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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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?

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...

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 ...

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...

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!”

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

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

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...

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

“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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

Traditional Market Power Structures Are Going Through A More Rapid Change Than For Decades...

TWM’s various analyses of the fluctuations in the North American tissue market make clear the more fundamental and longer-term changes now underway. It is a big statement to suggest we may...

The tissue facts on the ground… seeing the forest, and the trees

Industry analyst Greg Grishchenko – comparing the reality to sometime public perception – reveals just how responsible the industry has been with its forestry and bleaching programmes. An average American household is...

MARKETISSUES: Special Report – Tissue World Düsseldorf 2023

Tissue World returned in Europe for the first time in four years with an impressive event that hosted thousands of tissue colleagues for the first time in Düsseldorf. Here,...

FRONTISSUES: The South Korean market is changing rapidly… more single person households, fewer marriages,...

TWM was welcomed in South Korea in 2012 to report on its successes… brilliant electronics, exported at the right price, an internet speed of 16Mbps at home (the US...

EXITISSUES: Market leadership in sustainable hygiene, and 20% of the AfH sector – Star...

TWM interviewed Managing Director Khalid Saifullah when Star Tissue UK was named in the London Stock Exchange Group’s top 1,000 companies to inspire the UK in 2016 and then...

OPERATIONS REPORT: The MSS Group – demographic trends drive major changes in tissue shopping...

Single-person households, a drop in marriages, the online warehouse and next-day-delivery malls are driving a new era of small-volume production. TWM interviews Monalisa Chief Executive and MSS Group Chief...

Circular economy pioneer Essity producing paper CO2 free 

Thorsten Becherer, Site Manager at Essity’s Mainz-Kostheim, Germany-based plant, explains the latest advances in award winning e-save programme.  TWM/1: What’s unique about the Mainz-Kostheim plant?

Fundamental changes are underway in Europe’s largest economy

Germany’s green transition may have been accelerated by five to ten years. And remarkably, it could have proceeded at a faster pace still. Helen Morris,...

Industry partnerships key to tackling challenges with sustainability and innovation the drivers

With a market share of 25% in its home country, tissue giant WEPA Group has ambitious plans to maintain the top spot. Here, WEPA Chief Operations Officer Harm Bergmann-Kramer...

China’s state of the nation tissue report: Overcapacity a serious concern as market competition...

China’s National Household Paper Industry Association has urged its companies to invest “rationally” in its annual assessment of the current status of the industry. TWM’s report highlights the main...
Sivashankari Bharathi, Analyst, AFRY Management Consulting, and Sanna Sosa, Senior Principal, AFRY Management Consulting

Market pulse 2023: American tissue’s rollercoaster ride is now on the smoother tracks

AfH is largely back to pre-pandemic levels. AH is seeing structural changes in buying habits, pressure on spending power, a rise in private label, and the return of the...

Koehler’s Eco Black recycled paper – 250 metres of it – to help display...

Italian artist Enrico Mazzone’s work includes Rubedo, a visual representation of Dante’s Divine Comedy, and the largest work of art said to have ever been made on paper. Always...

China’s state of the nation tissue report: Overcapacity a serious concern as market competition...

China’s National Household Paper Industry Association has urged its companies to invest “rationally” in its annual assessment of the current status of the industry. TWM’s report highlights the main...