Metsä Tissue has boosted its presence in Russia after it opened up a converting and warehousing site in Vorsino. The company said the developing Russian market is “strategically important to Finnish Metsä Tissue which seeks strong growth”. In Vorsino, the company has introduced a Futura converting line that doubles its tissue production capacity and...

Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has concluded the final handover of its Reisholz tissue manufacturing mill and its German rolled tissue brands to Palero capital. The move includes Hakle(r) Dry Toilet Tissue, Dick&Durstig and Servus, to Palero Invest, a private equity fund advised by Palero Capital. K-C will continue to use the Hakle(r) brand name for its moist toilet...

Muniks has invested in a secondhand slope wire machine that it plans to rebuild into a Crescent Former. The Minsk, Belarus-based tissue producer has made the investment to improve the quality of its tissue products following an increase in demand from customers. Hergen Paper Machinery has been contracted to supply the complete Crescent Former unit which included...

Sepac has said its operating speeds on two paper machines have increased by 20% after it invested in two Hergen-supplied Steel Yankee Dryers. At the end of 2012 the Brazilian tissue producer replaced two existing cast iron Yankee dryers for its machine # 1 and # 2. The two 10ft (3,048mm) nominal diameter dryers are manufactured in carbon steel and internally...

Specialty chemicals producer Clariant has launched Leucophor® ACK, which it said is “the world’s most highly-concentrated, urea-free liquid optical brightening agent (OBA)”. The product can be used on unsized tissue, printing and writing papers, and it cuts usage and transport. It is free of solubilising additives such as urea and glycols which can reduce...

Lincoln Paper and Tissue (LPT) has boosted its energy and environmental performance after it signed a contract with Bangor Gas that will provide pipeline gas to its mill in Lincoln, Maine. Pipeline service to the mill will start in late 2014 and will provide clean natural gas for tissue drying and the lime kiln process. Keith Van Scotter, chief executive of LPT,...