Slight increase in prices for some recovered paper grades in Italy

Italy’s recovered paper market saw some prices start to edge higher again in January, even though activity levels were not very high in the Italian paper industry, according to the latest EUWID market report.

Recovered paper suppliers and buyers alike primarily attribute the mark-ups for ordinary grades to growing export business. Clients in the Far East had apparently purchased large amounts from Italian merchants at higher prices, bolstered by the dollar exchange rate, among other factors. A few respondents told EUWID that the gap between domestic and export prices was becoming wider and wider.