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

Helen Morris, Senior Editor, Tissue World Magazine

In 2020 China swung from historic contraction to world leading growth

Not only is China’s economic performance in 2020 a classic “V shaped” slump and recovery, when the multi-complexities of such a populous nation are reduced to a convenient shape...
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...

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...
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Niche innovation is key at Universal

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...

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

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.
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PIX Pulp indices 27.9.2016

By FOEX Indexes’ Lars Halén and Timo Teräs               NBSK pulp Europe: The softwood pulp market remains relatively stable. Price pressures have, however, recently been rather downwards than upwards, in spite of the so far quite...
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Forward-thinking and entrepreneurial: TWM visits Sofidel’s Comceh mill in South Eastern Romania to find...

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,...
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Recent Publications from the Chinese Ministry of the Environment

Susan Cornish, Associate, Moore & Associates • “Imported Waste Management Catalog” (2017) • “Directory of Prohibited Solid Waste” • “Provisions of the...

“ We consider competition as a factor that grows the market, increases quality, triggers...

Asli Bicer, marketing director at Eczacıbaşı Consumer Products, talks to TWM. TWM/1: What tissue markets do you operate in? Asli Bicer: “Eczacıbaşı Consumer Products has been at the forefront of Turkey’s tissue paper...

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

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...

ST PAPER: The low capital dynamic: re-utilise shut or under-used facilities … and build...

With its latest investment – a PrimeLineTM W 2000 – started-up at its site in Duluth, Minnesota, in January this year, ST Paper is primed for further expansion. TWM interviews Senior...
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Egypt and Jordan: progress against the odds

By Helen Morris, Editor, Tissue World Magazine Tissue makers well know the difference between potential growth and realisable growth. Growth which has every chance of being turned into revenue when consumers enjoy more...
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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...

Growing consumer awareness and education is driving Russia’s market performance in spite of sanctions

Industry analyst Greg Grishchenko examines the rising level of quality products, retail display, home production and consumer choice in the world’s largest landmass tissue market.
“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...

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...

New tissue player Sun Paper targets top five position in 10 years

By Helen Morris, Tissue World Magazine Senior Editor China’s largest privately owned paper maker, squeezed in its traditional market, is moving powerfully into tissue production. Improving consumers’ low brand loyalty and getting...
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Tradition and passion creates Sofidel’s most advanced automated site

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...
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PIX Pulp indices 29.7.2014

NBSK pulp Europe June market pulp statistics from the North American-based market intelligence provider Pulp and Paper Products Council (PPPC) came out quite strong. This was partly due to some of delayed...

TWM reveals the resilience and commitment of our industry

If you are looking for a rallying call during this bleak pandemic you should look no further than the words of Kim Underhill. Helen Morris,...
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APP welcomes competition from multinational and local players … it’s just that it means...

Asia Pulp & Paper’s Chinese tissue division is to bring six new tissue machines on stream making a total new capacity of 354,000tpy – around 30% of the one million tpy...

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...