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Country Report

    Tissue World Magazine, Country Report: Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Egypt & Jordan, France, Germany, Greece, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Nigeria, North America area, North East USA, Portugal, Russia, Scandinavia, South Africa, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, UAE, UK, Vietnam

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    The Mexican C class dilemma: Nice tissue or a Starbucks? Caffeine seems to be...

    Country Report Ian Bell -
    By IAN BELL, Euromonitor International’s global head of tissue and hygiene research Mexico is an interesting market for tissue products; on the one hand, it is a market which has a respectable...
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    Focus on western USA: Tissue – market developments in the western United States

    Country Report Helen Morris -
    The tissue market in the west region of the United States faces unique challenges and opportunities. The presence of imports and large independent converters has created a distinctive competitive landscape that...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Toilet paper in the UK: private label sales have reached the ceiling

    Country Report Bill Burns -
    As fears of further economic downturn are fading branded toilet paper is enjoying a strong market position. By Tamara Bartels, Euromonitor International analyst - homecare, tissue & hygiene  Toilet paper sales show once again that the...
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    Argentina: modest, locally focused T&T business

    Country Report Helen Morris -
    By Bill Burns, senior consultant, Fisher International       Argentina’s economy has suffered from repeated crises, deficits, high inflation, mounting debt, and capital moving out of the country. Rich in natural resources, Argentina has...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Romanian retail tissue is on a roll

    Country Report Ian Bell -
    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...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Impressive growth potential with tissue consumption at less than half the west European average

    Country Report Helen Morris -
    Turkey is an emerging market country with the 17th largest economy in the world ($2.133 Trillion GDP). GDP growth has been strong, averaging 6% CAGR until recently, with concerns over the current account...
    Svetlana Uduslivaia, Euromonitor International’s head of tissue & hygiene industry

    Kazakhstan: healthy growth and opportunities ahead in consumer tissue

    Country Report Svetlana Uduslivaia -
    By Svetlana Uduslivaia, head of tissue & hygiene industry, Euromonitor International  Although not as much in the spotlight as its larger neighbours Russia and China, Kazakhstan offers good opportunities for growth in consumer...

    Retail tissue in Poland and Romania – future predictions for an unpredictable environment

    Poland Per Brandberg -
    Two countries sharing many similarities, and as with the rest of Europe facing the many uncertainties for consumers and manufacturers in the years ahead. Euromonitor International’s Senior Research Analyst...
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    Novus Holdings backs debut in tissue with €25m boost to capacity

    November / December 2015 Helen Morris -
    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...
    USA Country Report Tissue World Magazine

    Opportunity on “our doorstep” – or as it’s otherwise known … New York

    Features Helen Morris -
    The great metropolis is also “a great waste paper basket,” says Soundview Paper Company chief executive Karl Meyers who has targeted recycled and virgin fibre T&T. The key issue is still...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Strong investment is key for Papel San Francisco

    Country Report Helen Morris -
    The Mexican pioneer will target AfH to keep ahead of a tissue market growth trend up to 4.5% annually. By Helen Morris, Senior Editor, Tissue World magazine. It was no surprise when...
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    Canada – a ten-year T&T capacity retrospective

    Country Report Helen Morris -
    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...
    Tissue World Magazine

    German tissue sales: stagnant but still a regional force

    Country Report Ian Bell -
    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...

    Is the tissue consumption leader about to enter a new market era?

    North America Tissue World Magazine -
    Even a two decades long upgrade in machinery – net gain of six installed since 2007 – has seen CAGR drop from 1-2% to 0.83%. The region is being closely studied...
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    India: From shanty towns to shopping malls

    India Helen Morris -
    By Helen Morris, Editor, Tissue World Magazine. When, not if, tissue consumption takes off among a population of 1.25bn. Top industry managers are preparing for that momentous cultural change. As the second most populous...
    Tissue World Magazine Japan

    Tissue World Japan, 2020: The economy shows an upturn in Asia’s leading tissue consumer

    Japan Tissue World Magazine -
    Decades of low growth, population decline, and now a leading trend towards automated paper-free toilets … yet Japan through continuing long-term renewal of its tissue industry assets still registers...
    Bruce Janda, Senior consultant, Fisher International

    A tissue powerhouse of careful expansion, slow growth, and leading companies supplying a demanding...

    Country Report Bruce Janda Fisher International -
    Cost and quality improvements the focus for the country which helped pioneer pulp and paper, and continues that role today.  Germany is a manufacturing and technological...

    Poland & Romania: From a low base, both countries are developing a robust consumer-driven...

    Poland Tissue World Magazine -
    Fisher International’s data does not yet attempt any assessment of the potential impact of the war in Ukraine on supply chains and energy costs across the region which includes...
    Tissue World Magazine

    How Maxi is surviving Greece’s economic tragedy

    Country Report Helen Morris -
    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...
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    Consumer tissue in Germany: maturity, private label pressures, and value-added innovation

    Country Report Helen Morris -
    With nearly 11kg per capita retail tissue consumption in 2017, Germany is the third most saturated market in Western Europe, just behind Ireland and...
    Tissue World Magazine

    The UK: recovering from the global recession downturn

    Country Report Bill Burns -
    By Bill Burns, senior consultant, Fisher International   The United Kingdom (UK) produces approximately 860 thousand mt/yr of Towel and Tissue (T&T) paper. That makes the UK the fourth largest T&T producing country in the European...
    USA Country Report Tissue World Magazine

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

    Northeast Usa Svetlana Uduslivaia -
    Svetlana Uduslivaia, Euromonitor International’s head of tissue & hygiene industry In 2018 retail sales of consumer tissue in the US remained flat in nominal value terms...
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    Hard discounting is reshaping the Colombian market

    Country Report Helen Morris -
    Growth in low price own label products has meant a strategy rethink for value added producers. Tissue World editor Helen Morris reports. César Augusto Solano Velandia, the general manager for Papeles Nacionales,...
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    UAE: Imports and costs dominate but emission curves suggest competitive position in future

    Country Report Helen Morris -
    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...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Canadian tissue marketplace continues to battle soft demand

    Country Report Helen Morris -
    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...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Sugar cane and able

    November / December 2015 Helen Morris -
    The primary fibre source which supplies Sappi at its Stanger site on South Africa’s east coast is much in evidence. TWM visited the pulp giant’s single tissue producing mill. Driving from Durban...
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    Portugal – a locally focused T&T market in a tough economy

    Country Report Bill Burns -
    Portugal currently produces approximately 150,000 MT/Yr of Towel and Tissue (T&T) paper. That makes Portugal eleventh largest T&T producing nation in the European Union (EU) with about 3% of the EU...
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    ‘The opportunity for the tissue market to grow here in Mexico is huge’

    Country Report Helen Morris -
    In a market full of the largest global tissue players, SCA is keeping competitive by targeting growth, innovation and branded products. TW visits its Sahagún plant near Mexico City to get...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    SCA’s global business model finds a welcome and unique market in Chile

    Country Report Helen Morris -
    As Latin America’s star economy, Chile is a well-developed and stable country where per capita tissue consumption reaches 10/11 kilos annually. Tissue World magazine editor Helen Morris meets SCA’s Gonzalo Diaz The...
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    İpek Kağıt set to double capacity at its Kazakhstan vantage point on Central Asia...

    July / August 2015 Helen Morris -
    By Helen Morris, TWM editor The Turkish tissue manufacturer went the extra miles to take advantage of a vast geographical region of economic and social potential. Here, TWM interviews Hamdi Yazıcı, Central...

    Even in a stressed economy Turkey’s tissue is poised to survive and thrive

    Turkey Bruce Janda Fisher International -
    Among its many strategic pluses: tissue exports more than five times imports; a disciplined approach to expansion means fewer machines and more balanced capacity and efficiency; high costs of...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Bringing Japanese efficiency – and patience – to Vietnam

    January / February 2016 Helen Morris -
    Recycling pioneer JP CORELEX VIETNAM is poised to reap the benefits … but it has to narrow the gap between polar opposite tissue industries and cultural habits. TWM talked to Masahiko...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Back from the brink in Norway’s dramatic Paper Valley

    January / February 2017 Helen Morris -
    By Tissue World magazine editor Helen Morris Amid the spectacular mountains and fjords, the story of a mill’s survival is barely less impressive. After all looked lost in 2013, Vajda-Papir Scandinavia is now investing,...
    Tissue World Magazine

    South Africa – locally focused and underdeveloped T&T market

    Country Report Bill Burns -
    By Fisher International's Bill Burns Globally, Africa (Sub-Sahara and North Africa combined) is not a significant producer of Pulp and Paper (P&P) products. The region is fifth out of six (just ahead...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Surge in e-tailing as UK consumers embrace technology for tissue

    Country Report Helen Morris -
    With a high level of market penetration a challenge for organic growth, the industry looks for new revenue streams to reach unmet potential at...
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    US tissue: mature demand, highly competitive landscape and future growth opportunities

    Country Report Helen Morris -
    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%...
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    Quality and speed supports business and product innovation at Productos Familia

    Country Report Helen Morris -
    An El Nino of change has hit the Colombian economy … the peso’s value down 30%, energy costs almost doubled, dramatically low rainfall. TWM visit’s the Cajicá site - at 2,640...
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    Karina poised to build on four years of 11% sales growth

    July / August 2015 Greg Grishchenko -
    When the Kazakhstan company first offered kitchen towels many years ago store buyers asked why they needed such wide toilet paper. It’s come a long way since then. Greg Grishchenko reports. In...
    USA Country Report Tissue World Magazine

    US: Battle for value and volume growth hots up in mature market

    Country Report Jabel Parayil -
    By Jabel Parayil, Analyst – tissue & hygiene, Euromonitor International With per capita volume consumption of retail tissue standing at 14kg, the US has the highest usage rate of retail tissue in...

    Euromonitor: Safety is the watchword for the post-pandemic, endemic era

    Country Report Ian Bell -
    Italy, the European tissue hub, has seen unprecedented growth figures for a developed market. Core trends of sustainability and digitalisation allied to the strength of local production and supply...
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