Turkey: Industry performance
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Tezol trebles capacity at Izmir
Tezol is a group of companies which includes a paper mill and converting factory in a facility of 70,000 m² (25,000 m² closed area) located in Izmir, which is aiming to become one of the country's biggest companies producing and converting its own tissue. [Read more]

Turkey: growth potential but beware of the price pressures!
For Turkish tissue products 2007 proved to be a very successful year, with high levels of growth in both the toilet paper and kitchen towel sectors offsetting minor declines in both tissues and paper tableware [Read more]

SCA: Challenging times
SCA has had an eventful couple of years, with the acquisition of Procter & Gamble's European operations, investment in China and the start-up worldwide of a number of machines. Jan Johansson talked to Hugh O'Brian about the challenges [Read more]

Tissue World Projects Survey 2008
Investment in new tissue machines and major rebuilds has continued at a rapid pace in 2008 and should remain on a strong growth path in 2009, according to Tissue World's Projects Survey 2008 [Read more]

Idea Tissue: embossing opens a new chapter
A converting investment with embossing at Idea Tissue
has moved its products into a different league [Read more]

Fook Woo: China's green tissue group
Fook Woo Group, a Hong Kong company, has recently been awarded as one of Asia's top 10 green companies by Finance Asia Magazine in July 2008. Eddy Leung, chairman of Fook Woo Group, spoke to Charles Yip about his company [Read more]

Metso seminar highlights
On 18-19 September, Metso Paper organized Tissue
Making 2008 in Karlstad, Sweden, a seminar first held
in 1983. We briefly summarize some of the presentations
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Technology news
Metso Paper has launchedthe Advantage NTT tissue machine, a concept and process that,Metso says, combine low energy cost and premium tissue quality [Read more]