Newsprint negotiations still going on
2013-02-12 Publishing companies explain there had already been meetings and discussions with paper suppliers on delivery conditions and price targets for 2013 but the two sides could not reconcile their price expectations; while suppliers are hardly trying to at least maintain the prices from the previous quarter or half-year, buyers insist on price cuts, acording to EUWID.
At the end of January, newsprint price talks for deliveries in 2013 were still going on in Italy and it is very likely that the negotiations will continue well into February and perhaps even March. In Germany, January brought few surprises on the newsprint markets, EUWID reported. Contract negotiations for the first half or for the whole of 2013 have generally not yet made any serious progress and the situation does not look as if contracts could come to a close any time soon, market participants explain.