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Article: Tissue industry adjusts to new markets, embraces new technology: the tissue industry has ridden the ups and downs of recent global economics to emerge as a consolidated segment of the paper industry that should enjoy growth in coming years.(Tissue)
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- Solutions - for People, Processes and Paper
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- October 1, 2002
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The past year has proven the risks of predicting the future. After a wild roller-coaster ride on Wall Street in 2000 and the earlier part of 2001, September 11, 2001, changed the entire world permanently. As a result of the unprecedented terrorist attacks on American skies and soil, Wall Street closed for almost one week. The global economy showed the strain, and everyone has been working toward recovery. The tissue market is no exception.
While consumer demand that drives the at-home tissue market remained fairly stable, the away-from-home market showed the economic dependency of that side of the business. While the tissue industry maintained some growth and ...