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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...

FRONTISSUES: Spain – a tissue laboratory for answers to a fluctuating market in unprecedented...

In the major re-balancing of the Spanish tissue market some of the statistics in TWM’s Country Report are remarkable. First up: Spain is now the leading producer of private...

OPERATIONS REPORT Northwood Dicepa: Open air restaurants, increased vacationing, sunny climes – how the...

Two tissue plant acquisitions in Spain by the UK-based Northwood Group have seen a double win … the Spanish market’s continued recovery, and a solution to a potential Brexit...

OPERATIONS REPORT Essity Valls: After the ‘big evolution’ the market is stabilising again

Spanish consumer tissue leader Essity Valls met the turmoil of recent years with its own rapid response. Miriam Guasch, Operations Director Manufacturing Spain, Global Supply Chain, charts how the...

ExitIssues: With the global recession accelerating in 2022, two key events will continue to...

Tissue trade, like almost all trade, prefers a smooth, settled and thriving economic world. Exceptions occur when disruption, whatever the cause may be, enable a particular trade to thrive...

ConsumerSpeak: From “no real awareness of this wonderful product,” to co-owning a Ghanaian-based tissue...

Netherlands-born Sander de Klerk is Founder and Chief Rolling Officer for the Good Roll company. Here, he explains the motivation behind the team. As a consumer...

MarketIssues: The growing role of biodiversity and carbon storage: what to expect for the...

Business-as-usual when utilising wood fibre is looking less likely for products such as tissue, as large policy readjustments for sustainability and forestry are currently taking place within the EU....

OPERATIONS REPORT Lucart Tissue & Soap: “2022 has shown a full recovery of the...

Lucart Tissue & Soap (Lucart T&S) is a Lucart Group subsidiary based in Artziniega in the north of Spain, running two industrial plants since the beginning of 2018. Here,...

OPERATIONS REPORT LC Paper: “AfH revenue to double in the next three years, AH...

With a new converting production site ready for start-up, Pau Vila, LC Paper’s General Manager, explains the new trends guiding consumer choices and the company’s innovative responses. A TWM...

OPERATIONS REPORT: MP HYGIÈNE ON TRACK FOR PIONEERING HIGH SPEED TISSUE MACHINE WITH EXCLUSIVELY...

Already an AfH market leader in the French tissue market, the AHEAD 2.2 tissue machine 2024 start-up will mean its CO2 footprint will be one of the lowest in the world, says President and Chief Executive Marc Miribel. Report by TWM Senior Editor Helen Morris.

FRONTISSUES: The gear change driving the global industry’s energy source future

The International Energy Agency says the energy crisis has “turbocharged" renewable projects around the world, with countries adding as much renewable power in the next five years as they did in the last 20.

MARKETISSUES: Which sources of fibre for future tissue production have real lasting potential?

Each fibre source brings its unique challenges, and costs are likely to remain volatile. Here, Somnath Ray, Principal, AFRY Management Consulting, examines the major contenders, including wood pulp, bamboo, bagasse, RCP and straw.

EXITISSUES: Covid-19 restrictions had a profound effect on product packaging, and radical changes in...

Insight + Action founder Susan Cornish expands on her keynote speech at the TW Bangkok conference earlier this year to reveal the background to a surge in interest in...

Klabin’s southern softwood bleached market pulp, diversifying and differentiation in the fluff segment–innovation on...

By Marco Martins, MSc Science Forest and Chemical Engineering – Klabin’s Customer Technical Services Manager, Flaviana Milagres – Forest Engineer, Master and Doctor in Forest Science - Klabin’s Research...

The tissue industry’s famous resilience is facing up to the challenge

Tissue company executives need no telling how energy costs not seen in decades are impacting their businesses. They will, however, be keen to know how some of their industry...

Operations Report: Aktül Kagıt investments to boost production capacity to 210,000tpy

A 70,000tpy TM is planned for start-up in Q4 2022, and once up and running the business will look to export its new production. TWM speaks to Factory Director...