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Operations Report

    Tissue World Magazine, Departments: Operations Report

     

    On the offensive for a place in the Big League

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    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...

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

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    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

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    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...

    Surge in tourists hiding the effects of Japan’s declining population

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    Tissue facing a challenge and an opportunity says JP Corelex Holdings president Mr. Hiroshi Kurosaki. Production balanced against demand is the key. Report by TWM senior editor Helen Morris. The first thing TWM notices...

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

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    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...
    Tissue World Magazine

    MPI Paper Mills – striving to be the industry’s premier supply chain solution

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    By Helen Morris, Senior Editor, Tissue World Magazine Output is set to rise by 25% with a PM4 upgrade, even before adopting a new sales model could mean overhauling or replacing PM5 as...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Cascades… the new major player determined to keep the personal touch

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    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...
    Tissue World Magazine

    How to achieve growth in a national crisis

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    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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    ‘We diversified, it was the only way to survive. And it worked.’

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    If ever a company was poised for an economic uplift it’s IPEL at its impressive new site in Indaial city. Managing director Juliano Silva talks growth, investment, flexibility, justice… and football...

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

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    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...
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    ‘We are facing a sophistication of demand’

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    Only in Italy could there be a fibre di latte, one of many pioneering products of fibre experts Lucart at its Diecimo site. In a price war when competition is fierce, balanced expansion...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Searching for distinction in a complex market

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    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...
    Tissue World Magazine

    A tough modern makeover for the table top star ‘close to nowhere’ in Västra...

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    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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    Tradition and passion creates Sofidel’s most advanced automated site

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    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 Magazine

    Back from the brink in Norway’s dramatic Paper Valley

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    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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    India: From shanty towns to shopping malls

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    By Helen Morris, Editor, Tissue World Magazine. When, not if, tissue consumption takes off among a population of 1.25bn. Top industry managers are preparing for that momentous cultural change. As the second most populous...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Hard discounting is reshaping the Colombian market

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    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,...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Quality and speed supports business and product innovation at Productos Familia

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    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...
    USA Country Report Tissue World Magazine

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

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    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...
    USA Country Report Tissue World Magazine

    Opportunity on “our doorstep” – or as it’s otherwise known … New York

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    The great metropolis is also “a great waste paper basket,” says Soundview Paper Company chief executive Karl Meyers who has targeted recycled and virgin fibre T&T. The key issue is still...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Target: Egypt’s distinctive facial tissue preference

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    By Helen Morris, Editor, Tissue World Magazine At more than half the tissue market in volume and marketed in boxes and plastic covers, Hayat Kimya sees a chance to advance a unique...
    Tissue World Magazine

    IPI aims to strengthen its reach overseas

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    Faced with regional jumbo roll overcapacity, the loss of energy cost leverage, traditional neighbouring markets hit by security issues, Egypt’s Interstate Paper Industries’ strategy is to find new potential growth …...
    Tissue World Magazine

    “Our vision is to become the undisputed market leader in Egypt and North Africa.”

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    By Helen Morris, Editor, Tissue World Magazine Keen for growth, Zeina Group founder and chairman Abdul Karim Natout talks to TWM about market potential in Egypt and beyond. With an impressive annual production...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Is Vietnam at last beginning to emerge from its troubled history?

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    Tissue demand is growing at 20%, so Vietnam Pulp & Paper Association vice chairman and secretary general Vu Ngoc Bao heralds a major opportunity as the country “joins the world’s economy.”...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Bringing Japanese efficiency – and patience – to Vietnam

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    Recycling pioneer JP CORELEX VIETNAM is poised to reap the benefits … but it has to narrow the gap between polar opposite tissue industries and cultural habits. TWM talked to Masahiko...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Not content with being a market leader, Saigon Paper plans to double capacity in...

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    Vietnam is a classic tissue growth market. One million new urban residents added each year - per capita consumption less than 1.0kg – behind only China and India among Asia’s growing...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Song Duong: on the brink of privatisation and expansion, TWM talks to director Nguyen...

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    Director Nguyen Van Quan explains the fundamental shift taking place in consumers’ tissue expectations across Vietnam . TWM/1 What are your investment plans for the future? “Years of investment by our joint shareholders...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Niche innovation is key at Universal

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    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...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Sub-Sahara Africa: An expanding main market opportunity … long term

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    At Kimberley-Clark’s Enstra mill in South Africa they can’t make enough tissue to meet the demand. TWM spoke to the man who aims to steer the tissue giant towards that potential...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Novus Holdings backs debut in tissue with €25m boost to capacity

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    With the global print and paper market showing signs of global decline, one major player has moved into tissue with an investment project at newly acquired Correll Tissue. TWM reports. “I’m attracted...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Sugar cane and able

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    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...
    Tissue World Magazine

    How Maxi is surviving Greece’s economic tragedy

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    Bankruptcies and closures saw an end to production at five paper machines in recent years, but with Greece still seeing the tissue market grow by 2.5%, just one new installation took...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Karina poised to build on four years of 11% sales growth

    Operations Report Greg Grishchenko -
    When the Kazakhstan company first offered kitchen towels many years ago store buyers asked why they needed such wide toilet paper. It’s come a long way since then. Greg Grishchenko reports. In...
    Tissue World Magazine

    İpek Kağıt set to double capacity at its Kazakhstan vantage point on Central Asia...

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    By Helen Morris, TWM editor The Turkish tissue manufacturer went the extra miles to take advantage of a vast geographical region of economic and social potential. Here, TWM interviews Hamdi Yazıcı, Central...
    Tissue World Magazine

    “We are targeting growing regions with a level of strong enough economic development.”

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    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...

    “Dream” of second PM within reach for fiercely independent French hygiene producer

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    By Tissue World Magazine Senior Editor Helen Morris Already a market leader, quality product and location are key as MP Hygiene aims to clean up...

    “A Europe-wide outlook is vital for us.”

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    By Tissue World magazine editor Helen Morris As the WEPA Group’s French mill, WEPA Lille’s location is key for understanding the dynamics within the French and European tissue markets It’s not surprising that...

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

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    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...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Forward-thinking and entrepreneurial: TWM visits Sofidel’s Comceh mill in South Eastern Romania to find...

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    By Helen Morris, Tissue World magazine editor "Supporting the Volare brand and increasing the Regina brand’s awareness are key,” Carlo Ferrero, the Italian-born country operations manager of Sofidel’s Comceh, Calarasi-based tissue plant,...

    Pulp Invest targets No.1 position in Tatarstan as Russian tissue surges

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    In the emerging Republic of Tatarstan, Pulp Invest is on the brink of a major start up. With the towering presence of the Kazan Kremlin never far from sight or mind,...
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