World Recovered Paper Usage To Surge 50 Million Tonnes By 2014

All growth in demand to be generated by developing regions

BRUSSELS, February 15 - China will generate the majority of the growth in recovered paper demand
over the next five years, and whilst governments and papermakers attempt to
boost domestic recovery of paper in China, this will not meet forecast demand
as much is used for packaging goods which then leave the country. The fifth
edition of Outlook for Global Recovered Paper Markets is published today by
RISI, the leading information provider for the global forest products
industry, and provides the current and forecast developments in recovered
paper markets around the world.

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International trade in recovered paper will continue to boom and Asian
papermakers will search worldwide for new supplies as recovery rates are
tested in the developed world.

The report reveals India's growing demand for imported recovered paper,
and new to this edition of this report are pulp and recovered paper demand
and trade for over one hundred countries.

The report details usage, recovery rates, trade balances and price
forecasts until 2014.

The study team leader, Rod Young, who has been analyzing the fiber and
paper markets for over thirty years, predicts "that the supply side of the
recovered paper market will see a lot of activity in the upcoming five years.
Rising prices for recovered paper, along with huge increases in demand, would
imply that larger companies will both be needed and interested in the supply
side of this market." He continued, "Mergers and acquisitions should be an
active field in this industry." Leading users and suppliers of recovered
paper globally and by region are covered in the final chapter of the study.

Rod Young is supported on the study team with Bill Moore and Esko Uutela,
the founding author of the study with EU Consulting, and RISI Economists Kurt
Schaefer, Hannah Zhao and Levi Li.

The Executive Summary and Table of Contents for the study can be found at
www.risiinfo.com/risi-store/do/product/detail/recovered-paper-study.html?source=RP0210pr

For more information on this study, please contact:

    In Europe: Tea Tuuli at +32-2-536-0743 - ttuuli@risi.com or Greg
Ardoullie at +32-2-536-0753 - gardoullie@risi.com
    In North America: Sara Girtz at +1-770-373-3001 - sgirtz@risi.com or
Natalie Rotondi at +1-781-734-8963 - nrotondi@risi.com
    In Asia: Levi Li at +86-139-1714-6037 - lli@risi.com
    In Latin America: Luis Sucupira at +55-11-3848-9051 lsucupira@risi.com

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