We are trying to hang on - and not without difficulty - to a healthy way of producing by reconsidering over and over again what is useful and what isn't, and we look with eager interest at all the possibilities to use innovative instruments and methods that can come to our aid at the proper time.

If we think of our everyday life, we all strive to obtain what was considered unobtainable previously.

"In Lucca something magical, incredible, beautiful and impossible has happened: the history of the world's music has passed through this city, on the stage of the Summer Festival". This is what Mimmo D'Alessandro, creator and artistic director of one of the most appreciated events on a European level, says about his Summer Festival.

China, India and Brazil represent the new frontiers for economic development and growth. But when speaking about business or plans for growth, no one would think of Mexico, a country with a surface area of 1,964,375 square kilometers and a population of 124,000,000 people

The economic crisis that affected Greece in 2009 was caused by excessive public debt and by the dramatic relationship between debt and GDP.

With a population of 145,000,000 people and a per capita consumption of 2.5 kg, Russia constitutes a very interesting market for the development of tissue products use. In 2009, toilet paper consumption grew by 3% with a sales value of 11,000,000,000 RUB1.

China is adding over 2 million tons, or 40%, to its tissue making capacity during 2009-11. By 2020 the country may be the world's largest tissue producer, moving up from number 2 behind the USA today.

Despite the global economic slowdown of 2009, the Brazilian tissue market grew by 4% during the year to reach US$2.15 billion ($R4.3 billion), with two main factors keeping the market buoyant.

As we all know, European legislation on health and safety in the workplace derives now from a sole community source. And the topic of maintenance finds increasingly greater relevance both in legislation as well as in the propaganda in favor of safety (it is the theme for this two-year period of the European week on safety).

As a technical expert, the answer is always easy: what the consumer wants is exactly what your converting equipment cannot do without major investments which, of course, are not in your plans for the year! And even if these were in your plans, your supplier would deliver too late - only when the competition has it on the shelves before you!

Day after day, our communicating through the Web is changingthe way we live. Without realizing it, in just a few years we have gone from unidirectional communi-cation to a sort of chorus-like dialogue that involves friends, relatives and acquain-tances in the network of the new economy.

This issue marks the start of a world tour. We will speak of life experiences, of people encountered, of particularities, of the uniqueness of places and of habits and customs - even business ones - that, far from making the world seem like one global entity, reveal it to be an ensemble of "other", singular and surprising places.

Pöyry offers an EPCM (Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management) implementation method that gives lower total investment cost and more flexibility during the project for project owners.

Since 2005 President of the ETS (European Tissue Symposium), Affiliate Professor of Marketing at the ESCP Europe Business School Turin Campus since the beginning of 2006, Roberto Berardi is a renowned expert in the Tissue field and an authoritative figure in the converting industry.

Innovating in the field of packaging means finding creative technological solutions for customers that can satisfy the demands of different markets. This is the objective of the Fabio Perini companies: and indeed KPL Packaging S.p.A., with the Casmatic brand, in the course of this last year has introduced three new interesting wrappers in their machine range.

We have called this special column with a neologism that unites the words packaging & advertising, bonding them together to suggest that the first can easily become part of the world of the second.

Greenpeace is perhaps the most well-known environmental NGO (Non-Governmental Organization) in the world.

The issue of quality systems and their relative technical norms originates in the 1980s and focuses on the quest for organizational systems appropriate for ensuring company performance vis-à-vis product quality and customer satisfaction.

A cuddly little blue elephant with a cute smiling face: that's Teresita, and she's the new brand ambassadorof Scottex® products.

The world first and only eco-sustainable dispenser range made of vegetable fibers.

50 years on the crest of the wave is not something every product can boast of. A case history in maintenance worthy of a manual.

The 7th Italian edition of the World Business Forum organized by HSM has confirmed itself - in-line with its claim "Inspiring ideas" - as the perfect place to gain updates on all that characterizes the world we live and work in, inspiring some very interesting food for thought.

Even in the world of tissue, many schools follow the tracks of the profit version of social marketing and promote educational projects aimed at schools and communities, with the aim of sensitizing children and families on important themes such as culture or the environment, diffusing their own image and their product brands.

Of Japanese origin but born and raised in San Paolo, Jum Nakao is an international artist who unites his Brazilian spirit with Oriental philosophy. A perfect marriage that transpires through his extravagant and original works, designed and conceived to transmit deep messages that make one reflect on the value of the invisible.

George Simenon's widespread popularity is in good portion due to the character he created in 1930: Inspector Maigret. The re-editions of his "romans durs" - in-depth quests to discover the nature of man - have found in these last few years an attentive and loyal audience. But the real adventure is his very life.

On show from 12th February to 15th May 2011 at the Lu.C.C.A. museum is the exhibition "Jean Dubuffet e l'Italia", curated by Stefano Cecchetto and Maurizio Vanni and produced in collaboration with the Fondation Dubuffet. An exhibit comprised of 60 works, for the most part unpublished, that brings Dubuffet back to Italy after about a decade and illustrates the links between the artist and our country.