May / June 2015

    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    May / June 2015 – Asia News

    UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Nuqul Group relocates Jordan tissue mill Nuqul Group to relocate Jordan tissue mill to new facility in UAE in $90m Greenfield project. FINE Hygienic Holding (FHH), a subsidiary of Jordan’s Nuqul...
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    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...
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    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...

    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
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    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...
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    ‘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...
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    Tissue marketplace in Chile: maturing retail and opportunities in away-from-home sales

    By David Mackinson, senior research analyst, Euromonitor International  A bit of time spent in Chile, and you might consider it an outlier amongst its Latin American family. The country runs with German-style...
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    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...

    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...
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    May / June 2015 – Global News

    Audit finds SCA representatives acted in compliance with Swedish law SCA has said an independent audit investigating claims its staff were involved in extravagant corporate perks found its representatives “acted in compliance with...
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    May / June 2015 – Europe News

    TURKEY Hayat Kimya starts up 70,000tpy TM Hayat Kimya has started up its up 70,000tpy tissue machine at its Mersin mill in Turkey. The company started production at its new mill in Mersin in...
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    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...