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(USA, April 2017) Another month, another record-setting several weeks for recovered paper pricing. …
At $172.78 per ton, OCC pricing jumped $40 to $45 in the Northeast region, $35 in the Midwest, $40 in the Southeast and Southwest regions and $30 in the Los Angeles/San Francisco region, according to the March 6 PPW Yellow Sheet from Boston-based research firm RISI. Compared with OCC’s U.S. average pricing in March 2015 of $71.39 per ton, the March 2017 price is double that plus an additional $30 per ton and is more than double the $79.17 price in March 2016.
Mixed paper also has seen a dramatic increase in pricing. At an average U.S. price of $96.11 per ton, mixed paper is more than double the March 2016 price of $46.39 per ton. This is the highest pricing point mixed paper has seen. …
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