Friday, December 8, 2023

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

    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...

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

    Frontissues Helen Morris -
    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

    Exitissues Greg Grishchenko -
    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

    Marketissues Helen Morris -
    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,...

    Frontissues Helen Morris -
    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...

    Exitissues Tissue World Magazine -
    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...

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    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 

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    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

    Frontissues Helen Morris -
    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

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    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...

    Exitissues Tissue World Magazine -
    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

    Marketissues Tissue World Magazine -
    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...

    Consumer Speak Helen Morris -
    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...

    Exitissues Tissue World Magazine -
    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...

    Frontissues Helen Morris -
    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...

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    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

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    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...

    Exitissues Jacob Shapiro -
    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...

    Consumer Speak Helen Morris -
    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...

    Marketissues H. Mörner C. Berg-Rustas S. Pastila -
    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...

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    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...

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    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...

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    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

    Frontissues Helen Morris -
    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?

    Marketissues Tissue World Magazine -
    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...

    Exitissues Susan Cornish -
    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...

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    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

    Frontissues Helen Morris -
    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

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    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...

    Operations Report: State-of-the-art-machinery gives Europap Tezol Kağit “a big opportunity”

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    In three years annual capacity rose from 95,000tpy to a projected 130,000tpy with an AHEAD 2.2S tissue line start up in 2023, boosting super-prime branded tissue products sold abroad...

    Operations Report: “We want to continue to serve the sector by adding a high-capacity...

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    Essel Cellulose and Paper Industry has made substantial strides forwards since it was founded in 2005, when it commissioned its first tissue machine. Now, a worldwide shortage of raw...

    The challenge – a wedding dress made from just four rolls of toilet paper...

    Consumer Speak Tissue World Magazine -
    New bride Tabitha Perry O'Sullivan, an Investor Relations and Communications Manager living in London, recently celebrated her hen do by tasking her hens to create a wedding dress made...

    ExitIssues: How China’s Operation National Sword changed the global recycling market

    Exitissues Bill Moore -
    Bill Moore, Founder, Moore & Associates During September’s Tissue & Paper Bangkok exhibition and conference, Moore & Associates Founder Bill Moore discussed the latest trends...

    MarketIssues: Companies drawing up their action plans to see out the costs crisis

    Marketissues Simon Creasey -
    Simon Creasey, Freelance journalist Every inch of businesses reviewed, huge investment in automation, unnecessary processes removed, sustainability plans accelerated, energy price hedges, increased stock volumes,...

    ExitIssues: Review of global BCP capacity – on the brink of significant investment cycle...

    Exitissues Michael J. Long & Pierre E. Bach -
    Total BCP capacity shrank by just over 0.5Mt last year – the first contraction since 2009 and only the second on record. Report for TWM by Hawkins Wright’s Research...
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