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Tissue World Magazine, Departments: Frontissues

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...

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.

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...

FrontIssues: Multiple choices can mean multiple problems, and more costs. Bring on the era...

There is an all-out attack of the fine margins in this edition of TWM. The search for gains in already highly specialised and efficient systems. It’s what the industry...

AfH tissue is recovering strongly as market diversification takes hold

Tissue’s hardest hit sector during the pandemic is surging back. Global AfH sales reached $25bn msp by Q4 2021, so will now be more still.

FrontIssues: E-commerce and sustainability – A supply chain which starts with a decision about...

Evidence of the intensive research going into life cycle assessment of tissue products was dominant in Tissue World Miami, and is reflected equally in the pages of TWM.

Miami is a big stride … as the global industry begins to step out...

Just how fit-for-purpose the $92bn* global issue industry is in the early months of 2022 is made abundantly clear in the pages ahead … TWM coming to you online,...

The Middle East: A study in contrasts and contradictions, extreme wealth and poverty

Fourteen nations make up the Middle East for TWM’s purposes, as diverse as any in world economics, demographics, political and social stability, and too often, instability.

A surge in Brazil? We have heard the prediction before, but just maybe the...

Helen Morris, Senior Editor, Tissue World Magazine If we wanted to choose a ‘Word of the Day’ in this edition of TWM it would have...

How the ‘Next Normal’ tissue landscape begins to take shape

We need look no further for a classic example of a mature tissue market than Germany. A tissue pioneer, these days year-on-year registering slow but steady growth, its consumers...

A big learning curve in survival as the essential tourist tissue trade slumped

The effects of the pandemic have hit the various regions and nations of the world disproportionately. Our Regional Report from Southeast Asia makes that point firmly.
Helen Morris, Senior Editor, Tissue World Magazine

In 2020 China swung from historic contraction to world leading growth

Not only is China’s economic performance in 2020 a classic “V shaped” slump and recovery, when the multi-complexities of such a populous nation are reduced to a convenient shape...
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North American tissue’s unprecedented boom … and a record nosedive

The phrase ‘boom and bust’ is traditionally used in a sequential sense. If a boom gets out of control it may lead to an economic collapse or a major...

TWM reveals the resilience and commitment of our industry

If you are looking for a rallying call during this bleak pandemic you should look no further than the words of Kim Underhill. Helen Morris,...
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Is the global tissue market at the beginning of a new and permanent Era...

Across TWM pages in this edition you will read a familiar business outlook expressed with confidence. Helen Morris, Senior Editor, Tissue...

WE ARE AT THE START OF A NEW ERA WHEN INNOVATION WILL DRAMATICALLY SHAPE...

Across TWM’s online pages you will see the same thought expressed in a variety of ways. This pandemic – tragic in its still unfinished health and economic implications – has nevertheless...
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Our formidable army of professionals has geared up to meet unprecedented challenges … As...

We are enduring extraordinary times. It seems unreal that a pandemic of such tragic consequences was unthinkable just a few months ago. Before the relative consumer calm recently established, panic buying of...

THE SHAPE OF THE ECONOMIES OF THE FUTURE BELONGS TO MILLENNIALS AND GENERATION Z

Helen Morris Senior Editor, Tissue World Magazine Any industry today has to know what Millennials and Generation Z consumers want. This new generation of shoppers is the smartest ever…...
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SCANDINAVIA’S PRODUCTION IS OLD AND SLOW – BUT POISED TO REAP BENEFITS OF INNOVATION...

Tissue in Scandinavia - Denmark, Sweden and Norway - is the classic story of whereto find the growth. A combined population of about 21 million, they enjoy open modern...
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SPAIN: IS THE GREEN REVOLUTION READY TO TAKE OFF?

Visiting mills for our Country Report brings home a real appreciation that Spain’s tissue industry is on the brink of a new era. It is just a matter of...
TWM goes to Poland

TWM goes to Poland to see what a tissue boom looks like

Helen Morris, Senior Editor, Tissue World Magazine Outside of China – and the China of a few years ago, as this edition’s Exitissues suggests –...
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It could be a big win or a big loss… But UK Tissue is...

Helen Morris, Senior Editor, Tissue World Magazine In a professionally efficient way this edition of TWM was chosen to coincide with Brexit Day -...
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Industry 4.0 is underway… We look forward to Industry 5.0

TWM goes beyond the fourth industrial revolution in this edition. Our contributors focus on the many advances which are already well established in tissue production and, to...
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From east to west – the sun is rising on tissue’s New Year

A Happy New Year to you all. I don’t know whether you gave Auld Lang Syne a burst as the clock ticked down to...
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‘We are at a dynamic moment in the tissue industry’

This edition of TWM captures the distinct sense of momentum and energy, and change, at this point in tissue’s long history. These pages will give readers a comprehensive cross-analysis of those dynamics. We major...
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After 15 years of outstanding economic performance how fit are Turkey’s thriving tissue companies...

The chart on the wall of Turkey’s economic performance in the last 15 years has an impressive upward curve. To select just a few of the headlines: outstanding growth with GDP tripled and...
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What does the UAE’s growing cultural confidence mean for tissue?

The Arab world’s first universal museum – Louvre Abu Dhabi - has opened in the United Arab Emirates. Emmanuel Macron, president of France, described the stunning symbol of a wider cultural perspective as “a...
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Tissue World – 25 years bringing the world’s tissue businesses together

It began in Nice in March 1993 … the first ever trade show exclusively dedicated to tissue. There were 700 attendees and 49 exhibitors. Now, attendance at TW Milan 2017 reached almost 4,000, with participants coming...
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Even the great Bobby Fischer would find tissue’s US chess game a challenge

Our cover image depicts the US tissue battlefield. The reds strategically occupying the hill represent all we know of the status quo. For many decades the industry in the USA meant few giants monopolising the market in...
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Getting the best out of our ever more sophisticated technology

HMI, the Human Machine Interface, might stand as a symbol of TWM’s Technical Theme on packaging, wrapping and logistics in this edition… as for the tissue industry across the board. Four top companies report on...
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The shifting growth of Asia’s most developed country; premium and lower mainstream products key

  Quality, in Asia’s most developed country, is key in the Japanese tissue market … that much is a constant. Much else, however, has moved on in the four years since TWM’s last Country Report from there,...
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Canada – strengthening its away game

Canada, of course, has a big neighbour. The biggest, in economic terms, which while returning a fluctuating performance is never, currently, less that the biggest economic giant. In tissue terms, Canada is small scale … it’s a...
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Pulp and Paper United do the nation proud

Let’s describe general economic performance in recent years as a football match … why not, this is Brazil after all: it has been an end-to-end thriller. TWM must first apologise to those across the...
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The Home of Tissue: driving forward innovation to create the products of the future

It’s pressure which produces diamonds, and the fiercely competitive nature of the Italian market is producing some sparkling results. They have been called “smart factories,” but tissue factories have always been smart ... these are...
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It does exactly what it says on the scented packaging

I like the sound of Vårt Finaste Toalettpapper. It means, as I’m sure you will have worked out, Our Finest Toilet Paper. It was launched by the grocery retailer ICA Sverige in Sweden in 2015,...
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India – the world’s greatest untapped market

              India - the world’s greatest untapped market In no other country is so great a potential so apparently locked out of reach. India has untapped retail tissue growth estimated at US$12 billion, 4.5 million tonnes....
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Iran ‘at a turning point’ and ready for business home and away

              Iran’s tissue professionals are ready for business more than ever. That’s the overwhelming impression I came away with having spent time in and around Tehran for our Country Report. The talk is...
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Colombians like what they see with tissue

Before the recent setback, Colombia had ranked as high as 34th in the World Bank’s “Doing Business” index, up from 53rd in 2013. That is above larger economies such as Brazil...
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The US faces big structural changes to its tissue market

TWM, and hopefully all who read our Regional Report in this edition will join us, has enjoyed the privilege of touring the world’s leading tissue market North America – ranked third...
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Egypt and Jordan: progress against the odds

By Helen Morris, Editor, Tissue World Magazine Tissue makers well know the difference between potential growth and realisable growth. Growth which has every chance of being turned into revenue when consumers enjoy more...