FOEX: PIX indices
FOEX FOEX Indexes Ltd produces audited and trademarked registered PIX price indices for certain pulp, paper, tissue, packaging board, recovered paper and wood based bioenergy/biomass grades. The PIX price indices function as independent market reference prices and show the price trend of the products in question. FOEX sells the right to use the PIX indices for commercial purposes as well as weekly or monthly newsletters, a monthly market review and the PIX index histories.
Product
PIX latest values
Pulp NBSK USD
921.90
$
Pulp NBSK EUR
669.01
€
Pulp BHKP EUR
555.39
€
Pulp BHKP USD
765.33
$
Paper LWC
656.28
€
Paper Ctd WF
661.37
€
Paper A4 B-copy
827.93
€
Paper Newsprint
483.65
€
Kraftliner
554.13
€
White-top Kraftliner
749.89
€
Testliner 2
479.48
€
Any commercial use requires permission with terms of use from FOEX Indexes Ltd. (www.foex.fi)
Testliner 3
457.74
€
RB-Fluting
451.44
€
Note
PIX OCC 1.04 dd
114.39
€
PIX ONP/OMG 1.11 dd
126.27
€
Providing PIX pulp price indices to the tissue industry gives the paper producer and buyer insight in the price trends with a weekly frequency. This way companies have better tools to budget their cost or income structure and profitability, and may concentrate on their core businesses with less time spent on price negotiations.
PIX values, $ or € / metric ton
PIX Pulp indices 25.3.14 TISSUE WORLD May / June 2014
Paper industry
More statistics are gradually coming out over the pulp and paper industry performance in 2013. As we have reported earlier, the printing and writing paper demand in the world has been estimated (by PPPC) to have fallen by 0.6%. The total consumption of printing and writing papers is 91-92 million tonnes. Corrugated board is the largest of the various paper and board industry sector grades. The consumption approached 150 million tonnes in 2013 and will move above that benchmark this year. In 2013, the world demand of corrugated board, most of it recovered paper based, is estimated to have grown by over 4 million tonnes, or by nearly 3%. With some growth seen also in bleached paperboards and some other industrial grades as well as in tissue paper, the total paper and paperboard consumption grew in 2013 by