Board Converting News, December 28, 2020

FBA Social Media Promotes E-Commerce, Recycling For Holidays This holiday season, Fibre Box Association (FBA) is working to promote corrugated box recycling. Corrugated packag- ing is a part of daily life, especially with e-commerce pur- chases landing on doorsteps everywhere this time of year. Look for messaging about corrugated packaging’s essen- tial role in holiday e-commerce, along with reminders and how-to information on recycling holiday boxes. To finish out the year, we’ll continue our strong focus on boxes as the backbone of e-commerce. We’ve adapted our e-commerce ad (see page 16) for the holidays and will focus our attention on happy holiday deliveries made pos- sible by corrugated packaging and ask consumers to gift us back, by recycling their boxes. We have been and will continue to share messages, infographics, key facts and short videos on our social media platforms throughout the month. In addition, we’ll be amplifying the corrugated recycling messages shared through the American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) and the Paper + Packaging Board’s holiday campaigns to ensure the broadest reach across all target audiences. We encourage you to follow, like, share and re-share these important messages. Find specific examples in FBA marketing coordinator Tricia’s “Trending Now” article at www.fibrebox.org .

Box Shipments ( U.S. Corrugated Product Shipments) Industry Shipments In Billions of Square Feet Month November 2020

Year

Actual

Percent Change Avg Week Percent Change

2020 2019

33.612 32.060

4.8

8.845 8.437

4.8

Industry Total

Year-to Date

November 2020

Year

Actual

Percent Change Avg Week Percent Change

2020 2019

371.553 362.151

2.6

8.008 7.839

2.2

Industry Total

Containerboard Consumption (Thousands of Tons)

Year

Month

Percent Change Year-to-Date Percent Change

2020 2019

2.6756 2.5847

3.5

30.3291 29.7345

2.0

Container Board Inventory - Corrugator Plants (Thousands of Tons)

Corrugator Plants Only

Date

Percent Change Weeks of Supply

Percent Change

Nov. Oct.

1.7912 1.8156

-1.3

2.5 2.6

-3.8

Shipping Days

Year

Month

Year-to-Date

2020 2019

19 19

232 231

SOURCE: Fibre Box Association

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