The COVID-19 pandemic has a huge impact on the tissue industry. Since the pandemic has reached all continents, consumers around the world have been faced with empty store shelves when looking for toilet paper.我们可以诚实地说，卫生纸已经成为这种流行病的象征。

The global paper and pulp industry already faced enormous challenges before the pandemic: digitalization is continuously decreasing the demand of newsprint papers as well as printing and writing papers. Political decisions in many countries are influencing the global trade, unstable situation at the market leads unstable raw material prices which forces structural changes in paper industry.

不仅要制造商迎接这些挑战，他们还必须确保最大的生产线效率和盈利能力，以维持其在市场上的竞争力。

While overall demand is stable at best, there are still several sectors and regions showing solid growth. In this expert blog, I want to focus on one of the most successful:卫生用纸产品。

This rapidly expanding industry sector is responding fast to rising demand for tissue paper (toilet rolls and kitchen towels), particularly in developing countries with growing incomes and an expanding middle class.

Rising global tissue production

作为带供应商，纸，纸板和卫生纸行业几十年来，哈伯西遵循行业非常密切的。水果机在线玩我们在全球组织生产的研究揭示了一个健康的上升趋势。以下是一些关键事实：

• China became the world’s No 1 tissue producer in 2012, overtaking the USA, which is now No 2.
• 中国的组织和毛巾生产红红火火，并预计将增长到16.5一些万mtpy在2019年（对全球产量的1/3）。
• 随着中国经济的增长，其人均消费组织也应该上升（目前只有不到三分之一的美国公司）。为了达到生产平价与美国将需要额外的2000卫生纸线 - 一个激动人心的机会。
• 在欧洲，土耳其是最大的卫生纸生产商之一（每年超过100万吨），类似于许多西欧国家eventhough人均消费甚至没有比较西欧的一半。土耳其卫生纸厂容量的增长比任何其他欧洲国家更快（超过自2008年以来增加一倍）。
• In Western Europe average tissue consumption is 17 kg per capita per year. Eastern Europe uses 6 kg per capita per year – so there is clearly room for growth, with Turkey and Russia expected to see strong increases in consumption.
• 在北美，组织市场的需求增长，在1996年以来组织新增生产能力的1.8％的复合年增长率自2013年以来表现出的1.5％的复合年增长率。

机会的世界

While production growth is most dramatic in developing countries, demand continues to rise even in wealthier regions, with solid opportunities for industry expansion in many markets. But just like for every other business, the key to success is profitability. Production technology has a key role to play here. Producing products on tissue converting lines is a demanding process, involving tube winding of the board cores using power transmission belts or folder gluer belts. This is an area where Habasit offers expert input.

上管下流绕组

为了生产管在每个卫生纸卷的心脏，板两分胶合片以精确和连续方法绞合在一起，例如使用的动力传动带。

The application conditions are extremely demanding: sticky glue, lots of dust, heavy loads, and high speeds. The tubes are typically made of recycled board, whose surfaces inevitably lead to belt abrasion. As a result, to satisfy the demands of the process, the belts must offer:

• 摩擦的恒定系数无玻璃窗
• 高耐磨性
• 尺寸稳定性好
• 良好的弯曲疲劳性能和应付扭曲的能力

使用低质量的带的下侧

当这些功能都不存在，会发生什么？尽管在本申请中使用的传动带的制造比卫生纸，当它们停止工作，并导致意外的停机维修的总成本的0.05％表示以下，它可以花费高达10,000美元的生产损失（我们的计算）一个小时。

参考的情况下

下面是一个例子。我们最近通过顾客上前找到他们现有的绕线管应用带的替代品。这些不仅有较短的寿命，同时也需要高张力和额外的维护，导致频繁的生产线停工和生产损失。

我们的解决方案是用PET体，可模制层和高质量的NBR橡胶表面经过验证的动力传动带。这提供了所需的纵向柔性，精确对准，并且为应用带厚度。

现在客户从新带的好处：

• 寿命更长
• 易于安装 - 有需要维修少50％的时间
• 节能由于更好的纵向灵活性
• 更低的生命周期成本，导致USD 4900每年每管卷绕机（每行四到六个管卷绕机）的储蓄，计算基于所述带的延长的寿命和降低的机器停工时间成本（但在计算中不包括生产损失）。

专注于降低生命周期成本

由于皮带的成本使卫生纸的总成本仅为0.05％，但所招致带性能不善造成的损失和停工是非常高的，我们认为，关键高效率和盈利能力的制造是令人震惊的显而易见的：焦点在生命周期成本。这是提高你的底线的最好方式。

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