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MONTH IN STATISTICS
U.S. PAPER AND BOARD PRODUCTION
Seasonally unadjusted paper and paperboard production in the U.S. rose a slight 1% in January, from the same month the previous year, to 8.06 million tons. Paper production alone was 3.78 million tons, up a slight 0.2% from January 1997 and up 7,000 tons from December. Paperboard production increased 1.8% in January from the previous year and stood at 4.3 million tons.
Among the major paper grades, uncoated groundwood shipments were down 4% in January and uncoated free-sheet was down 4.1%. Unbleached kraft paper and bleached kraft paper were down 12.1% and 14.2%, respectively. Coated paper shipments were up more than 8% in January 1998 over January 1997.
In paperboard, unbleached kraft linerboard production (including exports) was up 5.5%. Set-up boxboard for domestic use was down 9.9%. Market pulp shipments in January totaled 630,000 tons, down 7.6% from January last year. Consumption of recovered paper at U.S. mills grew 2.2%.
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Latest month
(000 short tons) |
% change
from
year ago |
Annualized
year-to-date
(000 short tons) |
% change
from
year ago |
| PAPER AND PAPERBOARD PRODUCTION1 |
| Newsprint |
January |
613 |
0.3 |
7,355 |
0.3 |
| Uncoated groundwood (s) |
January |
172 |
-3.9 |
2,064 |
-4.0 |
| Coated paper (s) |
January |
803 |
8.1 |
9,636 |
8.1 |
| Uncoated free-sheet 7 |
January |
1,136 |
-4.1 |
13,631 |
-4.1 |
| Other printing/writing 7 |
January |
127 |
-2.3 |
1,519 |
-8.9 |
| Total packaging and other paper |
January |
359 |
-5.5 |
4,306 |
-5.6 |
| Tissue |
January |
572 |
4.6 |
6,861 |
4.6 |
| Total paper |
January |
3,781 |
0.2 |
45,372 |
0.2 |
| Unbleached kraft paperboard |
January |
1,994 |
4.5 |
23,930 |
4.5 |
| Semichemical medium |
January |
499 |
-3.9 |
5,988 |
-3.8 |
| Bleached paperboard |
January |
456 |
-2.8 |
5,467 |
-2.9 |
| Recycled paperboard |
January |
1,333 |
1.7 |
15,996 |
1.7 |
| Total paperboard |
January |
4,282 |
1.8 |
51,382 |
1.8 |
| Total paper and paperboard 5 |
January |
8,063 |
1.0 |
96,753 |
1.0 |
| PULP, WASTEPAPER, AND FIBER2 |
| Total woodpulp production |
January |
5,608 |
3.3 |
67,291 |
3.1 |
| Market pulp production |
January |
693 |
1.6 |
8,320 |
-2.6 |
Wastepaper consumption
at paper/board mills |
January |
3,199 |
-2.1 |
N.A. |
2.2 |
| CONVERTED PRODUCTS STATISTICS3 |
Corrugated box shipments
(billion ft2) 6 |
January |
32,519 |
0.2 |
32,519 |
0.2 |
Containerboard inventories
at mills/plants |
Jan. 31 |
3,023 |
-1.7 |
- |
- |
| INTERNATIONAL TRADE2 |
| U.S. paper imports (including products) |
Dec. |
1,315 |
8.7 |
15,657 |
10.1 |
Imports of Canadian
newsprint |
Dec. |
553 |
-7.1 |
6,940 |
1.0 |
| U.S. paper exports (including products) |
Dec.. |
1,055 |
-0.4 |
13,137 |
8.6 |
Exports of unbleached
kraft liner |
Dec. |
359 |
7.8 |
4,424 |
14.2 |
| Exports of woodpulp |
Dec. |
583 |
7.2 |
6,284 |
9.7 |
| CANADIAN STATISTICS4 (reported in metric tons) |
| Total newsprint shipments 6 |
January |
681 |
-7.6 |
681 |
-7.6 |
| Operating rates, % |
January |
87 |
93 |
87 |
93 |
Inventories held by
U.S. consumers 6 |
Jan. 31 |
1,318 |
5.9 |
- |
- |
| Woodpulp shipments 6 |
January |
716 |
-12.7 |
716 |
-12.7 |
| 1. American Forest & Paper Assn. 2. AF&PA, Bureau of Census, American Pulpwood Assn. 3. Fibre Box Assn., Paperboard Packaging Council. 4. Canadian Pulp and Paper Assn. 5. Includes construction and wet machine grades. 6. Not annualized. 7. Categories have been revised: thin papers, previously included under the "other printing/writing" category, is now part of uncoated free-sheet. "Other printing/writing" now encompasses only bristols and cotton fiber papers. N.A. = not available. (s) = Shipments.
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