Per-Order Pricing Is Now the Norm — the Cartons You Need Just Got More Expensive Again
Five days on, two days off; three days on, four days off... Another major chemical province has started a "power rationing rotational shutdown" model! Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong and others have raised industrial electricity prices: by up to 80%!
After diesel prices approached the 7 yuan mark, the fuel cost per 100 kilometres rose by 90 yuan! Worse still, the diesel crisis tends to deepen further: filling stations have gone from limiting purchases to 100 litres to limiting them to 100 yuan, and soaring logistics costs are already in sight.
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Without surprise, industrial base paper and paperboard have started rising in price again. On October 21, Shanying issued a price increase notice, raising prices across the full range by 100 yuan/tonne at each base.
In addition, Hangxing New Materials and Xinxiang Hongtai continued to issue price increase notices, raising prices by 100 yuan per tonne.
How will industrial base paper move in November? This is surely a topic everyone cares about, but at least in the white card industry, a price increase is a foregone conclusion. On October 22, Chenming and APP, two white card suppliers in a monopolistic position, announced that from November 1 the price of white card would rise by 300 yuan per tonne.
As raw material costs, electricity costs and energy costs rise rapidly, secondary paperboard plants can no longer hold out either! Starting from October 20, price increase notices came out one after another. Considering the continuous increases, if counted from September, there have already been a full six rounds.
Unlike previous rounds, in this round some paperboard plants have adopted the practice of limiting order quantities, generally capping orders at the factory's average daily order volume in August-September. In addition, even within the same region, paperboard plants' pace of price increases has begun to diverge.
With paperboard plants limiting quantities and raising prices, delivery times of 7-10 days for carton plants are the norm, and for new orders, re-quoting before each order has almost become customary.
Almost every round of base paper price increases brings a flurry of activity among midstream and downstream players. Whether they grit their teeth and bear it or pass it on downstream, this shock triggered by the supply side is still continuing.
——This article is reprinted from China Packaging Network (pack.cn). Original link: http://news.pack.cn/show-378502.html
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