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

WEPA Lucca is now “fit for the future”

After two years of substantial restructuring, the WEPA Group has never lost its faith and drive in the Italian tissue market. Italian managing director Bernhard Gross tells TWM why now more...
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’

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...

Vicki Goodburn lives in Auckland, New Zealand, with her partner Andrew, three-year old son...

The tissue products I use are kitchen rolls, box tissues, baby wipes and toilet paper. Kitchen Rolls We go through a lot...
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Fundamentals drive Australian and New Zealand tissue consumption higher

Steady population growth, population ageing and rising per capita consumption have combined to push tissue production in Australia to capacity. The question for the Australian tissue market is...
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SPAIN: IS THE GREEN REVOLUTION READY TO TAKE OFF?

Visiting mills for our Country Report brings home a real appreciation that Spain’s tissue industry is on the brink of a new era. It is just a matter of...
Tissue World Magazine Consumerspeak May-June 2020

THE GAME CHANGER IN RECENT TIMES HAS BEEN ACCESS TO TISSUE PRODUCT INFORMATION… ALLOWING...

London based Mark Hendriksen is a researcher and blogger about the world of toilets, with humorous and educational health related books to his credit. He’s an entrepreneur with...

Tissue … the perfect canvas for capturing life’s perfect moments

Claire Bowen is a Perth, Australia-based blogger, dramatist and self-described “leftie feminist greenie” who studies the impact of popular culture on the historical record. I’ll...

Toilet Twinning initiative brings new appreciation to luxuries like toilet roll

Lesley Quirk is a specialist relationship manager for a charity initiative called Toilet Twinning. She liaises with corporates who support its campaign to provide clean water, proper toilets...

Algeria set to double its tissue capacity

By former senior paper industry officer Omar Chabane With North Africa awakening from a period of inertia, TWM spotlights Faderco, a company with big ideas whose investment is driving the momentum A previous...
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Intercontinental growth – tissue parent roll trade pushing back the boundaries

By Esko Uutela, Principal, Tissue, RISI A global tissue business in excess of 2.6 million tonnes a year and providing 35% of all tissue sold internationally, bulk parent roll trade offers new...
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Intense market competition sees China’s tissue industry setting record performance levels 

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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Canada – strengthening its away game

Canada, of course, has a big neighbour. The biggest, in economic terms, which while returning a fluctuating performance is never, currently, less that the biggest economic giant. In tissue terms, Canada is small scale … it’s a...

Tissue needs a step change to be fit for the near- and long-term future

In a wide-ranging analysis, Essity president and chief executive Magnus Groth told Tissue World Milan that innovation in the last decade has not been enough. A deeper insight into...

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...

Poland gets in shape to take full advantage of the European recovery

By Helen Morris, Tissue World Editor Poland’s 40 million population, or at least the ones who get round to doing the cooking and the cleaning, love their kitchen towels...the star performers in a relatively...

Tissue World Milan 2019

3,200 VISITORSFROM 91 COUNTRIES172 EXHIBITING COMPANIES60 EXPERT CONFERENCE SPEAKERSTissue World 2019 – the world’s largest tissue industry exhibition and conference – played host to over 3,200 trade professionals from...
Derin Oyekan is co-founder and CMO of REEL, US-based exclusively bamboo product tissue company.

As a Senior Millennial I’m constantly working on reducing my carbon footprint

Derin Oyekan is co-founder and CMO of REEL, the US-based exclusively bamboo product tissue company. He explains how his personal preferences inspired his business strategy. Obviously...
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Consumers want it both ways … national brand equivalent quality in economy products. TW...

A Tissue World report Cascades' Kingman, Arizona, USA-based tissue converting facility. The approach to Cascades’ Kingman tissue converting site in Arizona in the west of the USA is nothing if not dramatic. Located...
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Hengan Group shuns the price war to concentrate on quality, brand and good service

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...

Operations Report: “We estimate that about 40% of all paper sold on the shelf...

With roughly half the per capita consumption rate of Germany and France, the Transylvania, Romania-based company’s extensive investment programme is targeting home growth, as well as international expansion where...

Whether at home or abroad, when buying tissue products I look for a balance...

Charlotte Lynn is a teacher from Canada working in the UK I love travelling and have been to many parts of the world and also...
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Iran ‘at a turning point’ and ready for business home and away

              Iran’s tissue professionals are ready for business more than ever. That’s the overwhelming impression I came away with having spent time in and around Tehran for our Country Report. The talk is...
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Cascades… the new major player determined to keep the personal touch

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...
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What does China’s Belt & Road master plan mean for tissue?

China is a major financier to the world. Just one of many investment vehicles is its initiative to transform transport systems and smooth trade across Asia, Europe and Africa – estimated at $900bn...
Ronald Rusco, Chief Executive, Sopanusa Tissue & Packaging Saranasukses

OPERATIONS REPORT: A Southeast Asian “premier titan” embarks on visionary expansion

In March, Indonesia’s Sun Paper Source announced it had invested in four tissue machines at its plant in Ngoro, Mojokerto, boosting production capacity to 300,000tpy in total with sister company Sopanusa...
Benny Iswandy, Chief Executive for Asia Pulp & Paper’s Indonesian-based global tissue business unit

Hygiene is key as increased demand to be sustained – emerging trends now and...

China and the ASEAN region were the first to suffer the worldwide pandemic. Leading tissue players are now emerging stronger and more flexible having adapted to the changing times....
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河北义厚成将重锤出击, 在卫生纸领域投资20亿人民币

由《世界卫生纸》总编 Helen Morris 报导 河北义厚成的总经理田玉伟先生完整说明中国经济驱动元素和该企业如何通过已实施或计划中的最新科技方案、有集中的高级产品规划和改变中国卫生纸消费文化策略达到目标。 “我们的策略是在华北市场中扩大面巾纸的市场份额,”河北义厚成的总经理田玉伟先生在河北保定的工厂告诉我们。保定市距离北京约两小时的车程。“与华南的市场不同,这个市场还很有增长潜力。再过几年,我们将会领跑这一市场。” 设立在中国的乡村,通往工厂的泥路两旁种满了一排排桃树,树枝都被硕大的红桃压弯了。这间公司与自然的呼应能在工厂中体现:现场的员工们自己种植蔬菜,向日葵花床星罗点缀在纸厂和污水处理设施中,这个同时也是中国第一个同天然气而不是煤炭动力的卫生纸厂。这个厂占地600亩,还有很多扩展的空间。 河北义厚成主要生产宠物坐垫、卫生巾产品和湿巾,2014年5月才进入卫生纸市场,以一台安德里茨年产量25,000吨的PM1开始。第二台年产量25,000吨的纸机将会于明年开机;第三、四台纸机也将会来未来四年陆续到来,是易厚成20亿人民币投资的其中一部分,目标是完全投产后将生产20万吨每年。 在拥有16年生产卫生巾产品的经验后进入卫生纸市场,田总说出了卫生纸行业成功的多样化至关重要的一点:“我们必须进入卫生纸市场,”他说:“产能过剩在这里导致激烈的竞争以及价格战。我们其中一个主要的应对策略就是通过我们的品牌,在姐妹行业建立一个强势的品牌是关键。我们勇敢地进入卫生纸市场;我们已经拥有一个品牌,这是一个很大的优势。” 这间公司的志向很明确,尽管田总自己悄悄地说,不事张扬。通过翻译,田总说这间公司需要在卫生纸行业投资大量资金。“我们刚进入这个领域不久,但我们的起点很高,并使用最好的技术。这意味着我们在竞争中占有领先地位。” 安德里茨提供的PrimeLine Compact 纸机,拥有PrimeDry钢制扬克缸,速度每分钟1,650米,幅宽2.85米,是中国的首台这样的机器。义厚成也向安德里茨下单一架PM2,预计将会生产高质量的面巾纸产品。 义厚成工厂的卷筒纸和面巾纸占总产量的20%左右。把重点放在面巾纸上面,是由于市场差距以及在拥挤的市场中具有竞争力的举措,这同时也导致“不可避免的”价格战。 “我们在中国应对价格战的策略是我们的产品,”他说。“华北的消费者与华南的很不同:在华北,他们通常偏向比较有韧性,不易撕断的产品。在那里,卷筒纸的适用范围很广,整个家里都可能用到,包括在餐桌上。然而,在南方,人们比较喜欢柔软的产品,而且卷筒纸只会在洗手间里使用。” 品牌标识是关键:河北义厚成已经建立了一个新的卫生纸品牌“妮好”,一种拥有4个纸层的卷筒纸产品,田总说非常独特,高质量而且柔软。“我们倾听市场的声音,生产一种既柔又韧的卫生纸产品,并将会在华北市场推广,”他说。“在中国,面巾纸是主要的市场之一,而已经进入这个市场的造纸企业并没有先进的技术设备,但我们有。我们想成为这种产品在华北地区的领导者,因为暂时还没有这个文化。有这样的创新,我们相信会在价格战中取胜。” 这公司应对价格战的第二个策略是增加面巾纸的生产。“随着中国经济的不断增长,特别是在华南地区,”他说:“华南地区的人们在浴室里用更多更好的优质卷筒纸。 我们专注于北方的二、三线城市,而不是非常大的一线城市。也有出口的潜力,但不是面巾纸。如果生产超过需要,我们将出口,我们已经出口擦手纸到日本。” 田总说,消费者们对卫生纸的忠诚度不是很高,品牌营销中名人代言比较容易赢得关注。这种消费不是季节性的,很稳定,不受季节影响。 环保也是一个很重要的策略:政府在过去几年里出台了相关的法规,这对于整个卫生纸行业产生多米诺骨牌效应。田总说:“这对于小的卫生纸工厂来说是个很大的挑战,这导致许多工厂倒闭。随着产能过剩的问题,那些大量生产低成本而质量低的产品的工厂倒闭,我们相信这对于竞争而言是件好事。” 对河北义厚成来说,这些法规的出来是“一个机遇”。“我们想把这些较弱的竞争者挤出市场,而我们是通过生产高质量而环保的产品。凭借我们在卫生巾用品的市场经验,我们有一个良好的开端。”他说。 “环保产品是未来,我们将继续在这方面投资。我们想通过推广面巾纸和提高他的质量来改变人们的生活方式,由此获得良好的盈利。在这个行业面巾纸能卖比卷筒纸较好的价钱,利润也较好。它对我们而言潜力最大。”

FRONTISSUES: Trajectories of national political and economic choices and trends could change dramatically, with...

Generations Z and Alpha are going to dominate consumer choices One megatrend features strongly in TWM’s Latin America reports. Generation Z consumers, colloquially known as ‘zoomers’ – born in the years 1997...

Taking advantage of NBSK pulp for soft and strong tissue grades

With the fibre cost of the finished tissue product still a dominant factor in the tissue industry, Canfor Pulp explains its latest developments to TW. By Wlad Janssen, Specialist on tissue for Canfor Pulp...

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

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...
Export potential: L.C. Paper's Besalú, Girona-based site is incorporating new export destinations in South America and the Middle East.

ENVIRONMENT FIRST: “WE ARE IN AN AWAKENING IN TERMS OF RETHINKING CONSUMER TISSUE...

TWM first met Joan Vila – chief executive, L.C. Paper – at the company’s Besalú, Girona-based site in 2013. As 2019 draws to a close, we return to interview the...

Sopanusa Tissue to double capacity

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...

Home and away … Anika compares West and East

By Anika Michielsen Born in Belgium, Anika Michielsen has just returned from a year in South Korea where she was studying a masters in business...
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Bold investment in luxury products pays off as staying at home is the new...

Staying in, our EuroMonitor report on the Benelux countries tells us, is the new going out. What’s happening in the At-Home category offers up rich promise for tissue producers, at least...

Operations Report: With a sixth tissue machine due to be started-up in the last...

The best laid development plans on 2018 were tested during the pandemic years. Today, continued investments have brought the goal of 125,000tpy production target into sight. TWM Senior Editor...

APP balancing overcapacity while positioning for huge potential growth

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...

When it comes to the perfect wedding speech… a Best Man should never be...

Unaccustomed as he is to public speaking, Adam, who is based in Bristol, England, finds inspiration conveniently comes to hand when he sits and thinks about his speech.

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

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...

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...
AFRY Management Consulting’s Hampus Mörner, Manager, Christoph Euringer, Principal, and Tino Mäkelä, Analyst.

MARKETISSUES: Profitable growth in the consumer tissue value chain – where to look?

Tissue producers are in a solid position, but the example of retailers expanding their private label offering shows genuine interest to incorporate margins currently generated in the upstream business. By AFRY...