world news - 20.05.2003
Producers' stocks of market pulp in Finland, Sweden, Canada and the United States rose in April by a more-than-expected 127,000 tonnes versus March to 1.59 million tonnes, Finland's forest industry said on Tuesday.
The average capacity utilisation rate throughout the Norscan region edged up to 94 percent in April from 93 percent in March, the Finnish Forest Industries Federation said in a statement
North American and Scandinavian (Norscan) market pulp stocks are watched as an indicator of future trends in the key raw material, which in turn can affect paper prices though the historical link between pulp and paper prices has weakened.
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- — According to the latest statistics, China's imports of timber continued to climb in the first quarter of 2003.
- — Bosnian wood and timber indastry on brink of collapse. Trade associations of timber and wood industry's companies within the chambers of commerce of Bosnia-Herzegovina's two entities insist on the immediate discontinuation or the drastic restriction in the export of logs and sawn timber.
