Special Features

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

BAROMETER ISSUE: SPECIAL FEATURE

In 2022, TWM interviewed tissue mill executives in Italy, France, Türkiye, Thailand, Mexico, and Poland and Romania for the magazine’s Country Reports. Here, we revisit a selection of the...

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...

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

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...

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...

CONSUMERSPEAK: Just what the doctor ordered

“Dr. K” – as he is known professionally – is a Swedish doctor who lives in the UK. Here, he talks about his fondness for bulk-buying tissue and kitchen towel products...
Dr. Antonia Colibășanu, Senior Geopolitical Analyst with Geopolitical Futures, Co-Founder & Principal at Allonia Group and Senior Fellow in the Eurasia Programme at Foreign Policy Research Institute

GEOPOLITICS REPORT: 2024 is a year of election campaigning – it will be a...

Even if more stability prevails, the bill will come due on the post-pandemic recovery, the social costs of warfare, and society’s green transition and digitalisation. Dr. Antonia Colibășanu, Senior Geopolitical Analyst...
North Carolina State University’s Keren A. Vivas, Ramon E. Vera, Naycari Forfora, Ronalds Gonzalez, and Georgetown University’s Sudipta Dasmohapatra.

SPECIAL REPORT: Unveiling the future – the hygiene tissue industry in the next decade

To encourage consumers to choose sustainable products at a premium price, tissue companies must prioritise improving product performance and providing well-defined sustainability metrics and information. Report for TWM by 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...
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...
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...

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...
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...

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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...

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.
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SPECIAL FEATURE: ANNUAL REVIEW 2023

As 2023 draws to a close, TWM asks figures from across tissue’s global supply chain for their retrospectives on the year ... and predictions for 2024. Solving South Africa’s energy crisis will...