Late last month, the American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) released the 53rd Annual Survey of Paper, Paper-board and Pulp Capacity, reporting that U.S. paper and paperboard capacity declined 1.6 percent in 2012, but will hold essentially stable over the next three years (2013 through 2015). Paper and paperboard capacity is slated to decline 0.4 percent in 2013, but then rise 0.6 percent in 2014 and 0.2 percent in 2015. For the entire three-year projection period, paper and paper-board capacity is expected to rise 0.4 percent at an average annual rate of 0.1 percent.
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