International Paper Co. announces plans to raise prices for some of its paper products by around 8 percent, matching similar price hikes made within the past week by Georgia-Pacific Corp. and Weyerhaeuser Co.
The company is scheduling a price increase for printing and writing paper to take affect Sept. 11, also when the two other large paper companies announces their desire to raise prices.
Prices for the grades have been gradually climbing over the past year. Part of the reason for the improved environment has been the ability of the paper industry to better control their inventory levels.
Explore the August 2000 Issue
Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read.
Latest from Recycling Today
- Cards Recycling, Live Oak Environmental merge to form Ecowaste
- Indiana awards $500K in recycling grants
- Atlantic Alumina partners with US government on alumina, gallium production
- GP Recycling president retires
- Novelis Latchford commissions new bag houses
- UK facility focuses on magnet recycling
- Aduro revenue increases while losses widen
- Worldsteel updates its indirect steel data
