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    Italy: tailoring resources to adapt to tough market conditions

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    Fit for the future” is the phrase WEPA Lucca’s managing director Bernhard Gross uses when TWM meets him at the company’s Lucca-based site. The company’s restructuring process meant it has now...
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    Getting the best out of our ever more sophisticated technology

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    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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    Even the great Bobby Fischer would find tissue’s US chess game a challenge

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    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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    A unique market aiming to create a new category of ICI nations – India,...

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    Indonesia is a fascinating market offering huge potential for the tissue industry. Almost 251 million people and counting, geographically located as the gateway between Asia and Australasia and consisting of the...
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    Iran ‘at a turning point’ and ready for business home and away

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                  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

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    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

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    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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    What does the UAE’s growing cultural confidence mean for tissue?

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    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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    Egypt and Jordan: progress against the odds

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    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...
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    After 15 years of outstanding economic performance how fit are Turkey’s thriving tissue companies...

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    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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    Huge potential yes, but plan for the long term in sub-Saharan Africa

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    The extraordinary history and traditions of the peoples of the continent of Africa have produced many proverbs … I especially like this one: Beware time, because it has the answers. What struck...
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    Tissue sans frontiers

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    By Helen Morris The boundaries of the tissue industry’s reach across the globe are forever being pushed forward. This edition of TWM has especially emphasised the pioneering spirit that propels the search...
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    With tough times at home Portugal gets innovative abroad

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    As the industry focuses on the major event in the trade show calendar at Tissue World Barcelona 2013 in March, at long last there are signs of strongly rooted green shoots...

    Poland gets in shape to take full advantage of the European recovery

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    By Helen Morris, Tissue World Editor Poland’s 40 million population, or at least the ones who get round to doing the cooking and the cleaning, love their kitchen towels...the star performers in a relatively...

    The fast pace of changing market strategies is shaping short and long term planning...

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    By Helen Morris, Tissue World Editor Welcome to Tissue World magazines’ retail special edition! In anticipation of our brand-new retail and distribution segment at Tissue World Miami in 2014, TW magazine is bringing you the...
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    GLOBAL MARKET MUST TAKE CARE TO CREATE BALANCED EXPANSION

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    By Helen Morris, Tissue World editor As 2013 draws to a close, this issue of TW reflects on the key trends and project start-ups of the past year and looks in detail...
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    Don’t cry for us in Argentina: ‘Tissue Culture’ primed and ready for an economic...

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    By Helen Morris, Tissue World editor Mill manager Eric Taylor has a seemingly simple but extraordinarily demanding ethic known to anyone working successfully in industry: ‘Each day we assess the problems ......
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    Tissue tough enough to withstand the Greek tragedy … so far

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    It is the least wanted of distinctions, but Greece’s woes do give the industry the chance to study how tissue is able to perform in a country enduring economic collapse. The...
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    The sweet smell of success for tissue in Russia

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    It was the glaringly obvious thing for us to do to follow our inaugural TW Istanbul conference with a country report on Russia. The two countries have strong geo-commercial links and are...
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    Balancing sustainable growth with demand: east China’s tissue industry responds

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    Sun Paper’s general manager Kevin Liu’s English is near-perfect, so when he says “the tissue industry in China is just starting,” the full impact of his words sinks in immediately. Had...
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    It does exactly what it says on the scented packaging

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    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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    An intriguing contrast – an economy on solid ground in a country prone to...

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    I don’t know if Guillermo Swett, chief executive of Chilean producer FPC Tissue, has any Italian ancestry, but he reminds me of some good Italian friends of mine - the ones...
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    It could be a big win or a big loss… But UK Tissue is...

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    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

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    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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    ‘We are at a dynamic moment in the tissue industry’

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    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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    The shifting growth of Asia’s most developed country; premium and lower mainstream products key

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      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

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    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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    Bold investment in luxury products pays off as staying at home is the new...

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    Staying in, our EuroMonitor report on the Benelux countries tells us, is the new going out. What’s happening in the At-Home category offers up rich promise for tissue producers, at least...
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    A more bullish west US aspires to quality and economy in production and sales

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    After reading our Euromonitor International report Western USA: From recession to recovery about ‘bellwether activities’ such as eating out contributing toward an upturn in the US economy, I must say I...
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    Tissue World – 25 years bringing the world’s tissue businesses together

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    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...

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

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    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...

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

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    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.

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

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    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,...

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

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    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.

    AfH tissue is recovering strongly as market diversification takes hold

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

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    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...

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

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

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    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.

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

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    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...

    Fundamental changes are underway in Europe’s largest economy

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    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,...
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