Country Report

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...

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.”...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

By Helen Morris, Senior Editor, Tissue World Magazine With a $64m start-up on American’s west coast just part of a major makeover, the Canadian company is now a big player with a small...

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...

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...

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...

Poland produces approximately 425 thousand MT/Yr of Towel and Tissue (T&T) paper. That makes Poland the fifteenth largest T&T producing nation worldwide and sixth largest in the European Union (EU) with about...

By Bill Burns, senior consultant, Fisher International   Germany is the European Union’s (EU) largest economy  and the second largest producer of Towel and Tissue (T&T), making nearly 1.5 million MT/Yr. That means...

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...

撰稿：Bill Burns，Fisher International 高级顾问 美国东南部的面巾纸和卫生纸产量约占全美总产量的 40%， 其中的四分之三被三家大型生产商所主导（图 1）。东南部的生产主要集中在乔治亚州、阿拉巴马州和南卡罗来纳州 （图 2）。乔治亚州的产量位列第一，年产量达 75.8 万公吨。 这一地区的造纸厂采用的机器配置各不相同：这里既有以 Thru Air Dry (TAD) 技术为主的造纸厂，也有将传统湿压 (CWP) 技术用于干湿皱纸配置的造纸厂。有些工厂一边使用着 20 世纪的成型器、压力机和干燥机，一边又安装了最新的 TAD 和类似 TAD 的配置。从分布情况看，产能在 4 至 8 万公吨的机器较为主流（图 3）。 机器尺寸差异巨大，从极其狭窄到世界最宽不等。同样，机器速度也是有快有慢，差异悬殊（图 4）。 东南部地区造纸厂所用的纤维原料也多种多样，既有依靠采购的纤维作为原材料的造纸工厂，也有使用自产纸浆进行生产的综合性工厂，还有全部以可再生纤维作为原材料的工厂（图 5）。通常，工厂生产的终端产品才是选择背后的因素。东南部正为消费和商品卫生纸市场提供各种性能水平的产品。 美国东南部数据一览 40% 的美国面巾纸和卫生纸产量源于东南部 3...

By Ian Bell, Euromonitor International's global head of tissue and hygiene research The vastness of the Chinese consumer market is sometimes difficult to appreciate but even if we take a fraction of...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Atlantic Packaging Products has announced it is selling off the site’s machinery assets. At the time of going to print, the Whitby- based company which provided sustainable packaging...

World’s first Advantage NTT tissue line to be started up Mexican-based Fabrica De Papel San Francisco is to start up the world’s first tissue line based on Metso’s Advantage NTT concept. The new...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In 2018, retail tissue sales in Spain recorded less than 1% growth in volume to reach 485,000 tonnes. Projections for the next five years through 2023 do not deviate far...

By Bill Burns, Senior consultant, Fisher International With a territory larger than Western Europe, Kazakhstan is the northern most of the five Central Asian countries that once numbered among the republics of...

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...

By Fisher International's Bill Burns Among Western Europe’s Towel and Tissue (T&T) producing countries, Greece is a small player with a manufacturing T&T capacity base significantly lower than the more industrial and populous...

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...

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...

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....

Per Brandberg, Research analyst, Euromonitor International Market saturation is a common factor in retail tissue markets in Scandinavia. Looking at volume per capita in retail tissue over...

WITH PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION RANKED AMONG THE HIGHEST WORLD LEVELS, ANY SCANDINAVIA GROWTH WILL BE A BALANCING ACT BETWEEN TECHNOLOGY UPGRADES AND CONSUMER PREFERENCE FOR GREEN TISSUE.

Turkish hygienic tissue paper manufacturer Lila Group is to increase its production capacity by 50% after investing in an integrated tissue plant. According to the company, the TRY450m...

Svetlana Uduslivaia, Euromonitor International’s head of tissue & hygiene industry Lingering around 500,000 tonnes in retail consumer tissue sales in 2018 and 2019, Canadian...