As the COVID-19 pandemic crisis continues and deepens globally, shipping and freight continue to be the life-blood for many nations. Beyond mere economics and trade, it is shipping and freight that delivers food and medical supplies to much of the world, every month. All eyes were turned to China as… Read More
IndustryEdge Moving to SilvaStat360, Forest2Market’s Online Delivery Platform
VICTORIA, Australia & CHARLOTTE, N.C., March __ 2020 – Today, Forest2Market and IndustryEdge announce a partnership formed to bring IndustryEdge’s Australian wood market commentary, analysis and data to SilvaStat360, Forest2Market‘s online business intelligence platform. The partnership will combine IndustryEdge’s Wood Market Edge publication and underlying data with Forest2Market’s SilvaStat360 cloud-based… Read More
Toilet paper is not in scarce supply: 5 facts
Toilet paper is not in short supply in Australia, and it will not be in short supply at any time. There are no grounds for panic buying. IndustryEdge has 25 years experience analysing paper product markets, including for toilet paper. The following facts are drawn from our extensive experience and published… Read More
Fibre resources exported for AUD11 per tonne!
The average price of the main grade of Australia’s recovered paper exports fell below AUDFob100/t for the first time in December 2019. The average price of the Unbleached Kraft or Old Corrugated Carton (OCC) grade had already collapsed in November 2019, falling to AUDFob104.18/t. • Huge volumes of fibre exports… Read More
Australia’s growing CLT market
The February 2020 announcement from Timberlink Australia that it would invest in a state-of-the-art Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) and Glue Laminated Timber (Glulam) facility in the Green Triangle (South Australia and Victoria) indicates the growing market for engineered wood products. An increasingly important element of mid-rise residential buildings in Australia,… Read More
FORECAST: Australian consumption faces uncertainty
Australia’s total consumption of all paper and paperboard will decline a calculated 0.2% (around 5,000 tonnes) per annum through to 2024, according to the latest headline forecasts* prepared by IndustryEdge. In addition to the total consumption forecast, forecasts have been prepared for the two major grades. The headline forecast for… Read More
Pulp importers feel the pleasure, and the pain
Australia’s pulp importers – mainly the tissue manufacturers – have felt the pleasures and the pains of global pulp markets over the last two years. Imports year-ended November 2019 totalled a very typical 285.7 kt, down 2.7% from a year earlier. There are few alternatives for the local tissue producers… Read More
NZ pulp exports rise as prices stumble
New Zealand’s pulp exports rose 7.2% year-ended November 2019, at the same time as average export prices fell more than 32% in New Zealand dollar terms. Exports for the year totalled 960,830 tonnes, with the average price in November falling to NZDFob662/t, or NZD313/t lower than a year earlier. Given… Read More
Australian woodchip export deliveries: 372,506 bdmt (e) in November 2019
November saw total deliveries of Australian woodchips fall to an estimated 372,506 bdmt, with all deliveries headed into China and Japan. Deliveries to China accounted for 71.7% of the total in November, with Japan receiving the remaining 28.3%. Our provisional view is that deliveries in December will return to trend,… Read More
Quarter century: one chart tells the printing paper story
As the end of the second decade of the twenty first century closes in, it is natural to reflect on the past, to see what it tells us about the future. Using the longest run data available to us – a quarter century – this first part of our year-ending… Read More