Friday, May 3, 2024

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

    Fisher: Italy’s tissue business becomes more export-driven with 50% of exports going to new...

    Country Report Bruce Janda Fisher International -
    Even as per capita GDP has vastly increased over the last 14 years, low domestic demand growth has pushed the industry to seek new trade abroad backed by expansion...
    Bruce Janda, Senior consultant, Fisher International

    Analysis of the North American tissue demand trajectory through the rest of the pandemic

    North America Bruce Janda Fisher International -
    • Infection rates to get worse before significant herd immunity no sooner than end Q2 or Q3 2021 • Post-pandemic business travel and office occupancy impacted...
    Svetlana Uduslivaia, Euromonitor International’s head of tissue & hygiene industry

    Colombia: Middle class rise prompts growth even as economy slows

    Country Report Svetlana Uduslivaia -
    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...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Import dominated, Thailand faces strong regional competition

    Country Report Helen Morris -
    The Kingdom of Thailand has the second largest economy in Southeast Asia after Indonesia. The World Bank classifies Thailand as an upper-middle-income economy. The CIA World Factbook ranked Thailand’s economic GDP as 21st in purchasing power parity...
    Tissue World Magazine

    China steps up industry revamp to target massive untapped potential

    Country Report Helen Morris -
    As the global tissue leader re-structures its entire economy by turning inward, natural gas, faster machinery, TAD pilot scale experiments, integrated plants and expanded e-commerce are just part of its strategy. China has...

    Thailand tissue: realising potential in a disrupted world

    Thailand Ian Bell -
    In previous articles we have highlighted the driving forces behind retail tissue as a combination of factors centring on income, demography and availability. Thailand is no less subject to...
    Tissue World Magazine

    ‘We diversified, it was the only way to survive. And it worked.’

    Brazil Helen Morris -
    If ever a company was poised for an economic uplift it’s IPEL at its impressive new site in Indaial city. Managing director Juliano Silva talks growth, investment, flexibility, justice… and football...

    Trading down – size will matter as Brazil’s huge potential remains untapped

    Brazil Ian Bell -
    With the end of government aid packages helping consumers purchase basic household goods, the industry will need to establish new supply channels. Ian Bell, Euromonitor
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    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...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Japan – emerging from stagnant growth period

    Country Report Helen Morris -
    By Bill Burns, Senior Consultant, Fisher International Japan, the most developed country in Asia, is the quintessential definition of an economic miracle emerging from the defeat and economic devastation of World War II to become the...
    Tissue World Magazine

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

    Country Report Bill Burns -
    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...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Is Vietnam at last beginning to emerge from its troubled history?

    January / February 2016 Helen Morris -
    Tissue demand is growing at 20%, so Vietnam Pulp & Paper Association vice chairman and secretary general Vu Ngoc Bao heralds a major opportunity as the country “joins the world’s economy.”...

    Domestic consumer tissue demand is outpacing Thailand’s home production capacity    

    Thailand Bruce Janda Fisher International -
    With the tissue powerhouses of China and Indonesia nearby, the country needs an investment cycle to retain its competitive position after the pandemic setback. Bruce...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Northern USA: Where are you on the axis of survival?

    Country Report Helen Morris -
    By Bill Burns, Senior consultant, Fisher International With the constantly changing habits of US consumers continuing to challenge tissue companies across America’s tissue belt, being fit for purpose is more crucial than ever. What a...

    Country Report: Impact of out-of-office work opportunities and Spain’s preferred climate expected to result...

    Spain Bruce Janda Fisher International -
    Long-range population predictions continue to call for a contraction, as Spain's population growth in 2022 is estimated to be 0.13%. Bruce Janda, Senior consultant, Fisher...
    Tissue World Magazine

    The pulp giant planning a stronger future in tissue

    Canada Helen Morris -
    By Helen Morris, Senior Editor, Tissue World Magazine No ‘Country Report’ from Canada would be complete without referencing its mighty forests. Canfor Pulp in British Colombia is surrounded by an unrivalled natural resource bound for...

    FRANCE COUNTRY REPORT: tissue business update – consequences of 2022 energy disruption: greater reliance...

    Country Report Bruce Janda Fisher International -
    In a time of extraordinary price disruption, 26 of France’s 56 aging reactors are offline for maintenance and 18 are down with labour strikes. The country’s previous cost and...
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    Italy: Growth in consumer tissue sales hampered by market maturity and sluggish economy

    Country Report Helen Morris -
    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...
    Bruce Janda, Senior consultant, Fisher International

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

    Spain Bruce Janda Fisher International -
    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...
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    Private label one of few gains as Portuguese consumers abandon brand loyalty

    Country Report Ian Bell -
    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...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Sub-Sahara Africa: An expanding main market opportunity … long term

    November / December 2015 Helen Morris -
    At Kimberley-Clark’s Enstra mill in South Africa they can’t make enough tissue to meet the demand. TWM spoke to the man who aims to steer the tissue giant towards that potential...
    Serbia

    SERBIA’S ‘SURVIVAL–MODE’ TISSUE BUSINESS HAS RELATIVELY NEW AND FAST MACHINERY AND ACTIVE REGIONAL TRADE

    Country Report Bruce Janda Fisher International -
    Bruce Janda, Senior consultant, Fisher International Republic’s long-term recovery from years of political instability and the 2008 crash will be further hit by Covid-19, but...
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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...
    Tissue World Magazine Canada

    CANADIAN TISSUE COMPANIES INCREASINGLY BUYING AND BUILDING SOUTH OF THE BORDER

    Country Report Bruce Janda Fisher International -
    Bruce Janda, Senior consultant, Fisher International CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA SECOND ONLY TO THAT OF THE US, WITH STRONG COMMERCIAL AND AFH SECTORS BACKED BY HIGH...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    Twinsaver Group to become “largest tissue manufacturer” in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Africa Helen Morris -
    South Africa’s Twinsaver Group has boosted its capacity after it invested R500m in a new Toscotec AHEAD-2.0S tissue production line. Based at its Kliprivier site in Gauteng, the line will be started-up...
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    Iran – regional leader following recent investment

    Country Report Helen Morris -
    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%...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    Romania – overall weakness offset by strength in T&T

    Country Report Bill Burns -
    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...

    A market transformed by 12% spike in total retail tissue sales

    Germany Ian Bell -
    Fear of the unknown, lockdown, panic buying and a determined new hygiene regimen sharply redirected this classic mature European tissue market as consumers searched for a measure of control...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Metso receives repeat order from Turkey’s Hayat Kimya

    Marketissues Helen Morris -
    Hayat Kimya has announced at Tissue World 2013 that it has signed for a repeat order for two complete tissue lines from Metso for an undisclosed sum. Each production line will include...

    How the effects of the pandemic played out across the region’s nations

    Country Report Isam Arshad -
    Isam Arshad, Senior Analyst, Home & Technology, Euromonitor International Mixed picture follows increased hygiene awareness, AfH was hit by 23% decline, big increases in...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Turkey: economy, urbanisation and expansion of modern grocery retail drives growth in tissue

    Country Report Helen Morris -
    Steady growth of Turkey’s economy Turkey has demonstrated an outstanding economic growth performance over the last 15 years. GDP has tripled, and the number of foreign enterprises has increased more than fivefold, largely thanks to harmonising its laws...
    Tissue World Magazine

    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...
    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

    France boosts brands thanks to bulk buys

    Country Report Ian Bell -
    By Euromonitor International’s Ian Bell A gloomy economic climate, coupled with low consumer morale and a mature and saturated market, equals a difficult environment for tissue products to thrive in. France, like...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Egypt: price sensitivity shapes consumer tissue demand

    Country Report Euromonitor International -
    By Moustafa Sheta, Euromonitor Research Associate, Egypt With population approaching 88 million in 2015, Egypt is the most populous country in the Middle East and is expected to add another 12.3 million...
    Tissue World Magazine Country Report Portugal May June 2020

    CONSUMER TISSUE IN PORTUGAL: 2020 DISRUPTION VS LONG-TERM OPPORTUNITIES

    Country Report Svetlana Uduslivaia -
    Svetlana Uduslivaia, Euromonitor International’s head of tissue & hygiene industry At 7kg per capita in retail consumer tissue, Portugal falls somewhat behind its European...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Coastal China – positive growth through new and upgraded facilities

    Country Report Bill Burns -
    By Bill Burns, senior consultant, Fisher International It is common knowledge that the economy of China has been growing at an accelerated pace for nearly a decade. The pulp and paper industry has...
    Tissue World Magazine

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

    Country Report Helen Morris -
    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...
    Svetlana Uduslivaia, Euromonitor International’s head of tissue & hygiene industry

    Reduced purchasing power shapes consumer tissue preferences in Greece

    Country Report Svetlana Uduslivaia -
    By Euromonitor International's Svetlana Uduslivaia Greece boasts one of the highest tissue per capita consumption in Western Europe and many product categories are considered to be a household necessity. It is not...
    Tissue World Magazine

    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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