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    Battle for the biggest Away-from-Home sector in the world

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    Table napkins are on a surge as Americans eat out more, enjoy ‘fast casual’ dining, and turn to the pleasures of the homeland and the ‘staycation.’ TWM editor Helen Morris heads...
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    Back from the brink in Norway’s dramatic Paper Valley

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    By Tissue World magazine editor Helen Morris Amid the spectacular mountains and fjords, the story of a mill’s survival is barely less impressive. After all looked lost in 2013, Vajda-Papir Scandinavia is now investing,...
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    A tough modern makeover for the table top star ‘close to nowhere’ in Västra...

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    By Tissue World magazine editor Helen Morris After closures and a sharp market re-focus, global coloured tissue leader Duni’s SEK110m investment has brought its 5% mature market growth target into sight. Helen Morris...
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    Searching for distinction in a complex market

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    When competition is fierce and price discounting dominates, niche, flexibility and targeted response to rapidly changing consumer demands become crucial. TWM visited family owned Industria Cartaria Fenili By Helen Morris, Senior editor, Tissue...
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    How to achieve growth in a national crisis

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    These are turbulent times in Brazil – but tissue is toughing it out. Helen Morris, Tissue World magazine senior editor, visits Carta Fabril’s Rio de Janeiro headquarters as the company begins the start-up...
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    Cascades… the new major player determined to keep the personal touch

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    By Helen Morris, Senior Editor, Tissue World Magazine With a $64m start-up on American’s west coast just part of a major makeover, the Canadian company is now a big player with a small...

    On the offensive for a place in the Big League

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    By Helen Morris, Senior Editor, Tissue World Magazine Having touched-down in the Green Bay home of the famous NFL stars the Packers, Italian giant Sofidel plans to shoot the gap with a spread...

    Mexico needs more tissue – and one family owned company is ready to respond

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    With consumer growth figures up to 6%, there is currently not enough tissue to supply the population. Luis Alberto Reséndiz, general director of family firm Convertipap, explains what he plans to...
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    Kimberly-Clark – Thailand’s prospects are strengthening

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    As urbanisation increases, so does demand for more varied and sophisticated tissue products. The tissue giant tells TWM why it has growing confidence in its Thai and Asian tissue operations. By Helen Morris, Senior...
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    Thailand’s first tissue mill poised to reap rewards of a new future

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    Half the population of 68 million doesn’t use tissue. But a boom in tourism, urbanisation and an ageing society is changing that, explains Dr. Sumrit Yipyintum, MD of RiverPRO. Report...

    “ Turkey is becoming the tissue capital of the Middle East and Europe”

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    TWM interviews Parteks Paper Industry general manager Fatih Çapar TWM/1: What tissue markets do you operate in? Fatih Çapar: “Established in 1996, Parteks Paper Industry is a fully integrated manufacturer of virgin pulp parent...
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    Hengan Group shuns the price war to concentrate on quality, brand and good service

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    Consumer demand – with ‘consumption of household paper set to increase by 6-8%’ – is shifting to medium and high-end tissue, and urbanisation is carrying products into third- and...

    “Brexit will bring its own challenges – we are ready for them.”

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    With plans to build a crucial tissue mill in the UK in 2022, the family behind LPC – having once made its own exit from the industry – is...
    High efficiencies: Resolute Tissue's new distribution centre in Tennessee

    FULLY INTEGRATED RESOLUTE TARGETS PREMIUM AND ULTRA PREMIUM PRODUCTION

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    Vertical control of production backed by major investment is driving this former leading newsprint producer towards growth in quality products and geographic reach. TWM interviews Resolute Tissue Group president...

    APP says it’s turned the page … but will the sheet of paper be...

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    After a significant sustainability announcement in February that grabbed the attention of the world’s paper industries and media, TW visited APP in Indonesia to get the latest on the company and...

    Top of the league SCA is on the ball to meet consumers’ changing needs

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    With its focus on innovation and sustainability, SCA has taken the top spot in the UK tissue market. TW visits its renowned Manchester mill on the city’s Trafford Park. By Helen Morris, Tissue World...
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    Looking for a chain reaction

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    Fabryka Papieru Kaczory is ready to start up its new tissue mill to supply customers as far away as Congo and Haiti. TW meets the independent producer diversifying in a changing market under German influence. By Helen...

    Focus on: south eastern USA

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    Atlas Paper, Cascades Rockingham, Roses Southwest Paper and Von Drehle: TW visited the southeast of America to get the latest developments from some of its key manufacturers. Plus, Fisher International highlights T&T...

    Luxury products have been the most dynamic at 6% value growth in 2013

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    How the largest facial tissue plant in Europe is stepping up to meet customer demand After TW’s visit to Belgium and the Netherlands for this issue’s regional report it was evident that...
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    With 2,000 different designs and products being exported to 40 countries, flexibility is key...

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    The Polish economy slowed but never entered in deep recession and now it’s poised again for another leap forward. TW visited one leading napkin producer determined to adapt to market demands...

    Moving into tissue with a 2bn RMB investment means Hebei Yihoucheng is packing a...

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    By Helen Morris, Tissue World Magazine editor General manager Tian Yuwei epitomises China’s economic drive with advanced technology in place and planned, a top class targeted product, and a strategy aimed at...

    APP balancing overcapacity while positioning for huge potential growth

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    By Helen Morris, Tissue World Magazine editor China is grappling with an overheated market, too many PMs, ageing plants, a dangerous price war, sustainability, shifting consumer demands, and impressive 8.8% average annual...

    Steeped in history, a recent TM investment is keeping Petrocart one-step ahead of the...

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    By Helen Morris, Tissue World magazine editor A rapid introduction of all the big retailers into the Romanian tissue market has challenged the mainly local tissue manufacturing companies to step up their...
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    “We are targeting growing regions with a level of strong enough economic development.”

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    By Tissue World magazine editor Helen Morris Arjowiggins Graphic’s chief executive Agnès Roger talks to TWM about the company’s market strategy   Arjowiggins Graphic’s tissue mill is located in Saint-Marsla-Brière in north-west France. Founded...
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    Niche innovation is key at Universal

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    Inhibiting exchange rates, rising energy costs, changing consumer habits, struggling economy … no wonder Universal Paper & Plastics has become creatively self-sufficient. TWM talks to three members of the founding Sher...
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    Sugar cane and able

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    The primary fibre source which supplies Sappi at its Stanger site on South Africa’s east coast is much in evidence. TWM visited the pulp giant’s single tissue producing mill. Driving from Durban...
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    Hard discounting is reshaping the Colombian market

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    Growth in low price own label products has meant a strategy rethink for value added producers. Tissue World editor Helen Morris reports. César Augusto Solano Velandia, the general manager for Papeles Nacionales,...
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    Quality and speed supports business and product innovation at Productos Familia

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    An El Nino of change has hit the Colombian economy … the peso’s value down 30%, energy costs almost doubled, dramatically low rainfall. TWM visit’s the Cajicá site - at 2,640...
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    Tradition and passion creates Sofidel’s most advanced automated site

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    By Tissue World magazine editor Helen Morris TWM interviews Robert Jensen, Sofidel Sweden, country operations manager, on the latest tissue trends in the region. Sofidel’s Swedish plant produces 56,000tpy of private label products, specialist tissue in...

    Tissue World Milan: Global tissue ‘is reaching new peaks year after year’

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    Worldwide consumption stands at 36.3 million tonnes with estimated unmet potential at over 15 million tonnes in retail alone. As an increasingly complex and diverse marketplace presents great challenges and  opportunities, Tissue World Milan...

    Universal Paper is gearing up for a move into Japan’s growing premium tissue market

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    By Helen Morris, Senior Editor The APP Group company’s success has been in the economy segment with 9.4% of Japan’s T&T sector last year. Now its key strategy is to follow younger consumers who...

    “We are aiming to be the number one player in Nigeria as well as...

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    TWM interviews Bola Ataiyero-Adefila, the chief operating officer of Nigeria’s second largest converter, Banrut Rolls Nigeria. TWM/1: What products do you currently produce? Bola Adefila: “We produce all tissue paper products; toilet tissues, napkins, both...

    Hayat Kimya’s $100m Nigerian plant expands its dominance in Africa

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    In June, Turkish tissue manufacturer Hayat Kimya expanded its geographical presence with the inauguration of its $100m Nigerian diaper and tissue plant in Agbara, Nigeria. Hayat first entered into the Nigeria market in 2015...

    ‘Mexico has what it takes to be the South American tissue giant’

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    In a classic market of huge untapped potential, general manager Humberto Narro Flores says Absormex CMPC – with a history of double digit growth - is poised to benefit from steady...
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    Berli Jucker Cellox has invested in the best technology to target growth potential

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    Rising numbers… in population, tourism, retail stores, personal income and a strong economic performance gives the Bangkok-based manufacturer confidence for the future. A TWM report. TWM/1 What tissue markets do you operate in in Thailand...

    “The discussion was what size of tissue machine… so we went for the latest...

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    Managing director Abdullah Al Khateeb explains the key to success in the Gulf as Crown Paper Mill aims to be the largest tissue manufacturer in the Cooperation Council for the Arab States...

    FHH targets impressive ‘5% annual tissue growth’ potential in the UAE

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    Fine Hygienic Holding (FHH) plans to double capacity at its integrated Al Nakheel site in the next two years. Director of operations Adel Al Far explains the strategy. Report: Helen Morris, TWM...

    Quality and savings key for Queenex as energy costs rise and supply outstrips demand

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    Based in Abu Dhabi, Queenex Hygiene Paper Manufacturing (QHPM) is a subsidiary of Queenex Paper Products. In 2012, it started up a crescent former tissue machine that produces first-class tissue paper from the...

    “ We consider competition as a factor that grows the market, increases quality, triggers...

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    Asli Bicer, marketing director at Eczacıbaşı Consumer Products, talks to TWM. TWM/1: What tissue markets do you operate in? Asli Bicer: “Eczacıbaşı Consumer Products has been at the forefront of Turkey’s tissue paper...

    German consumers are eager for innovation – and are prepared to pay

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    Italian tissue giant Sofidel’s German sites offer a blueprint for its business strategy globally. Here, TWM meets Andreas Meyer and Domenico D’Angelo to get the latest in Europe’s...
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