‘Our target – to give America something new’
With the start-up of the world’s second NTT line in May, Chile’s FPC Tissue (FPC) is used to thinking big... but to give the US market a premium, high-quality product it...
Chile – Modest T&T business with recent growth
Chile is the number three pulp and paper producing country in a Latin American market that is heavily weighted to pulp production. Nearly half of the 48M FMT pulp and paper...
Tissue World Barcelona
A return to gradual growth as Europe emerges from a prolonged economic struggle and the focus of tissue business shifting from west to east. TWM summarises the expert insights from the...
Tissue World Barcelona attracted key industry members from across Europe and beyond. We kick...
Country Update: France
France is the fourth largest producer of Paper and Market Pulp in Western Europe making 10.1 million metric tonnes per year. Towel and Tissue (T&T) represents a little more...
An intriguing contrast – an economy on solid ground in a country prone to...
I don’t know if Guillermo Swett, chief executive of Chilean producer FPC Tissue, has any Italian ancestry, but he reminds me of some good Italian friends of mine - the ones...
TWM helps Wesley open ‘a Pandora’s box’ of issues with his family tissue use
Born in the UK, Wesley Sawkins talks about his preference for bulk buying, his scepticism on presentation and corporates, and his experiences of living in Singapore
TWM 1: What tissue paper products...
SCA’s global business model finds a welcome and unique market in Chile
As Latin America’s star economy, Chile is a well-developed and stable country where per capita tissue consumption reaches 10/11 kilos annually. Tissue World magazine editor Helen Morris meets SCA’s Gonzalo Diaz
The...
Södra invests to make its totally chlorine-free pulp stronger still
Latest developments at Södra’s Mönsterås mill in Sweden target tissue makers favouring TCF pulp. The company talks to TWM about responding to customer demand for an equally bright but even more...
NBSK… keeping the industry’s benchmark pulp at the highest grade
From the mighty pines and spruce of British Columbia to the tiny crill from wood chip particles - Canfor Pulp’s Innovation director Paul Watson and scientist Paul Bichot tell TWM about...
Global retail tissue in 2014: a diverse and dynamic marketplace
By Svetlana Uduslivaia, head of tissue and hygiene industry at Euromonitor International
The global retail tissue market continued to show a healthy growth in 2014, achieving US$77bn in sales (2014 constant value,...
RETAIL SPECIAL: Recession as a springboard for private brand growth, purchasing power trends, modernity…
TWM takes a look at some of the talks from Tissue World Barcelona’s Tissue Retail & Distributor Insight Forum (TRIF)
World tissue - development, normalisation, modernity and the middle class trap
Ian...
Waste not – want not… the issue of disposability facing tissue nations
By Industry analyst Greg Grishchenko
Even among developed ‘non-Western’ nations to ‘flush or not to flush’ is still the question.
Tissue - the brightest segment in the world paper business - is growing...
