What is behind the turbulent global recovered paper market and where is the market headed?

摘要

THE WORLD RECOVERED PAPER MARKET has been going through a very turbulent time period since the Great Recession in 2009. For instance, domestic prices of OCG in the US market went through four up and down cycles between January 2010 and June 2012. Although most of these price cycles had very sharp ups and downs, prices never went below the floor of $130/tonne, which was registered in August 2008 when the market was about to collapse. The European market was even more turbulent during the same time period, especially when compared to its pre-recession performance.