up-to-the-minute alerts on key import and export news and government regulations.

Subscribe to our paper packaging insights to access:
Prices and news
Breaking news and market-reflective prices covering 80 products and 2,800 sub-grades
Short-term forecasts
Analysis of the forces moving your markets and how they’ll play out over the next 1-2 years across seven major grades
Long-term forecasts
5- and 15-year forecasts underpinned by deep industry expertise, macroeconomic analysis and 50 years of historical data
Asset analysis
Cost and performance benchmarking covering more than 4,500 companies and 16,500 projects
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    What’s happening in the packaging market?

    Our subscribers are among the first to learn about critical acquisitions, capacity changes, mill closures, and machine upgrades and conversions. They also receive up-to the minute alerts on key import and export news and government regulations. Here’s just a small selection of the new and analysis our packaging experts produce.

    The merger will set new paper packaging market leaders in the region, said Fastmarkets’ analyst

    The paper packaging giant’s announcement comes amidst reports of more projects being delayed or canceled

    What impact does the merger have on the Brazilian and Mexican packaging markets?

    Packaging procurement professionals’ perspectives on supply challenges, creative packaging options, buyer-supplier relationships and more

    Weak demand, global oversupply and the saturation of domestic consolidation has shifted focus to international mergers for large packaging producers

    Smurfit Westrock, the proposed new combined company, would create a $34 billion company with 23 million tons of mill capacity

    Our packaging focus for August takes a look at the prices of containerboard, folding boxboard and white-lined chipboard across five European countries

    A mixture of inflation, destocking and a preference to eat out have impacted the prices of various paperboard grades

    Chinese producers instigated price hikes in a bid to stop price declines amid poor packaging demand

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