November / December 2018

    Tissue World Magazine

    ‘The right fibres – treated correctly – gets the optimal fibre furnish’

    In the last few years UPM has expanded its pulp production intensively. Due to its recent investments UPM Pulp has established a strong position on the pulp market through developing a versatile...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Hengan Group shuns the price war to concentrate on quality, brand and good service

    Consumer demand – with ‘consumption of household paper set to increase by 6-8%’ – is shifting to medium and high-end tissue, and urbanisation is carrying products into third- and...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Metsä Fibre’s most recent ambitious development project aims to increase its competences in the...

    The Northern softwood pulp supplied by Metsä Fibre in its Botnia-branded products are used as raw material for a range of fibre-based paper and board products, and products based on refined wood-based...

    ‘We are at a very dynamic moment in the tissue industry’

    TWM asks leading figures across tissue’s global supply chain for their retrospectives on 2018 and prospectives for 2019. Here they analyse key issues … raw material costs, integration, overcapacity, automation, E-commerce, sustainability, regional...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Toilet paper was a luxury on Haiti when Glory Industries began its niche mission...

    A new era of enterprise has started for one industry on the Caribbean republic eight years after a devastating earthquake caused major damage and killed up to 160,000. Long supplied exclusively by...

    “ Give me quality over price any day … I think people get too...

    Julie Chen and Chris Forbes are the founders of The Cheeky Panda, the multi-award winning UK based and global supplying sustainable bamboo tissue manufacturer. Here, Chris discusses their own retail  references that...
    Tissue World Magazine

    ‘We are at a dynamic moment in the tissue industry’

    This edition of TWM captures the distinct sense of momentum and energy, and change, at this point in tissue’s long history. These pages will give readers a comprehensive cross-analysis of those dynamics. We major...
    Tissue World Magazine

    “I believe an investment like Circleville will really change the way tissue mills are...

    Italian tissue giant Sofidel has officially opened its $400m, 280-acre plant in Circleville, Ohio… one of the most technologically and environmentally-advanced paper plants in the world and Sofidel’s largest worldwide to-date. Sofidel...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Thriving against a price war, an overcrowded market… and Trump

    With two paper machine start-ups planned for next year pushing total output to 140,000tpy, Hebei Jinboshi Group will prioritise product quality and variety, expand sales channels and develop markets with low price...