The Price to Pay for Energy

In the last months the price of oil has risen sharply: in the last two months alone it has gone up 30% to over USD 60 per barrel. Eventhough the corrugated industry has been able to bring consumption of energy considerably down to about 1,6 GJ per 1.000 kg of product – In Europe Energy represents 3% of the total cost of the converting process. So when if the cost of energy doubled, bringing it to a share of 6%.