Jul 01, 2011. /Lesprom Network/. M-real Office Papers will implement a 5-8% price increase for all its woodfree uncoated and recycled paper products across Europe in August. The increase will be done due to increasing costs of key raw materials such as pulp, starch and other chemicals as well as energy, as the company said in a press release received by Lesprom Network. Despite the price of paper increasing over the last year, the margins for papermakers are still historically low and are insufficient to absorb the rising production costs. M-real Office Paper’s Marcel Bigler, Senior Vice President, Sales, Marketing and Supply Chain says: “We must put up our prices so we can continue to deliver quality, innovative paper products. Trying to absorb the escalating costs of our key raw materials and energy is no longer an option.”