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EMGE’s
WORLD GRAPHIC PAPER report (WGP) provides a unique and comprehensive
database of world markets, assessing the current situation and the
5-year market outlook for the complete range of papers across all regions
of the world.
The aim of the reports is to provide an objective outlook of the prospects
for world paper markets – ie Coated Woodfree, Uncoated Woodfree,
Coated Mechanical and Uncoated Mechanical. Detailed information on Newsprint
markets is available separately, in our companion report EMGE
World Newsprint Markets.
The WGP report provides revised and updated forecasts of Demand, Trade,
Output, Capacity, Operating Rates and Paper Prices for each grade. All
countries and regions are covered to provide a comprehensive global and
local demand-supply balance. The forecast timescale is five years from
the base year.
Individual country data are provided. Forecasts are grouped by region,
as follows:-
- West Europe (EU, Norway and Switzerland)
- North America (USA & Canada)
- Japan
- China/Hong Kong
- Other Asia (All Asia and Oceania except Japan, China,
Hong Kong & Middle
East)
- Other Europe (East.Europe/Russia, Greece, Iceland, etc)
- Latin America
- Africa/ME (All Africa & Middle
East including Turkey & Israel)
In order to assess the impact
of increasing consolidation and changing industry structure, the
report provides detailed rankings of Leading
Suppliers, by grade, region and total. At the request of our clients,
these tables have been extended to give regional, as well as grade
summaries and we publish ad-hoc updates for subscribers.
We continually update our global databases and incorporate the latest
market and economic statistics. Additionally, we compile detailed analysis
of capacity changes and investments, as well as M&A activity. As
a result, each report contains the most up-to-date information available.
As well as a comprehensive collection of market data, great care has
been taken to assess machine capacity in detail. The capacity data
used only includes announced, financed and confirmed plans (ie numerous
published
plans which are unlikely to be commissioned are excluded from analysis),
but the report provides additional information on all announced plans,
so that readers can assess their own scenarios.
Furthermore, we have incorporated new research into the Herfindahl-Hirschman
Index, which is an index based on market shares which is used by the
Authorities to gauge the levels of concentration in an industry. We
have applied this index to the Paper Industry and coined the term the
Pi-HHi
(pronounced “pie-high”).
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