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    Three years that changed the tissue market in Germany

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    Consumers are seeking out sustainable tissue, and are willing to pay more German shoppers – not previously known for their eagerness for change – have embraced a version of the much heralded...

    FRONTISSUES: Indian society is changing dramatically, say tissue bosses – but the demographic and...

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    A tissue market growing very quickly, 13.3% at present, with 18 to 20% expected in the coming years. Previously, tissue was seen as a luxury. Now, in different places across the...

    FRONTISSUES: In a decade of unprecedented economic turbulence, Turkish tissue saw strong growth, a...

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    A 20-year projection for CAGR at 8.1% by 2027 is still on track. The last few of those 20 have seen a slowdown from roughly 10% growth, with fewer activated or...

    FRONTISSUES: Vertical – horizontal – circular – after years of stagnation, the UK’s tissue...

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    TWM’s Country and Operational Reports produce a mass of evidence on the UK’s tissue past, present and future, and confirms that a fundamental transformation is underway. From 2007 to 2021 domestic tissue...

    FRONTISSUES – Call for rational competition and capacity collaboration … from China’s own tissue...

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    It has been described as the hottest dispute in global trade – overcapacity. US and Chinese trade talks earlier this year focussed on excess capacity under the broad category of green...

    FRONTISSUES: The results are in, and the post-Covid surge gathers pace

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    You will quickly pick up the mood of the industry in TWM’s pages as analysts and executives across global tissue look back on fiscal 2023 results. Here are just a few examples: “We...

    FRONTISSUES: Trajectories of national political and economic choices and trends could change dramatically, with...

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    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 ‘zoomers’ – born in the years 1997...
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    FRONTISSUES: Circularity and proximity – waste not want not

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    Tissue giant Essity is recycling 60% of all collected food and beverage cartons in France to its mill in Hondouville, Normandy. They come from waste sorting centres across the country. That is...
    Navigating the Cost-Benefit Trade-Off in Green Energy Adoption

    FRONTISSUES: As Companies Rely More On Nature To Provide Greener Energy, The Cost Benefit...

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    Decarbonisation will need intense monitoring if mills are to get the best results. MarketIssues is an extensive analysis by AFRY’s Eduardo De Almeida of the “many identified options” of how to...

    Traditional Market Power Structures Are Going Through A More Rapid Change Than For Decades...

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    TWM’s various analyses of the fluctuations in the North American tissue market make clear the more fundamental and longer-term changes now underway. It is a big statement to suggest we may...

    FRONTISSUES: The South Korean market is changing rapidly… more single person households, fewer marriages,...

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    TWM was welcomed in South Korea in 2012 to report on its successes… brilliant electronics, exported at the right price, an internet speed of 16Mbps at home (the US...

    Fundamental changes are underway in Europe’s largest economy

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    Germany’s green transition may have been accelerated by five to ten years. And remarkably, it could have proceeded at a faster pace still. Helen Morris,...

    FRONTISSUES: Spain – a tissue laboratory for answers to a fluctuating market in unprecedented...

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    In the major re-balancing of the Spanish tissue market some of the statistics in TWM’s Country Report are remarkable. First up: Spain is now the leading producer of private...

    FRONTISSUES: The gear change driving the global industry’s energy source future

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    The International Energy Agency says the energy crisis has “turbocharged" renewable projects around the world, with countries adding as much renewable power in the next five years as they did in the last 20.

    The tissue industry’s famous resilience is facing up to the challenge

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    Tissue company executives need no telling how energy costs not seen in decades are impacting their businesses. They will, however, be keen to know how some of their industry...

    FrontIssues: Multiple choices can mean multiple problems, and more costs. Bring on the era...

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    There is an all-out attack of the fine margins in this edition of TWM. The search for gains in already highly specialised and efficient systems. It’s what the industry...

    AfH tissue is recovering strongly as market diversification takes hold

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    Tissue’s hardest hit sector during the pandemic is surging back. Global AfH sales reached $25bn msp by Q4 2021, so will now be more still.

    FrontIssues: E-commerce and sustainability – A supply chain which starts with a decision about...

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    Evidence of the intensive research going into life cycle assessment of tissue products was dominant in Tissue World Miami, and is reflected equally in the pages of TWM.

    Miami is a big stride … as the global industry begins to step out...

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    Just how fit-for-purpose the $92bn* global issue industry is in the early months of 2022 is made abundantly clear in the pages ahead … TWM coming to you online,...

    The Middle East: A study in contrasts and contradictions, extreme wealth and poverty

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    Fourteen nations make up the Middle East for TWM’s purposes, as diverse as any in world economics, demographics, political and social stability, and too often, instability.

    A surge in Brazil? We have heard the prediction before, but just maybe the...

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    Helen Morris, Senior Editor, Tissue World Magazine If we wanted to choose a ‘Word of the Day’ in this edition of TWM it would have...

    How the ‘Next Normal’ tissue landscape begins to take shape

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    We need look no further for a classic example of a mature tissue market than Germany. A tissue pioneer, these days year-on-year registering slow but steady growth, its consumers...

    A big learning curve in survival as the essential tourist tissue trade slumped

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    The effects of the pandemic have hit the various regions and nations of the world disproportionately. Our Regional Report from Southeast Asia makes that point firmly.
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    In 2020 China swung from historic contraction to world leading growth

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    Not only is China’s economic performance in 2020 a classic “V shaped” slump and recovery, when the multi-complexities of such a populous nation are reduced to a convenient shape...
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    North American tissue’s unprecedented boom … and a record nosedive

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    The phrase ‘boom and bust’ is traditionally used in a sequential sense. If a boom gets out of control it may lead to an economic collapse or a major...

    TWM reveals the resilience and commitment of our industry

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    If you are looking for a rallying call during this bleak pandemic you should look no further than the words of Kim Underhill. Helen Morris,...
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    Is the global tissue market at the beginning of a new and permanent Era...

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    Across TWM pages in this edition you will read a familiar business outlook expressed with confidence. Helen Morris, Senior Editor, Tissue...

    WE ARE AT THE START OF A NEW ERA WHEN INNOVATION WILL DRAMATICALLY SHAPE...

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    Across TWM’s online pages you will see the same thought expressed in a variety of ways. This pandemic – tragic in its still unfinished health and economic implications – has nevertheless...
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    Our formidable army of professionals has geared up to meet unprecedented challenges … As...

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    We are enduring extraordinary times. It seems unreal that a pandemic of such tragic consequences was unthinkable just a few months ago. Before the relative consumer calm recently established, panic buying of...

    THE SHAPE OF THE ECONOMIES OF THE FUTURE BELONGS TO MILLENNIALS AND GENERATION Z

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    Helen Morris Senior Editor, Tissue World Magazine Any industry today has to know what Millennials and Generation Z consumers want. This new generation of shoppers is the smartest ever…...
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    SCANDINAVIA’S PRODUCTION IS OLD AND SLOW – BUT POISED TO REAP BENEFITS OF INNOVATION...

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    Tissue in Scandinavia - Denmark, Sweden and Norway - is the classic story of whereto find the growth. A combined population of about 21 million, they enjoy open modern...
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    SPAIN: IS THE GREEN REVOLUTION READY TO TAKE OFF?

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    Visiting mills for our Country Report brings home a real appreciation that Spain’s tissue industry is on the brink of a new era. It is just a matter of...
    TWM goes to Poland

    TWM goes to Poland to see what a tissue boom looks like

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    Helen Morris, Senior Editor, Tissue World Magazine Outside of China – and the China of a few years ago, as this edition’s Exitissues suggests –...
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    It could be a big win or a big loss… But UK Tissue is...

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    Helen Morris, Senior Editor, Tissue World Magazine In a professionally efficient way this edition of TWM was chosen to coincide with Brexit Day -...
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    Industry 4.0 is underway… We look forward to Industry 5.0

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    TWM goes beyond the fourth industrial revolution in this edition. Our contributors focus on the many advances which are already well established in tissue production and, to...
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    From east to west – the sun is rising on tissue’s New Year

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    A Happy New Year to you all. I don’t know whether you gave Auld Lang Syne a burst as the clock ticked down to...
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    ‘We are at a dynamic moment in the tissue industry’

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    This edition of TWM captures the distinct sense of momentum and energy, and change, at this point in tissue’s long history. These pages will give readers a comprehensive cross-analysis of those dynamics. We major...
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    After 15 years of outstanding economic performance how fit are Turkey’s thriving tissue companies...

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    The chart on the wall of Turkey’s economic performance in the last 15 years has an impressive upward curve. To select just a few of the headlines: outstanding growth with GDP tripled and...
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    What does the UAE’s growing cultural confidence mean for tissue?

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    The Arab world’s first universal museum – Louvre Abu Dhabi - has opened in the United Arab Emirates. Emmanuel Macron, president of France, described the stunning symbol of a wider cultural perspective as “a...
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    Tissue World – 25 years bringing the world’s tissue businesses together

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    It began in Nice in March 1993 … the first ever trade show exclusively dedicated to tissue. There were 700 attendees and 49 exhibitors. Now, attendance at TW Milan 2017 reached almost 4,000, with participants coming...
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