The forest products industry has been
attempting to bring supply and demand back into balance. Mills have been making
great strides in this area.
While the ability to reduce the amount of
inventory has proved successful, recent statistical figures from the American
Forest and Paper Association finds that the inventory of a number of finished
product grades are starting to climb, with some showing significant jumps.
Market pulp inventories have been steadily
increasing over the past several months. Meanwhile, demand for pulp has been
easing lately. The result has been a number of pulp operations announcing plans
to idle facilities over the next several months to bring supply and demand back
into balance.
Producers market pulp inventories jumped
more than 60 percent at the end of October from figures the same time last
year, according to the AFPA. In addition to that, the figure is up 8.2 percent
from the prior month. The increase in inventory levels pushed the days of
supply on hand to 28, the highest level in the year.
While market pulp levels have been climbing,
the volume of consumers’ purchasing pulp for inventory purposes has been
declining. For October the figure stands at 378,000 tons, a 6.5 percent drop
from the previous year.
While the pulp sector posted the sharpest
jump, the inventory of printing and writing paper, as well as containerboard
inventory levels, both increased at the end of October. For printing and
writing paper inventory levels moved up 1.8 percent from last October. However,
a promising note is that the figure is down slightly from the previous month.
For the containerboard market, inventory levels increased by 6.4 percent from last October to this October. The biggest gainer was corrugated medium, which skyrocketed 45.8 percent.
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