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Tissue World Magazine, Departments: Consumer Speak, Exitissues, Foex, Frontissues, Marketissues, and Operations Report

HANDY FOR OIL SPILLS, WASPS, BEES, SPIDERS, THE DOG … OH, AND YES, FOR...

Callum John is a writer who lives in England. He has contributed to various publications during a long career. He is also a gardener, a cook, a walker, an...

I refused to stockpile … but then word swept through the office that a...

Simon Creasey, Freelance journalist UK freelance journalist Simon Creasey had to abandon his principles when he was down to the last roll at home, and...

What with the retired greyhound, the ongoing house renovation and my dust allergy… boy...

Hazel Gage is a Manchester, UK-based Senior Designer at Contrast Creative. Thinking about what tissue and towel products we actually use in our house, and -...
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ConsumerSpeak: Covid didn’t change my buying habits very much … but just wait until...

Brazilian-born world traveller Márcio Moura is, unsurprisingly, an avid football fan. His team is São Paulo’s Corinthians, and Márcio lives in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, where he works for...

From personal preference – to a tissue start-up

Ryan Fritsch co-founded the US company Cloud Paper, the 100% bamboo and plastic-free paper brand, in the spring of 2019. Here, he discusses the long-term, personal tissue choices which...

The challenge – a wedding dress made from just four rolls of toilet paper...

New bride Tabitha Perry O'Sullivan, an Investor Relations and Communications Manager living in London, recently celebrated her hen do by tasking her hens to create a wedding dress made...

ConsumerSpeak: From “no real awareness of this wonderful product,” to co-owning a Ghanaian-based tissue...

Netherlands-born Sander de Klerk is Founder and Chief Rolling Officer for the Good Roll company. Here, he explains the motivation behind the team. As a consumer...

Koehler’s Eco Black recycled paper – 250 metres of it – to help display...

Italian artist Enrico Mazzone’s work includes Rubedo, a visual representation of Dante’s Divine Comedy, and the largest work of art said to have ever been made on paper. Always...

CONSUMERSPEAK: Just what the doctor ordered

“Dr. K” – as he is known professionally – is a Swedish doctor who lives in the UK. Here, he talks about his fondness for bulk-buying tissue and kitchen towel products...

CONSUMERSPEAK: “And those tissue boxes!”

Creative designer Katie Stern was working in fabrics when she discovered Swedish dishcloths – 70% wood cellulose, 30% cotton, and 100% compostable. Based in Wisconsin, US, her business and home life now...
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CONSUMERSPEAK: It’s in the bag – from the most colourful shop in the world

Alexandra Lewis lives in South London and works in marketing and communications at professional services firm Aon. A recent road trip across Portugal with her husband Dave led to Portuguese paper...
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Bellwether of Hungary’s economic evolution

A new converting line will give Forest Papir of Hungary a powerful boost for competitiveness and innovation. A TW report. The uneventful transformation into a market economy which Hungary experienced just over...

GROWTH IN DEMAND IN DEVELOPING MARKETS SET TO OUTWEIGH GROWTH IN THE US

Good news, bad news: US consumer tissue – a matter of perspective Svetlana Uduslivaia, Euromonitor International’s head of tissue & hygiene industry

SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS – THE GROWTH WORLD LEADER IN TISSUE DEMAND

The emerging ASEAN trade bloc is being powered by a new generation of young spenders, quality products and low production costs. Economic analyst Phillip Lawrence reports on whether this...
Tissue World Magazine, TWM, Exitissues, May-June 2020

ARE TISSUE’S GREEN CREDENTIALS AS GOOD AS ITS MAJOR COMPANIES CLAIM?

A report has claimed that the tissue industry is not as environmentally friendly as it used to be. For TWM, freelance journalist Simon Creasey put the claim to...
Bill Moore, Susan Cornish, Moore & Associates

RECOVERED PAPER SUPPLY – ALREADY IN DECLINE – HIT HARD BY THE PANDEMIC

New sources of recovered paper for the recycled tissue industry must be found, say Bill Moore and Susan Cornish of Moore & Associates. Here they analyse the long-term trend, and...
Jaiprakash Narain: Century Pulp and Paper

While there have been no queues for tissue in India under pandemic, personal and...

Century Pulp and Paper, headquartered in New Delhi, is India’s tissue leader. When TWM visited in 2016, the company felt the key to tissue’s take off could be in...
Simon Creasey Freelance journalist

Inside view of how leading companies are responding to the Covid crisis

The surge in tissue consumption meant an intense focus on operating efficiencies, increasing control of entire supply chains, generational software updates, a catalyst for major investment, and innovation which...

Next investment cycle to see 5.8Mt additional supply of global BCP in 2022-2023

Pierre Bach, Research manager, Hawkins Wright Last year’s subdued capacity growth – the first net contraction since 2014 – to be accelerated by so-far confirmed...
Wild-Bambo

After a brief retail appearance on US chain store shelves, bamboo has returned to...

Online, bamboo tissue products - especially toilet paper - are on the rise with more enterprises offering impressive varieties to attract price-concerned savers, “green” loyalists and “white cloud” softness...
We realised we needed to become a referent at something – and we decided to put all of our efforts in becoming a leading player in sustainability

Towards – and reaching – the zero-waste horizon. A TWM report

The tissue industry has long been on a journey towards clean manufacturing. In many cases research, innovation and diversification towards that aim began decades ago. The...

The emergence of projects where numerous TMs are being ordered at once is now...

Tissue machinery suppliers are broadening their product offering and focus areas to meet rapidly diversifying tissue markets. As the global consolidation rate among tissue paper producers has been declining,...

Eco Trends: The sustainable product that claims to have transformed an entire company

After launching the first Brazilian toilet paper with a 100% sustainable life cycle in 2020, Copapa announces that this was just the beginning of its journey. Fernanda Accorsi, founder,...

AFRY: Lack of control on size and weight means some companies are giving away...

Companies struggle to control base weight even within a single batch. In order to meet minimum weight targets, most compensate by increasing the average weight of their tissue rolls,...

ExitIssues: Supply chain challenges in UK home and international markets at unprecedented levels

Spiraling energy costs, rising inflation, changing labour market forces, and Brexit regulations adding to pandemic restrictions have created issues “we have never faced before at such high levels.” Consumer...

ExitIssues: North America’s tissue finances are strong… but ageing machinery will need to be...

With four of the top 10 largest global tissue manufacturers in China, future North American investments are set to target advances in scale and technology, and over 80% of...

India: Improved manufacturing climate and infrastructure, rising urbanisation and income, hygiene awareness and surge...

Despite its low global tissue volume share compared with its substantial population, India is projected to grow in volume at an 11% CAGR over 2020- 2025* - outperforming most...

ExitIssues: Review of global BCP capacity – on the brink of significant investment cycle...

Total BCP capacity shrank by just over 0.5Mt last year – the first contraction since 2009 and only the second on record. Report for TWM by Hawkins Wright’s Research...

ExitIssues: How China’s Operation National Sword changed the global recycling market

Bill Moore, Founder, Moore & Associates During September’s Tissue & Paper Bangkok exhibition and conference, Moore & Associates Founder Bill Moore discussed the latest trends...

EXITISSUES: Covid-19 restrictions had a profound effect on product packaging, and radical changes in...

Insight + Action founder Susan Cornish expands on her keynote speech at the TW Bangkok conference earlier this year to reveal the background to a surge in interest in...

ExitIssues: With the global recession accelerating in 2022, two key events will continue to...

Tissue trade, like almost all trade, prefers a smooth, settled and thriving economic world. Exceptions occur when disruption, whatever the cause may be, enable a particular trade to thrive...

China’s state of the nation tissue report: Overcapacity a serious concern as market competition...

China’s National Household Paper Industry Association has urged its companies to invest “rationally” in its annual assessment of the current status of the industry. TWM’s report highlights the main...

China’s state of the nation tissue report: Overcapacity a serious concern as market competition...

China’s National Household Paper Industry Association has urged its companies to invest “rationally” in its annual assessment of the current status of the industry. TWM’s report highlights the main...

EXITISSUES: Market leadership in sustainable hygiene, and 20% of the AfH sector – Star...

TWM interviewed Managing Director Khalid Saifullah when Star Tissue UK was named in the London Stock Exchange Group’s top 1,000 companies to inspire the UK in 2016 and then...

The tissue facts on the ground… seeing the forest, and the trees

Industry analyst Greg Grishchenko – comparing the reality to sometime public perception – reveals just how responsible the industry has been with its forestry and bleaching programmes. An average American household is...
Essity's Sustainable Growth and Carbon Reduction Efforts

EXITISSUES: Global tissue giant gears up for a new era in production and consumption

Fundamental restructuring has been a feature of 2023 across various regional operations for Essity. Here, TWM talks to Matthew Urmanski, North American Vice President Sales & Marketing for Essity’s Professional Hygiene...
Wanda Ciesielczuk, Vice President, Production & Technical Director.

EXITISSUES: The pace of expansion at market leader Velvet Care is gearing up again

Capacity increases in converting and tissue machine output are being boosted by further investment as the company plans to “create a market” and then build the processing capacity to meet it,...
Consumer Markets Analyst Simon Creasey

EXITISSUES: Inflation appears to be reducing in most developed nations – could we be...

As pricing shows signs of normalising in the coming months, Consumer Markets Analyst Simon Creasey looks at how manufacturers handled the dilemma of absorbing cost increases or increasing prices. Last year was...

EXITISSUES: North American tissue is back on track after the pandemic … but dynamic...

Against a background where grocery prices have risen by 26% and consumers are spending the highest share of their income on food for 30 years, AFRY Management Consulting’s Sanna Sosa, Senior...
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Mexico: “The opportunity to grow is huge”

When TW visited Mexico for this issue’s Country Report it was easy to see why it has made it into the MINTs (Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey) list of countries to...