Special Features

Tissue World Magazine, Special Features: Annual Review, Distribution Special, Private Label & Brands, Project Survey, Retail Special Report, and The Barometer Issue

Special Feature: Projects Survey

The combination of life after the outbreak of Covid-19, the global energy crisis, and ongoing fluctuations across trades and raw materials, has meant that the last 12 months have...

SPECIAL FEATURE: Annual Review 2022

As 2022 draws to a close, TWM asks figures from across tissue’s global supply chain for their retrospectives on the year … and predictions for 2023.

WEPA first to use Miscanthus in production of hygiene paper; introduces second innovation using...

Unbleached Miscanthus cellulose fibres combined with recycled office and hand towel paper, and unbleached fibres from recycled cardboard. Dr. Stefan Gräter, Head of Sustainability of the WEPA Group, talks...

Focus On: Australia and New Zealand: In transition – recovering from Covid, the market...

The pandemic fundamentally changed consumers’ tissue use habits and manufacturers’ tissue production strategies. TWM spoke to Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) supply partners Sorbent Paper Company and Solaris Paper...

Distribution special, E80 Group: ‘Automation today is not just essential, it’s available for all’

Many smaller companies doubted ROI from automatic assets combined with smart software, but those days should be over, says William Nelson, President, E80 Group North America. A TWM report.

Distribution Special, Promotech – Edge Computing

Industrial Edge Computing is poised to lead the future of manufacturing and increase its productivity growth rate in the near future. Claudia Borella, Promotech Marketing and Sales Manager, discusses...

BAROMETER ISSUE: SPECIAL FEATURE

In 2021, TWM interviewed tissue mill executives in North America, China, Southeast Asia, Germany, Brazil and the Middle East for the magazine’s Country Reports. Here, we revisit a selection...

Special Focus: How Chinese tissue performed in 2021… and its development targets for 2022

The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the intellectualisation of tissue machinery across the world, and no more so than in China. Here, in a comprehensive report, the National Household Paper...

Special Feature: Projects Survey 2021-2023

TWM’s annual Projects Survey charts all new capacity being added, ordered or in final planning stages during 2021-2022, as well as noting any projects already planned for 2023.

Annual Review 2021

As 2021 draws to a close, TWM asks leading figures across tissue’s global supply chain for their retrospectives on 2021… and predictions for 2022
L-R: AFRY Senior Consultant Olivia Ying and Analyst Navodya Denuwara

As At-Home tissue reached a decade high, AfH plummeted

The broad contrast between tissue sectors during the pandemic is well established, with AfH decline into Q1 2021 touching 20% for leading producers, with smaller players registering 30-40%. Here,...

The Asian century: the rise of China will pull the Asian regions with it

China is the largest trading partner to all nations in the world’s largest free trade bloc ... The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Dr. Phillip Lawrence, Lecturer, Government...
Above: Jean-David Tardif, President and Chief Operating Officer of Cascades Tissue Group

Barometer 2021: TWM looks back at 2020 – a year like no other –...

Everything changed as the pandemic struck. In 2020 TWM interviewed tissue mills in Canada, Scandinavia, Turkey, Serbia and Japan for our Country Reports. Here, we revisit a selection of...

Projects Survey 2020/21

TWM’s Projects Survey charts all new capacity being added, ordered or in final planning stages during 2020–2021, as well as noting any projects already planned for 2022.
Esko Uutela, Principal, Tissue, Fastmarkets RISI

In North America the pandemic rages … in China life has normalised already

Esko Uutela, Principal, Tissue, Fastmarkets RISI The Covid-19 pandemic has drastically changed daily life around the globe, including freedom to move, employment, operations and liquidity...
Andrew Green, Vice President, Tissue and Nonwovens, PCMC

I think that new products will be born following the change in consumer mentality....

Andrew Green, Vice President, Tissue and Nonwovens, PCMC We’ve seen an increase in the demand for at-home tissue and a decrease in AfH. For some...
Patrice Minguez, President, Resolute Tissue

We believe consumer behaviour triggered by the pandemic will continue in years ahead

Patrice Minguez, President, Resolute Tissue With the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, 2020 has been a year unlike any other. We have seen a number...
Tissue World Magazine

Eucalyptus – adding tensile strength and keeping formation and softness

After nine years of research into reducing the consumption of wood per tonne of pulp, Suzano has launched industrial scale production at its Três Lagoas mill in Brazil. Heloisa...
Mauro Luna, Global Sales Director, Körber Tissue

We built ahead of specific orders … and were able to meet the demand...

Mauro Luna, Global Sales Director, Körber Tissue The year 2020 was a good year for Körber, despite the global situation. There was a worldwide increase...
Carlo Berti, Sales Director, Gambini

Industry leaders want to invest and make business, but they’re cautious because there’s a...

Carlo Berti, Sales Director, Gambini  I guess what we can foresee for the upcoming 2021 is something we all can perceive by looking at the...
David Mackinson, Research Manager, Euromonitor, Latin America

Latin Americans were forced to reconsider primary needs and priorities

David Mackinson, Research Manager, Euromonitor, Latin America One of the most immediate effects of the pandemic was the collapse of purchases that are associated with...
Marco Calcagni, Sales Director, Omet

2021 will be a year of discovery – especially in private label

Marco Calcagni, Sales Director, Omet The world of tissue has also certainly been affected by the situation, in particular the AfH market. Undoubtedly in 2020...
Mark Christopher Global market development manager – tissue, Buckman

FOCUS ON: Optimising deink plant quality and yield

Office sources of high quality fibre have been hit by increased work-from-home across the world. Here Mark Christopher, global market development manager – tissue, Buckman, explains how deink plants...

Millennials, males, and Covid-19: driving the changes in private label tissue demand

US women - who drive up to 80% of all consumer purchasing decisions - are traditionally more loyal to national tissue brands. However, with the effects of the pandemic,...
Tissue World Magazine,Private label and brands

The multiple reasons why consumers increasingly choose private label over national brands

Private label tissue and discounting stores are on an apparently unstoppable rise in the US and around the world. Research conducted by the Tissue Pack Innovation Lab, North Carolina...
Oday Abbosh Founder and chief executive of Better All Round and chairman of Consuma Paper Products

NECESSITY – IN THE SHAPE OF A GLOBAL PANDEMIC – HAS BEEN THE...

Covid-19 turned the way we work upside down. But Oday Abbosh, founder and chief executive of Better All Round and chairman of Consuma Paper Products, UK, says innovation must...
Integrated producer: Lucart offers a complete set of solutions that it says guarantee the highest level of hygiene

BAROMETER ISSUE: SPECIAL FEATURE, Lucart

LUCIANO LOPEZ, PLANT DIRECTOR AT LUCART TISSUE & SOAP TWM/1: What machinery investments have you made since we met and why? “Since the...
Innovation: Poppies Europe has developed a new brand – ‘Happy Tree’ – which is made from 100% recycled unbleached tissue

BAROMETER ISSUE: SPECIAL FEATURE, Poppies Europe

ARMINDO MARQUE, PARTNER AND TECHNICAL DIRECTOR, POPPIES EUROPE Integrated producer: Lucart offers a complete set of solutions that it says guarantee the highest level of hygiene

BAROMETER ISSUE: SPECIAL FEATURE, LTC

AYAZ TEJANI, MANAGING DIRECTOR, LEICESTER TISSUE COMPANY (LTC), AND FRANK MILLWARD, LTC SALES AND MARKETING DIRECTOR, UK TWM/1: What machinery investments have you made in the...
Bedford Paper: the company's business model has a diverse portfolio supporting both the AfH and At-Home markets

BAROMETER ISSUE: SPECIAL FEATURE, Bedford Paper

STEVE PETERS, SALES AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER, BEDFORD PAPER TWM/1: What machinery investments have you made in the past year and why? “We...
Integrated automation and smart software solutions: distribution through the lens of what is possible.

Internal distribution – largely exempt from technological improvements – offers the best to improve...

Producers and distributors face tough challenges responding to rapidly changing consumer demands in facilities and warehouses not designed to handle them. The one constant is that whatever is done...
Image: E. Smith CC

70% OF CONSUMERS MAY BE ROUTINELY BUYING CONSUMER PACKAGED GOODS ONLINE IN FIVE TO...

Sanna Sosa, principal, AFRY Management Consulting. Millennials and Generation Z are moving into a powerful position to dictate how economies respond to their needs. Tissue...

Project Survey 2019/20

TWM’s annual Projects Survey charts all new capacity being added, ordered or in final planning stages during 2019-2020, as well as noting any projects already planned for 2021.

Paul Fecher, Northwood chairman, Northwood Paper, Tissue & Hygiene

TWM/1: How have the events in the tissue industry in the last year impacted your business?  “2018 and 2019 have performed independent of logical evolution, there...

Scott Griffin, director – tissue sales, Central National Gottesman (CNG)

TWM/1: How have the events in the tissue industry in the last year impacted your business and the global tissue industry?  “During 2017 and 2018, we...
Daniel Signori, technical director, Mili

Daniel Signori, technical director, Mili

TWM/1: What key events has the tissue industry been impacted by during 2019?  “The Brazilian market is going through a very complex year. On one side...
Fernanda Accorsi, founder, F.A. Retail

Fernanda Accorsi, founder, F.A. Retail

Fernanda Accorsi, founder, F.A. Retail TWM/1: How have the events in the tissue industry in the last year impacted the tissue sector? 

Steve Peters, sales and business development manager, Bedford Paper

TWM/1: How have events in the tissue industry in the last year impacted your business and the global tissue industry?  “Raw material supply and price variations...

E-COMMERCE AND PRIVATE LABELS – THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE IN THE TISSUE SECTOR

Sanna Sosa Principal Poyry Management Consulting Online shopping has experienced rapid growth over the past few years. According to the US Census Bureau, for the fiscal year of...

Private label products on the rise on Amazon’s best sellers list

Sanna Sosa, Principal, Poyry Management Consulting The online juggernaut Amazon makes up almost half (47%) of total US retail e-commerce sales. But, in terms of...