Paper makers raise prices by 2.5% across segments as input costs pinch

Raw materials like pulp and paper chemicals have become costlier by up to 30% in three months, may see another price rise in March

Paper manufacturers have raised their product prices by an average 2.5 per cent across all segments for January, in order to pass on the increase in raw materials such as pulp and paper chemicals. This is the second price increase in three months after paper producers had, in November,  reversed a one per cent price cut they had implemented September.

Prices of specific grades of paper have gone up by to 5 per cent, depending upon the regions in which mills operate. With this, prices of writing and printing paper have increased by Rs 1,000-2,000 a tonne in January.

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