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Outlook for World Tissue Business

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RISI's Outlook for World Tissue Business provides clear and accurate insight into recent changes and future growth prospects for the global tissue industry. It includes important information for your company's strategic planning purposes, providing you with the necessary detail for each key region including key players, supply, demand, operating rates and much more with forecasts up to 2021.

Will the long-term global tissue demand growth accelerate?

The stable growth in global tissue consumption was interrupted by the great recession in 2009 but tissue demand experienced a strong recovery in 2010. Strong potential demand growth in developing markets will continue to drive this dynamic and growing sector.

Questions Answered

This study will help you answer questions such as:

What are current and future growth rates by region?
Will global demand even accelerate with the higher importance of emerging markets?
Who are the major suppliers and what are their strategies?
What are the new projects planned by region, and how will these affect operating rates?
What are the trends in technology and retail that will shape the future?

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Study Objectives

This study is for strategic planning purposes, showing 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.

The report:

Shows recent trends in tissue consumption and production in different regions/countries
Describes tissue market and product structures, the competitive situation, main players and their profiles by region and main country
Analyzes the main forces driving demand for tissue and the present demand forecasts through 2021 by end-use segment (at-home vs. away-from-home) and product category in each of the main consuming countries
Indicates the latest trends in quality (particularly TAD products) and strategic product positioning (brands vs. private labels) in the main markets
Identifies recent capacity additions and ongoing projects by country. Analyzes ownership links and the degree of consolidation in the industry worldwide and by region
Based on the above analyses, forecasts regional supply and demand for tissue, leading to forecasts of capacity utilization rates for the industry
Estimates the key tissue machine suppliers' market shares from 1990 to current orders

Product Categories Covered

The 10-year demand forecasts until 2021 are provided by end-use segment (at home vs. away-from-home) in the leading consumer countries for the following product categories:

Toilet paper
Facial tissue and handkerchiefs
Napkins/serviettes
Kitchen towels
Folded hand towels, washroom toweling rolls and industrial wipers
Other sanitary uses

Tissue Service

The Outlook for World Tissue Business is available as a subscription service enabling your company to have up-to-date information and access to RISI economists. The service includes:

One full update of the Outlook for World Tissue Business per year
One Outlook for World Tissue Business Mid-Year Update per year (brief update focusing mostly on supply side issues)
Privileged consulting access to insight and opinion from RISI Economist Esko Uutela

Price

Single copy: USD 7,500
Corporate license*: USD 12,900

*Corporate license includes: A print copy of the report AND Mid-Year Update + PDFs + Excel Data Files + Internal Distribution Rights + Access to Economist

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 now RISI's Principal of Tissue with more than 30 years experience in the forest products industry, continues to serve in his role as study author.

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