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Tissue World Digital Days

Tissue World Digital Days brings the global industry together

Three day online platform examined key trends across Asia, Yankee Dryer developments, the emerging dynamic in the Turkey region, Latin America and the US market … all seeking new...
Hendrik Otto, Chief Operating Officer, WEPA

People’s hygiene awareness has grown during the past months … we expect it to...

Chief Operating Officer Hendrik Otto assesses the opportunities and challenges facing WEPA production sites in Germany, France, Italy, Poland, the UK and the Netherlands as Covid-19’s varying impact continues. 
Sivashankari Bharathi, Analyst, AFRY Management Consulting, and Sanna Sosa, Senior Principal, AFRY Management Consulting

HOW THE TOP TISSUE COMPANIES ACHIEVE THEIR HIGHER PERFORMANCE LEVELS

The pandemic meant record sales for retailers. But beyond external market demand spikes and input cost deflation, strategic and operational planning led to top EBITDA performance. Sanna Sosa, Senior...
Ralf Möbus, Senior Executive, StepChange Consulting

Covid-19: A catalyst for digitalisation

The impact of Covid-19 on market outlooks, company performance and digitalisation. Ralf Möbus, Senior Executive at StepChange Consulting, reports for TWM.

Has the pandemic changed customer behaviour permanently in tissue?

As we start to emerge from Covid-19, many aspects of people’s lives are being transformed. McKinsey & Company’s Oskar Lingqvist, Gregory Vainberg, Daniel Nordigarden and Emily Roeper discuss how...

Tissue World Virtual Conference 2021: 24 speakers – six sessions for all tissue industry...

In September, Tissue World hosted eight hours of critical insights over the course of two days, analysing how the tissue market is preparing itself for...

Shifts in brand loyalty have been a feature of pandemic buying – so how...

Susan Cornish, President, Insight + Action One of the strongest trends over the pandemic has been shifts in brand loyalty, with over 40% of consumers...

AFRY: Costs have reached unprecedented highs: How to mitigate their worst effects

Tissue producers faced multiple challenges in 2021 as demand cooled down and input costs increased significantly. During the third quarter of 2021, modelled manufacturing costs in Europe and North...

MarketIssues Special Report: Tissue World Miami 2022

Tissue World “reality” returned for an impressive four days in Miami with over 100 exhibitors and more than 1,200 total participants kicking off its first in-person exhibition and conference...

MarketIssues AfH special: With global AfH sales at $25b in 2021 (fixed US exchange...

A sustained return is not yet certain with businesses yet to recover fully from the pandemic. Liying Qian, Research Analyst, Euromonitor International*, examines short- and long-term global market trends...

MarketIssues: Operational excellence – companies must quantify, track, and improve process variability daily at...

Manufacturers need to pursue innovative ways to decrease consumption and make their factories more efficient as energy and raw material prices soar. Report for TWM by Eduardo de Almeida,...

MarketIssues: Companies drawing up their action plans to see out the costs crisis

Simon Creasey, Freelance journalist Every inch of businesses reviewed, huge investment in automation, unnecessary processes removed, sustainability plans accelerated, energy price hedges, increased stock volumes,...

MARKETISSUES: Which sources of fibre for future tissue production have real lasting potential?

Each fibre source brings its unique challenges, and costs are likely to remain volatile. Here, Somnath Ray, Principal, AFRY Management Consulting, examines the major contenders, including wood pulp, bamboo, bagasse, RCP and straw.

MarketIssues: The growing role of biodiversity and carbon storage: what to expect for the...

Business-as-usual when utilising wood fibre is looking less likely for products such as tissue, as large policy readjustments for sustainability and forestry are currently taking place within the EU....
Sivashankari Bharathi, Analyst, AFRY Management Consulting, and Sanna Sosa, Senior Principal, AFRY Management Consulting

Market pulse 2023: American tissue’s rollercoaster ride is now on the smoother tracks

AfH is largely back to pre-pandemic levels. AH is seeing structural changes in buying habits, pressure on spending power, a rise in private label, and the return of the...

MARKETISSUES: Special Report – Tissue World Düsseldorf 2023

Tissue World returned in Europe for the first time in four years with an impressive event that hosted thousands of tissue colleagues for the first time in Düsseldorf. Here,...

MARKETISSUES: Our journeys toward net zero: leading companies explain their priorities and ambitious targets

More stringent regulations on sustainability are on the horizon. Consumer Markets Analyst Simon Creasey reports on the biggest advances across tissue’s production sectors already underway. Industries that intensively use energy and natural...
Decarbonizing Tissue Mills: Sizing Renewable Energy Systems

MARKETISSUES: Optimal tissue – maximising financial return on renewable energy projects

As carbon intensity of grid electricity can range from 29g to 635g of CO2 per kWh, paper manufacturers are moving towards local renewable generation. Eduardo De Almeida, Manager, AFRY Process Industries...

MARKETISSUES: From its low tissue consumption base, the Indian market is showing the signs...

As India is roaring forward being one of the countries with steady economic and market growth, P&B has also been reaping benefits. Report by Somnath Ray, Principal, AFRY Management Consulting. India’s market...
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...
Event organiser Informa Connect has hailed the impressive success of Tissue World Miami 2024 after recording visitor growth up 61% compared with 2022’s exhibition.

MARKETISSUES – TISSUE WORLD MIAMI 2024: The global tissue industry steps out in style

Event organiser Informa Connect has hailed the impressive success of Tissue World Miami 2024 after recording visitor growth up 61% compared with 2022’s exhibition. North America’s largest tissue exhibition and conference saw...