The domestic occ price edged up by USD 8 per mt in east china after sharply price dropping last week and the price kept stable this week in South China & North China.
Finish paper
Duplex board price is stable in south china given Jianhui is not in the market but the mills in east china start to drop their sales price due to high inventory level.
The demand of brown grades is quite weak all over China-Testliner price dropped by USD 8 per mt in south china and medium price dropped USD 24 per mt today in east China.
Imported waste paper:
The collection volume is reported to drop inside USA/ Japan. The offers from that two regional are same as last week but European suppliers are quite active this week.
USA: The suppliers are not rush to sell since not too many tons are available for sales now . Aocc was sold at USD 224,ONP at USD 198-200, Mixed paper at USD 188-190.
Europe: The suppliers are looking for the orders of Eocc since the freight is fixed and ssline line started to release the space. Eocc was concluded at 197-203 and UK Occ at USD 203-207.
Japan: Jocc price edged up to USD 210-211 due to domestic occ went up in east china. Jmix price is stable at USD 200.
The demand of finish paper seems getting weak in coming June so the mills start to drop their price to move their inventory but the mills are losing the money based on today's waste paper price level if they can't increase the sales price of finish paper.
The mill in east China increase USD 5 per mt after a few machines back to run from the down time. The price keeps stable in the rest of China. Nine dragon announced the increase of USD8~15 per mt in all of China today.
Finish paper:
Testliner/medium: the demand of medium is quite stable but the mills have pressures to low down their testliner price by RMB 100-150 per mt depending on the region. Jianhui’s testliner machines running in the middle of May added the sales pressures in the weak market.
Duplex board:
In South China Nine dragon keeps same offer as last month but the demand has slowed down even through Jianhui is not in the market and L&M has postponed their Duplex board machine startup to July/ Aug from May.
Fuyang mills are not in a hurry to run in full speed in terms of the demand & inventory level after the capacity-cut in May
Import waste paper:
USA:
The supplier is reluctant to sell before OBM price announced next week. A few issues- the collection is reported to drop and big mills are paying competitive price pushed CIF price edge up USD 1-2 per mt for mixed paper/ occ grades.
Europe:
Euro has been depreciated from 1.31-1.33 to 1.23-1.24 and it helps the suppliers to absorb the freight increase. The customers have slowed down the buying activities of Eocc/UK Occ grades to wait for the price further dropping. The big European packers took the orders of Eocc at USD 190-192 while UK Occ is sold at USD 197-201. A2 offer is stable at USD 178-180.
Japan:
The market is stagnant for Jocc which the mills are reluctant to buy considering relative weak demand for finish paper in east china and the suppliers are hesitated to sell now because of strong yen & raining season in June. Jmix price is stable at USD 198-199 to cmp.
Date: 2012-08-27 (Mon)
US
#3 order 122-123/125
#8 order 135
#9 offer 180-185
#10 offer 175
#11 offer 170-175, order 168-172
#12 offer 175-180
#13A offer 215
UK supply is limited with stable offer
A2 offer 120
#11 offer 170
#11 has maintained the price level for about one month, due to no supply pressure. But with US #11 dropping to $170/mt level, the actual order is also limited.
JWP
#3 offer 170-172
#8 offer 195
#11 order 170-172
During the same period from 7/26 till 8/24,
US #3 has dropped $30 from $155/mt to $125/mt
US #8 has dropped $40 from $175/mt to $135/mt
US #11/#12 has dropped $20 from $195/mt to $175/mt
UK A2 has dropped $15-20/mt from $135/mt to $115-120/mt.
JMIX has dropped $20/mt from $195/mt to $175/mt (170).