Laura Shore

The fact is, rising paper prices need not be budget-busters and quality-killers JOHN MAGUIRE, director of marketing for Dallas-based Clampitt Paper, (www.clampitt. com), and Laura Shore, senior vice president of communications for Mohawk Paper, Cohose, New York, (www.mohawkpaper.com), acknowledged that higher prices for everything from natural gas to diesel fuel and raw materials costs, and the rate of migration from paper-based forms to digital formats are all impacting paper mill prices. "The shift to higher brightness paper was not handled as efficiently as the mills had promised, either," explained Maguire. "Inventory shortages and longer lead times have also had a significant impact on everyone.