Poland: demand for the product and competition for the raw material - will NFC juice prices rise?

Published 2021년 2월 3일

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Recent reports highlight a surge in demand for NFC juice, especially cold-pressed apples, from Western European markets, leading to an anticipated price increase. Polish processing plants have shifted their production towards NFC apple juice over concentrated apple juice to meet this demand. The current European market prices for NFC juice are low, ranging from 0.22 to 0.27 €/liter (0.98 - 1.21 PLN/liter), but analysts expect an uptick due to heightened customer demand, higher production costs, and competition for raw materials. The lower production costs of NFC juices compared to apple juice concentrate, which is achieved by reducing the thickening process, make them more cost-effective to produce yet sensitive to raw material price fluctuations.

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Recent weeks have seen a growing demand for dry industry. On the part of customers from Western Europe, the demand for the product - NFC juice is not weakening. According to analysts, the prices of the title product on the European market will increase in the near future. In recent weeks, most of the production in Polish processing plants has been NFC apple juice, at the expense of the production of concentrated apple juice. Also, the demand from Western European customers is mainly focused on cold-pressed juices. As we wrote in the article The market has verified - domestic processing plants are increasing the prices of industrial apples, the export of raw material to the west forced processors operating in the country to increase the purchase prices of dry industry. For example, the largest entity in the industry currently pays PLN 0.54 / kg. The current prices of NFC juice in European markets are relatively low. This product costs from 0.22 to 0.27 € / liter (0.98 - 1.21 PLN / ...

Source: Sad24