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Board prices to increase

The background to the increase is that costs for input goods and services such as wood, energy, chemicals and transport have risen strongly over the past couple of years while it has not been possible for paperboard manufacturers to compensate by charging higher prices. Cost increases for the industry are over 20 percent which has only partly been compensated by price increases. The increased input costs have had a particularly strong impact on products like FBB that are based on mechanical pulp.

“The price rise last spring was badly needed but far from enough,” comments Björn Kvick, president of Iggesund Paperboard. “We need to take further steps to compensate for our own increased costs and so that we can retain the development strength that has been our distinguishing feature for decades.”
“With the strong growth we have experienced in Europe in the past two years in general, and with the increased demand for packaging material in particular, this is definitely the right time to raise prices.”

Iggesund Paperboard is part of the Holmen Group and makes virgin fibre-based board at its mills in Iggesund, Sweden and Workington, England.

Photo: “We need to take further steps to compensate for our own increased costs and so that we can retain the development strength that has been our distinguishing feature for decades”, says Björn Kvick, president of Iggesund Paperboard.