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Greece – primarily local T&T market with signs of contraction

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

Reduced purchasing power shapes consumer tissue preferences in Greece

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...
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How Maxi is surviving Greece’s economic tragedy

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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Kazakhstan – Local T&T business in an area with modest papermaking focus

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

Kazakhstan: healthy growth and opportunities ahead in consumer tissue

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...
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Karina poised to build on four years of 11% sales growth

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

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...
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Tissue marketplace in Chile: maturing retail and opportunities in away-from-home sales

By David Mackinson, senior research analyst, Euromonitor International  A bit of time spent in Chile, and you might consider it an outlier amongst its Latin American family. The country runs with German-style...
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‘Our target – to give America something new’

With the start-up of the world’s second NTT line in May, Chile’s FPC Tissue (FPC) is used to thinking big... but to give the US market a premium, high-quality product it...
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Chile – Modest T&T business with recent growth

Chile is the number three pulp and paper producing country in a Latin American market that is heavily weighted to pulp production. Nearly half of the 48M FMT pulp and paper...
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SCA’s global business model finds a welcome and unique market in Chile

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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France – T&T strength in an overall weakened market

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...
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France boosts brands thanks to bulk buys

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...
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Romania – overall weakness offset by strength in T&T

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...
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Romanian retail tissue is on a roll

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...
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Rising incomes spur growth in Russian tissue

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...
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Russia – underdeveloped market with improving growth trend

By Fisher International’s Bill Burns Russia’s economy has been experiencing sustained expansion since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Fuelled by commodity exports (most notably natural gas and oil) economic growth was...
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Coastal China – positive growth through new and upgraded facilities

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...
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East China: tissue at a crossroads

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

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...
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Economic woes lead to a polarised Italian tissue market

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...
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Mexico – free market economy with growing T&T capacity

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...
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Benelux – success tied to world markets and EU trade

By Bill Burns, senior consultant, Fisher International The Benelux Countries (Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxemburg) represent good trading partners in the European Union (EU). Belgium and the Netherlands (the only towel and tissue...
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Despite the economic gloom, tissue makes some headway in Benelux

By Ian Bell, Euromonitor International's global head of tissue and hygiene research With words such as ‘feeble’ and ‘modest’ peppering any references to economic recovery in 2014, the economies of Belgium, the...
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The Mexican C class dilemma: Nice tissue or a Starbucks? Caffeine seems to be...

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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‘The opportunity for the tissue market to grow here in Mexico is huge’

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...
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抢先解读:美国东南部面巾纸和卫生纸的生产

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...
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Argentina: modest, locally focused T&T business

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...
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Argentina: the impact of inflation and price controls on tissue

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...
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Germany: stability with steady growth

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...
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German tissue sales: stagnant but still a regional force

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...
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The UK: recovering from the global recession downturn

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...
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Poland: international presence in a locally focused T&T market

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...
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Poland: kitchen towels leading the market surge

The Polish market for kitchen towels has had a significant boost over the last 20 years driven by affordable products and wider choice. By Ian Bell, Euromonitor International's global head of tissue and hygiene research. Over...
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Toilet paper in the UK: private label sales have reached the ceiling

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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Indonesian tissue market: a barometer of socio economic development

Indonesia is somewhat typical of an emerging market where a heady combination of rapid economic growth, accelerated urbanisation and the westernisation of consumption culture has proved a major boost to fast...
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Indonesia – An emerging global supplier of T&T products

Indonesia currently produces 750 thousand MT/Yr of Towel and Tissue (T&T) paper. That makes Indonesia the largest T&T producing nation in the Southeast Asia Geographic Zone* and eleventh largest in the...
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Metso receives repeat order from Turkey’s Hayat Kimya

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...
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Portugal – a locally focused T&T market in a tough economy

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

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...