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Fundamentals drive Australian and New Zealand tissue consumption higher

Steady population growth, population ageing and rising per capita consumption have combined to push tissue production in Australia to capacity. The question for the Australian tissue market is...
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Gaining efficiency with smarter investment

A new Yankee hood and air system installed in August 2013 has resulted in substantial energy savings, according to Wepa mill director Maurizio Lattanzi. Here he discusses the potential that exists...

ADT’s first start-up successfully running in the USA

By Ed Graf ADT’s first start-up successfully running in the USA Air Dried Tissue (ADT) Technology has been hailed as a real alternative to TAD. Two years after the start-up of the first installation of...

ExitIssues: North America’s tissue finances are strong… but ageing machinery will need to be...

With four of the top 10 largest global tissue manufacturers in China, future North American investments are set to target advances in scale and technology, and over 80% of...

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...

India: Improved manufacturing climate and infrastructure, rising urbanisation and income, hygiene awareness and surge...

Despite its low global tissue volume share compared with its substantial population, India is projected to grow in volume at an 11% CAGR over 2020- 2025* - outperforming most...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...
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...
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,...
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...

ExitIssues: Supply chain challenges in UK home and international markets at unprecedented levels

Spiraling energy costs, rising inflation, changing labour market forces, and Brexit regulations adding to pandemic restrictions have created issues “we have never faced before at such high levels.” Consumer...

AFRY: Lack of control on size and weight means some companies are giving away...

Companies struggle to control base weight even within a single batch. In order to meet minimum weight targets, most compensate by increasing the average weight of their tissue rolls,...

Eco Trends: The sustainable product that claims to have transformed an entire company

After launching the first Brazilian toilet paper with a 100% sustainable life cycle in 2020, Copapa announces that this was just the beginning of its journey. Fernanda Accorsi, founder,...

The emergence of projects where numerous TMs are being ordered at once is now...

Tissue machinery suppliers are broadening their product offering and focus areas to meet rapidly diversifying tissue markets. As the global consolidation rate among tissue paper producers has been declining,...
We realised we needed to become a referent at something – and we decided to put all of our efforts in becoming a leading player in sustainability

Towards – and reaching – the zero-waste horizon. A TWM report

The tissue industry has long been on a journey towards clean manufacturing. In many cases research, innovation and diversification towards that aim began decades ago. The...
Wild-Bambo

After a brief retail appearance on US chain store shelves, bamboo has returned to...

Online, bamboo tissue products - especially toilet paper - are on the rise with more enterprises offering impressive varieties to attract price-concerned savers, “green” loyalists and “white cloud” softness...

Next investment cycle to see 5.8Mt additional supply of global BCP in 2022-2023

Pierre Bach, Research manager, Hawkins Wright Last year’s subdued capacity growth – the first net contraction since 2014 – to be accelerated by so-far confirmed...
Simon Creasey Freelance journalist

Inside view of how leading companies are responding to the Covid crisis

The surge in tissue consumption meant an intense focus on operating efficiencies, increasing control of entire supply chains, generational software updates, a catalyst for major investment, and innovation which...
Jaiprakash Narain: Century Pulp and Paper

While there have been no queues for tissue in India under pandemic, personal and...

Century Pulp and Paper, headquartered in New Delhi, is India’s tissue leader. When TWM visited in 2016, the company felt the key to tissue’s take off could be in...
Bill Moore, Susan Cornish, Moore & Associates

RECOVERED PAPER SUPPLY – ALREADY IN DECLINE – HIT HARD BY THE PANDEMIC

New sources of recovered paper for the recycled tissue industry must be found, say Bill Moore and Susan Cornish of Moore & Associates. Here they analyse the long-term trend, and...
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ARE TISSUE’S GREEN CREDENTIALS AS GOOD AS ITS MAJOR COMPANIES CLAIM?

A report has claimed that the tissue industry is not as environmentally friendly as it used to be. For TWM, freelance journalist Simon Creasey put the claim to...

SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS – THE GROWTH WORLD LEADER IN TISSUE DEMAND

The emerging ASEAN trade bloc is being powered by a new generation of young spenders, quality products and low production costs. Economic analyst Phillip Lawrence reports on whether this...

GROWTH IN DEMAND IN DEVELOPING MARKETS SET TO OUTWEIGH GROWTH IN THE US

Good news, bad news: US consumer tissue – a matter of perspective Svetlana Uduslivaia, Euromonitor International’s head of tissue & hygiene industry
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Bellwether of Hungary’s economic evolution

A new converting line will give Forest Papir of Hungary a powerful boost for competitiveness and innovation. A TW report. The uneventful transformation into a market economy which Hungary experienced just over...