AF&PA publishes US paper reports for January 2016

SPOKANE (Scrap Monster): The Washington D.C.-headquartered American Forest and Paper Association (AF&PA) has released the production statistics for the month of January this year. The monthly figures suggest marginal increase in U.S containerboard production.

According to the statistics, the containerboard production has increased slightly by nearly 1.0% in January 2016 when compared with the production during the same month a year before. Also, the average daily production of containerboard has gone higher by 5.3% over the previous month. The operating rate for containerboard increased to 95.2% in January.

The total kraft paper shipments during January this year have dropped heavily by nearly 8.5% over same month the previous year to 127.8 thousand short tons. Out of this, bleached kraft paper shipments constituted 6.90 thousand short tons whereas the balance 120.90 thousand short tons accounted for unbleached kraft paper shipments. The total month-end inventories increased to 74.8 thousand short tons.