Thoughts on that integrated comment.
There are certainly cost savings; at some point, softwood pulp was supposed to replace mechanical pulp. This has not yet been achieved, except in paper and light corrugated board grades, which these North American integrated mills mainly seem to produce.
Wood procurement for large integrated mills has become significantly more expensive, as wood has to be transported from an ever-larger area. Long wagons no longer run from the eastern border full of softwood and birch wood.
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