27 July 2026 | 6:16AM BST Equity Research Smurfit Westrock (SW): US Containerboard Price Hike Announced by PCA The news. On Friday (July 24th), RISI confirmed Packaging Corp. of America (not covered) had announced a $140/t containerboard price increase for the US market starting from September 1st. If this were to be fully implemented, this would bring US kraftliner/testliner prices from $1,045/945/t to $1,185/1,085/t (+13/15%). Our take. We have previously written about the possibility of further price hik ...