Newsprint Review Riku Kallio Senior Consultant Poyry Management Consulting

摘要

I have just read what I wrote in this publication last year and decided to start this article the same way. Last year's article ended with the words "Finally we must recognise that the situation (Newsprint market) here (UK) is more positive than in some other countries". Regardless of this statement being true at the time, 2015 turned out to be hard for the UK paper industry, particularly Newsprint. Aylesford Newsprint has now closed and only two newsprint paper-machines remain. The closure of the Aylesford mill was somewhat surprising considering the paper-machines and mill site appeared potentially competitive when compared to other European newsprint machines and mills. Surely there are mills in Europe which have a clearly worse asset base and are at least in as challenging situation as Aylesford Newsprint was. The following paragraph shows another quote from last year's article.