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Paper Recycling January 19, 2015 03:00:31 AM

AF&PA publishes Oct '14 US paper reports

Paul Ploumis
ScrapMonster Author
The Washington D.C.-headquartered American Forest and Paper Association (AF&PA) has released the production statistics for the month of October last year

AF&PA publishes Oct '14 US paper reports

SPOKANE (Scrap Monster): The Washington D.C.-headquartered American Forest and Paper Association (AF&PA) has released the production statistics for the month of October last year.

According to the statistics, the containerboard production has increased slightly by 2.6% in Oct ’14 when compared with the production during the previous month. Also, the total containerboard production has increased by 3.2% when compared with Oct ’13. The year-to-date output of containerboards by the country was marginally higher by 0.9% over the previous year. However, the operating rate for containerboard declined from 97.8% in Sep ’14 to 96.9% in Oct ’14.

The total kraft paper shipments during October ’14 have dropped 1.2% over the previous month to 125.20 thousand tonnes. Out of this, bleached kraft paper shipments constituted 8.7 thousand tonnes whereas the balance 116.5 thousand tons accounted for unbleached kraft paper shipments.

AF&PA notes that bleached paper kraft shipments dropped significantly by nearly 24% over the previous month while unbleached paper craft shipments improved by 1.04% in October ‘14. The cumulative kraft paper shipments during the initial ten-month period in 2014 were 3.2% lower than the corresponding period last year.

The total shipment of printing-writing paper declined 7% in October last year. The Oct ’14 coated free sheet (CFS) paper shipments too decreased 6%. Uncoated free sheets (UFS) shipment dropped 12% during the month.

On the other hand, the total boxboard production decreased 0.8% from those during Oct ’13 and by 4.6% over Sep ’14. The production of Recycled Boxboard decreased compared to October 2013 but increased when compared to September.

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