Prices dynamics and perspectives of the world market for Russian pulp and paper producers

Due to the summary of Rosstat of 2011 there is an up-to-day overview of the industry. On the back of slow world economics (North American, European) the Russian economics show impressive growing results taking a third place among the large economic systems of the expansion rate assenting to China and India. If during the last year the GDP of EU zone raised on 0,7%, USA – on 1,6%, the Russian rate of growth made 4,9%. For Russia 2011 has excelled 2010 by the following rates: industrial production, retail trade, housing input and cargo turnover volume. It is obviously to make a conclusion that Russian economy has taken the normal working mode.

At first the producers of domestic pulp and paper production are concerned with a price situation for the main kind product group on the internal and external markets. Russian pulp and paper companies which are in membership of Bumprom Association, produce more than 90% of cellulose and wood pulp, 77% of paper (including 99% of newsprint paper) and over than 70% of cardboard from the whole Russian market volume (2011 data).

According the core meaning of the issue, Bumprom have prepared price index overview for the main products group of Russian pulp and paper production. As Association announces itself, the internal market requires for the objective price data, assumption of Russia in WTO and pressing from the European markets make to watch the prices dynamics and to analyze the tendencies of changing.

Bumprom promises to announce the price indexes on their web-site every month. Also Association invokes companies for taking part in price indexation. All information is confidential and anonymous.

*A price index is a normalized average (typically a weighted average) of prices for the main pulp and paper products group calculating with VAT included (supplier ex stock), during a month.

Based on Bumprom materials