Newsprint market absorbs Howe Sound shut; mills hope it will stop price fall

摘要

The abrupt closure of Paper Excellence's 240,000 totmes/yr Howe Sound Pulp & Paper newsprint machine in British Columbia on July 24 was quickly absorbed by the market without much upheaval, contacts said this week. Other mills hungry for orders swiftly converged on Howe Sound customers offering to replace lost orders, contacts said.