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

    OPERATIONS REPORT: The MSS Group – demographic trends drive major changes in tissue shopping...

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    Single-person households, a drop in marriages, the online warehouse and next-day-delivery malls are driving a new era of small-volume production. TWM interviews Monalisa Chief Executive and MSS Group Chief...

    Circular economy pioneer Essity producing paper CO2 free 

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    Thorsten Becherer, Site Manager at Essity’s Mainz-Kostheim, Germany-based plant, explains the latest advances in award winning e-save programme.  TWM/1: What’s unique about the Mainz-Kostheim plant?

    Fundamental changes are underway in Europe’s largest economy

    Frontissues Helen Morris -
    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,...

    Industry partnerships key to tackling challenges with sustainability and innovation the drivers

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    With a market share of 25% in its home country, tissue giant WEPA Group has ambitious plans to maintain the top spot. Here, WEPA Chief Operations Officer Harm Bergmann-Kramer...

    China’s state of the nation tissue report: Overcapacity a serious concern as market competition...

    Exitissues Tissue World Magazine -
    China’s National Household Paper Industry Association has urged its companies to invest “rationally” in its annual assessment of the current status of the industry. TWM’s report highlights the main...
    Sivashankari Bharathi, Analyst, AFRY Management Consulting, and Sanna Sosa, Senior Principal, AFRY Management Consulting

    Market pulse 2023: American tissue’s rollercoaster ride is now on the smoother tracks

    Marketissues Tissue World Magazine -
    AfH is largely back to pre-pandemic levels. AH is seeing structural changes in buying habits, pressure on spending power, a rise in private label, and the return of the...

    Koehler’s Eco Black recycled paper – 250 metres of it – to help display...

    Consumer Speak Helen Morris -
    Italian artist Enrico Mazzone’s work includes Rubedo, a visual representation of Dante’s Divine Comedy, and the largest work of art said to have ever been made on paper. Always...

    China’s state of the nation tissue report: Overcapacity a serious concern as market competition...

    Exitissues Tissue World Magazine -
    China’s National Household Paper Industry Association has urged its companies to invest “rationally” in its annual assessment of the current status of the industry. TWM’s report highlights the main...

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

    Frontissues Helen Morris -
    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...

    OPERATIONS REPORT Northwood Dicepa: Open air restaurants, increased vacationing, sunny climes – how the...

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    Two tissue plant acquisitions in Spain by the UK-based Northwood Group have seen a double win … the Spanish market’s continued recovery, and a solution to a potential Brexit...

    OPERATIONS REPORT Essity Valls: After the ‘big evolution’ the market is stabilising again

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    Spanish consumer tissue leader Essity Valls met the turmoil of recent years with its own rapid response. Miriam Guasch, Operations Director Manufacturing Spain, Global Supply Chain, charts how the...

    ExitIssues: With the global recession accelerating in 2022, two key events will continue to...

    Exitissues Jacob Shapiro -
    Tissue trade, like almost all trade, prefers a smooth, settled and thriving economic world. Exceptions occur when disruption, whatever the cause may be, enable a particular trade to thrive...

    ConsumerSpeak: From “no real awareness of this wonderful product,” to co-owning a Ghanaian-based tissue...

    Consumer Speak Helen Morris -
    Netherlands-born Sander de Klerk is Founder and Chief Rolling Officer for the Good Roll company. Here, he explains the motivation behind the team. As a consumer...

    MarketIssues: The growing role of biodiversity and carbon storage: what to expect for the...

    Marketissues H. Mörner C. Berg-Rustas S. Pastila -
    Business-as-usual when utilising wood fibre is looking less likely for products such as tissue, as large policy readjustments for sustainability and forestry are currently taking place within the EU....

    OPERATIONS REPORT Lucart Tissue & Soap: “2022 has shown a full recovery of the...

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    Lucart Tissue & Soap (Lucart T&S) is a Lucart Group subsidiary based in Artziniega in the north of Spain, running two industrial plants since the beginning of 2018. Here,...

    OPERATIONS REPORT LC Paper: “AfH revenue to double in the next three years, AH...

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    With a new converting production site ready for start-up, Pau Vila, LC Paper’s General Manager, explains the new trends guiding consumer choices and the company’s innovative responses. A TWM...

    OPERATIONS REPORT: MP HYGIÈNE ON TRACK FOR PIONEERING HIGH SPEED TISSUE MACHINE WITH EXCLUSIVELY...

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    Already an AfH market leader in the French tissue market, the AHEAD 2.2 tissue machine 2024 start-up will mean its CO2 footprint will be one of the lowest in the world, says President and Chief Executive Marc Miribel. Report by TWM Senior Editor Helen Morris.

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

    Frontissues Helen Morris -
    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.

    MARKETISSUES: Which sources of fibre for future tissue production have real lasting potential?

    Marketissues Tissue World Magazine -
    Each fibre source brings its unique challenges, and costs are likely to remain volatile. Here, Somnath Ray, Principal, AFRY Management Consulting, examines the major contenders, including wood pulp, bamboo, bagasse, RCP and straw.

    EXITISSUES: Covid-19 restrictions had a profound effect on product packaging, and radical changes in...

    Exitissues Susan Cornish -
    Insight + Action founder Susan Cornish expands on her keynote speech at the TW Bangkok conference earlier this year to reveal the background to a surge in interest in...

    Klabin’s southern softwood bleached market pulp, diversifying and differentiation in the fluff segment–innovation on...

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    By Marco Martins, MSc Science Forest and Chemical Engineering – Klabin’s Customer Technical Services Manager, Flaviana Milagres – Forest Engineer, Master and Doctor in Forest Science - Klabin’s Research...

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

    Frontissues Helen Morris -
    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...

    Operations Report: Aktül Kagıt investments to boost production capacity to 210,000tpy

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    A 70,000tpy TM is planned for start-up in Q4 2022, and once up and running the business will look to export its new production. TWM speaks to Factory Director...

    Operations Report: State-of-the-art-machinery gives Europap Tezol Kağit “a big opportunity”

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    In three years annual capacity rose from 95,000tpy to a projected 130,000tpy with an AHEAD 2.2S tissue line start up in 2023, boosting super-prime branded tissue products sold abroad...

    Operations Report: “We want to continue to serve the sector by adding a high-capacity...

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    Essel Cellulose and Paper Industry has made substantial strides forwards since it was founded in 2005, when it commissioned its first tissue machine. Now, a worldwide shortage of raw...

    The challenge – a wedding dress made from just four rolls of toilet paper...

    Consumer Speak Tissue World Magazine -
    New bride Tabitha Perry O'Sullivan, an Investor Relations and Communications Manager living in London, recently celebrated her hen do by tasking her hens to create a wedding dress made...

    ExitIssues: How China’s Operation National Sword changed the global recycling market

    Exitissues Bill Moore -
    Bill Moore, Founder, Moore & Associates During September’s Tissue & Paper Bangkok exhibition and conference, Moore & Associates Founder Bill Moore discussed the latest trends...

    MarketIssues: Companies drawing up their action plans to see out the costs crisis

    Marketissues Simon Creasey -
    Simon Creasey, Freelance journalist Every inch of businesses reviewed, huge investment in automation, unnecessary processes removed, sustainability plans accelerated, energy price hedges, increased stock volumes,...

    ExitIssues: Review of global BCP capacity – on the brink of significant investment cycle...

    Exitissues Michael J. Long & Pierre E. Bach -
    Total BCP capacity shrank by just over 0.5Mt last year – the first contraction since 2009 and only the second on record. Report for TWM by Hawkins Wright’s Research...

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

    Frontissues Helen Morris -
    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...

    MarketIssues: Operational excellence – companies must quantify, track, and improve process variability daily at...

    Marketissues Eduardo De Almeida -
    Manufacturers need to pursue innovative ways to decrease consumption and make their factories more efficient as energy and raw material prices soar. Report for TWM by Eduardo de Almeida,...

    Kimberly-Clark: Operations Report – A ‘fully reopening’ Thailand sees its tissue demand boom continue

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    The country’s market leader Kimberly-Clark, celebrating its 150th anniversary, reflects on local shifts in shopping habits and pandemic-accelerated opportunities to pivot and drive stronger penetration for in-home consumption. Ratree...

    C.A.S. Paper Operations Report: Launched in the pandemic – this new tissue entrant survived...

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    With most countries in the region now opening up, tissue is continuing on its growth path. Here, C.A.S. Paper Mill Co. Managing Director Torpong Thongcharoen describes what’s next for...

    From personal preference – to a tissue start-up

    Consumer Speak Helen Morris -
    Ryan Fritsch co-founded the US company Cloud Paper, the 100% bamboo and plastic-free paper brand, in the spring of 2019. Here, he discusses the long-term, personal tissue choices which...

    AfH tissue is recovering strongly as market diversification takes hold

    Frontissues Helen Morris -
    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.

    India: Improved manufacturing climate and infrastructure, rising urbanisation and income, hygiene awareness and surge...

    Exitissues Tissue World Magazine -
    Despite its low global tissue volume share compared with its substantial population, India is projected to grow in volume at an 11% CAGR over 2020- 2025* - outperforming most...

    MarketIssues AfH special: With global AfH sales at $25b in 2021 (fixed US exchange...

    Marketissues Liying Qian -
    A sustained return is not yet certain with businesses yet to recover fully from the pandemic. Liying Qian, Research Analyst, Euromonitor International*, examines short- and long-term global market trends...

    Velvet Care: Poland’s tissue market leader seeing dynamic post-pandemic growth

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    Velvet Care has achieved a series of firsts in production capacity, workforce levels, turnover, quality and its Eco Agenda 2025. Wanda Ciesielczuk, Production and Technical Director, talks to TWM...

    Operations Report: “We estimate that about 40% of all paper sold on the shelf...

    Operations Report Helen Morris -
    With roughly half the per capita consumption rate of Germany and France, the Transylvania, Romania-based company’s extensive investment programme is targeting home growth, as well as international expansion where...

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

    Frontissues Helen Morris -
    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.
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