Newsprint Flat

North American newsprint estimated prices were flat at $640/metric ton in December, according to Wilde. While demand is soft from a cyclical standpoint, secular pressures remain intense, he adds. White Birch, he points out, has idled its big 550,000/metric tpy Stadacona newsprint mill in Quebec City, Canada (see article in Pulp & Paper section below).

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