FBA Announces Changes To Monthly Statistics
Box Shipments ( U.S. Corrugated Product Shipments) Industry Shipments In Billions of Square Feet Month October 2020
Beginning in 2021, The Fibre Box Association (FBA) will change the publication frequency of the Monthly Statisti- cal Report and publish corrugated shipments, container- board consumption and containerboard inventory data on a quarterly rather than monthly basis. Subscribers will also begin to receive summary data for U.S. corrugated industry shipments (actual and average week) and containerboard (consumption and inventory) data on a quarterly rather than monthly basis. The changes align with a similar change in the Amer- ican Forest & Paper Association’s publication of contain- erboard monthly reports and will take place beginning with the first quarter of 2021. The first report will include monthly data for January, February and March and will be published in mid-April 2021. There will be three additional reports published for the second, third and fourth quarters of 2021. There will no longer be monthly reporting. There will be no change to data collection. Member companies will still be required to submit monthly data. The last Monthly Statistical Reports and Monthly Statis- tical Bulletins will be published on December 15 (Novem- ber 2020) and February 1, 2021 (December 2020). Contact Rachel Kenyon at rkenyon@fibrebox.org or (847) 364-9637 with questions.
Year
Actual
Percent Change Avg Week Percent Change
2020 2019
37.396 35.888
4.2
8.499 7.802
8.9
Industry Total
Year-to Date
October 2020
Year
Actual
Percent Change Avg Week Percent Change
2020 2019
337.942 330.090
2.4
7.933 7.785
1.9
Industry Total
Containerboard Consumption (Thousands of Tons)
Year
Month
Percent Change Year-to-Date Percent Change
2020 2019
3.0635 2.9470
4.0
27.6535 27.1498
1.9
Container Board Inventory - Corrugator Plants (Thousands of Tons)
Corrugator Plants Only
Date
Percent Change Weeks of Supply
Percent Change
Oct.
1.8156 1.9511
-6.9
2.6 2.9
-10.3
Sept.
Shipping Days
Year
Month
Year-to-Date
2020 2019
22 23
213 212
SOURCE: Fibre Box Association
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