Lecta papermaker Lecta is raising prices by 5% to 7% for its entire range of coated woodfree two-sided and uncoated papers, both in sheets and reels. This increase will be applied to paper deliveries from 20 April 2020 on all European markets.
He states without giving further details: "This increase is unavoidable to compensate for the constant rise in production costs."
At the end of January, the Spanish-based group had already announced a price increase on its thermal papers, effective since the end of January 2020, of around 8 to 10%. "This price increase is unavoidable to compensate for the ever-increasing costs of manufacturing and transportation." had this time evoked the papermaker.
And the South African papermaker Sappi had also announced an increase in its export prices from 14 April 2020. He is now declaring a price increase with immediate effect, explaining that "Declining profitability combined with further cost increases makes a price increase of 5-8% inevitable in all of Sappi's European markets"
This price increase affects paper packaged in sheets and paper packaged in reels of wood-free coated (WFC) and wood-free uncoated (WFU) paper.
