Changing Paper Production,Market Dynamics Cloud Future of U.S.Mills

摘要

It is somewhat of an understatement to say that the North American paper industry,particularly in the U.S.,has lost its competitive position in the past couple of decades.As U.S.per capita consumption/demand for most paper and paperboard products has held steady or continued to creep upward to a new world high of some 700 1b/year (including tissue products),domestic production capacity has steadily contracted in recent years.