| |
U.S. paper and board production in August (unadjusted) was 8.37 million tons, up 157,000 tons from July. For the year-to-date through August, production was up a slight 0.9% compared with the same 1998 period. Paper production was 3.94 million tons, up from July and up 3.5% from August 1998; and paperboard was 4.43 million tons, a 2.7% increase from the month before and up 5% from August last year.
Pulp production was 5.44 million tons and market pulp shipments totaled 697,000 tons. For the eight months, market pulp shipments were up 3.2% compared with last year’s period.
In Canada woodpulp production was 2.1 million mtons in August, a 10% increase from August 1998 Chemical paper-grade woodpulp mill inventories stood at 696,000 mtons, down from 913,000 in August 1998.
Paper and paperboard production in August was 1.6 million mtons, a 7% increase from last year and eight months production of 13.3 million tons was 6% above the 1998 January through August period.
|
| |
Latest month (000 short tons) |
% change from year ago |
Annualized year-to-date (000 short tons) |
% change from year ago |
 |
| Newsprint |
August |
601 |
–1.3% |
4,718 |
–2.4% |
| Uncoated groundwood (s) |
August |
180 |
–0.6 |
1,294 |
–3.1 |
| Coated paper (s) |
August |
855 |
9.3 |
6,272 |
0.9 |
| Uncoated free-sheet 7 |
August |
1,207 |
2.6 |
9,253 |
2.7 |
| Other printing/writing 7 |
August |
143 |
10.9 |
1,031 |
0.8 |
| Total packaging and other paper |
August |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Tissue |
August |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Total paper |
August |
3,941 |
3.5% |
30,070 |
1.2% |
| Unbleached kraft paperboard |
August |
2,013 |
30.7 |
15,495 |
–2.9 |
| Semichemical medium |
August |
521 |
1.0 |
3,882 |
–2.9 |
| Bleached paperboard |
August |
500 |
7.8 |
3,824 |
2.4 |
| Recycled paperboard |
August |
1,405 |
8.6 |
10,813 |
6.9 |
| Total paperboard |
August |
4,439 |
5.0% |
34,014 |
0.6% |
| Total paper and paperboard 5 |
August |
8,379 |
4.3% |
64,085 |
0.9% |
|
 |
| Total woodpulp production |
August |
5,442 |
–0.7% |
41,890 |
–3.5% |
| Market pulp production |
August |
714 |
10.2 |
5,476 |
0.1 |
| Wastepaper consumption at paper/board mills |
August |
3,136 |
0.8 |
24,651 |
0.3 |
 |
| Corrugated box shipments (billion ft2)6 |
August |
34 |
4.2% |
268 |
2.1% |
| Containerboard inventories at mills/plants(actual) |
August |
2,602 |
–12.4 |
|
|
 |
| U.S. paper imports (including products) |
July |
1,462 |
12.2% |
10,158 |
–7.9% |
| Imports of Canadian newsprint |
July |
585 |
10.0 |
3,981 |
–10.8 |
| U.S. paper exports (including products) |
July |
963 |
–5.3 |
6,908 |
–1845 |
| Exports of unbleached kraft liner |
July |
259 |
–15.1 |
1,974 |
–25.4 |
| Exports of woodpulp |
July |
451 |
–5.6 |
3,406 |
–9.2 |
|
 |
| Total newsprint shipments 6 (mtons) |
August |
749 |
9.3% |
6,031 |
4.0% |
| Operating rates, % |
August |
90 |
12.5 |
93 |
4.5 |
| Inventories held by U.S. consumers 6 |
August |
1,394 |
–0.8 |
|
|
| Woodpulp shipments 6 |
August |
887 |
14.6 |
7,023 |
10.0 |
| Operating rates, % |
August |
94 |
10.6 |
93 |
9.4 |
|
 |
| (s) = Shipments. n.a. = not available. 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. |
|
