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    Tissue World Magazine pandemic special

    POTENTIAL IMPACT ON COMMERCIAL HAND TOWEL DEMAND. Pandemic Special, part 4.

    Marketissues Bruce Janda Fisher International -
    Please wash your hands and dry them with a paper towel! By Bruce Janda, senior consultant, Fisher International Bruce Janda, Senior consultant, Fisher International
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    Sofidel finalises G-P acquisition

    Marketissues Helen Morris -
    Sofidel Group has finalised the acquisition from SCA of the former Georgia-Pacific businesses. The move is connected with G-P’s consumer brands in the UK, Republic of Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. Luigi...

    Wausau Paper to narrow focus to tissue business

    Marketissues Helen Morris -
    Wausau Paper has started a process to identify “strategic alternatives” for its paper segment that will position its focus on the growth of its tissue business. It recently began the start-up phase...
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    The squeeze on tissue margins is getting tighter

    Marketissues Helen Morris -
    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...
    Sivashankari Bharathi, Analyst, AFRY Management Consulting, and Sanna Sosa, Senior Principal, AFRY Management Consulting

    HOW THE TOP TISSUE COMPANIES ACHIEVE THEIR HIGHER PERFORMANCE LEVELS

    Marketissues Sanna Sosa, Senior Principal, and Sivashankari Bharathi, Analyst, AFRY Management Consulting -
    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...

    MarketIssues Special Report: Tissue World Miami 2022

    Marketissues Helen Morris -
    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...
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    Targeting top brand icons … by comparison and confusion

    Marketissues Greg Grishchenko -
    By Greg Grishchenko, Industry analyst Copy-cat labelling on private label products has created a lucrative revenue stream for discount stores, increasing confusion for consumers, and upped the champagne consumption of litigation lawyers....
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    Metso receives repeat order from Turkey’s Hayat Kimya

    Marketissues Helen Morris -
    Hayat Kimya has announced at Tissue World 2013 that it has signed for a repeat order for two complete tissue lines from Metso for an undisclosed sum. Each production line will include...

    SCA reports increased tissue operating profit

    Marketissues Helen Morris -
    SCA has reported an increase in its tissue division’s operating profit of 47% to SEK 4,640m in its year end report. The company put the increase down to a number of factors,...
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    Tissue World Istanbul A Success; Attracts 1,602 attendees from 65 countries

    Marketissues Helen Morris -
    First dedicated event covering huge region attracted 1,602 attendees from 65 countries Tissue World Istanbul 2016 concluded successfully after attracting 1,602 unique attendees – of which 1,231 were unique visitors – from across 65 countries. Held in...

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

    Marketissues Simon Creasey -
    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,...
    Kim Underhill President, Kimberly-Clark North America

    MarketIssues, Kim Underhill, Kimberly-Clark North America

    Marketissues Helen Morris -
    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...

    MarketIssues: The growing role of biodiversity and carbon storage: what to expect for the...

    Marketissues H. Mörner C. Berg-Rustas S. Pastila -
    Business-as-usual when utilising wood fibre is looking less likely for products such as tissue, as large policy readjustments for sustainability and forestry are currently taking place within the EU....

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

    Marketissues Helen Morris -
    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.

    Ukraine: How does an industry survive corruption, revolution and military conflict?

    Marketissues Helen Morris -
    By industry analyst Greg Grishchenko   When Greg Grishchenko first reported on the Ukrainian tissue market the country was full of hope for prosperity after the 2004 Orange Revolution. Here, he reports again...
    Tissue World Magazine Marketissues Pandemic Special

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

    Marketissues Helen Morris -
    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

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

    Marketissues Tissue World Magazine -
    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...

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

    Marketissues Helen Morris -
    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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    Will Asian tissue suppliers capture the whole world?

    Marketissues Helen Morris -
    By Esko Uutela, principal, tissue, RISI Global tissue consumption has returned onto its steady growth trend line of 4% per year after only a small bend on the growth curve caused by...

    MARKETISSUES: Special Report – Tissue World Düsseldorf 2023

    Marketissues Helen Morris -
    Tissue World returned in Europe for the first time in four years with an impressive event that hosted thousands of tissue colleagues for the first time in Düsseldorf. Here,...
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    China’s economic slowdown and New green regime is rippling across the world

    Marketissues Helen Morris -
    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...
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    Tissue is an $80bn market category with no event covering the entire value chain…...

    Marketissues Helen Morris -
    By Hugh O'Brian, Tissue World Contributing Editor “Retail is Detail” is perhaps the most famous slogan in the retailing business. Although I have been working closely with the tissue and paper business for more than...

    Overheating investment activity threatening market balance in the North American tissue business

    Marketissues Helen Morris -
    After the Great Recession of 2009 and the recovery in 2010, North America’s tissue supply and demand have been well balanced, and from time to time, the business has been a...

    Disley Tissue starts up

    Marketissues Helen Morris -
    UK-based Disley Tissue has boosted its capacity with the successful start up of a Metso-supplied Yankee Advantage AirCap hood and Advantage WetDust dust control system. Disley Tissue starts up Metso-supplied Yankee hood...
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    US tissue market: dynamic phase following recent slow growth

    Marketissues Esko Uutela -
    With America’s tissue market geared up for Tissue World New Orleans in March 2016, RISI’s Esko Uutela talks growth and demand trends in the world’s largest tissue market This year has been...
    Hendrik Otto, Chief Operating Officer, WEPA

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

    Marketissues Helen Morris -
    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. 
    Luoyang Jieda Paper boosts facial tissue capacity with investment

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

    Marketissues Esko Uutela -
    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...
    Ralf Möbus, Senior Executive, StepChange Consulting

    Covid-19: A catalyst for digitalisation

    Marketissues Ralf Möbus -
    The impact of Covid-19 on market outlooks, company performance and digitalisation. Ralf Möbus, Senior Executive at StepChange Consulting, reports for TWM.

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

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

    K-C announces net sales increase

    Marketissues Helen Morris -
    Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has reported a decline of 2% to $1.7bn in its consumer tissue division’s fourth quarter 2012 sales. The consumer tissue division recorded a decline of 4% in fourth quarter operating...
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    Is the slowdown in China a threat for the South East Asian tissue market?

    Marketissues Pirkko Petäjä -
    By Pirkko Petäjä, Principal, Pöyry Management Consulting The South East Asian region is among the fastest growing tissue markets worldwide, but tissue production in the region grows even faster South East Asia consists of eleven...

    MARKETISSUES: From its low tissue consumption base, the Indian market is showing the signs...

    Marketissues Somnath Ray -
    As India is roaring forward being one of the countries with steady economic and market growth, P&B has also been reaping benefits. Report by Somnath Ray, Principal, AFRY Management Consulting. India’s market...
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    Growth in the European tissue business moving from West to East

    Marketissues Esko Uutela -
    By ESKO UUTELA, Principal,Tissue, RISI Russian tissue market alone expected to grow more than German and UK markets combined. We do not yet have statistics for the whole of last year but based...
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    Tissue World Barcelona attracted key industry members from across Europe and beyond. We kick...

    Marketissues Bill Burns -
    Country Update: France France is the fourth largest producer of Paper and Market Pulp in Western Europe making 10.1 million metric tonnes per year. Towel and Tissue (T&T) represents a little more...
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    All is not well for North American tissue producers

    Marketissues Helen Morris -
    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...
    Vivek-Joshi

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

    Marketissues Helen Morris -
    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...

    MARKETISSUES: Our journeys toward net zero: leading companies explain their priorities and ambitious targets

    Marketissues Simon Creasey -
    More stringent regulations on sustainability are on the horizon. Consumer Markets Analyst Simon Creasey reports on the biggest advances across tissue’s production sectors already underway. Industries that intensively use energy and natural...

    Thinking inside … and outside the box

    Marketissues Jane Bickerstaffe -
    The EU is in danger of missing the point as it reviews policy on packaging. Product protection – including tissue products - and overall resource efficiency are much more important than a...
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    Kazakhstan – emerging tissue market leader in Central Asia

    Marketissues Helen Morris -
    By Greg Grishchenko, Industry Expert Before the world economic crisis of 2008-2009 reached Kazakhstan, its local tissue market grew at 10% per year. Industry expert Greg Grishchenko gets the latest. Along with the...
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    Chinese tissue market in a good growth phase but oversupply continues

    Marketissues Esko Uutela -
    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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