Friday, April 26, 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

    Tissue World Magazine

    How to achieve growth in a national crisis

    Brazil Helen Morris -
    These are turbulent times in Brazil – but tissue is toughing it out. Helen Morris, Tissue World magazine senior editor, visits Carta Fabril’s Rio de Janeiro headquarters as the company begins the start-up...
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    ‘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...
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    Italy – T&T capacity leader in Western Europe

    Country Report Helen Morris -
    By Bill Burns, Senior Consultant, Fisher International Italy is traditionally a major player in the story of tissue and today remains the capacity leader in the Western European market. Comparisons to competing countries within Italy’s natural...
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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...
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    Converting technology sector in positive mood heading into 2017

    Country Report Helen Morris -
    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...
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    Focus on Sweden: a nation of tissue lovers

    Focus On Helen Morris -
    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...
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    A tough modern makeover for the table top star ‘close to nowhere’ in Västra...

    January / February 2017 Helen Morris -
    By Tissue World magazine editor Helen Morris After closures and a sharp market re-focus, global coloured tissue leader Duni’s SEK110m investment has brought its 5% mature market growth target into sight. Helen Morris...
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    Tradition and passion creates Sofidel’s most advanced automated site

    Converting Helen Morris -
    By Tissue World magazine editor Helen Morris TWM interviews Robert Jensen, Sofidel Sweden, country operations manager, on the latest tissue trends in the region. Sofidel’s Swedish plant produces 56,000tpy of private label products, specialist tissue in...
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    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,...
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    Scandinavia – regional provider of pulp and paper with local T&T business

    Country Report Helen Morris -
    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...
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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...
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    India’s T&T – a market profoundly influenced by cultural preferences

    Country Report Helen Morris -
    By Bill Burns, Senior Consultant, Fisher International The second most populous nation in the world, India is ranked fifth in a worldwide listing of countries producing paper products. With a population of 1.25 billion, one...
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    Consumer tissue in India: Value in focus but significant long-term opportunities ahead

    Country Report Helen Morris -
                    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....
    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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    September / October 2016

    Archive Helen Morris -
    DEPARTMENT NEWS: Frontissues: Iran ‘at a turning point’ and ready for business home and away Marketissues: Ukraine: How does an industry survive corruption, revolution and military conflict? Exitissues: A tissue industry “overwhelmed” with new paper convertors entering...
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    Iran: Relaxation of sanctions will increase tissue demand

    Country Report Helen Morris -
    By Euromonitor Research Analyst, Ahmed Bakr With the recent relaxation of sanctions, the Iranian economy is expected to experience a more stable situation in 2016. Real GDP is expected to grow by...
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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%...
    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...
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    Colombia – sluggish T&T market tied to adverse conditions

    Country Report Bill Burns -
    By Fisher International's Bill Burns   Colombia, the second most populous country in South America (with ¼ the population of Brazil), has been in the midst of a demographic transition with steady declines...
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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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    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...
    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...
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    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...
    USA Country Report Tissue World Magazine

    Battle for the biggest Away-from-Home sector in the world

    Features Helen Morris -
    Table napkins are on a surge as Americans eat out more, enjoy ‘fast casual’ dining, and turn to the pleasures of the homeland and the ‘staycation.’ TWM editor Helen Morris heads...
    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...
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    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...
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    Egypt and Jordan – holding on to progress despite the region’s economic and political...

    Country Report Bill Burns -
    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...
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    Target: Egypt’s distinctive facial tissue preference

    Egypt & Jordan Helen Morris -
    By Helen Morris, Editor, Tissue World Magazine At more than half the tissue market in volume and marketed in boxes and plastic covers, Hayat Kimya sees a chance to advance a unique...
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    IPI aims to strengthen its reach overseas

    Egypt & Jordan Helen Morris -
    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 …...
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    “Our vision is to become the undisputed market leader in Egypt and North Africa.”

    Egypt & Jordan Helen Morris -
    By Helen Morris, Editor, Tissue World Magazine Keen for growth, Zeina Group founder and chairman Abdul Karim Natout talks to TWM about market potential in Egypt and beyond. With an impressive annual production...
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    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.”...
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    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...
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    Not content with being a market leader, Saigon Paper plans to double capacity in...

    January / February 2016 Helen Morris -
    Vietnam is a classic tissue growth market. One million new urban residents added each year - per capita consumption less than 1.0kg – behind only China and India among Asia’s growing...
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    Vietnam – modest but steady growth in an underdeveloped T&T market

    Country Report Bill Burns -
    By Fisher International's Bill Burns Globally, the Asia Pacific Region is the largest centre of Pulp and Paper (P&P) being first out of the six major global regions in total P&P production....
    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 -
    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...
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    Song Duong: on the brink of privatisation and expansion, TWM talks to director Nguyen...

    January / February 2016 Helen Morris -
    Director Nguyen Van Quan explains the fundamental shift taking place in consumers’ tissue expectations across Vietnam . TWM/1 What are your investment plans for the future? “Years of investment by our joint shareholders...
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    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...
    Svetlana Uduslivaia, Euromonitor International’s head of tissue & hygiene industry

    South Africa: budget constraints hinder demand for consumer tissue

    Country Report Svetlana Uduslivaia -
    By Euromonitor International's Svetlana Uduslivaia The fifth member of the BRICS, South Africa is seen as a major developing consumer market and is a focus of strategic initiatives and planning by domestic...
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    Niche innovation is key at Universal

    November / December 2015 Helen Morris -
    Inhibiting exchange rates, rising energy costs, changing consumer habits, struggling economy … no wonder Universal Paper & Plastics has become creatively self-sufficient. TWM talks to three members of the founding Sher...
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    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...
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