April/May 2012

    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    GLOBAL NEWS

    Tissue World Americas: 36% more visitors Tissue World Americas has been a clear success attracting almost 1,000 of the industry’s leading personnel – up 36% on 2010 figures. The four-day event successfully held...
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    Rotor thermal stress can lead to a pulper’s unscheduled downtime. Here, Baldor’s senior principal...

    COPPER BAR ROTOR MOTOR DESIGN FOR PULPER APPLICATIONS In tissue mills, process reliability is absolutely crucial to the bottom line. Due to the batch nature of the stock pulping process, pulpers typically...
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    ASIA NEWS: China

    CHINA APP China to build twelve small tissue PMs with capacity of 240,000 tpy (PPI Asia) - APP China has decided to add twelve more tissue machines with a combined capacity of 240,000tpy...

    Consumer Speak

    Greg Williams is a tour director and lives in Hobart, the capital of Tasmania. As a Tassie, he has a knack for local humour that makes him a central...
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    Global tissue market continuing its strong growth, but Europe struggling

    Global tissue business has recovered well from the 2009 recession, but recent economic and political turbulences have disturbed the return to normal business conditions in some regions. Europe's desperate attempts to...
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    Western USA: From recession to recovery

    Although the US economy was badly hit by the post-Lehmann recession, an upturn in economic activity (although somewhat uneven) as well as population expansion saw the tissue industry return to growth...
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    SHORT ISSUES

    Lila Kagit has boosted its tissue paper output after it started up an Advantage DCT 200 TS tissue production line at its Corlu mill in Turkey. The new line uses virgin...
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    A more bullish west US aspires to quality and economy in production and sales

    After reading our Euromonitor International report Western USA: From recession to recovery about ‘bellwether activities’ such as eating out contributing toward an upturn in the US economy, I must say I...
    Tissue World Magazine

    April/May 2012

    DEPARTMENTS FRONT : A more bullish west US aspires to quality and economy in product and sales MARKET : Global tissue market continuing  strong growth, but Europe struggling EXIT : Rotor thermal...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    AMERICAS NEWS: North Americas

    NORTH AMERICA Free box/Facebook offer from Kruger represents social media-coupon play The days of using only print, radio, and TV advertising to sell tissue paper and towels have been vastly extended now to...