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Operations Report

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    WEPA plans for Vive La Difference in the French market

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    WEPA France is investing while some competitors are selling or restructuring. Country Manager Christophe Dorin spoke to TWM Senior Editor Helen Morris. It has taken a...

    The Brexit vote has meant increased demand for Poppies Europe

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    Above: Armindo Marque, Partner and technical director With up to 10 million napkins produced per day, the Northern Powerhouse company is the UK’s market leader...
    Modernising process: the Green Bay-based company has two sites with 75,000sq ft of manufacturing and 40,000sq ft of warehouse, converting around 20,000-30,000tpy.

    “US TISSUE IS GROWING AT 1-2%… WE ARE GROWING IN EXCESS OF 20% A...

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    The future is electronic intelligence, robots and Human–Machine Interface. At this Green Bay converter financial support is offered for schooling and several personnel are going to technical school to...
    “For the first time, we are starting to see a more seriously approach to the issue of sustainability in the Spanish market,” Francesco Pasquini, corporate sales and marketing director AfH, Lucart Group

    LUCART GROUP: THE ITALIAN PLAYER AIMING TO BRING SUSTAINABILITY TO THE SPANISH TISSUE...

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    Spanish subsidiary Lucart Tissue & Soap is starting to see a more seriously approach to the issue of sustainability in the Spanish market for the very first time. It is...

    Sopanusa Tissue to double capacity

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    Indonesia-based Sopanusa Tissue has announced plans to create a new company called Sun Paper Source that will double the company’s tissue capacity. In an interview at the company's site near Surabaya in...
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    ‘No one knew what kitchen roll was – now it has become a habit’

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    Government cash incentives, a growing middle class, awareness of environmentally-friendly products, changing priorities… it all adds up to a dynamic future as the market catches up with Papelera San Andrés de...

    Seizing the future for tissue

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    As producers of high quality BEK pulp in Argentina, Celulosa Argentina has “a strategic advantage” to produce tissue papers in a rapidly growing market. TW visits the business to talk market...

    Dynamic economic growth – massive consumer markets – unique geographical position

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    By Helen Morris With Russian tissue consumption expected to rise fivefold in three years, Hayat Kimya - the largest tissue manufacturer in Eastern Europe and the Middle East - sees higher quality...

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

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    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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    Bringing Japanese efficiency – and patience – to Vietnam

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    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...
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    Target: Egypt’s distinctive facial tissue preference

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    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...
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    India: From shanty towns to shopping malls

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    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...
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    ‘We diversified, it was the only way to survive. And it worked.’

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    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...
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    Thriving against a price war, an overcrowded market… and Trump

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    With two paper machine start-ups planned for next year pushing total output to 140,000tpy, Hebei Jinboshi Group will prioritise product quality and variety, expand sales channels and develop markets with low price...

    Bringing manufacturing ownership back to a region which once led the world

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    Northwood’s recent acquisitions in the UK’s AfH tissue market has propelled it to the number three spot in the sector. Now with its latest joint venture Northwood & Wepa acquiring the former Georgia- Pacific...
    History and tradition: Klippans Bruk is located in Skåne County, Sweden, just over an hour north of Malmö

    KLIPPANS BRUK STARTS TO SELL INTO THE USA AND ASIA AS DEMAND FOR...

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    Operating since 1573, Klippans Bruk has just invested in a new Recard-supplied PM which will quadruple production and means “the globe is now our market.” Here, TWM met chief...
    Lilla Edet: Located an hours drive north of Gothenburg, Essity has owned the historic site since 1986.

    “WE BECAME CIRCULAR BEFORE EVERYONE ELSE THOUGHT TO DO SO.”

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    Even within green leader Essity, the Lilla Edet mill north of Gothenburg is a pioneer in driving growth while still prioritising sustainability ... through waste usage, low cost steam, biofuel...

    IN A WORLD WHERE SPEED TO MARKET AND DYNAMIC PRODUCTION FLOWS ARE CRITICAL, ADVANCES...

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    While initial capital investment in a mobile robot with control software and interfaces and changes to existing systems may cost close to $200,000, the return on investment is often...

    REBRAND AND M&A TAKES CASCADES UP TO 4TH BIGGEST PRODUCER IN NORTH AMERICA

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    Like all tissue companies the easing of the pulp price crisis has been warmly welcomed. Like most, the Canadian green and private label leader focussed on productivity… creating a...
    Growth set to continue: investment in equipment and human resources at the Pako Group factory in Belgrade

    SERBIA: SEARCH FOR NEW MARKETS AS DEMAND FALLS BELOW PRE-COVID-19 LEVEL

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    Pako Group Company is a family business founded in Belgrade, Serbia in 1995. Under its UNO brand, it specialises in the production and distribution of toilet paper, tissue and...
    Camelia’s Lazar Stevanović: Advanced machine expected to pioneer new quality products

    CONSUMERS ARE GETTING SMARTER – AND QUALITY PREVAILS

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    In an awakening market with more and more company start-ups, Serbia’s tissue industry is “in a constant state of growth.” Here, Lazar Stevanović, commercial director of Čačak-based manufacturer Camelia, looks...
    Continued investments: Eczacıbaşı Consumer Products has full confidence in the potential of the Turkish tissue market

    ‘Changed consumer habits will bring Turkey’s per capita usage closer to that of developed...

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    At 6.3kg in Turkey - 26kg in the US – the figure has risen during the pandemic and will remain higher permanently, says Bilge Çiftçi, Chief Marketing Officer, Eczacıbaşı...
    Guided by experience: Lutfi Aydin

    Turkey’s tissue leader sets its sights on becoming Russia’s largest producer

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    Already dominating in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Hayat Kimya continues its impressive growth programme, and targeted pandemic response in manufacturing and marketing. Lutfi Aydın, Global Tissue...
    Orhan Öğücü and the company's Çorlu, Tekirdağ-based plant: “Our share in the exports of our industry is 34%. In the world, we export to more than 80 countries in five continents.”

    ‘Global tissue consumption set to rise by 10-15% post-pandemic’

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    Will a new ‘Era of Hygiene’ emerge once Covid-19 is under control? Turkey’s Lila Group Chairman Orhan Öğücü believes it will, after consumers have grown to rely on and...
    Alpay Yalçın, Export Sales and Operations Manager, Europap Tezol Kağit

    “We saw a very substantial sales increase in a very short time”

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    Alpay Yalçın, Export Sales and Operations Manager, Europap Tezol Kağit, says Turkey was more successful than many countries in combating the disease. Report by TWM Senior Editor Helen Morris.
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    Marutomi Group targets unique product development in drive towards 20% home market share

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    The goal of Marutomi Seishi Co., a tissue product manufacturer with facilities across Japan, is to reach a 20% share of the Japanese tissue market in the near future....
    Mr. Kazufumi Yamasaki, President, Nippon Paper Crecia Co.

    Tissue use habits are changing as ‘new lifestyle’ takes hold in Japan 

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    Nippon Paper Crecia Co. President Mr. Kazufumi Yamasaki outlines focus on product development to meet challenges of rapidly changing market and the possibility of a third wave of the...
    Q1 target for start-up: Critical weeks ahead to get TAD line on stream at Kruger’s impressive Sherbrooke plant in Quebec.

    Kruger Products’ ‘Dynamic’ 2020 Continues with Imminent Major Start-Up and Planned Future Expansion

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    Canada’s leading manufacturer of quality tissue has redirected its strategy during the last three years. Chief Executive Dino Bianco has driven a focus on consumer insight… “to up our...
    Savvy consumers: Royal Paper's SuperSoft brand targets the value equation

    “2020 was a record year of growth for us. We expect 2021 to be...

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    An entrepreneurial spirit gives Royal Paper the means to diversify and expand west to east across the complete range of private label products. Chief Executive Kevin Otero gives TWM...
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    New York’s historic tissue mill reinventing itself … after a devastating fire and now...

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    “Overnight, we saw a shift across America … Covid changed the way everyone is behaving and thinking … we all need to keep a close eye on how many...
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    Intense market competition sees China’s tissue industry setting record performance levels 

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    A November 2020 report by China National Household Paper Industry (CNHPIA) Association looks at margins, soft and hardwood pulp and parent roll prices, investment, capacity, import and export and...
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    AfH is making a strong comeback in China and across Asia

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    People want to return to their traditional lifestyles … vacations, going to restaurants, theatres, bars, or just simply getting out, and a resurgence in commercial tissue shows it’s happening....
    Green potential: The company’s environmentally-friendly products are seeing increased demand in Thailand and across Southeast Asia .

    The return of a much-needed tourism boom is anticipated to bring back income –...

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    The anticipated rise in tissue use of three years ago has been hit by three waves of the Covid-19 pandemic. TWM interviewed Dr. Sumrit Yipyintum, Managing Director of Thailand’s...
    Gearing up: The company's 13-acre Sun Paper Source plant in Indonesia; Following the outbreak of Covid-19, the businesses have expanded into new and bigger markets they previously weren't able to get a foothold in.

    WHEN THE COVID-19 CRISIS BROKE WE WERE ALREADY GEARED UP TO MEET THE NEW...

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    Sopanusa Tissue & Packaging Saranasukes and Sun Paper Source’s state-of-readiness was due to a dynamic business strategy which today sees it trading in over 80 countries and across five continents....

    ‘A project that could change the course of the tissue industry’s future’

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    The circular economy, tissue from wheat straw, a dual strategy of private label and brands: TWM Senior Editor Helen Morris interviewed Donato Giorgio, President Global Supply Chain and member...

    How the pandemic raised the demand for sustainable and innovative hygiene products, and may...

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    WEPA didn’t just think outside the box when the Covid-19 crisis hit, it created new boxes, says CEO Martin Krengel. Report by TWM Senior Editor Helen Morris.

    DISPENSING A CLEANER, SAFER SERVICE FOR GERMANY’S HEALTH-CONSCIOUS PUBLIC

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    Metsä Tissue divested its napkin business in 2020 and has realigned its focus on tissue. Tobias Lüning, Vice President Supply Chain Western Europe, Country Manager Germany, spoke to TWM.

    IPEL gearing up to ride the economic and industrial recovery

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    The hard-hit AfH sector is now back to pre-pandemic sales levels. Private label is structuring and professionalising while exports are targeted across South and Central America. IPEL’s Commercial Director...

    Mili: Is Covid-19 the tipping point for accelerated growth in the Brazilian tissue market?

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    With over 70% of production dedicated to the At-Home market, one of Brazil’s leading tissue manufacturers Mili saw sales grow 18% in 2020 – and expects a 10% increase...

    FHH: The region’s top tissue company raises the bar higher: “We are going to...

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    Fine Hygienic Holding (FHH) – the tissue market leader in the Middle East and North Africa region – has a history dating back to 1958. Here, Chief Executive James...
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