July / August 2015

    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    2015 July/August Asia News

    INDONESIA PT Suparma Tbk boosts capacity PT Suparma Tbk has started up a new tissue line at its site in Surabaya. The Valmet-supplied Advantage DCT 100 TM increases the company’s production of bathroom tissue,...

    The Barometer Issue – One year on… you report back on your progress

    By Tissue World magazine editor Helen Morris In 2014, TWM visited a number of mills from around the world – from Argentina, Mexico, Benelux, Italy, East China and Russia - for the...
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    PIX Pulp indices 26.5.2015

    By FOEX Indexes’ Lars Halén and Timo Teräs NBSK pulp Europe UTIPULP (the group of European market wood pulp users) April market pulp consumption data came out showing a nice, nearly 4% increase...
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    Karina poised to build on four years of 11% sales growth

    When the Kazakhstan company first offered kitchen towels many years ago store buyers asked why they needed such wide toilet paper. It’s come a long way since then. Greg Grishchenko reports. In...
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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...

    Antibacterial kitchen wipes so perfect at messy meal times

    With a demanding toddler to look after, self-confessed lazy shopper Gemma O’reilly, a mum and journalist who lives in west London, has had to think again about her tissue...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    2015 July/August Global News

    SCA reports 15% net sales increase SCA has reported an increase in net sales in its Q1 interim report, up 15% to SEK 27,958m. Between 1 January and 31 March 2015 compared with...
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    Tissue sans frontiers

    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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    Magnus Groth searching for ‘win-win’ across SCA’s global performance

    Tissue’s global giant SCA has a new supremo. Magnus Groth talks to TWM about business strategy for China, Asia, Russia, The Americas, emerging markets, energy efficiency and the intriguing ‘intelligent washroom...
    Svetlana Uduslivaia, Euromonitor International’s head of tissue & hygiene industry

    Kazakhstan: healthy growth and opportunities ahead in consumer tissue

    By Svetlana Uduslivaia, head of tissue & hygiene industry, Euromonitor International  Although not as much in the spotlight as its larger neighbours Russia and China, Kazakhstan offers good opportunities for growth in consumer...
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    Kazakhstan – Local T&T business in an area with modest papermaking focus

    By Bill Burns, Senior consultant, Fisher International With a territory larger than Western Europe, Kazakhstan is the northern most of the five Central Asian countries that once numbered among the republics of...