Tissue World is ready to welcome the tissue community to its Ho Chi Minh City exhibition and conference, held at the Equatorial Hotel between 25-26 November 2025.
Held in partnership with the Vietnam Pulp and Paper Association (VPPA), the industry’s premier event is returning to Asia – and Tissue World is inviting all professionals to secure their participation.
Exhibitors currently include BW Converting, Stavian Tissue, TKM, Saigon Paper, ICM, BBA Ecotech, DCY, and SPS.
With a conference theme of The Rise of Asian Tissue: Cultivating Sustainable Growth Across Fast-Moving Markets, the two-day agenda offers a deep dive into APAC’s evolving trade landscape.
With a warm welcome from VPPA Chairman Mr. Hoang Trung Son – who will give a speech in the Senior Management Symposium discussing perspectives from across the region, introducing the key opportunities for APAC’s toilet tissue and kitchen towel industries – topics will range from opportunities for VPPA members and colleagues, how to sustainably manage the capacity and export boom, the decarbonisation of tissue plants, advancing digital solutions, retail tissue trends across APAC, the Great Energy Transition, and regenerative energy systems for sustainable and efficient production.
The Senior Management Symposium will also see talks from AFRY Management Consulting’s Somnath Ray, who will evaluate the shifting dynamics across a booming APAC tissue and towel market, and Euromonitor International’s Natalia Bezrebra who will analyse retail tissue across the region, with a conference title of: Navigating Regional Trends in a Global Landscape.
Across the technical sessions, speakers include:
- Giuseppe Alberti, Regional Sales Manager, APAC, TS Machines – Global Product Sales, Valmet
- Grant Downham, BTG, Global Tissue Market Manager
- Vu Tan Phuong, Director, Vietnam Forest Certification Office (VFCO)
- Gianni Gambini, Managing Director, Gambini America
- Nicola Romagnani, Marketing & Product Manager, Gambini
- Andrea Tomei, Area Sales Manager, Maflex
- Jarmo Ropponen, Head of Asia-Pacific, Head of Tissue and Chief Executive Malaysia / Tietoevry Pulp, Paper and Fibre Industry
- Luca Linari, General Manager, Andritz
- Ivan Joedy, Head of Business and Application Development Kemira, SEAP region.
… plus many more!
The Tissue World Hi Chi Minh City exhibition and conference will be held at the Equatorial Hotel between 25-26 November 2025.
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Printed copies of Tissue World Magazine’s Sept/Oct issue – with a Country Report on Mexico’s tissue market, and the annual ‘Converting: Technical Theme’ – will also be available to collect in-person at the event.
