The Navigator Company has announced a €158m investment to achieve carbon neutrality by 2035 by giving all of its industrial complexes a net zero carbon footprint. In order to achieve this, Navigator announced will be investing a total of €158m. In view of the European Union’s goal for Europe to have net zero CO2 emissions by 2050 and given...

Fabio Perini has launched the Proxima S6, a rewinder the company said is designed “to guarantee excellent performances and quality for every type of AfH product”. According to the supplier, the line is based on the Sincro Winding System and can reach a speed of 600m/min while reducing product changeover times, since core diameter, roll diameter...

Canada-based Atlantic Packaging Products is selling off the site’s machinery assets. Based in Whitby, the company provided sustainable packaging solutions and co-packing services across North America. Infinity Asset Solutions & Can-Am Machinery are auctioning off surplus equipment, which is for the manufacture of napkins and tissues and include a...

Futura has announces a technical partnership with Plusline, a Bologna-based company offering packaging systems. Piero Ceccon, chief executive of Futura, said: “This technical partnership aims to develop game-changer concepts for production processes in line with our strategy and positioning.  “Thanks to our joint design efforts, we will...

Fabio Perini has boosted its AfH packaging business after announcing a partnership with DM Pack. DM Pack is an Italian-based company specialised in designing and producing machinery and systems for the packaging industry. The move will complete Fabio Perini’s portfolio in the area of AfH packaging enabling it to offer packaging machinery for the...

Paper Converting Machine Company (PCMC) has increased its offering in the tissue packaging sector after acquiring Serbian-based STAX Technologies. The move adds reciprocating flow technology to PCMC’s tissue packaging product line offering. Established 17 years ago, Čačak-headquartered STAX is a market leader in the tissue packaging...

Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) has invested in two rebuilds at its Sinar Mas mill in Indonesia. Supplied by PMP, the contract includes the delivery of two rebuilds for the press and dryer section the Pindo Deli mill. The scope includes the supply of press section rebuild with new Intelli-Nip Press and Intelli-Nip Module 1500. The scope of supply for...

Chinese tissue manufacturer Aowei Paper has increased its presence in the tissue market after investing in a Baosuo Enterprise Group-supplied paper machine and converting line. The supply includes a Baotuo BC1300-2850 Crescent-type paper machine, which the supplier said is known for its modular manufacturing, low consumption, high quality and intelligent...

Cartiera Confalone has invested in a new advanced production base in Montoro, Avellino. The plant includes an automated warehouse and an AHEAD 2.2 tissue line supplied by Toscotec on a turnkey basis. The supplier said the mill represents the biggest tissue investment in the south of Italy in the last twenty years. Start-up is scheduled for the...

Northwood Paper, Tissue & Hygiene has acquired Spanish paper producer Dicepa Papelera and the converting assets of Manipa in Madrid. The UK-based business also announced the completed acquisition of the trade and assets of the whole Sidcot Group, UK, comprising of the recycled tissue mill at Chesterfield and the converting operations of Matryx, Techcel...

Voith has strengthened its position as a full-line supplier after signed an agreement with Spectris to acquire BTG. The €319m acquisition of BTG – a multinational provider of integrated, highly specialised process solutions for the global pulp and paper industry – is expected to close late in the fourth quarter of 2019. The closing is...

Japan’s Marutomi has started-up a MODULO-PLUS ES tissue machine supplied by Toscotec at its paper mill in Fuji city, Shizuoka. It is the first of two tissue lines ordered by the Japanese producer. The second line is scheduled for start-up in 2020 at Ono Paper’s mill. The MODULO-PLUS ES machine features a sheet width of 2.8m, an operating speed of...

France’s Global Hygiène has signed for an iDEAL 1800S tissue machine. Supplied by A.Celli Paper, the line has a 2.8m format and an operating speed of 1,800mpm. The turn-key project also includes an E-WIND T100 rewinder and a R-WAY roll-handling system. The Yankee supplied has a diameter of 15’. The machinery will be shipped to the company’s...

Sweden’s Klippans Bruk has started up its Recard-supplied PM11. This new machine will add an annual capacity of 30,000tpy of coloured and white, high quality tissue to the market. Recard’s supply is based in a turn key project and includes a tissue machine Crescent Former with a maximum operating speed of 1.700mpm, trim at reel by 3.200mm and with a...

Baoding Ruifeng Paper and Baosuo Enterprise Group have signed for two sets of Baotuo-supplied tissue machines. The BaoTuo Crescent Former tissue machines, model BC1300-2850, have a design speed of 1,300m/min, and the jumbo roll a width of 2.8m. Baosuo Enterprise has previously provided two sets of BaoTuo paper machines to Baoding Ruifeng Paper. The...

Sofidel has said it will abandon its use of disposable plastic items in its workplaces. The decision included its Italian companies as of 1 July and will be extended over the coming months to all group companies across Europe and the US. In Italian offices and production sites all disposable plastic bottles, glasses, plates and cutlery have been...

Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has announced a significant investment plan at its Coris Mill in Costa Rica The expansion programme includes more than US$40m investment in Coris Mill and the creation of jobs at its Global Business Services centre. K-C Costa Rica employs over 1,500 collaborators who produce over five million products daily to supply the domestic and...

Do you want to learn how Kimberly-Clark, The Navigator Company & Voith Paper, Mili, IPEL, Fabio Perini and Elettric80 achieve sustainable success in the region’s most dynamic tissue markets? Get inspired by critical, out-of-box presentations and panel discussions during the Senior Management Symposium on 22 October. The Senior Management Symposium...

Mexico’s Blue Tissue has increased its production capacity after starting up an iDEAL Master Tissue Machine. Supplied by A.Celli, the turnkey plant includes the two-plies slitter A.Celli E-Wind T100 rewinder in addition to the tissue machine, which will integrate into the customer’s existing converting line. The line was installed in the tissue...

Andritz has acquired Swedish company Kempulp, a specialist provider of process technologies for the chemical pulping industry. The company designs and markets technologies used in chemical pulping, including pulp washing, oxygen delignification and bleaching technologies.  The acquisition includes all of Kempulp’s intellectual property rights,...

Algeria’s Africaine Paper Mills (APM) has moved into the tissue market after starting up its first tissue machine. The Andritz-supplied PrimeLineCOMPACT line has a design speed of 2,100m/min and a working width of 2.85m. It produces tissue for high-quality facial wipes as well as toilet and towel paper grades. The machine is equipped with the...

Cascades has said all segments executed well in its second quarter results, with its tissue results supported by favourable input costs and selling prices. For the three-month period ended 30 June 2019, the company reported a 4% sales increase to C$1,275m compared to C$1,230m in Q1 2019. It was an increase of 8% compared to C$1,180m in Q2 2018. Sales...

Recard has officially announced that Mauro Michelini exited the company on 31 July. He had been general manager at Recard since 1994. Doctor of engineering Riccardo Lorenzo Campo has joined the company as managing director. As of 1 August 2019, doctor of engineering Alberto Tomelleri joined Recard as commercial and marketing director....

CMPC subsidiary Softys has agreed to acquire family-owned tissue manufacturer SEPAC, a move it said will consolidate Softys as the largest tissue producer in Brazil. SEPAC was established 45 years ago and has leading brands in the tissue paper segment including Duetto and Paloma. It has a tissue mill in the Paraná state with an annual capacity of...

Clearwater Paper Corporation has reported a net sales increase of 4.6% to $452.0m for the second quarter of 2019 compared with the same time a year earlier. The company said the increase was due to “record quarterly paperboard shipments and sales, higher retail tissue shipments and higher paperboard and tissue pricing from previously announced price...

Tissue World São Paulo 2019’s conference will unlock opportunities for sustainable success in the region’s most dynamic tissue markets. Latin America’s tissue industry has exciting further potential thanks to the abundant skills, resources and appetite for progress in a region which has an average annual growth rate of 4%. But how to...

UK-based Northwood has completed the purchase of 100% of the issued share capital of KPP Converters (KPP). KPP – a supplier of AfH tissue products – will continue to operate as an independent company out of its site in Ilkeston as a subsidiary of Northwood Hygiene Products (NHP).  Former KPP owners Cliff Arnold and David Vaughan will continue...

Körber Group has increased its Business Area Tissue division after acquiring Roll-Tec Cilindro, a Brazilian-based embossing roll specialist.  Roll-Tec develops, produces and sells engraving cylinders for embossing machines for tissue paper and other tissue products. The acquisition further expands Körber Group’s international Business Area...

Luoyang Jieda Paper has signed a contract for the supply of two BC1300-2850 Crescent Former Tissue Machines. Supplied by Baotuo Enterprise, the two tissue machines have a design speed of 1,300m/min and a width of 2.8m. The contract also includes the general contracting project from the sizing flow system to the reeling completion. When producing...

Lucart has presented its 2018 Sustainability Report with a focus on Circular Economy, new investments and partnerships for sustainable development The company reported a turnover increase of 12% in 2018. Major investments include the acquisition of three production plants in Spain, the construction of a new plant in Hungary, as well as the start-up of a...

Star Paper Mill (SPM) has increased its production capacity after starting up its DCT Crescent Former tissue machine in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Supplied by Recard, the line has the latest flexi-nip shoe press technology, which the mill said enables it to achieve higher bulk and softness. Machine deckle is 3.6m, and its two rewinders have a capability of...

Infinity Machine & Engineering Corp. has responded to customer demand with the launch of its Dual Rotating Cassette C15, a casepacker module designed for higher speed industrial and facial tissue lines. The concept was designed with the goal of increasing the speed at which the product can be loaded into the box. The packaging machinery supplier said...

Slovenia’s Slovak Hygienic Paper Group (SHP Group) has invested in a Toscotec-supplied AHEAD-2.0L tissue line. Delivery to its Paloma mill in Sladki Vrh is scheduled for March 2020 and start-up for June 2020. The turnkey supply includes one AHEAD-2.0L tissue machine, equipped with a second generation Steel Yankee Dryer TT SYD, Toscotec’s shoe press...

Essity has reported a year-on-year net sales increase of 8.6% to SEK 62,724m in its half-year report and said new innovation launches have strengthened its customer and consumer offering. Compared to the same period a year ago, emerging markets accounted for 37% of net sales and saw an organic net sales increase of 9.6%. Operating profit before EBITA...

Asia Pulp and Paper Group (APP) has boosted its capacity in China after investing in 18 Intelli-Tissue EcoEc 1600 Premium machines. Supplied by PMP, the 18 complete tissue machines will be installed at the company’s new mill in Rudong Jiangsu. All the machines will be designed and manufactured with the same concept to produce tissue from 11.5gsm up to...

ABB has launched a Winder Performance Optimisation to maximise capacity and productivity for tissue manufacturers.The supplier said the patented digital solution “optimises winder performance for improved availability, product quality and asset life”.It aims to maximise asset performance, convert to different paper grades and/or increase machine speed,...

Procter & Gamble (P&G) has launched the Charmin Forever Roll – a month’s supply of toilet paper in one giant roll – in the United States.The product holds 850 sheets of toilet paper and promises to enable customers to: • Go up to one month before changing Charmin Forever Roll; • Made of 2-ply Ultra Soft toilet paper; • Comes in a...

Romania’s MG TEC Group has increased its production capacity after investing in two Ribo Tissue E-WIND® T100 rewinders.Supplied A.Celli Paper, the lines will be installed at the company’s Dej plant. They will have a width of 2.8m and will use high-quality tissue paper, with basis weight range from 14 up to 21gsm.They are equipped with four unwinders each...

Aldi is to trial removing plastic packaging from packets of toilet roll in regions of the UK, in a move it said could save more than 900 tonnes of plastic a year.The supermarket will sell four-packs of Luxury Toilet Paper wrapped in paper rather than non-recyclable plastic in 174 stores across parts of the North East and Midlands.If successful, the company said...

Tissue World has announced a range of key speakers and a variety of hot topics to be put under the microscope at its conference in São Paulo, Brazil. Held between 22 – 24 October, the conference’s theme of Global Impacts, Local Challenges, Latin American Prospects – Unlocking Opportunities for Sustainable Success in the Region’s Most Dynamic Tissue...

OMET has targeted the napkin market with the launch of its TV 840 Tronic machine.The supplier said the machine improves automation, offering a “cutting-edge machine that enhances ease of use and optimises waste”.OMET said: “TV 840 Tronic is a high-performance double-lane automatic napkins folding machine line that includes a wide range of high technology...

BTG launches its new online charge instrument called Single Point Charge SPC-5500. It is considerably smaller, easier to install and easier to handle than previous products. Its single point modular design allows for greater flexibility and it comprises BTG’s expert knowledge in charge measurement. The SPC-5500 is suitable for wet-end applications in...

São Paulo, BRAZIL. October 22, 23 and 24 promise to be exciting days for the pulp and paper industry, which will be holding two major events simultaneously in the city of São Paulo. On the one hand, the Tissue World São Paulo will be taking place at the Transamérica Expo Center. At a short distance away, the Hotel Transamérica will be hosting the...

25 expert speakers will offer a broad array of insights to unlock sustainable business opportunities for the Latin American Tissue market. São Paulo, 3 October 2019 – Tissue World São Paulo 2019 is set to take place on 22 – 24 October 2019 and the full conference agenda is now released under the theme Global Impacts, Local Challenges, Latin...

Company invests in new sustainable technologies for the Tissue Market Responsible for bringing solutions for pulp and paper mills to operate more efficiently and profitably, Solenis unites chemicals and innovative technologies to the best and most experienced team of specialists, in addition to establishing new standards of excellence in Tissue paper...