As 2023 draws to a close, TWM asks figures from across tissue’s global supply chain for their retrospectives on the year … and predictions for 2024. Solving South Africa’s energy crisis will have a massive impact on the local economy Jonathan Sher, Managing Director, Universal Paper & Plastics, South Africa Jonathan Sher, Managing Director, Universal Paper & Plastics, South Africa In the past year, there has been quite a lot of activity in South Africa with some paper mills putting in new machines. These have started to come online in the fourth quarter, and we are yet to see the impact on the market of this extra capacity. Right now the parent roll pricing in South Africa is similar to imported parent rolls, so it would definitely be nice to see the local capacity being discounted to be more competitive with imports. Pulp prices are always top of mind for [...]

Fastmarkets advises that, as of Friday December 8, it has not settled its assessments of certain monthly regional ferrous scrap markets. The post Delay to December ferrous scrap settlements appeared first on Fastmarkets. [...]