May / June 2015

    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    ‘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...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    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 Magazine

    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 Magazine

    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...
    Tissue World Magazine

    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
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    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...
    Tissue World Magazine

    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...
    Tissue World Magazine

    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...
    Svetlana Uduslivaia, Euromonitor International’s head of tissue & hygiene industry

    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...
    Tissue World Magazine

    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...