Friday, May 17, 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

    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...

    German consumers finally decide they like tissue via e-commerce

    Germany Tissue World Magazine -
    Notorious resistance has eased thanks to promotions, enforcement of personal data protection, same-day delivery, the ability to order anytime anywhere, auto-repeats, and already adept younger shoppers. By Ana Tique,...
    Tissue World Magazine

    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,...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Brazil: P&P on a sharp positive trend despite country’s rollercoaster economic performance

    Country Report Helen Morris -
    By Bill Burns, Senior Consultant, Fisher International Brazil’s economy was in a strong growth cycle when the global financial crisis of 2008 hit, when its GDP growth rate plummeted from 4+% down to zero. However, recovery from...
    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...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Argentina: the impact of inflation and price controls on tissue

    Country Report Ian Bell -
    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...

    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

    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...
    Tissue World Magazine

    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...
    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...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    Benelux – success tied to world markets and EU trade

    Country Report Bill Burns -
    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...
    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,...

    Fisher: The Middle East tissue business: A study in contrasts and contradictions, where tissue...

    Country Report Bruce Janda Fisher International -
    Bruce Janda, Senior consultant, Fisher International The Middle East has some of the world’s oldest recorded history and has played a significant role in developing...
    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...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Tissue use poised for a big stride forward in Thailand

    May / June 2018 Helen Morris -
    With lower tissue consumption per capita than its neighbouring countries in 2017, Thailand still has much room for growth to fulfil its potential. Demand for retail and AfH tissue is set to rise due to various factors such...
    Tissue World Magazine

    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 …...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    ‘Our target – to give America something new’

    Country Report Helen Morris -
    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...
    Tissue World Magazine

    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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    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...
    Tissue World Magazine

    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

    East China: tissue at a crossroads

    Country Report Helen Morris -
    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...
    Tissue World Magazine

    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...
    Tissue World Magazine

    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...
    Tissue World Magazine

    “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...
    Tissue World Magazine

    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...
    CANADA - Atlantic Packaging Products announces sale of assets for napkin and tissue manufacturing

    CANADA – Atlantic Packaging Products announces sale of assets for napkin and tissue manufacturing

    North America Helen Morris -
    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...
    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...
    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...
    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...
    Tissue World Magazine

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

    Country Report Helen Morris -
    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...
    Tissue Industry, Middle East: Challenges and Growth Prospects

    MIDDLE EAST REGIONAL REPORT: A dynamic tissue market despite political and social barriers

    Middle East Bruce Janda Fisher International -
    In one of the world’s fastest-growing regions, the industry is strategically poised for expansion with populations and disposable incomes increasing. Bruce Janda, Senior Consultant of Fisher International reports. The Middle East stands...
    Jorge Araya, Santiago-based Consultant Tissue & Hygiene, Euromonitor International.

    LATIN AMERICA REGIONAL REPORT: Consumers want sustainability – but the cost-of-living crisis means it...

    Country Report Jorge Araja -
    Unveiling the intricate drivers of consumer choices in Latin America's fast-moving consumer goods sector, with a spotlight on tissue products and evolving market dynamics.
    Tissue World Magazine Turkey

    Strong export performance maintains Turkey’s tissue business growth

    Turkey Bruce Janda Fisher International -
    Even with the country’s currency challenges, rising unemployment and pandemic insecurity, its regional position remains robust and poised to survive and thrive. Bruce Janda, Senior...
    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

    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

    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...

    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
    Tissue World Magazine

    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

    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...

    COUNTRY REPORT: Global pulp leader Brazil shows strong growth in finished product tissue exports

    Brazil Bruce Janda Fisher International -
    Trend driven by eucalyptus fibre resources, efficient plantations and mills with much room for further expansion, seven new machines under construction, and substantial increases in consumers’ personal income. Report by Bruce...
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