September / October 2015

    FOCUS ON: Southeast Asia

    By Fisher International’s Bill Burns An area of high growth using value engineered conventional machines Southeast Asia’s Towel and Tissue (T&T) production had been experiencing modest but steady growth going into the 2013...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Tissue tough enough to withstand the Greek tragedy … so far

    It is the least wanted of distinctions, but Greece’s woes do give the industry the chance to study how tissue is able to perform in a country enduring economic collapse. The...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    2015 Sept/Oct Americas News

    AMERICA Bretting Manufacturing celebrates 125 years and five generations Bretting Manufacturing has announced it is celebrating 125 years in business as the fifth generation of the Bretting family joins the ranks of managing...

    PIX Pulp indices 14.7.2015

    By FOEX Indexes’ Lars Halén and Timo Teräs NBSK pulp Europe The pulp market in Europe is slowing down in the seasonally quieter period of the year. In addition to the usual weakening...

    Why (not) Private Labels?

    F.A. RETAIL founder Fernanda Accorsi talks to TWM about the issues for tissues Private Label (PL) is already a recognised brand in the market. If we consider the thousands of brands from...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Southern America: Engaging in the world production chain

    By Geraldo Ferreira, partner, Huntsfield Brasil Consultancy, Brazil  The region’s tissue market has three alternatives to respond to an ever-increasing import wave: entrench, adapt or transform yourself. Huntsfield Brasil Consultancy’s Geraldo Ferreira...
    Tissue World Magazine

    APP welcomes competition from multinational and local players … it’s just that it means...

    Asia Pulp & Paper’s Chinese tissue division is to bring six new tissue machines on stream making a total new capacity of 354,000tpy – around 30% of the one million tpy...

    From massage therapy to Muay Thai, quality tissue goes hand in glove

    Nadia Hussain is a therapist living and working in London. In her spare time she practises Muay Thai, a form of mixed martial art that originates from Thailand.
    Tissue World Magazine

    Greece – primarily local T&T market with signs of contraction

    By Fisher International's Bill Burns Among Western Europe’s Towel and Tissue (T&T) producing countries, Greece is a small player with a manufacturing T&T capacity base significantly lower than the more industrial and populous...