{"id":20999,"date":"2026-01-20T13:40:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T13:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/?p=20999"},"modified":"2026-01-20T13:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T13:40:20","slug":"afpa-releases-december-2025-packaging-papers-monthly-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/20\/afpa-releases-december-2025-packaging-papers-monthly-report\/","title":{"rendered":"AF&amp;PA Releases December 2025 Packaging Papers Monthly Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The American Forest &amp; Paper Association (AF&amp;PA) released the December 2025 Packaging Papers Monthly report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Total packaging papers &amp; specialty packaging shipments in December increased 2% compared to December 2024. They were up 1% when compared to the same 12 months of 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The bleached operating rate increased slightly from November to 74.5% but remained below the year-to-date rate of 75.1%. Capacity was down 2.6% for the year.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Unbleached bag &amp; sack shipments were down 2.6% from last December, and down 2.2% year\u2011to\u2011date.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Total inventories were up 6% from the same month last year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Forest &amp; Paper Association (AF&amp;PA) released the December 2025 Packaging Papers Monthly report. Total packaging papers &amp; specialty packaging shipments in December increased 2% compared to December 2024. They were up 1% when compared to the same 12 months of 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[498],"class_list":{"0":"post-20999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corrugated-folding-carton","8":"tag-afpa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21001,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20999\/revisions\/21001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}