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Tissue World Magazine, Departments: Consumer Speak, Exitissues, Foex, Frontissues, Marketissues, and Operations Report

“We’re grandfathered into the market”: South Florida Tissue Paper Co.’s Miami Gardens, Florida-based site

Operations Report

SOUTH FLORIDA TISSUE PAPER CO.: meeting supply chain issues in the Middle East with its familiar resilience

Helen Morris - April 13, 2026

Ron Thiry, ST Paper’s Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer

Operations Report

ST PAPER: How taking over a Barnwell, South Carolina mill that had been idle for two years became a growth opportunity for ST

Helen Morris - April 13, 2026

Frontissues

FRONTISSUES: America’s world leading tissue market faces a generational transition – a new frontier of competition and hard-line market realities

Helen Morris - April 13, 2026

Consumer Speak

CONSUMERSPEAK: 250 metres of Koehler Eco Black Greenium recycled paper completed … now for the next 750m

Helen Morris - April 13, 2026

Tim Woods, Managing Director, IndustryEdge

Exitissues

EXITISSUES: Inside Australia’s tissue wars: capacity, competition and the quiet rise of imports

Tim Woods - April 13, 2026

AFRY Management Consulting’s Senior Principal Sanna Sosa, left, reports for TWM with colleagues Soile Kilpi, Director, Management Consulting, and Martin Pereira, Vice President, Sales & Innovation

Marketissues

MARKETISSUES: North American tissue manufacturing at a crossroads: investment logic, technology and regional priorities in a rapidly changing industry

Sanna Sosa - April 13, 2026

Liying Qian, Head of Tissue and Hygiene, Euromonitor International

Exitissues

EXITISSUES: Tissue value growth – the critical questions

Liying Qian - March 3, 2026

US tissue market: dynamic phase following recent slow growth

January / February 2016 Esko Uutela - January 8, 2016

With America’s tissue market geared up for Tissue World New Orleans in March 2016, RISI’s Esko Uutela talks growth and demand trends in the world’s largest tissue market This year has been...

PIX Pulp indices 24.11.2015

Foex Helen Morris - January 8, 2016

NBSK pulp Europe The consumption of softwood pulp was down and inventories up in October in Europe, compared to both September 2015 and October 2014, as reported by UTIPULP. The narrow price...

A radical step changer?

Exitissues Helen Morris - January 8, 2016

The new Andromeda converting technology is, manufacturer Futura believes, going to revolutionise the market. TWM reports on the claims. It’s six months since Futura launched its new Andromeda converting technology for tissue...

The Socialist Republic of Vietnam joins the world market – official

Frontissues Helen Morris - January 8, 2016

There have been calls recently for the inclusion of Vietnam among the MINT economies … the next major set of emerging nations comprised of Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey. V, unfortunately,...

A tes souhaits!*

Consumer Speak Helen Morris - January 8, 2016

Now living and working in London after 11 years in France, Rebecca was in New York when she discovered the one thing the much-loved multi-tasking kitchen roll is not great for. TWM/1....

Song Duong: on the brink of privatisation and expansion, TWM talks to director Nguyen...

January / February 2016 Helen Morris - January 8, 2016

Director Nguyen Van Quan explains the fundamental shift taking place in consumers’ tissue expectations across Vietnam . TWM/1 What are your investment plans for the future? “Years of investment by our joint shareholders...

Whether at home or abroad, when buying tissue products I look for a balance...

Consumer Speak Helen Morris - November 5, 2015

Charlotte Lynn is a teacher from Canada working in the UK I love travelling and have been to many parts of the world and also...

Free from its long dark history how high can resource rich Indonesia rise?

Exitissues Phillip Lawrence - November 5, 2015

By Phillip Lawrence, Academic Once ranked 141st in terms of GDP, democratic Indonesia’s leadership is aiming to become the world’s sixth largest economy in the next decade. Academic Phillip Lawrence explains how...

Huge potential yes, but plan for the long term in sub-Saharan Africa

Frontissues Helen Morris - November 4, 2015

The extraordinary history and traditions of the peoples of the continent of Africa have produced many proverbs … I especially like this one: Beware time, because it has the answers. What struck...

Is the slowdown in China a threat for the South East Asian tissue market?

Marketissues Pirkko Petäjä - November 4, 2015

By Pirkko Petäjä, Principal, Pöyry Management Consulting The South East Asian region is among the fastest growing tissue markets worldwide, but tissue production in the region grows even faster South East Asia consists of eleven...

Niche innovation is key at Universal

November / December 2015 Helen Morris - November 4, 2015

Inhibiting exchange rates, rising energy costs, changing consumer habits, struggling economy … no wonder Universal Paper & Plastics has become creatively self-sufficient. TWM talks to three members of the founding Sher...

Sub-Sahara Africa: An expanding main market opportunity … long term

November / December 2015 Helen Morris - November 4, 2015

At Kimberley-Clark’s Enstra mill in South Africa they can’t make enough tissue to meet the demand. TWM spoke to the man who aims to steer the tissue giant towards that potential...

Novus Holdings backs debut in tissue with €25m boost to capacity

November / December 2015 Helen Morris - November 4, 2015

With the global print and paper market showing signs of global decline, one major player has moved into tissue with an investment project at newly acquired Correll Tissue. TWM reports. “I’m attracted...

Sugar cane and able

November / December 2015 Helen Morris - November 4, 2015

The primary fibre source which supplies Sappi at its Stanger site on South Africa’s east coast is much in evidence. TWM visited the pulp giant’s single tissue producing mill. Driving from Durban...

PIX Pulp indices 22.9.2015

Foex Helen Morris - November 4, 2015

By FOEX Indexes’ Lars Halén and Timo Teräs NBSK pulp Europe In spite of the narrowing price gap to hardwood and the ensuing support on softwood pulp demand, the BSKP market fundamentals remain...

Tissue tough enough to withstand the Greek tragedy … so far

Frontissues Helen Morris - September 16, 2015

It is the least wanted of distinctions, but Greece’s woes do give the industry the chance to study how tissue is able to perform in a country enduring economic collapse. The...

How Maxi is surviving Greece’s economic tragedy

Country Report Helen Morris - September 16, 2015

Bankruptcies and closures saw an end to production at five paper machines in recent years, but with Greece still seeing the tissue market grow by 2.5%, just one new installation took...

PIX Pulp indices 14.7.2015

Foex Helen Morris - September 16, 2015

By FOEX Indexes’ Lars Halén and Timo Teräs NBSK pulp Europe The pulp market in Europe is slowing down in the seasonally quieter period of the year. In addition to the usual weakening...

From massage therapy to Muay Thai, quality tissue goes hand in glove

Consumer Speak Helen Morris - September 16, 2015

Nadia Hussain is a therapist living and working in London. In her spare time she practises Muay Thai, a form of mixed martial art that originates from Thailand.

Southern America: Engaging in the world production chain

Exitissues Geraldo Ferreira - September 16, 2015

By Geraldo Ferreira, partner, Huntsfield Brasil Consultancy, Brazil The region’s tissue market has three alternatives to respond to an ever-increasing import wave: entrench, adapt or transform yourself. Huntsfield Brasil Consultancy’s Geraldo Ferreira...

APP welcomes competition from multinational and local players … it’s just that it means...

Marketissues Helen Morris - September 10, 2015

Asia Pulp & Paper’s Chinese tissue division is to bring six new tissue machines on stream making a total new capacity of 354,000tpy – around 30% of the one million tpy...

Tissue sans frontiers

Frontissues Helen Morris - July 8, 2015

By Helen Morris The boundaries of the tissue industry’s reach across the globe are forever being pushed forward. This edition of TWM has especially emphasised the pioneering spirit that propels the search...

Magnus Groth searching for ‘win-win’ across SCA’s global performance

July / August 2015 Helen Morris - July 8, 2015

Tissue’s global giant SCA has a new supremo. Magnus Groth talks to TWM about business strategy for China, Asia, Russia, The Americas, emerging markets, energy efficiency and the intriguing ‘intelligent washroom...

Karina poised to build on four years of 11% sales growth

July / August 2015 Greg Grishchenko - July 8, 2015

When the Kazakhstan company first offered kitchen towels many years ago store buyers asked why they needed such wide toilet paper. It’s come a long way since then. Greg Grishchenko reports. In...

İpek Kağıt set to double capacity at its Kazakhstan vantage point on Central Asia...

July / August 2015 Helen Morris - July 8, 2015

By Helen Morris, TWM editor The Turkish tissue manufacturer went the extra miles to take advantage of a vast geographical region of economic and social potential. Here, TWM interviews Hamdi Yazıcı, Central...

Antibacterial kitchen wipes so perfect at messy meal times

Consumer Speak Helen Morris - July 8, 2015

With a demanding toddler to look after, self-confessed lazy shopper Gemma O’reilly, a mum and journalist who lives in west London, has had to think again about her tissue...

PIX Pulp indices 26.5.2015

Foex Helen Morris - July 8, 2015

By FOEX Indexes’ Lars Halén and Timo Teräs NBSK pulp Europe UTIPULP (the group of European market wood pulp users) April market pulp consumption data came out showing a nice, nearly 4% increase...

Intercontinental growth – tissue parent roll trade pushing back the boundaries

Exitissues Helen Morris - July 8, 2015

By Esko Uutela, Principal, Tissue, RISI A global tissue business in excess of 2.6 million tonnes a year and providing 35% of all tissue sold internationally, bulk parent roll trade offers new...

PIX Pulp indices 24.3.2015

Foex Helen Morris - May 29, 2015

By FOEX Indexes’ Lars Halén and Timo Teräs NBSK pulp Europe UTIPULP (the group of European market wood pulp users) published the market pulp consumers’ consumption data in March, which was down by...

Tissue World Barcelona attracted key industry members from across Europe and beyond. We kick...

Marketissues Bill Burns - May 29, 2015

Country Update: France France is the fourth largest producer of Paper and Market Pulp in Western Europe making 10.1 million metric tonnes per year. Towel and Tissue (T&T) represents a little more...

An intriguing contrast – an economy on solid ground in a country prone to...

Frontissues Helen Morris - May 29, 2015

I don’t know if Guillermo Swett, chief executive of Chilean producer FPC Tissue, has any Italian ancestry, but he reminds me of some good Italian friends of mine - the ones...

TWM helps Wesley open ‘a Pandora’s box’ of issues with his family tissue use

Consumer Speak Helen Morris - May 29, 2015

Born in the UK, Wesley Sawkins talks about his preference for bulk buying, his scepticism on presentation and corporates, and his experiences of living in Singapore

Waste not – want not… the issue of disposability facing tissue nations

Exitissues Greg Grishchenko - May 25, 2015

By Industry analyst Greg Grishchenko Even among developed ‘non-Western’ nations to ‘flush or not to flush’ is still the question. Tissue - the brightest segment in the world paper business - is growing...

“We are targeting growing regions with a level of strong enough economic development.”

March / April 2015 Helen Morris - April 3, 2015

By Tissue World magazine editor Helen Morris Arjowiggins Graphic’s chief executive Agnès Roger talks to TWM about the company’s market strategy Arjowiggins Graphic’s tissue mill is located in Saint-Marsla-Brière in north-west France. Founded...

Understanding vibration to perform smart chatter monitoring

Exitissues Florent Bougerolle - April 3, 2015

By BTG’s Florent Bougerolle BTG’s Florent Bougerolle talks to TWM about how doctor blade vibration monitoring helps tissue makers get valuable insight into costly coating upsets and Yankee chatter problems Significant financial losses...

PIX Pulp indices 30.12.2014

Foex Helen Morris - April 3, 2015

By FOEX Indexes’ Lars Halén and Timo Teräs NBSK pulp Europe The pulp market remained fairly firm over the fourth quarter as the share of market pulp of the global fibre consumption has...

“It’s a luxury I can’t do without”

Consumer Speak Helen Morris - April 3, 2015

By Chloe Setter Chloe Setter, 31, is head of policy at a UK children’s charity. She lives in South West London. I rather...

“Dream” of second PM within reach for fiercely independent French hygiene producer

March / April 2015 Helen Morris - April 3, 2015

By Tissue World Magazine Senior Editor Helen Morris Already a market leader, quality product and location are key as MP Hygiene aims to clean up...

“A Europe-wide outlook is vital for us.”

March / April 2015 Helen Morris - April 3, 2015

By Tissue World magazine editor Helen Morris As the WEPA Group’s French mill, WEPA Lille’s location is key for understanding the dynamics within the French and European tissue markets It’s not surprising that...

As shopping habits change SCA’s Barker sees multiple, price-relevant and distinctive products as the...

March / April 2015 Simon Creasey - April 3, 2015

By freelance journalist Simon Creasey Sally Barker has a vision. And that vision is to drive a sustainable business for long-term growth. It’s a vision she’s been working towards ever since she...

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