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Forestweb Launches Online Price and Data Service for Recovered Paper Market; Service Includes New Municipal Recycling Index, Global Projects Database

Forestweb Launches Online Price and Data Service for Recovered Paper Market; Service Includes New Municipal Recycling Index, Global Projects Database

Published 12-18-02

Submitted by Forestweb

LOS ANGELES -- Forestweb, Inc. (http://www.forestweb.com) announced today that it has launched a dynamic online price, news, and data service for professionals serving and working in the recovered paper market. The new service called PriceBeat: Recovered Paper is the newest module in Forestweb's PriceBeat service.

Official Board Markets has partnered with Forestweb to provide transacted prices for 14 grades of recovered paper in 7 market regions. Prices from Official Board Markets are available online through Forestweb's service, making PriceBeat: Recovered Paper the single source on the Internet for current transacted recovered paper prices.

Mary Cesar, senior analyst at Forestweb, will provide exclusive weekly analysis of the recovered paper markets to PriceBeat: Recovered Paper. Ms. Cesar's analysis will focus on global trade data trends, new global projects that expect to rely on recovered paper as a raw material, plus an in-depth review of municipal recycling programs in North America. Ms. Cesar came to Forestweb from Jaakko Poyry Consulting where she was senior vice president specializing in global recycling issues. To launch this service, Ms Cesar has created a new index to measure North America's propensity to increase recovery from municipal recycling programs.

The index, called "Forestweb Municipal Recycling Index" is based on local news reports of changes to municipal recycling programs that are likely to either increase or decrease the volume of paper collected. The Forestweb Municipal Recycling Index will allow recyclers and those interested in recovered paper trends to quantify disparate information and make more informed decisions about the future availability of this much-needed fiber resource.

PriceBeat: Recovered Paper also includes a database of global projects, including expected start date, projected capacity, estimated recovered paper required, and projected recovered fiber mix. Ms. Cesar is directing the ongoing development and maintenance of this critical data research tool.

A monthly review of global trade data by grade will analyze U.S. exports of recovered paper by grade and destination, as reported by the U.S. Census Bureau. The U.S. data will be supplemented by trade statistics from various international customs services, with commentary by industry analyst Sunil Shahaney.

PriceBeat: Recovered Paper is one of seven modules in Forestweb's PriceBeat. The other grade segments of the service are -- market pulp, publication & communication grades, packaging grades, logs & chips, solid wood, engineered wood & building materials. Each module contains prices, news and market analysis, market data and statistics.

About Forestweb: Forestweb, Inc. (http://www.forestweb.com ) is the single online business intelligence provider for people associated with the forest products industry,
from standing timber to chips, pulp and paper to recycling, logs and lumber to engineered wood. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Los Angeles, Forestweb has the best and most relevant coverage of the industry, and couples that experience with outstanding delivery options to meet the specific needs of corporations and individuals. Corporate products include Forestweb's iiHub, which delivers critical decision-making knowledge and intelligence enterprise-wide on a custom on-line platform and NewsDigest, which generates customized email newsletters to executives, management teams and customers.

Forestweb's NewsBeat and PriceBeat provide individual subscribers with industry intelligence.

About Official Board Markets

Official Board Markets remains the publication of record and the pricing standard in the containerboard and paper recycling industries. Industry representatives reference OBM for buying and selling raw materials, board and recovered paper consumed in the board converting and pulp and paper industry. Special emphasis is on the entire process of manufacturing and selling corrugated boxes and folding cartons from the mill level to that of the end user. News, trends, and economic and market analyses are a mainstay of the editorial package. Each week OBM delivers critical pricing information, the latest industry news, and insightful articles to key executives in the board converting industry.

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