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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

Tradition and passion creates Sofidel’s most advanced automated site

Converting Helen Morris - January 19, 2017

By Tissue World magazine editor Helen Morris TWM interviews Robert Jensen, Sofidel Sweden, country operations manager, on the latest tissue trends in the region. Sofidel’s Swedish plant produces 56,000tpy of private label products, specialist tissue in...

Back from the brink in Norway’s dramatic Paper Valley

January / February 2017 Helen Morris - January 19, 2017

By Tissue World magazine editor Helen Morris Amid the spectacular mountains and fjords, the story of a mill’s survival is barely less impressive. After all looked lost in 2013, Vajda-Papir Scandinavia is now investing,...

Eurozone’s ‘saturated’ market consumption has risen well above trend … thanks to oil. But...

January / February 2017 Helen Morris - January 19, 2017

Tissue usage increased 3.6% after a dramatic drop in energy prices in the winter of 2014-2015, plus an improvement in consumer confidence. TWM asked Numera Analytics to explain how it happened … and...

It does exactly what it says on the scented packaging

Frontissues Helen Morris - January 19, 2017

I like the sound of Vårt Finaste Toalettpapper. It means, as I’m sure you will have worked out, Our Finest Toilet Paper. It was launched by the grocery retailer ICA Sverige in Sweden in 2015,...

Tissue ‘the unsung hero of our daily lives’

Consumer Speak Helen Morris - November 17, 2016

Dave Ripper is one of many to discover how prominent tissue is only when asked, as here, to recall their encounters with the vital aid to living. He lives in the south of England...

India: From shanty towns to shopping malls

India Helen Morris - November 17, 2016

By Helen Morris, Editor, Tissue World Magazine. When, not if, tissue consumption takes off among a population of 1.25bn. Top industry managers are preparing for that momentous cultural change. As the second most populous...

PIX Pulp indices 27.9.2016

Foex Helen Morris - November 17, 2016

By FOEX Indexes’ Lars Halén and Timo Teräs NBSK pulp Europe The PPPC-statistics were fairly weak over July, but the August performance was again strong in softwood, especially taking into account the summer season, but...

İpek Kağıt invests in regional power

Exitissues Helen Morris - November 17, 2016

By Sertaç Nişli, general manager, İpek Kağıt A long-time pioneer and leader of Turkey’s tissue paper sector, İpek Kağıt has opened two new plants in Turkey and Kazakhstan that will advance its goal of...

India – the world’s greatest untapped market

Frontissues Helen Morris - November 17, 2016

India - the world’s greatest untapped market In no other country is so great a potential so apparently locked out of reach. India has untapped retail tissue growth estimated at US$12 billion, 4.5 million tonnes....

Tissue World Istanbul A Success; Attracts 1,602 attendees from 65 countries

Marketissues Helen Morris - November 17, 2016

First dedicated event covering huge region attracted 1,602 attendees from 65 countries Tissue World Istanbul 2016 concluded successfully after attracting 1,602 unique attendees – of which 1,231 were unique visitors – from across 65 countries. Held in...

Iran ‘at a turning point’ and ready for business home and away

Frontissues Helen Morris - September 16, 2016

Iran’s tissue professionals are ready for business more than ever. That’s the overwhelming impression I came away with having spent time in and around Tehran for our Country Report. The talk is...

PIX Pulp indices 26.7.2016

Foex Helen Morris - September 16, 2016

By FOEX Indexes’ Lars Halén and Timo Teräs NBSK Pulp Europe Utipulp statistics show BSKP consumption down by 1.4% from May but up by 2.3% when compared to June last year. Consumer inventories...

Ukraine: How does an industry survive corruption, revolution and military conflict?

Marketissues Helen Morris - September 16, 2016

By industry analyst Greg Grishchenko When Greg Grishchenko first reported on the Ukrainian tissue market the country was full of hope for prosperity after the 2004 Orange Revolution. Here, he reports again...

Wherever I am in the world I’m never without face wipes!

Departments Helen Morris - September 16, 2016

Only now after putting pen to paper – or keystroke to screen – has Australian Aimee Andersen, 33, living in London, realised she is a one-woman research project into tissue use...

A tissue industry “overwhelmed” with new paper convertors entering the local market

Departments Helen Morris - September 16, 2016

Tissue consumption growth remains at 15% in the United Arab Emirates despite an economy hit by a fall in oil prices. Sajid Hussain, general manager of Gulf Manufacturing Company, explains why. The...

Colombians like what they see with tissue

Departments Helen Morris - July 14, 2016

Before the recent setback, Colombia had ranked as high as 34th in the World Bank’s “Doing Business” index, up from 53rd in 2013. That is above larger economies such as Brazil...

“Exceptionally strong growth” at 4% for the global tissue industry in 2015

Departments Esko Uutela - July 14, 2016

By Esko Uutela Last year was “above-average” for the global tissue business with worldwide tissue consumption growing to 34.8 million tonnes, up by more than 1.3 million tonnes from 2014. TWM hears...

Hard discounting is reshaping the Colombian market

Colombia Helen Morris - July 14, 2016

Growth in low price own label products has meant a strategy rethink for value added producers. Tissue World editor Helen Morris reports. César Augusto Solano Velandia, the general manager for Papeles Nacionales,...

Tomas is shocked to discover that he’s a big tissue user after all

Departments Helen Morris - July 14, 2016

Originally from the Czech Republic, Tomáš Tvrz, 28, has lived and worked for several years in the UK and also in Canada. He talks to TWM about his tissue buying preferences. “...

PIX Pulp indices 31.5.2016

Departments Helen Morris - July 14, 2016

By FOEX Indexes' Lars Halén and Timo Teräs NBSK pulp Europe Producer country statistics from PPPC were not very good in April in terms of delivery volumes. But substantial losses of production in both BSKP...

Quality and speed supports business and product innovation at Productos Familia

Colombia Helen Morris - July 14, 2016

An El Nino of change has hit the Colombian economy … the peso’s value down 30%, energy costs almost doubled, dramatically low rainfall. TWM visit’s the Cajicá site - at 2,640...

CMPC created a costs virtue out of an energy necessity

Departments Helen Morris - July 14, 2016

Cogeneration is the key to boost already impressive growth across Latin America for an innovative company which faced tough energy issues by building in efficiency at the design stage of its...

PIX Pulp indices 29.3.2016

Features Lars Halén Timo Teräs - May 16, 2016

NBSK pulp Europe Even taking into account one more production and shipping day in February 2016 versus February 2015, the PPPC numbers published week 11 came out with predominantly positive news for...

When you are dealing with those messy creatures – otherwise known as children –...

Consumer Speak Helen Morris - May 16, 2016

Originally from Australia, Mary-Lou Mcdonald is a serial traveller and has lived all over the world working primarily as a nanny, in which profession her keen interest in the martial art...

Headwinds in the Russian tissue market

Exitissues Esko Uutela - May 16, 2016

By Esko Uutela, Principal, Tissue, RISI Russian tissue consumption showed a very strong growth pattern from 2000 until 2012, with an average growth rate of close to 10% per year. But since...

Targeting top brand icons … by comparison and confusion

Features Greg Grishchenko - May 16, 2016

By Greg Grishchenko, Industry analyst Copy-cat labelling on private label products has created a lucrative revenue stream for discount stores, increasing confusion for consumers, and upped the champagne consumption of litigation lawyers....

USA Country Report Tissue World Magazine

Battle for the biggest Away-from-Home sector in the world

Features Helen Morris - May 16, 2016

Table napkins are on a surge as Americans eat out more, enjoy ‘fast casual’ dining, and turn to the pleasures of the homeland and the ‘staycation.’ TWM editor Helen Morris heads...

Opportunity on “our doorstep” – or as it’s otherwise known … New York

Features Helen Morris - May 16, 2016

The great metropolis is also “a great waste paper basket,” says Soundview Paper Company chief executive Karl Meyers who has targeted recycled and virgin fibre T&T. The key issue is still...

The US faces big structural changes to its tissue market

Features Helen Morris - May 10, 2016

TWM, and hopefully all who read our Regional Report in this edition will join us, has enjoyed the privilege of touring the world’s leading tissue market North America – ranked third...

It’s fierce out there – the battle for tissue raging across the UK market

March/April 2016 Simon Creasey - March 23, 2016

By Simon Creasey, Freelance Journalist Sales of household paper products at the top four superstores have slumped. The reasons – branded sales fall, the rise of own label, a price war, discounters...

India prepares for an expected surge in tissue demand

Departments Sumit Khanna - March 2, 2016

By Sumit Khanna, Chief Executive of Beeta Tissues Regional growth rates can already reach 20-25%, and as the new one-party government clears away restrictions on manufacturing and international players enter the market...

Egypt and Jordan: progress against the odds

Frontissues Helen Morris - March 2, 2016

By Helen Morris, Editor, Tissue World Magazine Tissue makers well know the difference between potential growth and realisable growth. Growth which has every chance of being turned into revenue when consumers enjoy more...

Target: Egypt’s distinctive facial tissue preference

Egypt & Jordan Helen Morris - March 2, 2016

By Helen Morris, Editor, Tissue World Magazine At more than half the tissue market in volume and marketed in boxes and plastic covers, Hayat Kimya sees a chance to advance a unique...

And baby makes three … plus lots more tissue product

Consumer Speak Helen Morris - March 2, 2016

With a first child on the way, soon-to-be-dad Anders Wendel, originally from Denmark but now living and working in London, suspects he’ll soon be learning a lot more that he used...

IPI aims to strengthen its reach overseas

Egypt & Jordan Helen Morris - March 2, 2016

Faced with regional jumbo roll overcapacity, the loss of energy cost leverage, traditional neighbouring markets hit by security issues, Egypt’s Interstate Paper Industries’ strategy is to find new potential growth …...

“Our vision is to become the undisputed market leader in Egypt and North Africa.”

Egypt & Jordan Helen Morris - March 2, 2016

By Helen Morris, Editor, Tissue World Magazine Keen for growth, Zeina Group founder and chairman Abdul Karim Natout talks to TWM about market potential in Egypt and beyond. With an impressive annual production...

PIX Pulp indices 26.1.2016

Foex Lars Halén Timo Teräs - March 2, 2016

By FOEX Indexes' Lars Halén and Timo Teräs NBSK pulp Europe When writing these notes, the only publicly available pulp data over December is by UTIPULP, providing the softwood pulp consumption and inventory...

Is Vietnam at last beginning to emerge from its troubled history?

January / February 2016 Helen Morris - January 8, 2016

Tissue demand is growing at 20%, so Vietnam Pulp & Paper Association vice chairman and secretary general Vu Ngoc Bao heralds a major opportunity as the country “joins the world’s economy.”...

Bringing Japanese efficiency – and patience – to Vietnam

January / February 2016 Helen Morris - January 8, 2016

Recycling pioneer JP CORELEX VIETNAM is poised to reap the benefits … but it has to narrow the gap between polar opposite tissue industries and cultural habits. TWM talked to Masahiko...

Not content with being a market leader, Saigon Paper plans to double capacity in...

January / February 2016 Helen Morris - January 8, 2016

Vietnam is a classic tissue growth market. One million new urban residents added each year - per capita consumption less than 1.0kg – behind only China and India among Asia’s growing...

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