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

Exitissues

North American tissue is back on track after the pandemic … but dynamic changes lie ahead for the new market

Sanna Sosa, Soile Kilpi - April 22, 2024

Exitissues

EXITISSUES: Inflation appears to be reducing in most developed nations – could we be on the cusp of a brighter economic period following years...

Simon Creasey - January 15, 2024

Consumer Speak

CONSUMERSPEAK: It’s in the bag – from the most colourful shop in the world

Tissue World Magazine - January 15, 2024

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

Marketissues

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

AFRY Management Consulting. H. Mörner, Manager. C. Euringer, Principal. T. Mäkelä, Analyst. - January 15, 2024

Roberto Caballero, VP Supply Chain for LatAm, Essity.

Operations Report

ESSITY OPERATIONS REPORT: Supply chain integration the key as diverse Latin American market enters defining era

Helen Morris - January 15, 2024

Leonardo Grimaldi, Head of Global Pulp Sales, Marketing and Logistics; Suzano

Operations Report

SUZANO OPERATIONS REPORT: The Latin American pulp giant emerging as a major force in tissue

Helen Morris - January 15, 2024

Frontissues

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

Helen Morris - January 15, 2024

PIX Pulp indices 29.3.2016

Features Lars Halén Timo Teräs - May 16, 2016

NBSK pulp Europe Even taking into account one more production and shipping day in February 2016 versus February 2015, the PPPC numbers published week 11 came out with predominantly positive news for...

When you are dealing with those messy creatures – otherwise known as children –...

Consumer Speak Helen Morris - May 16, 2016

Originally from Australia, Mary-Lou Mcdonald is a serial traveller and has lived all over the world working primarily as a nanny, in which profession her keen interest in the martial art...

Headwinds in the Russian tissue market

Exitissues Esko Uutela - May 16, 2016

By Esko Uutela, Principal, Tissue, RISI Russian tissue consumption showed a very strong growth pattern from 2000 until 2012, with an average growth rate of close to 10% per year. But since...

Targeting top brand icons … by comparison and confusion

Features Greg Grishchenko - May 16, 2016

By Greg Grishchenko, Industry analyst Copy-cat labelling on private label products has created a lucrative revenue stream for discount stores, increasing confusion for consumers, and upped the champagne consumption of litigation lawyers....

USA Country Report Tissue World Magazine

Battle for the biggest Away-from-Home sector in the world

Features Helen Morris - May 16, 2016

Table napkins are on a surge as Americans eat out more, enjoy ‘fast casual’ dining, and turn to the pleasures of the homeland and the ‘staycation.’ TWM editor Helen Morris heads...

Opportunity on “our doorstep” – or as it’s otherwise known … New York

Features Helen Morris - May 16, 2016

The great metropolis is also “a great waste paper basket,” says Soundview Paper Company chief executive Karl Meyers who has targeted recycled and virgin fibre T&T. The key issue is still...

The US faces big structural changes to its tissue market

Features Helen Morris - May 10, 2016

TWM, and hopefully all who read our Regional Report in this edition will join us, has enjoyed the privilege of touring the world’s leading tissue market North America – ranked third...

It’s fierce out there – the battle for tissue raging across the UK market

March/April 2016 Simon Creasey - March 23, 2016

By Simon Creasey, Freelance Journalist Sales of household paper products at the top four superstores have slumped. The reasons – branded sales fall, the rise of own label, a price war, discounters...

India prepares for an expected surge in tissue demand

Departments Sumit Khanna - March 2, 2016

By Sumit Khanna, Chief Executive of Beeta Tissues Regional growth rates can already reach 20-25%, and as the new one-party government clears away restrictions on manufacturing and international players enter the market...

Egypt and Jordan: progress against the odds

Frontissues Helen Morris - March 2, 2016

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...

Target: Egypt’s distinctive facial tissue preference

Egypt & Jordan Helen Morris - March 2, 2016

By Helen Morris, Editor, Tissue World Magazine At more than half the tissue market in volume and marketed in boxes and plastic covers, Hayat Kimya sees a chance to advance a unique...

And baby makes three … plus lots more tissue product

Consumer Speak Helen Morris - March 2, 2016

With a first child on the way, soon-to-be-dad Anders Wendel, originally from Denmark but now living and working in London, suspects he’ll soon be learning a lot more that he used...

IPI aims to strengthen its reach overseas

Egypt & Jordan Helen Morris - March 2, 2016

Faced with regional jumbo roll overcapacity, the loss of energy cost leverage, traditional neighbouring markets hit by security issues, Egypt’s Interstate Paper Industries’ strategy is to find new potential growth …...

“Our vision is to become the undisputed market leader in Egypt and North Africa.”

Egypt & Jordan Helen Morris - March 2, 2016

By Helen Morris, Editor, Tissue World Magazine Keen for growth, Zeina Group founder and chairman Abdul Karim Natout talks to TWM about market potential in Egypt and beyond. With an impressive annual production...

PIX Pulp indices 26.1.2016

Foex Lars Halén Timo Teräs - March 2, 2016

By FOEX Indexes' Lars Halén and Timo Teräs NBSK pulp Europe When writing these notes, the only publicly available pulp data over December is by UTIPULP, providing the softwood pulp consumption and inventory...

Is Vietnam at last beginning to emerge from its troubled history?

January / February 2016 Helen Morris - January 8, 2016

Tissue demand is growing at 20%, so Vietnam Pulp & Paper Association vice chairman and secretary general Vu Ngoc Bao heralds a major opportunity as the country “joins the world’s economy.”...

Bringing Japanese efficiency – and patience – to Vietnam

January / February 2016 Helen Morris - January 8, 2016

Recycling pioneer JP CORELEX VIETNAM is poised to reap the benefits … but it has to narrow the gap between polar opposite tissue industries and cultural habits. TWM talked to Masahiko...

Not content with being a market leader, Saigon Paper plans to double capacity in...

January / February 2016 Helen Morris - January 8, 2016

Vietnam is a classic tissue growth market. One million new urban residents added each year - per capita consumption less than 1.0kg – behind only China and India among Asia’s growing...

US tissue market: dynamic phase following recent slow growth

January / February 2016 Esko Uutela - January 8, 2016

With America’s tissue market geared up for Tissue World New Orleans in March 2016, RISI’s Esko Uutela talks growth and demand trends in the world’s largest tissue market This year has been...

PIX Pulp indices 24.11.2015

Foex Helen Morris - January 8, 2016

NBSK pulp Europe The consumption of softwood pulp was down and inventories up in October in Europe, compared to both September 2015 and October 2014, as reported by UTIPULP. The narrow price...

A radical step changer?

Exitissues Helen Morris - January 8, 2016

The new Andromeda converting technology is, manufacturer Futura believes, going to revolutionise the market. TWM reports on the claims. It’s six months since Futura launched its new Andromeda converting technology for tissue...

The Socialist Republic of Vietnam joins the world market – official

Frontissues Helen Morris - January 8, 2016

There have been calls recently for the inclusion of Vietnam among the MINT economies … the next major set of emerging nations comprised of Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey. V, unfortunately,...

A tes souhaits!*

Consumer Speak Helen Morris - January 8, 2016

Now living and working in London after 11 years in France, Rebecca was in New York when she discovered the one thing the much-loved multi-tasking kitchen roll is not great for. TWM/1....

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

January / February 2016 Helen Morris - January 8, 2016

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...

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

Consumer Speak Helen Morris - November 5, 2015

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...

Free from its long dark history how high can resource rich Indonesia rise?

Exitissues Phillip Lawrence - November 5, 2015

By Phillip Lawrence, Academic Once ranked 141st in terms of GDP, democratic Indonesia’s leadership is aiming to become the world’s sixth largest economy in the next decade. Academic Phillip Lawrence explains how...

Huge potential yes, but plan for the long term in sub-Saharan Africa

Frontissues Helen Morris - November 4, 2015

The extraordinary history and traditions of the peoples of the continent of Africa have produced many proverbs … I especially like this one: Beware time, because it has the answers. What struck...

Is the slowdown in China a threat for the South East Asian tissue market?

Marketissues Pirkko Petäjä - November 4, 2015

By Pirkko Petäjä, Principal, Pöyry Management Consulting The South East Asian region is among the fastest growing tissue markets worldwide, but tissue production in the region grows even faster South East Asia consists of eleven...

Niche innovation is key at Universal

November / December 2015 Helen Morris - November 4, 2015

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...

Sub-Sahara Africa: An expanding main market opportunity … long term

November / December 2015 Helen Morris - November 4, 2015

At Kimberley-Clark’s Enstra mill in South Africa they can’t make enough tissue to meet the demand. TWM spoke to the man who aims to steer the tissue giant towards that potential...

Novus Holdings backs debut in tissue with €25m boost to capacity

November / December 2015 Helen Morris - November 4, 2015

With the global print and paper market showing signs of global decline, one major player has moved into tissue with an investment project at newly acquired Correll Tissue. TWM reports. “I’m attracted...

Sugar cane and able

November / December 2015 Helen Morris - November 4, 2015

The primary fibre source which supplies Sappi at its Stanger site on South Africa’s east coast is much in evidence. TWM visited the pulp giant’s single tissue producing mill. Driving from Durban...

PIX Pulp indices 22.9.2015

Foex Helen Morris - November 4, 2015

By FOEX Indexes’ Lars Halén and Timo Teräs NBSK pulp Europe In spite of the narrowing price gap to hardwood and the ensuing support on softwood pulp demand, the BSKP market fundamentals remain...

Tissue tough enough to withstand the Greek tragedy … so far

Frontissues Helen Morris - September 16, 2015

It is the least wanted of distinctions, but Greece’s woes do give the industry the chance to study how tissue is able to perform in a country enduring economic collapse. The...

How Maxi is surviving Greece’s economic tragedy

Country Report Helen Morris - September 16, 2015

Bankruptcies and closures saw an end to production at five paper machines in recent years, but with Greece still seeing the tissue market grow by 2.5%, just one new installation took...

PIX Pulp indices 14.7.2015

Foex Helen Morris - September 16, 2015

By FOEX Indexes’ Lars Halén and Timo Teräs NBSK pulp Europe The pulp market in Europe is slowing down in the seasonally quieter period of the year. In addition to the usual weakening...

From massage therapy to Muay Thai, quality tissue goes hand in glove

Consumer Speak Helen Morris - September 16, 2015

Nadia Hussain is a therapist living and working in London. In her spare time she practises Muay Thai, a form of mixed martial art that originates from Thailand.

Southern America: Engaging in the world production chain

Exitissues Geraldo Ferreira - September 16, 2015

By Geraldo Ferreira, partner, Huntsfield Brasil Consultancy, Brazil The region’s tissue market has three alternatives to respond to an ever-increasing import wave: entrench, adapt or transform yourself. Huntsfield Brasil Consultancy’s Geraldo Ferreira...

APP welcomes competition from multinational and local players … it’s just that it means...

Marketissues Helen Morris - September 10, 2015

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...

Tissue sans frontiers

Frontissues Helen Morris - July 8, 2015

By Helen Morris The boundaries of the tissue industry’s reach across the globe are forever being pushed forward. This edition of TWM has especially emphasised the pioneering spirit that propels the search...

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