European Containerboard and Corrugated Board Review 2016

摘要

Firm and favourable are the words one could well use to characterise the European containerboard and corrugated board market in 2016. The demand kept on growing steadily and each quarter was better than the previous one as compared to 2015. For the time being market information is available for only the first nine months, but it indicates a robust growth of around 3 per cent for the year 2016 as a whole. On individual market level Central and Eastern European countries were again demonstrating the strongest progress, but very positive development was seen also in many Western European market like Spain, Italy and the UK, where manufacturing started to pick-up during the second quartile. French packaging market continued to suffer from stagnating private consumption and it was the only one making the exception to the rather sunny year to the European corrugated industry.