The Future Of Tissue Industry
As we are starting to the second decade of the 21st century, innovations in the tissue industry can be expected and will naturally happen. The methods that we are used to using will be considered old-fashioned. Are you ready for changes?
The changes will mostly appeal to manufacturers and consumers. First, we have big data which is a combination of structured, semistructured and unstructured data collected by organizations that can be mined for information and used in machine learning projects, predictive modelling and other advanced analytics applications such as artificial intelligence. Big data analytics will be widely popular in all stages of tissue, paper and board value chain in the new decade. Another innovation for the producers is smart, or intelligent, sensors. Smart sensors are defined as sensors equipped with signal conditioning, embedded algorithms, and digital interfaces. Intelligent sensors will help benefit through reductions in downtime at the tissue, paper and board machines.
Digitized Consumers of Tissue Industry
E-Shopping’s popularity has been rising through the years because it is a fast option and does not take so much time. With e-commerce, the demand will grow shorter lead times and for a commitment to next-day and same-day delivery services will be possible. Purchasing goods will be much faster and easier. Lightweighting is something that both wholesalers’ and consumers’ would want. Demand for lighter-weight packaging will continue to grow due to the many advantages it offers converters and end-users. Most tissue products are easy to carry and ship to the buyer or to the warehouse. Because of that, instead of going to the market the consumers tend to prefer online purchasing tissue papers.
Prefering Sustainable Products
In addition to the consumer and manufacturer part, there is also an eco-friendly side of these benefits. Peoples’ awareness of nature and issues like global warming has been rising, especially in recent months. Recyclable products will be more supported and widely used than other products. This fact does not only apply for plastics. We will also see it in tissues, papers and paper products. Recyclability is and will keep becoming a key requirement for flexible and rigid consumer packaging products and will continue to develop. So the companies who start doing investments on recyclability now will reap the fruits in the following years.
