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MARKETISSUES: Which sources of fibre for future tissue production have real lasting potential?

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.

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

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,...

MarketIssues: Operational excellence – companies must quantify, track, and improve process variability daily at...

Manufacturers need to pursue innovative ways to decrease consumption and make their factories more efficient as energy and raw material prices soar. Report for TWM by Eduardo de Almeida,...

MarketIssues AfH special: With global AfH sales at $25b in 2021 (fixed US exchange...

A sustained return is not yet certain with businesses yet to recover fully from the pandemic. Liying Qian, Research Analyst, Euromonitor International*, examines short- and long-term global market trends...

MarketIssues Special Report: Tissue World Miami 2022

Tissue World “reality” returned for an impressive four days in Miami with over 100 exhibitors and more than 1,200 total participants kicking off its first in-person exhibition and conference...

AFRY: Costs have reached unprecedented highs: How to mitigate their worst effects

Tissue producers faced multiple challenges in 2021 as demand cooled down and input costs increased significantly. During the third quarter of 2021, modelled manufacturing costs in Europe and North...

Shifts in brand loyalty have been a feature of pandemic buying – so how...

Susan Cornish, President, Insight + Action One of the strongest trends over the pandemic has been shifts in brand loyalty, with over 40% of consumers...

Tissue World Virtual Conference 2021: 24 speakers – six sessions for all tissue industry...

In September, Tissue World hosted eight hours of critical insights over the course of two days, analysing how the tissue market is preparing itself for...

Has the pandemic changed customer behaviour permanently in tissue?

As we start to emerge from Covid-19, many aspects of people’s lives are being transformed. McKinsey & Company’s Oskar Lingqvist, Gregory Vainberg, Daniel Nordigarden and Emily Roeper discuss how...
Ralf Möbus, Senior Executive, StepChange Consulting

Covid-19: A catalyst for digitalisation

The impact of Covid-19 on market outlooks, company performance and digitalisation. Ralf Möbus, Senior Executive at StepChange Consulting, reports for TWM.
Sivashankari Bharathi, Analyst, AFRY Management Consulting, and Sanna Sosa, Senior Principal, AFRY Management Consulting

HOW THE TOP TISSUE COMPANIES ACHIEVE THEIR HIGHER PERFORMANCE LEVELS

The pandemic meant record sales for retailers. But beyond external market demand spikes and input cost deflation, strategic and operational planning led to top EBITDA performance. Sanna Sosa, Senior...
Hendrik Otto, Chief Operating Officer, WEPA

People’s hygiene awareness has grown during the past months … we expect it to...

Chief Operating Officer Hendrik Otto assesses the opportunities and challenges facing WEPA production sites in Germany, France, Italy, Poland, the UK and the Netherlands as Covid-19’s varying impact continues. 
Tissue World Digital Days

Tissue World Digital Days brings the global industry together

Three day online platform examined key trends across Asia, Yankee Dryer developments, the emerging dynamic in the Turkey region, Latin America and the US market … all seeking new...
Benny Iswandy, Chief Executive for Asia Pulp & Paper’s Indonesian-based global tissue business unit

Hygiene is key as increased demand to be sustained – emerging trends now and...

China and the ASEAN region were the first to suffer the worldwide pandemic. Leading tissue players are now emerging stronger and more flexible having adapted to the changing times....
Essity president and chief executive Magnus Groth

MarketIssues: THE PHENOMENAL EFFORT TO PROVIDE THE PRODUCTS THE WORLD IS COUNTING ON...

Tissue’s leading executives chart the challenges and responses to the Covid-19 effects across the globe - Essity’s president and chief executive Magnus Groth, Kimberly-Clark North America president Kim Underhill, and...
Kim Underhill President, Kimberly-Clark North America

MarketIssues, Kim Underhill, Kimberly-Clark North America

TWM/1: How has the Covid-19 pandemic impacted Kimberly-Clark and how has it responded? “Kimberly-Clark is doing its part to make life a little less stressful during...
Vivek-Joshi

MarketIssues. Vivek Joshi senior vice president and general manager, tissue category, for Georgia- Pacific’s...

In general, given the current situation surrounding the coronavirus/Covid-19, and just cold and flu season in general, we anticipated more handwashing – especially given how everyone is focused on and...
Tissue World Magazine Marketissues Pandemic Special

THE TWM MAY-JUNE 2020 “MARKETISSUES” OPENING: Pandemic special, part 1

TWM interviewed tissue mills and industry insiders to get their views on how the pandemic is impacting the tissue market – and their forecasts for the future
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ANALYSIS: INDUSTRY INSIDERS. Pandemic Special, part 2

As the world is set for recession, this is shaping up to be a banner year for consumer tissue producers. Bathroom product sales tripled, mills on full capacity,...
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USA TISSUE IN COVID-19 ENVIRONMENT: TEMPORARY UPTAKE IN RETAIL, TROUBLES IN AFH SECTOR. Pandemic...

By Svetlana Uduslivaia, Euromonitor International’s head of tissue & hygiene industry Svetlana Uduslivaia, Euromonitor International’s head of tissue & hygiene industry
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POTENTIAL IMPACT ON COMMERCIAL HAND TOWEL DEMAND. Pandemic Special, part 4.

Please wash your hands and dry them with a paper towel! By Bruce Janda, senior consultant, Fisher International Bruce Janda, Senior consultant, Fisher International
Luoyang Jieda Paper boosts facial tissue capacity with investment

HOW LONG WILL THE RAPID EXPANSION OF THE CHINESE TISSUE BUSINESS CONTINUE?

Esko Uutela, Principal, tissue, Fastmarket RISI Today tissue products are part of normal daily life in the vast majority of Chinese households. But major developments...
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WORLD TISSUE GROWTH – BIG DATA – AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS – INDUSTRY 4.0 – CHANGING...

Tissue World São Paulo, Brazil, has again raised the standard for the region’s dynamic tissue industry. Trade visitors to the event, now in its third edition, were 898. A...
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GLOBAL AVERAGE PER CAPITA TISSUE CONSUMPTION STANDS AT ABOVE 5KG – BUT 10KG IS...

Esko Uutela, Principal, tissue, Fastmarket RISI While the US – currently 25kg per person – is likely to remain unmatched, untapped potential growth in other...
Alexander Wirth Senior manager, StepChange Consulting

DIGITALISATION AND ITS INTEGRATION – KEYS TO REACHING GLOBAL TISSUE’S ‘HUGE POTENTIAL’

In a major analysis of costs and technology trends across world markets, senior manager Alexander Wirth at StepChange Consulting urges a greater embrace of the digitalised mill of the...
Pierre Bach Research manager, Hawkins Wright

Growth in Tissue Industry’s Share of BCP Likely to Continue

Rapid changes in supply and pricing in the pulp market presents major challenges for both suppliers and buyers. The need for price hedging tools is likely to increase. Report...

Tissue World Milan 2019

3,200 VISITORSFROM 91 COUNTRIES172 EXHIBITING COMPANIES60 EXPERT CONFERENCE SPEAKERSTissue World 2019 – the world’s largest tissue industry exhibition and conference – played host to over 3,200 trade professionals from...
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China’s economic slowdown and New green regime is rippling across the world

The recent economic slowdown in China has hit a number of relatively nascent industry sectors hard. One sector that’s been particularly badly affected is...

Growing consumer awareness and education is driving Russia’s market performance in spite of sanctions

Industry analyst Greg Grishchenko examines the rising level of quality products, retail display, home production and consumer choice in the world’s largest landmass tissue market.
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“I believe an investment like Circleville will really change the way tissue mills are...

Italian tissue giant Sofidel has officially opened its $400m, 280-acre plant in Circleville, Ohio… one of the most technologically and environmentally-advanced paper plants in the world and Sofidel’s largest worldwide to-date. Sofidel...
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Should the US industry be concerned by the small but growing trend of tissue...

Imported bath tissue, kitchen towels and napkins are being sold in discount grocery stores and large supermarket chains in Chinese, Japanese and Korean enclaves in large metropolitan areas. Will shipping costs...

Kimberly-Clark reaches out to advance the cause of preserving precious water

In just seven years’ time 1.8bn people will be living with absolute water scarcity. Tissue giant Kimberly-Clark (K-C) recently launched WaterLoupe, an analytical tool to advance the science of water sustainability… for its...
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Over 200 exhibitors, 1,687 total participants, 69 countries… Tissue World celebrated our 25th anniversary...

The wonderfully modernised Miami Beach Convention Center was the fitting setting for Tissue World’s double celebration – our 25th Silver Jubilee anniversary as the global industry’s leading tradeshow, and the opening of North America’s...
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The squeeze on tissue margins is getting tighter

From rocketing raw material prices to cost conscious consumers with faltering brand or retailer loyalty – to discounting grocers and ‘shrinkflation’ – the market faces tough challenges. Report by Simon Creasey. High volume, low...
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What does China’s Belt & Road master plan mean for tissue?

China is a major financier to the world. Just one of many investment vehicles is its initiative to transform transport systems and smooth trade across Asia, Europe and Africa – estimated at $900bn...
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Shrinkflation – reducing product size becomes an issue for tissue

Toxic combination of cost inflation, a stagnant economy, the fluctuating pound … and Brexit has forced the UK tissue sector, like many other producers, to look for savings elsewhere. Report by freelance journalist...
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All is not well for North American tissue producers

As brand loyalty is slowly eroding in the US, Europe’s leading discounters are set for major expansions. Report for TWM by RBC Capital’s markets analyst Paul Quinn. Change is afoot. Branded tissue products will...
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Resolute ramps up capacity to position itself as key player in tissue

President and chief executive Richard Garneau provides an update on Resolute Forest Products’ ongoing transformation strategy and entry into the growing tissue market. A TWM report. In June 2015, Resolute announced its entry...
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Chinese tissue market in a good growth phase but oversupply continues

According to a recent talk by Zhang Yulan, of the China National Household Paper Association (CNHPIA), in 2016 the Chinese tissue business maintained growth, and the expansion of the tissue industry continued at a good pace –...
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How will the tissue connection between Europe and North America continue?

For several decades, North America and Europe shared some of the same tissue suppliers. However, during the last decade a lot has changed. Previously, North American companies were expanding into Europe, and now exactly the...