Fastmarkets Knowledge Base

What is Fastmarkets Mill Intelligence ?

Published October 23rd, 2025 by heide matussek

What is Fastmarkets' Mill Intelligence ? Fastmarkets’ cost analysis and mill intelligence provide insight into mill operations, cost, profitability and competitive standing for 4,500 assets in the global forest products industry. Our data and analysis cover all major mills producing pulp, paper, packaging paper, tissue and wood products. Fastmarkets

How to Email Feedback or Questions to Fastmarkets' engineers and analysts

Published January 27th, 2026 by heide matussek

How to Email Feedback or Questions to Fastmarkets' engineers and analysts If you have a question or would like to submit feedback about the data or tools available in the Analytical Cornerstone cost benchmarking tool, you can contact Fastmarkets RISI's engineers and analysts via the millintelligencehelp@fastmarkets.com directly from the Analytical C

How to Email Feedback or Questions to Fastmarkets' engineers and analysts

Published October 21st, 2025 by heide matussek

How to Email Feedback or Questions to Fastmarkets' engineers and analysts If you have a question or would like to submit feedback about the data or tools available in the Asset Database, you can contact Fastmarkets RISI's engineers and analysts directly from the Asset Database using the “Email us Feedback” button located at the upper-right hand corn

Mill Map/Facility Map/Asset Map

Published October 15th, 2025 by heide matussek

On the Asset Database, a map shows on the top of the Assets tab after hitting View Search. The facilities that match your search criteria will appear on the map. Facility and company data will appear below the map. How to Change Map Views Toggle between Asset Type, Capacity and Consumption to view facilities by those categories. Asset Type w

What does the Profitability Report show?

Published September 2nd, 2025 by heide matussek

What does the Profitability Report show? The numbers on the Profitability Report per mill are all estimates by Fastmarkets RISI, mainly based on publicly available information. The Profitability Report simulates a standard format income statement by combining regional product price with company, mill and country specific inputs. The profitability r

What are the machine benchmarks?

Published August 4th, 2025 by heide matussek

What are the machine benchmarks? The 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th quartile means that the capacity of the chosen market is split into four quartiles, so for example if it is a 5 million tonne market, each quartile would be equivalent of 1.25 million tonnes. Based on each mill/machine’s cost, it would then be positioned in one of these quartiles.

What does Materials and Maintenance cost contain?

Published January 6th, 2026 by heide matussek

What does Materials and Maintenance cost contain? Material costs are estimated from benchmark data collected year over year, which combines maintenance material costs, maintenance labor costs and direct costs specific to the grades being produced. Materials include maintenance parts, contract maintenance, supplies, shipping materials, felts, wires a

Corrugated box statistics

Published January 19th, 2026 by heide matussek

Corrugated box statistics The Paper Packaging Monitor shows US Containerboard/Box statistics on Table A1 (Appendix tables), and within the market story on Containerboard/Boxes of PPI Pulp & Paper Week. These tables are updated quarterly as Fastmarkets depends on statistic sources like the Fibre Box Association that provides its numbers (shipment

PIX Price Indices (published previously by FOEX)

Published January 21st, 2026 by heide matussek

PIX Price Indices (published previously by FOEX) PIX pulp, paper and biomass indices are part of Fastmarkets' Forest Products division. The list of PIX indices are shown on the list of Fastmarkets RISI price assessments. FOEX still exists as an official entity in Finland, registered by the name “FOEX Indexes Ltd”, and its team calculates the PIX in

How can I compare the cost/view trends over a longer period of time?

Published July 16th, 2025 by heide matussek

How can I compare the cost/view trends over a longer period of time? On the Market level and on the Mill level, there is a feature to view and analyse historical market level cash cost data over a selected time period, starting from Q1 2013. To do so: Once on the market Cash Cost or the mill Costs report, click on Trends Select the FROM DATE and TO

How to create a Custom Market

Published December 2nd, 2025 by heide matussek

How to create a Custom Market Creating a Custom Market The Custom Market homepage offers quick access to the market search, Saved Markets, or Saved Mill Groups. To define a custom market, set the filter values for the market. You can use any combination of the 12 filter categories to build your market. To define the region or grade/product, click

Analytical Cornerstone Homepage

Published November 27th, 2025 by heide matussek

Analytical Cornerstone Homepage The Analytical Cornerstone home page conveys important announcements, a summary of your subscription, market snapshots and latest changes, as well as a quick access to your saved markets and mills.

How to Search Mill Projects

Published October 16th, 2025 by heide matussek

Click the Projects tab to find capital investment and mill closures for pulp and paper mills as well as wood, timber and bioenergy plants. Choose the search criteria by clicking on the + in the Region and Grade/Product boxes. You can also click on the large + to select additional filters: Project type: e.g. for New, Rebuild or Closures Project area

How to Export Mill Data

Published October 16th, 2025 by heide matussek

To export data for your search results, click on the export button. You will be asked if you want to download only the information on the current page (CURRENT DATA VIEW) or if you want to download ALL of the data associated with your search. When download ENTIRE DATA REPORT is selected, the text appears, informing that a link to an export file will

Mills section in Analytical Cornerstone

Published November 27th, 2025 by heide matussek

Mills section in Analytical Cornerstone The Mills homepage offers quick access to the mills search, saved mills, recently viewed mills and created mills. The Mills section provides detailed data for every mill in Cornerstone, with details on paper machines/pulp dryers*, products/grades produced* as well as all of the following reports (see dropdowns

How do I create an Index in the Index Builder?

Published October 28th, 2025 by heide matussek

How do I create an Index in the Index Builder? There are several ways to create an Index with your desired options: 1. Select from the library of index templates Specific to packaging type, material used, and other indicators. Benchmark portion (%) of package price corresponding to material based on external research. 2. Build an index from scratch

How to highlight and label mills or companies

Published January 8th, 2026 by heide matussek

How to highlight and label mills or companies Analytical Cornerstone provides several ways to highlight and label mills or companies. All market reports except Overview and Regional Unit Cost support highlight functionality. You can highlight or label items using the methods below. 1. Click a Company Name in a Chart Clicking a company name below any

How to Search for Mill/Facility, Projects & Company Data

Published October 15th, 2025 by heide matussek

From the homepage of either tab, you can choose to search for companies and assets in a variety of ways. First, customize your search criteria. You can choose to apply any number of search filters to narrow your results. Company or Asset Specific Quick Search Begin to type a facility or company name in the search box and select the appropr

How can I compare the cost at two specific points in time?

Published August 27th, 2025 by heide matussek

How can I compare the cost at two specific points in time? On the Market level and on the Mill level, Analytical Cornerstone allows the comparison of two quarters at a time (two quarters of any years). To do so: After selecting the initial Cost Date to compare with on the Cash Cost Curve, click on Compare Dates select the quarter to compare with fro

Saved Markets

Published January 28th, 2026 by heide matussek

Saved Markets The saved markets screen allows you to view, delete, duplicate and share saved markets. List Options: Sort — To change the sorting of the list, select the value from the select box above the list. The sort options are: market name most recently viewed most recently created most recently modified creator View a Saved Market You can v

Scenario Manager

Published January 29th, 2026 by heide matussek

Scenario Manager The Scenario Manager allows you to adjust Fastmarkets RISI data to evaluate how those changes would affect a mill’s competitiveness within a market. For example, you can model the impact of changing exchange rates on a specific mill or on all mills within a region. Cornerstone offers two types of scenario adjustments: 1. Market Adju

How to save Mill Groups/Projects Groups/Companies Groups

Published October 21st, 2025 by heide matussek

How to save Mill Groups/Projects Groups/Companies Groups To save a mill group, first set your filters and click “View Search”. Then hit "Save Search" and enter a name for a new Saved Search group or choose an existing name from the list if you have existing saved searches, then lick “Save”. The same method can be used to save groups for projects an

How to Search Company Profiles

Published October 15th, 2025 by heide matussek

Click the “Companies” tab. Then click the “+” to expand the Top Companies list or click on Top 25 Companies or All Top Companies. You can click on any company name in the list to view its profile. You can also search by company name, grade and region by clicking the “+” next to Region or Grade/Product to select your search criteria. Then click the “

How to Set General Preferences

Published October 15th, 2025 by heide matussek

Click on “Asset Preferences” in the upper-right hand corner of the page and follow the prompts to set the application defaults for currency and units of measurement.

Saved Mill Groups: compare multiple specific mills

Published January 28th, 2026 by heide matussek

Saved Mill Groups: compare multiple specific mills Saved Mill Groups allow users to combine any selection of mills into a single group for easier analysis. These groups can be used in multiple ways. For example, you may create a Saved Mill Group to analyze several mills for an acquisition assessment. Their primary purpose is to highlight a specific

How to Access Mill Details from any report in the Asset Database

Published October 16th, 2025 by heide matussek

How to Access Mill Details from any report in the Asset Database From any of the reports, or from the Google mill map, in the Asset Database, you can click on the Asset Name to open the mill detail page of that mill . You can also sort your search result by choosing criteria in the SORT drop-down box.