Each month, this newsletter provides expert analysis as well as vital market data and charts including newsprint paper prices.

This exhaustive market data includes:

• Demand: Both regional and global demand statistics with detailed charts
• Mill Shipments: Looking in detail at the current month, last 3 months, year-to-date and last 12 months
• Mill Capacity: Any capacity changes and their knock-on effect on the market. Highlighting mill closures or change of use.
• Mill Operating Ratios: A detailed look at operating ratios in both regional and global markets
• Newsprint Prices: Detailed charts on price changes and in-depth analysis on these changes
  Cost Indicators: for example for Wastepaper and Wood
• Drivers: Looking at industry drivers such as advertising, circulation, pagination, readership, and more.

The Newsprint Newsletter offers data for the following markets/regions:

• Western Europe
• Eastern Europe
• North America
• China/Japan/Korea
• Other Asia
• Rest of World
• World Total

There continues to be a lot of flux and uncertainty in the market for newsprint. While Western European demand continues to decline, the rate of decline has slowed – from -15% in January 2023 to -7% in January 2024 and then just -2% in January 2025, resulting in a combined drop of -24%.

Some notable mill closures have occurred as the structural decline in newsprint continues. Price fluctuations have been driven by multiple factors, including costs, tariffs and shifting export taxes, changes in demand, as well as mill capacity adjustments. As the digital transformation accelerates in newspapers, the newsprint market is expected to face continued challenges.

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