Key statistics report 2018 out now!

Jul 8, 2019

Each year in July CEPI publishes the latest preliminary market and production data for the previous year.

Some of the figures can be found below:

Paper & Board

Production: 92.2 million tonnes (+0%)

Exports : 20.6 million tonnes (+1.1%)

Imports : 5.8 million tonnes (+3.3%)

Consumption: 77.4 million tonnes (-0.1%)

Market Pulp

Production : 14.4 million tonnes (+1.6%)

Consumption : 19.8 million tonnes (+4.5%)

Paper for Recycling (PFR)

Utilisation : 48.8 million tonnes (+0.9%)

Exports : 10.0 million tonnes (-6.1%)

Collection : 56.7 million tonnes (-0.3%)

European PFR recycling rate : 71.6%

The full report is available here.

For more information on the report, please contact Ariane Crèvecoeur, CEPI’s Statistics Manager at .