Will This iPad Application Replace Toilet Paper?
-- Worldwide tissue paper products conference in Miami during March 18-21 will discuss the future of toilet paper, kitchen towels and facial tissue
NEW YORK, Feb. 25, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Miami Beach... For decades, futurists have been talking about the "paperless office". A common retort has been that the "paperless office" is about as likely as the "paperless toilet". Recently, however, an ingenious inventor has come up with an iPad application that may in fact bring this about. See this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnyHMSz7JDE
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All humor aside, tissue is serious business and less than 3 weeks from now the world's tissue paper products business will be gathering at the Tissue World Conference in Miami Beach, Florida, USA to discuss the latest technology and market trends for products such as toilet paper, kitchen towels, facial tissue, table napkins and pocket handkerchiefs.
Tissue paper products make up a giant US$80 billion global business and the Tissue World conference, which has run for more than 20 years and normally attracts thousands of visitors from 80+ countries around the world, will look at the entire value chain.
A complex art and science
Tissue making is a very complex, high technology science involving what are normally considered the largest machines of any type in the world. The Tissue World event thus covers this lengthy and complex production process. The topics covered start with the raw materials such as wood fibers, energy, chemicals and water, through the production process both of jumbo rolls and then converted smaller roles, and finally delivery to the retail and commercial distribution channels.
Free Entrance to Trade Show
Anyone who is working with the tissue paper products business, anywhere in the value chain, would be most welcome to attend the event. Attendance is Free of Charge at the tradeshow, featuring over 170 world leading companies who will be displaying new technology, products and solutions.
Unique market and technical Insight
In addition, the paid-attendance high-level technical and market conferences give participants a unique depth of insight into the business. World-class experts in tissue technology, tissue markets, sustainability and environmental issues, private label/brand trends and many other key topics for this category will be part of the speakers' agenda.
Topics covered over the four-day conference, include all the latest technical developments as well as, in a new focus this year, trends in the enormous retail and commercial tissue buying and selling channels. This specific topic will be covered in the new Tissue Retailers and Distributors Insight Forum (TRIF) for the first time ever at the Tissue World conference in Miami Beach.
If you are a tissue RETAILER, DISTRIBUTOR, MANUFACTURER, CONVERTER, TECHNOLOGY SUPPLIER, RAW MATERIAL PROVIDER Register today at http://www.tissueworld.com/Registration/
Contact Person: Ivan Ferrari
Phone Number: +65 6592 0886
Email: Ivan.Ferrari@ubm.com
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