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Pulpwood Market Collapse Hits South’s Forest Economy
The South is bearing the brunt of a historic run of pulp- and paper-mill closures, the WSJ’s Ryan Dezember writes. Recycled boxes, cheap imported pulp and more thrifty packing by e-commerce giants, including Amazon, have hit demand.
Last year, the U.S. shed roughly 10% of its capacity to produce containerboard, the thick paper used to make shipping and moving boxes. Demand for pulpwood—trees unfit for making lumber but fine for cardboard and paper—plummeted. So did demand for wood chips, sawdust and other byproducts.
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