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Northeast Usa

CONSUMER TISSUE IN THE US: FROM STRUCTURAL CHALLENGES TO INSURGENT DTC BRANDS – LATEST IN THE INDUSTRY DYNAMIC

Svetlana Uduslivaia - November 27, 2019

July / August 2015

İpek Kağıt set to double capacity at its Kazakhstan vantage point on Central Asia and Russia

Helen Morris - July 8, 2015

Intelli-Tissue® machine in China

China Helen Morris - February 4, 2013

PMP Group has signed a contract with Chinese producer Henan Hulijia Industrial CO to install an Intelli-Tissue® 900 EcoEc line. The Intelli-Tissue® 900 EcoEc machine has a double-press configuration, a design speed...

“The West” – One segment of the world’s largest T&T producing country

Country Report Helen Morris - April 21, 2012

Select a figure to view:Figure 1 Distribution of T&T production in the USA Figure 2 Distribution of T&T paper machines in the USA. Figure 3 Distribution of T&T paper machine trims in the...

Rising incomes spur growth in Russian tissue

Country Report Ian Bell - November 24, 2014

By Euromonitor International’s Ian Bell With a tissue market worth US$1 billion, Russia dominates the Eastern European retail tissue landscape, accounting for 31% of sales in the region – and it’s not...

Egypt and Jordan – holding on to progress despite the region’s economic and political...

Country Report Bill Burns - March 2, 2016

By Bill Burns, Senior Consultant, Fisher International The Middle East and Africa represent about 2% each of the global Towel and Tissue (T&T) capacity. If you consider Egypt as more a part...

UAE: Imports and costs dominate but emission curves suggest competitive position in future

Country Report Helen Morris - July 11, 2018

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) was formed from a merger of six states in 1971 (Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Fujairah, Sharjah, Dubai, Umm Al Quwain), with Ras Al Khaimah joining in 1972. The United Nations (UN) estimated the...

China: Health awareness and product upgrades drive consumer tissue market

Country Report Helen Morris - December 13, 2018

Driven by consumers’ rising hygiene and health consciousness as well as upgrades to tissue quality and variety, the retail tissue market recorded healthy growth in 2017 in China, in both value and volume....

Germans are serious about sustainability, and it’s driving the nation’s tissue performance

Country Report Helen Morris - January 25, 2019

The economic powerhouse has slowed of late, but despite European regulatory changes underway – fibre costs, exchange rates, environmental targets – Germany’s strong costs...

Bruce Janda, Senior consultant, Fisher International

THE US TOPS THE LIST TODAY – BUT FUTURE CONSUMPTION RATES COULD GO UP...

Northeast Usa Bruce Janda Fisher International - November 27, 2019

Bruce Janda, Senior consultant, Fisher International Last year Fisher International gave a presentation on “Issues Keeping Tissue ExecutivesUp at Night,” in which it was suggested...

SPAIN’S TISSUE BUSINESS WEATHERS ECONOMIC CHALLENGES BUT FACES HEADWINDS FROM DECLINING POPULATION

Spain Bruce Janda Fisher International - January 19, 2020

Bruce Janda, Senior consultant, Fisher International Spain's tissue business has been shaped by the economic challenges the country has faced since 2007. The great worldwide...

Argentina: the impact of inflation and price controls on tissue

Country Report Ian Bell - January 14, 2014

The threat of hyperinflation is fuelling expectations of Argentina experiencing yet another financial crash. Euromonitor International’s Ian Bell finds a market fighting for survival. By Ian Bell, Euromonitor International’s global head of...

Mexico – free market economy with growing T&T capacity

Country Report Bill Burns - June 12, 2014

By Bill Burns, senior consultant, Fisher International Mexico has a free market economy in the trillion dollar class. Since the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994, Mexico...

Italy – the European Union’s T&T production leader

Country Report Bill Burns - July 15, 2014

By Bill Burns, senior consultant, Fisher International Italy has been experiencing persistent economic problems with sluggish growth, high unemployment and regional disparities in prosperity. The Italian economy is driven in large part...

Northeast United States – A mix of T&T machine vintages, sizes and technologies

Country Report Bill Burns - May 16, 2016

By Bill Burns, Senior consultant, Fisher International The global Towel and Tissue (T&T) market can be divided into six regions where North America ranks third with 22% of overall capacity. North American...

Scandinavia – regional provider of pulp and paper with local T&T business

Country Report Helen Morris - January 19, 2017

By Bill Burns, Senior consultant, Fisher International Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway and Denmark) is well known for producing pulp and paper products for both the local market and export. Exports are heavily focused on Western European countries but the...

Italy: Growth in consumer tissue sales hampered by market maturity and sluggish economy

Country Report Helen Morris - March 21, 2017

One of the largest economies in Europe and in the world, Italy has gone through a period of significant economic and financial downturn. The country’s economy contracted for three years since 2011, while real disposable income of households...

Brazil: P&P on a sharp positive trend despite country’s rollercoaster economic performance

Country Report Helen Morris - May 18, 2017

By Bill Burns, Senior Consultant, Fisher International Brazil’s economy was in a strong growth cycle when the global financial crisis of 2008 hit, when its GDP growth rate plummeted from 4+% down to zero. However, recovery from...

Can tissue demand in the AfH space compensate for limited retail growth opportunities in...

Country Report Helen Morris - September 21, 2017

As one of the most developed economies in the world with a declining population, Japan shows limited volume growth opportunities for FMCG products in general. Tissue products are no exception. With 2016 retail tissue volume at over one...

US tissue: mature demand, highly competitive landscape and future growth opportunities

Country Report Helen Morris - January 5, 2018

With 21kg per capita total tissue consumption in 2016, the US is one of the most saturated tissue markets in the world. Total demand for consumer and AfH tissue is expected to grow by less than 1%...

Mexico consumer tissue: fundamentals and soft drivers – what does the future hold?

Country Report Helen Morris - April 2, 2018

Mexico – the second largest economy in Latin America – has grown slower than most other large Latin American countries for more than a decade and continues to grow at a modest pace. Growth...

Retail tissue in France: finding pockets of growth in a highly mature market

Country Report Helen Morris - March 22, 2019

Retail tissue in France recorded sluggish volume sales growth in 2018 to reach 616,000 tonnes. Forecasts for the next five years are not much...

IPI aims to strengthen its reach overseas

Egypt & Jordan Helen Morris - March 2, 2016

Faced with regional jumbo roll overcapacity, the loss of energy cost leverage, traditional neighbouring markets hit by security issues, Egypt’s Interstate Paper Industries’ strategy is to find new potential growth …...

Xuan Mai Paper targets high-quality tissue with capacity boost

July / August 2019 Helen Morris - May 23, 2019

Vietnam’s Xuan Mai Paper has invested in a PrimeLineECO tissue machine to be installed at its Ho Chi Minh City-based plant. Supplied by Andritz, the machine has a design...

Novus Holdings backs debut in tissue with €25m boost to capacity

November / December 2015 Helen Morris - November 4, 2015

With the global print and paper market showing signs of global decline, one major player has moved into tissue with an investment project at newly acquired Correll Tissue. TWM reports. “I’m attracted...

Focus on Sweden: a nation of tissue lovers

Focus On Helen Morris - January 19, 2017

By Marcus Hellberg, Head of marketing and business development at Södra Cell Ten million Swedes are second only to the US in per capita consumption. It’s all down to a historic affinity with the trees...

Private label one of few gains as Portuguese consumers abandon brand loyalty

Country Report Ian Bell - February 15, 2013

With the country’s economy stuck in the doldrums, it is a difficult time for tissue products and fast-moving consumer goods generally in Portugal. Through 2012, the Eurozone crisis rumbled on and...

German tissue sales: stagnant but still a regional force

Country Report Ian Bell - November 22, 2013

The biggest economic power in Europe is facing a future of uncertainty with challenges that can already be felt in the tissue market. By Ian Bell, Euromonitor International’s global head of tissue...

Economic woes lead to a polarised Italian tissue market

Country Report Ian Bell - July 15, 2014

By Ian Bell Italy’s economy stands out in Europe for all the wrong reasons. An on-going recession, high public debt and corruption mean that over the past decade the country has been...

Romania – overall weakness offset by strength in T&T

Country Report Bill Burns - January 22, 2015

By Fisher International’s Bill Burns Romania had enjoyed a diverse and solid paper industry for many years. In the last decade, however, the shrinking global market for printing and writing and newsprint...

Romanian retail tissue is on a roll

Country Report Ian Bell - January 22, 2015

At US$160 million, the Romanian retail tissue market is, on a global scale at least, a relatively small prospect – but that’s not to say it should be overlooked. Underdeveloped categories...

France – T&T strength in an overall weakened market

Country Report Bill Burns - April 3, 2015

By Fisher International’s Bill Burns France is one of the top ten paper making countries in the world but, like elsewhere, the shrinking global market for printing and writing (P&W) in the...

How Maxi is surviving Greece’s economic tragedy

Country Report Helen Morris - September 16, 2015

Bankruptcies and closures saw an end to production at five paper machines in recent years, but with Greece still seeing the tissue market grow by 2.5%, just one new installation took...

Svetlana Uduslivaia, Euromonitor International’s head of tissue & hygiene industry

Consumer tissue in Vietnam: changing lifestyles spell good news for the industry

Country Report Svetlana Uduslivaia - January 8, 2016

While Vietnam’s household disposable incomes are the lowest, on average, of all major Asia Pacific nations, long-term economic growth continues to support strong gains in the country. Aside from the rising...

Colombia: Middle class rise prompts growth even as economy slows

Country Report Svetlana Uduslivaia - July 14, 2016

By Euromonitor International's Svetlana Uduslivaia Colombia was one of the fastest-growing economies in Latin America over 2005-2014, resulting in rising disposable incomes and expansion of the middle class. By 2015, the number...

Iran – regional leader following recent investment

Country Report Helen Morris - September 9, 2016

The Middle East region (Egypt and Turkey not included) is a minor contributor to worldwide pulp and paper production. As figure 1 indicates, Asia Pacific is the largest contributor at 43%...

Consumer tissue in India: Value in focus but significant long-term opportunities ahead

Country Report Helen Morris - November 17, 2016

India remains one of Asia’s fastest growing economies. Real GDP is expected to increase by 7.3% in 2016, while unemployment in the country is expected to come down from 5.1% in 2015 to 4.8% in 2016....

Converting technology sector in positive mood heading into 2017

Country Report Helen Morris - March 21, 2017

Despite a modest 1.5% GDP growth forecast for the EU and a world economy still emerging from a lacklustre 2016, research by TWM sees Italy’s major companies expecting strong performances in 2017-18. By Martin...

Canada – a ten-year T&T capacity retrospective

Country Report Helen Morris - July 3, 2017

By Bill Burns, Senior consultant, Fisher International Over the past ten years (2007-2017) the pulp and paper industry has experienced a market shake up. Grades like Newsprint and Printing & Writing have lost significant user base...

Canadian tissue marketplace continues to battle soft demand

Country Report Helen Morris - July 6, 2017

Real GDP is expected to grow by 1.8% in 2017, following a gain of 1.3% in 2016. Real growth of private final consumption was 1.8% in 2016 and an increase of 1.5% is predicted for...

Consumer tissue in Nigeria: Focus on affordability

Country Report Helen Morris - November 6, 2017

Despite the economic recession in Nigeria in 2016 and slow recovery in 2017, retail tissue sales maintained their upward trajectory, recording an increase in volume of 1% in 2016. Sales are expected to see healthy growth over...

Mexico: Exports – and NAFTA renegotiations – are becoming vital

Country Report Helen Morris - April 2, 2018

Mexico’s tissue business continues to evolve to take advantage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) since implementation in 1994. Mexico has free trade agreements with over 50 countries, but trade with NAFTA neighbours Canada and...

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