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    Tissue World Magazine, Departments: Consumer Speak, Exitissues, Foex, Frontissues, Marketissues, and Operations Report

    General Manager Alp Öğücü

    OPERATIONS REPORT LILA KAĞIT: Tissue giant Lila Kağıt pioneers expansion in eastern Türkiye as...

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    General Manager Alp Öğücü explains the key choices now facing the industry as its dynamic expansion is poised to move into its next phase. Report by Senior Editor Helen Morris. On 17...
    AFRY Management Consulting’s Hampus Mörner, Manager, Christoph Euringer, Principal, and Tino Mäkelä, Analyst.

    MARKETISSUES: How tissue survived and thrived in a decade of volatility

    Marketissues Tissue World Magazine -
    After unprecedented turbulence in world economics, the industry – focussed on Europe - has shown “broad margin improvement.” AFRY Management Consulting’s Hampus Mörner, Manager, Christoph Euringer, Senior Principal, and Tino Mäkelä, Consultant,...
    Şahin Civelek, Global Tissue Production Director, Hayat Kimya

    HAYAT KIMYA OPERATIONS REPORT: After a supply surplus slowdown the time is right...

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    The market leader across the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Africa is planning more state-of-the-art technology, a rebound to premium products, and new production sites in new countries. TWM Senior Editor...

    FRONTISSUES: In a decade of unprecedented economic turbulence, Turkish tissue saw strong growth, a...

    Frontissues Helen Morris -
    A 20-year projection for CAGR at 8.1% by 2027 is still on track. The last few of those 20 have seen a slowdown from roughly 10% growth, with fewer activated or...
    Investments in high-tech factories: the company has recently commissioned “Türkiye’s newest and highest-quality recycling deinking system”, and a treatment plant that supports zero-waste production at the business’ Çaycuma facility (pictured)

    OPERATIONS REPORT: Essel Pulp and Paper Industry’s PMS is the latest advanced addition for...

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    İzmit-headquartered Essel Pulp and Paper Industry can reel off a list of achievements … 100% pure cellulose and recycled jumbo rolls, Türkiye’s widest and highest capacity tissue PM, fully closed-loop automation,...

    CONSUMERSPEAK: US socialite and intrepid world traveller Walter Haynes chose the most sensitive and...

    Consumer Speak Tissue World Magazine -
    Colorado-based step-granddaughter Kathleen Kavet recalls the unique collection of samples from leading hotels left to her in her step-grandfather’s estate. During the 1920’s through to the 1960’s, my step-grandfather Walter Haynes travelled...
    Capacity boost: Navigator now has a total production capacity of 165,000 tons of tissue paper and 180,000 tonnes of tissue converting capacity per year

    Latest acquisition means UK contributes around 50% of Navigator’s total tissue turnover

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    Converter Accrol Group Holdings takeover is “a key pillar” in strategy of sustained expansion says Graham Cox, Chief Operating Officer, Navigator Tissue UK. Report by TWM Senior Editor Helen Morris. In April...
    Tim Vormweg, Director Group Communications, WEPA

    WEPA GROUP OPERATIONS REPORT: WEPA outlines its strategy behind acquisition of leading company in...

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    A hybrid market of changing responses to hygiene, hybrid products, sustainability, and price. Following the acquisition of Star Tissue UK, Tim Vormweg, Director Group Communications at WEPA, outlines the company’s direction...

    FRONTISSUES: Vertical – horizontal – circular – after years of stagnation, the UK’s tissue...

    Frontissues Helen Morris -
    TWM’s Country and Operational Reports produce a mass of evidence on the UK’s tissue past, present and future, and confirms that a fundamental transformation is underway. From 2007 to 2021 domestic tissue...
    Independent Northern Powerhouse: Overnight, Poppies Europe doubled its space to 12+ acres

    POPPIES EUROPE OPERATIONS REPORT: Faster, leaner, newer, bigger … independent market leader Poppies Europe...

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    Buying up an adjacent former aluminium casting mill in the northwest of England is the latest move to develop “vertically and horizontally,” ready to seize new opportunities. Director Armindo Marques spoke...
    Major facial tissue capacity increase: Kruger Products’ new converting line at its Richelieu plant

    EXITISSUES: Kruger Products – Investments in facilities and brands drive long-term growth

    Exitissues Tissue World Magazine -
    Kruger Products speaks to TWM about its last year in business, building broad top-line growth, and developing organisational capability and culture to drive future growth. When TWM last interviewed Dino Bianco, Chief...

    MARKETISSUES: Global tissue trade is beset by physical problems. So why is AI not...

    Marketissues Tissue World Magazine -
    Fibre quality and source, computer chip supply, material prices, competitor performance, energy type and costs, logistics … the domino chain is getting more and more complex. AFRY’s Petri Vasara, Dr. Tech.,...
    Products from UPP’s leading tissue brand Dinu: the company continues to bring out new products for different markets

    Foreseeable double digit growth even as many consumers struggle with rising costs

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    South Africa’s mixed economy sees many consumers moving down market, but growing urbanisation means the pool of consumers able to buy tissue products is growing. Universal Paper & Plastics Managing Director...

    Will panic-buying during Covid damage tissue’s reputation for quality longer term?

    Exitissues Phillip Lawrence -
    Revenues from tissue sales rose by as much as 140% during the last pandemic. With climate change likely to increase the risk of further outbreaks, economics analyst Dr Phillip Lawrence, University...

    FRONTISSUES – Call for rational competition and capacity collaboration … from China’s own tissue...

    Frontissues Helen Morris -
    It has been described as the hottest dispute in global trade – overcapacity. US and Chinese trade talks earlier this year focussed on excess capacity under the broad category of green...
    Updated designs: companies applied new technologies and equipment to develop differentiated products

    CHINA TISSUE PAPER INDUSTRY 2023: How post-Covid China geared up again – with 68...

    Marketissues Tissue World Magazine -
    Persistent problems of excessive production capacity resulted in intensified price competition, decreased profitability and dramatically increased export figures showing volume year- on-year up 42.47% to 804,200tpy, and value at $1.762bn, a...
    Belkacem Becharef, Africaine Paper Mills (APM) General Manager

    OPERATIONS REPORT: Five years on from its tissue start-up Africaine Paper Mills is enjoying...

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    Algeria is attracting a lot of trade because of its low costs base. After having to turn away orders due to mill capacity, General Manager Belkacem Becharef is determined to gear...
    Ronald Rusco, Chief Executive, Sopanusa Tissue & Packaging Saranasukses

    OPERATIONS REPORT: A Southeast Asian “premier titan” embarks on visionary expansion

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    In March, Indonesia’s Sun Paper Source announced it had invested in four tissue machines at its plant in Ngoro, Mojokerto, boosting production capacity to 300,000tpy in total with sister company Sopanusa...
    Event organiser Informa Connect has hailed the impressive success of Tissue World Miami 2024 after recording visitor growth up 61% compared with 2022’s exhibition.

    MARKETISSUES – TISSUE WORLD MIAMI 2024: The global tissue industry steps out in style

    Marketissues Tissue World Magazine -
    Event organiser Informa Connect has hailed the impressive success of Tissue World Miami 2024 after recording visitor growth up 61% compared with 2022’s exhibition. North America’s largest tissue exhibition and conference saw...

    FRONTISSUES: The results are in, and the post-Covid surge gathers pace

    Frontissues Helen Morris -
    You will quickly pick up the mood of the industry in TWM’s pages as analysts and executives across global tissue look back on fiscal 2023 results. Here are just a few examples: “We...

    EXITISSUES: North American tissue is back on track after the pandemic … but dynamic...

    Exitissues Sanna Sosa, Soile Kilpi -
    Against a background where grocery prices have risen by 26% and consumers are spending the highest share of their income on food for 30 years, AFRY Management Consulting’s Sanna Sosa, Senior...
    Consumer Markets Analyst Simon Creasey

    EXITISSUES: Inflation appears to be reducing in most developed nations – could we be...

    Exitissues Simon Creasey -
    As pricing shows signs of normalising in the coming months, Consumer Markets Analyst Simon Creasey looks at how manufacturers handled the dilemma of absorbing cost increases or increasing prices. Last year was...
    Tissue World Magazine Jan Feb 2024

    CONSUMERSPEAK: It’s in the bag – from the most colourful shop in the world

    Consumer Speak Tissue World Magazine -
    Alexandra Lewis lives in South London and works in marketing and communications at professional services firm Aon. A recent road trip across Portugal with her husband Dave led to Portuguese paper...
    AFRY Management Consulting’s Hampus Mörner, Manager, Christoph Euringer, Principal, and Tino Mäkelä, Analyst.

    MARKETISSUES: Profitable growth in the consumer tissue value chain – where to look?

    Marketissues AFRY Management Consulting. H. Mörner, Manager. C. Euringer, Principal. T. Mäkelä, Analyst. -
    Tissue producers are in a solid position, but the example of retailers expanding their private label offering shows genuine interest to incorporate margins currently generated in the upstream business. By AFRY...
    Roberto Caballero, VP Supply Chain for LatAm, Essity.

    ESSITY OPERATIONS REPORT: Supply chain integration the key as diverse Latin American market enters...

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    Following the start-up of a TAD tissue machine at the company’s Sahagún facility in Mexico in 2020, Essity continues to target premium products in its main global growth market. TWM Senior...
    Leonardo Grimaldi, Head of Global Pulp Sales, Marketing and Logistics; Suzano

    SUZANO OPERATIONS REPORT: The Latin American pulp giant emerging as a major force ...

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    Just seven years after moving into the tissue manufacturing market, Suzano’s Head of Global Pulp Sales, Marketing and Logistics Leonardo Grimaldi says the company is embarked on era-defining expansion. TWM Senior...

    FRONTISSUES: Trajectories of national political and economic choices and trends could change dramatically, with...

    Frontissues Helen Morris -
    Generations Z and Alpha are going to dominate consumer choices One megatrend features strongly in TWM’s Latin America reports. Generation Z consumers, colloquially known as ‘zoomers’ – born in the years 1997...

    CONSUMERSPEAK: “And those tissue boxes!”

    Consumer Speak Tissue World Magazine -
    Creative designer Katie Stern was working in fabrics when she discovered Swedish dishcloths – 70% wood cellulose, 30% cotton, and 100% compostable. Based in Wisconsin, US, her business and home life now...
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    FRONTISSUES: Circularity and proximity – waste not want not

    Frontissues Helen Morris -
    Tissue giant Essity is recycling 60% of all collected food and beverage cartons in France to its mill in Hondouville, Normandy. They come from waste sorting centres across the country. That is...
    Wanda Ciesielczuk, Vice President, Production & Technical Director.

    EXITISSUES: The pace of expansion at market leader Velvet Care is gearing up again

    Exitissues Helen Morris -
    Capacity increases in converting and tissue machine output are being boosted by further investment as the company plans to “create a market” and then build the processing capacity to meet it,...

    MARKETISSUES: From its low tissue consumption base, the Indian market is showing the signs...

    Marketissues Somnath Ray -
    As India is roaring forward being one of the countries with steady economic and market growth, P&B has also been reaping benefits. Report by Somnath Ray, Principal, AFRY Management Consulting. India’s market...

    CONSUMERSPEAK: Just what the doctor ordered

    Consumer Speak Tissue World Magazine -
    “Dr. K” – as he is known professionally – is a Swedish doctor who lives in the UK. Here, he talks about his fondness for bulk-buying tissue and kitchen towel products...
    Decarbonizing Tissue Mills: Sizing Renewable Energy Systems

    MARKETISSUES: Optimal tissue – maximising financial return on renewable energy projects

    Marketissues Eduardo De Almeida -
    As carbon intensity of grid electricity can range from 29g to 635g of CO2 per kWh, paper manufacturers are moving towards local renewable generation. Eduardo De Almeida, Manager, AFRY Process Industries...
    Hayat's Sustainable Innovations in Tissue Manufacturing

    HAYAT OPERATIONS REPORT: Middle East region’s largest tissue manufacturer targets “immense potential for growth...

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    As one of the leading global companies in the FMCG sector, in 2023 Turkish-headquartered Hayat announced investment plans worth $55m which will see it open two tissue and non- woven production...
    Navigating the Cost-Benefit Trade-Off in Green Energy Adoption

    FRONTISSUES: As Companies Rely More On Nature To Provide Greener Energy, The Cost Benefit...

    Frontissues Helen Morris -
    Decarbonisation will need intense monitoring if mills are to get the best results. MarketIssues is an extensive analysis by AFRY’s Eduardo De Almeida of the “many identified options” of how to...
    Essity's Sustainable Growth and Carbon Reduction Efforts

    EXITISSUES: Global tissue giant gears up for a new era in production and consumption

    Exitissues Tissue World Magazine -
    Fundamental restructuring has been a feature of 2023 across various regional operations for Essity. Here, TWM talks to Matthew Urmanski, North American Vice President Sales & Marketing for Essity’s Professional Hygiene...
    (MEPCO) Seizes Growth Opportunity with Tissue Diversification

    MEPCO OPERATIONS REPORT: With global tissue consumption projected to double in two decades, one...

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    The newly announced India Middle East Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) will add even greater incentive to the rising young population and tourism boom fuelling growth. For the Middle East Paper Company...

    MARKETISSUES: Our journeys toward net zero: leading companies explain their priorities and ambitious targets

    Marketissues Simon Creasey -
    More stringent regulations on sustainability are on the horizon. Consumer Markets Analyst Simon Creasey reports on the biggest advances across tissue’s production sectors already underway. Industries that intensively use energy and natural...

    KRUGER PRODUCTS OPERATIONS REPORT: Margin recovery, strong top-line growth, ramped up production … a...

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    Here, Kruger Products speaks to TWM about how it is building momentum through innovative products, marketing, and sustainability initiatives, as its expansion plans fuel growth across Canada and U.S.  As the leading...

    ST PAPER: The low capital dynamic: re-utilise shut or under-used facilities … and build...

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    With its latest investment – a PrimeLineTM W 2000 – started-up at its site in Duluth, Minnesota, in January this year, ST Paper is primed for further expansion. TWM interviews Senior...
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