Soaring energy prices-up by 150% in the UK since January 2004-will put a triple squeeze on European papermakers in the coming years,according to Magnus Hall of Holmen,at the 2006 PRIMA Conference,figure 1.The squeeze will result from:-the European energy market EU energy policies the industry's inability to recoup cost increases in a marketplace which is characterised by oversupply and hard fought price hikes, figure 2.
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