Friday, June 5, 2026

Special Features

    Tissue World Magazine, Special Features: Annual Review, Distribution Special, Private Label & Brands, Project Survey, Retail Special Report, and The Barometer Issue

    Natalia Bezrebra, Senior Analyst at Euromonitor International

    FOCUS ON: A glimpse into global trends and future prospects in retail tissue

    Focus On Natalia Bezrebra -
    Retail tissue – resilient performance amid ongoing turbulences In 2024, global economic and geopolitical realities, complicated by the lasting war of Russia and Ukraine and the Israeli-Palestine military conflict, continued to keep...
    In June 2025, Suzano entered a $3.4bn agreement with Kimberly-Clark to form a joint venture, creating an international tissue and professional products company

    BAROMETER ISSUE: SPECIAL FEATURE, BRAZIL

    The Barometer Issue Tissue World Magazine -
    In 2024, TWM interviewed tissue mill executives in Latin America, India, Indonesia, the United Kingdom, Africa, and Türkiye for Country Reports. One year on, we revisit a selection of the leading...
    Family-run Jani Sales: (L-r) Abizer Jani, Saifee Jani, Abiali Jani, Abil Fazal Jani

    BAROMETER ISSUE: SPECIAL FEATURE, INDIA

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    In 2024, TWM interviewed tissue mill executives in Latin America, India, Indonesia, the United Kingdom, Africa, and Türkiye for Country Reports. One year on, we revisit a selection of the leading...
    Above: Production boost: Africaine Paper Mills (APM) General Manager Belkacem Becharef confirms plans for a new TM with a capacity of 30,000tpy

    BAROMETER ISSUE: SPECIAL FEATURE, ALGERIA, NORTHERN AFRICA

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    In 2024, TWM interviewed tissue mill executives in Latin America, India, Indonesia, the United Kingdom, Northern Africa - Algeria, and Türkiye for Country Reports. One year on, we revisit a selection...
    Mathieu Wener, Senior Economist, Numera Analytics.

    Defying the pandemic rollercoaster: Tissue demand back to long-term trend after tumultuous period

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    As inflation has eased, producers have maintained relatively elevated margin returns. Report by Mathieu Wener, Senior Economist, Numera Analytics. Tissue demand in mature markets – North America, Europe, Japan, and Oceania –...

    Projects Survey 2025

    Project Survey Helen Morris -
    TWM’s annual Projects Survey charts all new capacity being added, ordered or in final planning stages during 2024-2025, as well as noting any projects already planned for 2026 and 2027. An impressive...
    William Nelson, President at E80 Group North America.

    DISTRIBUTION SPECIAL: Automation can become a roadblock – that’s why it needs a roadmap

    Distribution Special William Nelson -
    Intelligent software platforms and hardware must supplement the widest supply chain context to maintain optimum manufacturing efficiency. Report by William Nelson, President at E80 Group North America. In my 20+ years of...
    Infinity’s pallet conveyor systems: they include modular units such as pallet dispensing units, pallet squaring units, and rotating transfer conveyors

    DISTRIBUTION SPECIAL FEATURE: Infinity expands into warehouse automation offering bespoke answers for customers’ unique...

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    Palletisers – pallet conveyor systems – and seven models of AGVs – Gregory Sense, Marketing Coordinator for Green Bay-headquartered Infinity Machine & Engineering Corp., outlines the company’s latest pioneering launch into...
    Circular economy: Essity’s pioneering Mainz-Kostheim plant in Germany

    BAROMETER ISSUE – Essity: the circular economy pioneer partners with Voith to create a...

    The Barometer Issue Tissue World Magazine -
    Last year, Thorsten Becherer, then Site Manager at Essity’s Mainz-Kostheim plant, discussed with TWM the latest advances at the company’s award-winning e-save programme following the launch of its €4m pilot project...
    ST Group acquires Cascades South Carolina tissue mill

    BAROMETER ISSUE – Site expansion, acquisition and recycled cardboard boost WEPA’s year

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    In April 2023, European tissue giant WEPA Group discussed its ambitious plans to maintain the top spot, and its 25% market share in its home country Germany. Then, the company had...
    ST Group acquires Cascades South Carolina tissue mill

    BAROMETER ISSUE – LC Paper: a complete rebuild of its recycled stock preparation, and...

    The Barometer Issue Tissue World Magazine -
    In February 2023, Spain’s LC Paper’s was working towards starting up a new converting production site. Following the Covid years, Chief Executive Pau Vila discussed how the company had been “very...
    Image: PURPLEPRINT Creative

    PROJECTS SURVEY 2024: Special Feature

    Project Survey Helen Morris -
    TWM’s annual Projects Survey charts all new capacity being added, ordered or in final planning stages during 2023-2024, as well as noting any projects already planned for 2025. An impressive 108 new...
    Dr. Antonia Colibășanu, Senior Geopolitical Analyst with Geopolitical Futures, Co-Founder & Principal at Allonia Group and Senior Fellow in the Eurasia Programme at Foreign Policy Research Institute

    GEOPOLITICS REPORT: 2024 is a year of election campaigning – it will be a...

    Special Features Dr Antonia Colibășanu -
    Even if more stability prevails, the bill will come due on the post-pandemic recovery, the social costs of warfare, and society’s green transition and digitalisation. Dr. Antonia Colibășanu, Senior Geopolitical Analyst...
    North Carolina State University’s Keren A. Vivas, Ramon E. Vera, Naycari Forfora, Ronalds Gonzalez, and Georgetown University’s Sudipta Dasmohapatra.

    SPECIAL REPORT: Unveiling the future – the hygiene tissue industry in the next decade

    Special Features Tissue World Magazine -
    To encourage consumers to choose sustainable products at a premium price, tissue companies must prioritise improving product performance and providing well-defined sustainability metrics and information. Report for TWM by North Carolina...
    Image: Supply chain Pulp and Paper. PURPLEPRINT Creative

    SPECIAL FEATURE: ANNUAL REVIEW 2023

    Annual Review Tissue World Magazine -
    As 2023 draws to a close, TWM asks figures from across tissue’s global supply chain for their retrospectives on the year ... and predictions for 2024. Solving South Africa’s energy crisis will...
    Ensuring safe, efficient, and sustainable material handling through automation is now a necessity.

    DISTRIBUTION SPECIAL: How much do you value safety, sustainability and efficiency?

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    William Nelson, President, E80 Group North America, states a case for full scale material handling automation as an answer to today’s challenges. Would you ever imagine putting in a new production line...

    CONSUMERSPEAK: Just what the doctor ordered

    Special Features Tissue World Magazine -
    “Dr. K” – as he is known professionally – is a Swedish doctor who lives in the UK. Here, he talks about his fondness for bulk-buying tissue and kitchen towel products...

    BAROMETER ISSUE: SPECIAL FEATURE

    The Barometer Issue Helen Morris -
    In 2022, TWM interviewed tissue mill executives in Italy, France, Türkiye, Thailand, Mexico, and Poland and Romania for the magazine’s Country Reports. Here, we revisit a selection of the...

    Special Feature: Projects Survey

    Project Survey Helen Morris -
    The combination of life after the outbreak of Covid-19, the global energy crisis, and ongoing fluctuations across trades and raw materials, has meant that the last 12 months have...

    SPECIAL FEATURE: Annual Review 2022

    Annual Review Tissue World Magazine -
    As 2022 draws to a close, TWM asks figures from across tissue’s global supply chain for their retrospectives on the year … and predictions for 2023.

    WEPA first to use Miscanthus in production of hygiene paper; introduces second innovation using...

    Special Features Helen Morris -
    Unbleached Miscanthus cellulose fibres combined with recycled office and hand towel paper, and unbleached fibres from recycled cardboard. Dr. Stefan Gräter, Head of Sustainability of the WEPA Group, talks...

    Focus On: Australia and New Zealand: In transition – recovering from Covid, the market...

    Focus On Helen Morris -
    The pandemic fundamentally changed consumers’ tissue use habits and manufacturers’ tissue production strategies. TWM spoke to Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) supply partners Sorbent Paper Company and Solaris Paper...

    Distribution special, E80 Group: ‘Automation today is not just essential, it’s available for all’

    Distribution Special William Nelson -
    Many smaller companies doubted ROI from automatic assets combined with smart software, but those days should be over, says William Nelson, President, E80 Group North America. A TWM report.

    Distribution Special, Promotech – Edge Computing

    Distribution Special Claudia Borella -
    Industrial Edge Computing is poised to lead the future of manufacturing and increase its productivity growth rate in the near future. Claudia Borella, Promotech Marketing and Sales Manager, discusses...

    BAROMETER ISSUE: SPECIAL FEATURE

    The Barometer Issue Tissue World Magazine -
    In 2021, TWM interviewed tissue mill executives in North America, China, Southeast Asia, Germany, Brazil and the Middle East for the magazine’s Country Reports. Here, we revisit a selection...

    Special Focus: How Chinese tissue performed in 2021… and its development targets for 2022

    Special Features Helen Morris -
    The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the intellectualisation of tissue machinery across the world, and no more so than in China. Here, in a comprehensive report, the National Household Paper...

    Special Feature: Projects Survey 2021-2023

    Special Features Helen Morris -
    TWM’s annual Projects Survey charts all new capacity being added, ordered or in final planning stages during 2021-2022, as well as noting any projects already planned for 2023.

    Annual Review 2021

    Special Features Tissue World Magazine -
    As 2021 draws to a close, TWM asks leading figures across tissue’s global supply chain for their retrospectives on 2021… and predictions for 2022
    L-R: AFRY Senior Consultant Olivia Ying and Analyst Navodya Denuwara

    As At-Home tissue reached a decade high, AfH plummeted

    Retail Special Report Olivia Ying and Navodya Denuwara -
    The broad contrast between tissue sectors during the pandemic is well established, with AfH decline into Q1 2021 touching 20% for leading producers, with smaller players registering 30-40%. Here,...

    The Asian century: the rise of China will pull the Asian regions with it

    Special Features Phillip Lawrence -
    China is the largest trading partner to all nations in the world’s largest free trade bloc ... The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Dr. Phillip Lawrence, Lecturer, Government...
    Above: Jean-David Tardif, President and Chief Operating Officer of Cascades Tissue Group

    Barometer 2021: TWM looks back at 2020 – a year like no other –...

    The Barometer Issue Tissue World Magazine -
    Everything changed as the pandemic struck. In 2020 TWM interviewed tissue mills in Canada, Scandinavia, Turkey, Serbia and Japan for our Country Reports. Here, we revisit a selection of...

    Projects Survey 2020/21

    Project Survey Helen Morris -
    TWM’s Projects Survey charts all new capacity being added, ordered or in final planning stages during 2020–2021, as well as noting any projects already planned for 2022.
    Esko Uutela, Principal, Tissue, Fastmarkets RISI

    In North America the pandemic rages … in China life has normalised already

    Annual Review Tissue World Magazine -
    Esko Uutela, Principal, Tissue, Fastmarkets RISI The Covid-19 pandemic has drastically changed daily life around the globe, including freedom to move, employment, operations and liquidity...
    Andrew Green, Vice President, Tissue and Nonwovens, PCMC

    I think that new products will be born following the change in consumer mentality....

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    Andrew Green, Vice President, Tissue and Nonwovens, PCMC We’ve seen an increase in the demand for at-home tissue and a decrease in AfH. For some...
    Patrice Minguez, President, Resolute Tissue

    We believe consumer behaviour triggered by the pandemic will continue in years ahead

    Annual Review Tissue World Magazine -
    Patrice Minguez, President, Resolute Tissue With the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, 2020 has been a year unlike any other. We have seen a number...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Eucalyptus – adding tensile strength and keeping formation and softness

    Focus On Tissue World Magazine -
    After nine years of research into reducing the consumption of wood per tonne of pulp, Suzano has launched industrial scale production at its Três Lagoas mill in Brazil. Heloisa...
    Mauro Luna, Global Sales Director, Körber Tissue

    We built ahead of specific orders … and were able to meet the demand...

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    Mauro Luna, Global Sales Director, Körber Tissue The year 2020 was a good year for Körber, despite the global situation. There was a worldwide increase...
    Carlo Berti, Sales Director, Gambini

    Industry leaders want to invest and make business, but they’re cautious because there’s a...

    Annual Review Tissue World Magazine -
    Carlo Berti, Sales Director, Gambini  I guess what we can foresee for the upcoming 2021 is something we all can perceive by looking at the...
    David Mackinson, Research Manager, Euromonitor, Latin America

    Latin Americans were forced to reconsider primary needs and priorities

    Annual Review Tissue World Magazine -
    David Mackinson, Research Manager, Euromonitor, Latin America One of the most immediate effects of the pandemic was the collapse of purchases that are associated with...
    Marco Calcagni, Sales Director, Omet

    2021 will be a year of discovery – especially in private label

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    Marco Calcagni, Sales Director, Omet The world of tissue has also certainly been affected by the situation, in particular the AfH market. Undoubtedly in 2020...
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