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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...

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...

FRONTISSUES: Trajectories of national political and economic choices and trends could change dramatically, with...

Generations Z and Alpha are going to dominate consumer choices One megatrend features strongly in TWM’s Latin America reports. Generation Z consumers, colloquially known as ‘zoomers’ – born in the years 1997...
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...

FRONTISSUES: The results are in, and the post-Covid surge gathers pace

You will quickly pick up the mood of the industry in TWM’s pages as analysts and executives across global tissue look back on fiscal 2023 results. Here are just a few examples: “We...

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…...
Helen Morris, Senior Editor, Tissue World Magazine

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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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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Mexico: “The opportunity to grow is huge”

When TW visited Mexico for this issue’s Country Report it was easy to see why it has made it into the MINTs (Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey) list of countries to...
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Tissue adapts to Japan’s radically changing demographic

To visit Japan, as I have just done for this issue’s Country Report, is both a sobering and inspiring experience. Sobering - in that Japan’s position in the world today is...
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The great balancing act

By Tissue World magazine editor Helen Morris There is a real sense across the industry of a waiting game being patiently played out. That there is massive potential for growth across so many...