What is Fastmarkets' Mill Intelligence ?

Fastmarkets’ cost analysis and mill intelligence provide insight into mill operations, cost, profitability and competitive standing for 4,500 assets in the global forest products industry. Our data and analysis cover all major mills producing pulp, paper, packaging paper, tissue and wood products.

Fastmarkets’ expert team of industry engineers, analysts and researchers help you successfully understand and evaluate your market at every level. This service supports market research, risk management, price assessment and investment management initiatives for audiences spanning the forest products industry.

Fastmarkets' Mill Intelligence contains:

• Mill Asset Database: technical details of the pulp and paper mills globally, like capacity or machinery details. North American Lumber and wood products mills as well as Bioenergy plants in North America and in Europe.
• Capacity Reports provide capacity per grade, per region and per country, with a historical view per year, as well as 1-2 years of capacity forecast (incl. new capacity and planned closures).
• Analytical Cornerstone cost benchmarking tool compares the production (cash) cost of pulp or paper mills with each other.
• Index Builder is a comparison tool of the evolution of production cost of packaging material (e.g. for boxes) with the evolution of the commodity price.