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ency in the way prices are determined? I know we all want some type of benchmark, but should one man’s opinion shape a 39+ billion-dollar industry ability to pass on costs? It seems archaic and woefully subjective. I think it’s time to weigh all the factors that go into making a box. I believe it is past time to have that discussion.” CAL BOX GROUP Santa Fe Springs, California: John Widera and Chris Wid- era report, “The Cal Box Group is focused on the insight and preparation of the bleak slowdown of our chaotic pa-
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per industry, not on a blind eye to the past. There the gamesmanship of a few big dogs over the last de- cades has transformed paper mar- kets from the gored ox of consoli- dation to the sacred cow of market share. At this point, entrepreneurs and their independent box plants are fading in a number decline
John Widera
for at least one reason. Battered paper mills need more domestic converting for its containerboard to raise their operating rates. “As U.S. export and domestic containerboard prices will keep falling, domestic cost and retail prices are rising. This
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