Strong pulp markets and record high prices for both softwood and hardwood market pulp resulted in upward price pressures on wood fiber throughout the world in the 1Q/18.  The Global Softwood Fiber Price Index (SFPI) was up by 3.4% from the 4Q/17 to the 1Q/18, the second highest quarter-toquarter increase in seven years. Softwood prices rose in all 20 regions covered by the WRQ (Wood Resource Quarterly) with the exception of Eastern Canada, where chip prices fell 16% q-o-q (in US dollars).  Hardwood pulplogs saw a more modest price ...