by Gillian Bardsley | Mar 17, 2025 | Bulletins
At the end of February the price for recovered paper in the packaging sector increased across mainland Europe. This is in response to the fact that OCC and mixed paper is in short supply. For the past two months we have seen strong buying from the Far East as the...
by Gillian Bardsley | Feb 25, 2025 | Bulletins, Industry Insights
Market conditions in 2024 continued to be tough for the recycling industry as a whole and we, along with others, had to manage reduced margins and volume. However, there are reasons for Genus Recycling to be optimistic as we take on 2025. A small uptick in demand and...
by Gillian Bardsley | Feb 10, 2025 | Bulletins, Industry Insights
Market Report January saw pricing for packaging, and in particular OCC, increase. As confirmed last month, this was because of the fear of tariffs and far east buyers repositioning their purchasing from the US to Europe. This has also had an effect in Europe as the...
by Gillian Bardsley | Jan 28, 2025 | Bulletins, Industry Insights
As reported in December, the last quarter of 2024 the packaging sector in Europe continued to slowdown. Volumes collected for the Far East remained relatively stable. However, in the last couple of weeks in December we began to see some notable changes in demand...
by Gillian Bardsley | Nov 15, 2024 | Bulletins, Industry Insights
Paper recycling industry market conditions As with September, the packaging sector in Europe showed a slowdown in both demand and prices. Demand from the Far East in this sector however, remained reasonably stable. The de-ink market has continued to show good demand...
by Gillian Bardsley | Oct 7, 2024 | Bulletins, Industry Insights
As ever, demand and pricing varies across markets and geographies. During September, within the packaging sector, we saw a slow down of demand and pricing across Europe, (in particular Germany) but fairly stable demand from the Far East. In the de-ink sector, we saw...
