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By Esko Uutela Last year was “above-average” for the global tissue business with worldwide tissue consumption growing to 34.8 million tonnes, up by more than 1.3 million tonnes from 2014. TWM hears...

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...

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...

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...

Tissue facing a challenge and an opportunity says JP Corelex Holdings president Mr. Hiroshi Kurosaki. Production balanced against demand is the key. Report by TWM senior editor Helen Morris. The first thing TWM notices...

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...

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...

The newly announced India Middle East Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) will add even greater incentive to the rising young population and tourism boom fuelling growth. For the Middle East Paper Company...

By Helen Morris, Tissue World magazine editor A rapid introduction of all the big retailers into the Romanian tissue market has challenged the mainly local tissue manufacturing companies to step up their...

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...

Based in Abu Dhabi, Queenex Hygiene Paper Manufacturing (QHPM) is a subsidiary of Queenex Paper Products. In 2012, it started up a crescent former tissue machine that produces first-class tissue paper from the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The International Energy Agency says the energy crisis has “turbocharged" renewable projects around the world, with countries adding as much renewable power in the next five years as they did in the last 20.

WEPA’s new strategies progressing product diversity, flexible machinery, recycled paper, packaging, hybrid products, and efficient renewable energy. Bernhard Gross, Managing Director WEPA Italia, talks to TWM. 

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...

Ibrahim Kareem is an SEO executive for an employment law consultant company in Manchester, UK. He also manages a blog (marketingknowhow.co.uk), where he offers beginner level marketing tips for individuals...

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...

Atlas Paper、Cascades Rockingham、Roses Southwest Paper 以及 Von Drehle：《世界卫生纸》到访美国东南部，了解部分重要生产商的最新发展动态。   另外，Fisher International 重点关注这一地区的卫生纸和卫生纸生产。——《世界卫生纸》特别报道。 Atlas Paper Mills：Jim Brown，首席执行官 Atlas Paper Mills 使用再生纤维加工卫生纸，年产量超过 5 万吨，其制造工艺不会生成氯以及氯衍生物。公司为居家外(AfH)市场和廉价零售市场提供 400 万箱环保面巾纸和卫生纸，另外也从事厨房卷纸、硬卷面巾纸和中抽式面巾纸的加工。 这家位于迈阿密的工厂加工经拣选的办公室废杂纸（SOP）和涂布书籍纸（CBS）以及采购自佛罗里达的白色账簿纸。企业还拥有自己的品牌产品，且均使用可再生纤维制造。 Atlas 首席执行官 Jim Brown 告诉《世界卫生纸》：“我们公司使用可再生纤维生产优质产品，除了可持续性之外，产品手感柔软，价格也低于竞争产品。” “Atlas 正处于发展的有利时机，公司正蓄势待发迎接增长，争取占据行业领导地位。” Atlas Paper Mills的增长： 公司最近被奥斯丁私募公司Peak Rock Capital 收购，该私募公司专注于领先型中间市场公司的投资。Brown 表示，此举意味着公司“将从Peak...

Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has reported a decline of 2% to $1.7bn in its consumer tissue division’s fourth quarter 2012 sales. The consumer tissue division recorded a decline of 4% in fourth quarter operating...

By Tissue World magazine editor Helen Morris Amid the spectacular mountains and fjords, the story of a mill’s survival is barely less impressive. After all looked lost in 2013, Vajda-Papir Scandinavia is now investing,...

PMP Group has signed a contract with Chinese producer Henan Hulijia Industrial CO to install an Intelli-Tissue® 900 EcoEc line. The Intelli-Tissue® 900 EcoEc machine has a double-press configuration, a design speed...

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...

Fine Hygienic Holding (FHH) plans to double capacity at its integrated Al Nakheel site in the next two years. Director of operations Adel Al Far explains the strategy. Report: Helen Morris, TWM...

Two tissue plant acquisitions in Spain by the UK-based Northwood Group have seen a double win … the Spanish market’s continued recovery, and a solution to a potential Brexit...

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

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...

By Helen Morris, Tissue World editor Mill manager Eric Taylor has a seemingly simple but extraordinarily demanding ethic known to anyone working successfully in industry: ‘Each day we assess the problems ......

The EU is in danger of missing the point as it reviews policy on packaging. Product protection – including tissue products - and overall resource efficiency are much more important than a...

Tissue in Scandinavia - Denmark, Sweden and Norway - is the classic story of whereto find the growth. A combined population of about 21 million, they enjoy open modern...

              India - the world’s greatest untapped market In no other country is so great a potential so apparently locked out of reach. India has untapped retail tissue growth estimated at US$12 billion, 4.5 million tonnes....

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...

Italian tissue giant Sofidel’s German sites offer a blueprint for its business strategy globally. Here, TWM meets Andreas Meyer and Domenico D’Angelo to get the latest in Europe’s...

From rocketing raw material prices to cost conscious consumers with faltering brand or retailer loyalty – to discounting grocers and ‘shrinkflation’ – the market faces tough challenges. Report by Simon Creasey. High volume, low...

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...

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