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Have the problems been increasingly add varnishes and to obvious benefits for the resolved. So I’m hopeful that
accentuated by a lack of other finishes to lesser priced buyers of paper. I’d add that we won’t see prices rising in a
lower grade paper? papers. cartels are usually about making similar way as they did in 2010.
It’s true that some unusually high levels of profit China remains a big influence
manufacturers have found What do you say to for their constituent firms, and on the supply of pulp, though,
it no longer worthwhile to those who think paper my members are certainly not in and its demand and buying
produce some stocks such as merchanting is a cartel? that position! power will probably continue to
C-grade copier. At the same I would say it’s completely the create some price pressure for
time, though, there has been opposite! Printers in the UK Finally, what do you European producers.
a consolidation towards the actually benefit from “perfect” see happening to paper
middle ground. Some expensive competition amongst the prices? n FOR MORE INFORMATION
papers are also no longer made merchants. There are three I think they will stabilise as a CONTACT HELEN DUNN ON
because they’re just not required large groups and a sizeable result of some of the structural 020 7915 8320 or EMAIL
any more. Printers don’t always number of independents. These factors tailing off, and the helen.dunn@bpif.org.uk
need top class coated papers companies are all aggressively one-off problems such as
because their machines can competing for business, leading earthquakes and strikes being

“The weakness of the pound has
created an effective devaluation

of Sterling, leading some

manufacturers to prefer to deal
with dollar-based countries.”

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