Thursday, June 18, 2026
Luca Billi, Sales Manager, A.Celli Paper / Paul Richards, Senior Technology Manager Tissue, Andritz / Benny Peng, Vice president, Baosuo Paper Machinery Manufacture Co. / Shinji Goda, Director, General Manager of Design Department, Kawanoe Zoki / Francesco Simoncini, R&D Technical Manager, Toscotec / Jenny Lahti-Samuelsson, Vice President, Tissue Mills Sales, Valmet
Technical Theme

The global trend demanding higher quality tissue products is rising

Tissue World Magazine -
Leading companies outline their strategies for virtuous and cost controlled energy, hybrid technologies, the importance of quality AI, and the “profound impact” the EU’s...
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Country Report

LATIN AMERICA REGIONAL REPORT: Economic headwinds impact tissue consumption growth

Bruce Janda, Senior Consultant, ResourceWise. -
Changing fibre prices, exchange rates, and environmental regulations present some participants advantages, new challenges, as well as opportunities. Report by Bruce Janda, Senior Consultant,...
Jorge Araya, Santiago-based Consultant Tissue & Hygiene, Euromonitor International.
Country Report

LATIN AMERICA REGIONAL REPORT: Consumers want sustainability – but the cost-of-living...

Jorge Araja -
Unveiling the intricate drivers of consumer choices in Latin America's fast-moving consumer goods sector, with a spotlight on tissue products and evolving market dynamics.
Consumer Markets Analyst Simon Creasey
Exitissues

EXITISSUES: Inflation appears to be reducing in most developed nations –...

Simon Creasey -
As pricing shows signs of normalising in the coming months, Consumer Markets Analyst Simon Creasey looks at how manufacturers handled the dilemma of absorbing...
Tissue World Magazine Jan Feb 2024
Consumer Speak

CONSUMERSPEAK: It’s in the bag – from the most colourful shop...

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Alexandra Lewis lives in South London and works in marketing and communications at professional services firm Aon. A recent road trip across Portugal with...
AFRY Management Consulting’s Hampus Mörner, Manager, Christoph Euringer, Principal, and Tino Mäkelä, Analyst.
Marketissues

MARKETISSUES: Profitable growth in the consumer tissue value chain – where...

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Tissue producers are in a solid position, but the example of retailers expanding their private label offering shows genuine interest to incorporate margins currently...
Roberto Caballero, VP Supply Chain for LatAm, Essity.
Operations Report

ESSITY OPERATIONS REPORT: Supply chain integration the key as diverse Latin...

Helen Morris -
Following the start-up of a TAD tissue machine at the company’s Sahagún facility in Mexico in 2020, Essity continues to target premium products in...
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Project Survey

PROJECTS SURVEY 2024: Special Feature

Helen Morris -
TWM’s annual Projects Survey charts all new capacity being added, ordered or in final planning stages during 2023-2024, as well as noting any projects...
Leonardo Grimaldi, Head of Global Pulp Sales, Marketing and Logistics; Suzano
Operations Report

SUZANO OPERATIONS REPORT: The Latin American pulp giant emerging as a...

Helen Morris -
Just seven years after moving into the tissue manufacturing market, Suzano’s Head of Global Pulp Sales, Marketing and Logistics Leonardo Grimaldi says the company...
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

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

Dr Antonia Colibășanu -
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...
North Carolina State University’s Keren A. Vivas, Ramon E. Vera, Naycari Forfora, Ronalds Gonzalez, and Georgetown University’s Sudipta Dasmohapatra.
Special Features

SPECIAL REPORT: Unveiling the future – the hygiene tissue industry in...

Tissue World Magazine -
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...
Frontissues

FRONTISSUES: Trajectories of national political and economic choices and trends could...

Helen Morris -
Generations Z and Alpha are going to dominate consumer choices One megatrend features strongly in TWM’s Latin America reports. Generation Z consumers, colloquially known as...
Khalid Saifullah, former Managing Director and shareholder of Star Tissue UK and future Managing Director of WEPA Professional UK (left), and Andreas Krengel, Chief Executive Business Unit Professional of the WEPA Group
Latest Headlines

WEPA increases UK presence with Star Tissue UK acquisition

Helen Morris -
Germany’s WEPA Professional has boosted its presence in the British tissue market after acquiring Blackburn, Lancashire-based hygiene paper provider Star Tissue UK. The newly acquired...
World News

BTG Group to acquire FITNIR Analyzers Inc

Helen Morris -
BTG Group has announced plans to acquire FITNIR Analyzers Inc, a Canadian business that specialises in pulp liquor property measurement (on-line and bench top...
The new Futura management team: (left to right standing) Dellagnelo, Graunar, Granucci, Pelaia, Tonarelli, (seated left to right) Viani, Betti.
World News

Futura promotes Guido Dellagnelo to CEO

Helen Morris -
Futura has reorganised its management team and appointed Guido Dellagnelo to the role of Chief Executive.  Fabio Perini, Founder and President of Futura, said: “When...
World News

Infinity targets increased automation with launch of R10SW palletiser

Helen Morris -
Infinity Machine & Engineering Corp. has further expanded its roster of automated machinery to cover the end of the production line by launching its...
World News

GP confirms $2bn spend on capital improvements in 2023

Helen Morris -
Georgia-Pacific (GP) has reinvested $2bn back into its business and operations in 2023 - including launching and completing new facilities and enhancing existing operations...
World News

APRIL makes offer for 100% stake in Vinda; Essity retains Consumer...

Helen Morris -
Essity has confirmed that Isola Castle - a company indirectly wholly owned by Asia Pacific Resources International (APRIL) - has made a pre-conditional offer...
World News

Sofidel boosts USA capacity with acquisition

Helen Morris -
Italian tissue giant Sofidel has boosted its presence in America by 65,000tpy after acquiring Duluth, Minnesota-based paper mill ST Paper. The company said the move...
Tissue World Miami

Tissue World Miami 2024 to Unveil Future-Forward Innovations in the Tissue...

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Miami, Jan 31 – Feb 2, 2024 — As Tissue World Miami 2024 draws near, anticipation builds for an event that promises to reshape...
Fabio Perini
Tissue World Miami

Fabio Perini – tissue industry pioneer – to give keynote address...

Tissue World Magazine -
Tissue World has announced that Italian entrepreneur and tissue technology visionary Fabio Perini will deliver a keynote address and Q&A at the upcoming Tissue...
World News

ACE launches business division ACE Tissue Technologies

Helen Morris -
Italy’s ACE has diversified its product offering after opening a new company - ACE Tissue Technologies (ACE TT).   Located in Pescia, Lucca, the new business...
World News

Europap Tezol Kağit boosts high quality tissue capacity with TM start-up

Helen Morris -
Europap Tezol Kağit has started-up a Toscotec-supplied AHEAD 2.2 tissue machine at its integrated production facility in Mersin, Turkey.   The line features a sheet trim...
World News

Velvet Care acquired by Partners Group

Helen Morris -
Swiss-based global private equity firm Partners Group is to acquire Polish-headquartered tissue manufacturer Velvet Care from Abris Capital Partners. Velvet Care is one of the...
World News

Sun Paper Group boosts capacity with TM investment

Helen Morris -
China’s Sun Paper Group has renewed its contract for the supply of three Baotuo paper machines to be installed at its Nanning Park production...
World News

Jumbo Centre boosts capacity by 30,000tpy with TM start-up

Helen Morris -
South Africa’s Jumbo Centre has started-up a Toscotec-supplied AHEAD 1.8 tissue line at its site in Johannesburg. The machine has a sheet trim width of...
Georgia-Pacific said the investment is a “clear indication” of its focus on growing its premium tissue business
World News

GP announces $150m Consumer Tissue investment

Helen Morris -
Georgia-Pacific (GP) has announced a $150m investment in its retail consumer tissue business at its mill in Halsey, Oregon. Investments to the plant will increase...
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Annual Review

SPECIAL FEATURE: ANNUAL REVIEW 2023

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

CONSUMERSPEAK: “And those tissue boxes!”

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Creative designer Katie Stern was working in fabrics when she discovered Swedish dishcloths – 70% wood cellulose, 30% cotton, and 100% compostable. Based in Wisconsin,...
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Frontissues

FRONTISSUES: Circularity and proximity – waste not want not

Helen Morris -
Tissue giant Essity is recycling 60% of all collected food and beverage cartons in France to its mill in Hondouville, Normandy. They come from...
Wanda Ciesielczuk, Vice President, Production & Technical Director.
Exitissues

EXITISSUES: The pace of expansion at market leader Velvet Care is...

Helen Morris -
Capacity increases in converting and tissue machine output are being boosted by further investment as the company plans to “create a market” and then...
Environment

ENVIRONMENT TECHNICAL THEME: Turning 60% of all France’s recycled food and...

Helen Morris -
Essity’s drive towards a “truly circular society” has opened up another stream of raw material resource linking circularity and proximity. Donato Giorgio, President, Global...
Marketissues

MARKETISSUES: From its low tissue consumption base, the Indian market is...

Somnath Ray -
As India is roaring forward being one of the countries with steady economic and market growth, P&B has also been reaping benefits. Report by...
Brazil

COUNTRY REPORT: Global pulp leader Brazil shows strong growth in finished...

Bruce Janda, Senior Consultant, ResourceWise. -
Trend driven by eucalyptus fibre resources, efficient plantations and mills with much room for further expansion, seven new machines under construction, and substantial increases...
Brazil

COUNTRY REPORT: Brazil’s longer term tissue recovery ‘promising,’ but uncertainty remains...

Paula Ferolla -
Lower birth rate and shift away from tradition families towards single or two-people households without children will affect future market. By Paula Ferolla, São...
World News

PCMC and Unitek Paper & Chemicals form strategic alliance

Helen Morris -
PCMC has entered into a strategic alliance with Istanbul-based Unitek Paper & Chemicals in order to further its collaboration with Türkiye-based pulp and paper...
World News

Suzano signs up Andritz for maintenance on new Ribas do Rio...

Helen Morris -
Brazilian pulp and tissue producer Suzano has invested in a five-year contract with Andritz that will cover maintenance modules for its new mill currently...
World News

Rexcell boosts capacity with TM investment

Helen Morris -
Rexcell Tissue & Airlaid has invested in a Toscotec-supplied complete drying section rebuild for PM1 at its Skåpafors mill in Sweden.   Planned for the second...
World News

Essity in discussion with potential buyers for stake in Vinda

Helen Morris -
Essity has confirmed discussions are ongoing with a number of third parties for a potential sale regarding its shares in Asian hygiene company Vinda...
Arsen Kitch, Clearwater Paper President and Chief Executive
World News

Clearwater Paper suspends Idaho operations

Helen Morris -
Clearwater Paper Corporation has temporarily suspended certain manufacturing operations at its Lewiston, Idaho facility after an incident impacting the regional natural gas system. The company...
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