Slide 1: Energy Costs
ENERGY COSTS As for energy costs, natural gas spot prices experienced a 2% decrease during the first quarter of 2013 after two quarters of strong increases. However, prices averaged 22% more than during the first quarter of 2012. The price of crude oil increased by 5% during the first quarter. It wa
Slide 2: Manufacturing Selling Prices and Raw Material Costs
MANUFACTURING SELLING PRICES AND RAW MATERIAL COSTS On the selling price front for our manufacturing operations, Cascades’ North American price index in U.S. dollar remained stable during the first quarter of 2013 compared to the previous quarter. Prices were relatively flat for all our sectors, exc
Slide 3: Selling price and raw material indexes
The Cascades North American selling prices index represents an approximation of the Corporation’s manufacturing selling prices in North America. It is weighted according to shipments and is based on the average selling price of our North American manufacturing operations of boxboard, containerboard,
Slide 4: Estimated cost impact notes
The impacts of these estimated costs are based on production costs per unit, which are affected by yield, product mix changes and purchase and transfer prices. In addition to market pulp and recycled fibre, they include purchases of external boards and parent rolls for the converting sector, and oth
Slide 5: Containerboard production and capacity utilization rate
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Slide 6: Our Performance
Source: Fiber Box Association Our Performance The main variances in sales and operating income for the Containerboard Group are shown below:
Slide 7: For Notes to 4, see definition on page 14
For Notes 1 to 4, see definition on page 14. The Corporation incurred some specific items in the first quarters of 2013 and 2012 that adversely or positively affected its operating results. Please refer to pages 15 to 17 for more details and reconciliation.
Slide 8: Containerboard shipments and average selling price
Shipments decreased by 2%, or 6,000 s.t. to 296,000 s.t. in the first quarter of 2013 compared to 302,000 s.t. in the same period of 2012. The mills’ external shipments went down by 5,500 s.t. (4.3%) mainly coming from its boxboard mills. The closure of the Burnaby mill in December 2011 also erased
Slide 9: Coated recycled boxboard industry's order inflow from Europe
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Slide 10: Our Performance
Source: CEPI Cartonboard Our Performance The main variances in sales and operating income for the Boxboard Europe Group are shown below:
Slide 11: For Notes to 4, see definition on page 14
For Notes 1 to 4, see definition on page 14. The Corporation incurred some specific items in the first quarters of 2013 and 2012 that adversely or positively affected its operating results. Please refer to pages 15 to 17 for more details and reconciliation.
Slide 12: Boxboard Europe shipments and average selling price
Shipments increased by 8%, or 22,000 s.t. to 299,000 s.t. in the first quarter of 2013, compared to 277,000 s.t. in the same period of 2012. The increase comes from the European recycled boxboard activities (RdM), resulting from an increase in demand. The total average selling price went down by $28
Slide 13: U.S. recycled fibre exports to China (all grades)
U.S. recycled fibre exports to China (all grades) After two months in 2013, Chinese recycled paper demand has decreased by 8% compared to the same period of last year. Old corrugated containers and pulp substitutes registered the steepest declines and exports for these grades decreased by 10% and 57
Slide 14: Our Performance
Our Performance The main variances in sales and operating income for the Specialty Products Group are shown below:
Slide 15: For Notes to 4, see definition on page 14
For Notes 1 to 4, see definition on page 14. The Corporation incurred some specific items in the first quarters of 2013 and 2012 that adversely or positively affected its operating results. Please refer to pages 15 to 17 for more details and reconciliation.
Slide 16: Specialty Products shipments and average selling price
Shipments decreased by 4%, or 4,000 s.t. to 94,000 s.t. in the first quarter of 2013, compared to 98,000 s.t. in the same period of 2012. Lower shipments in our Specialty Papers sector explained most of the decrease. The total average selling price for Specialty Papers and Industrial Packaging secto
Slide 17: U.S. tissue paper industry production and capacity utilization rate
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Slide 18: Our Performance
Our Performance The main variances in sales and operating income for the Tissue Papers Group are shown below:
Slide 19: For Notes to 4, see definition on page 14
For Notes 1 to 4, see definition on page 14. The Corporation incurred some specific items in the first quarters of 2013 and 2012 that adversely or positively affected its operating results. Please refer to pages 15 to 17 for more details and reconciliation.
Slide 20: Tissue Papers shipments and average selling price
Shipments increased by 9%, or 12,000 s.t., to 142,000 s.t. in the first quarter of 2013, compared to 130,000 s.t. in the same period of 2012. The manufacturing external shipments increased by 6,600 s.t., or 18%, to 43,000 s.t. in the first quarter of 2013 compared to 36,000 s.t. in the same period o