Outlook for World Tissue Business

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The Outlook for World Tissue Business is an annual report that provides thorough analysis and extensive detail about regional/country markets and identifies medium to long-term trends.

The tissue industry is one of the few continuously growing and dynamic paper industry segments, attracting new players investing in new facilities, while traditionally local/regional businesses have become increasingly international and more competitive.

Outlook for World Tissue Business will answer questions tissue professionals have by providing a clear understanding of recent growth of the global tissue business and insight on the tightening competition in the industry.

The Outlook for World Tissue Business addresses issues like:

• How will consumer purchasing behavior change in the next decade?
• How will the 'green' trend affect recovered paper supply and demand?
• How do brand and retail labels compare?
• How will pulp supply and energy prices affect the industry?

With forecasts through 2016, it will show the impacts of changes in demand, product quality, industry structure and the competitive situation on the future of the tissue business in each world region.

Outlook for World Tissue Business covers toilet paper, facial/hankies, toweling, napkins and sanitary/other tissue types and includes:

• 9-year forecast
• Macroeconomic indicators
• Historical data
• Demand, supply, consumption, production, trade
• Trends by sector/market category
• Grade breakdown per region/country
• Demand by region/country
• Analysis of quality and product design trends

It will delve deeply into:

• Recent trends in tissue consumption and production in different regions/countries
• Descriptions of tissue market and product structures, the competitive situation, main players and their profiles by region and main country
• Analyses of the main forces driving demand for tissue and present demand forecasts through 2016 by end-use segment (at-home vs. away-from-home) and product category in each of the main consuming countries
• The latest trends in quality (particularly TAD products) and strategic product positioning (brands vs. private labels) in the main markets
• Identification of existing tissue mills and their capacities, recent capacity additions and ongoing projects by country.
• Analyses of ownership links and degree of consolidation in the industry worldwide and by region
• Forecasts of the regional supply/demand outlook for tissue, leading to forecasts of capacity utilization rates for the industry
• Analyses of ongoing trends in the raw material base of tissue manufacture and prepare forecasts of fibre furnish developments in the main producing regions
• Estimations of the main tissue machine suppliers’ market shares from 1990 to current orders

For quarterly forecast updates, subscribe to the Regional Tissue Forecast Data

Study Author
The Outlook for World Tissue Business was previously published on a bi-annual basis by EU Consulting in Munich, Germany and was acquired by RISI in 2007. Mr. Esko Uutela, founder of EU Consulting and with more than 30 years’ experience in the forest products industry, will continue to serve in his role as study author.

Available Q3 2008
Publication Frequency – Annual
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