Increase in purchase price of recycled paper 1999.11.15

Since November, paperboard manufacturers have raised the purchase price (without freight) from a magazine paper wholesaler in the central west of the Chubu area by 4 yen and 1 yen per kilo. It became the form corresponding to the shortage of the raw paper by the demand expansion of recycled paper. In the past few months, the stock price of the old-paper wholesaler in the Kansai area has been falling to around 20% in recent.