Operations Report

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Circular economy pioneer Essity producing paper CO2 free 

Thorsten Becherer, Site Manager at Essity’s Mainz-Kostheim, Germany-based plant, explains the latest advances in award winning e-save programme.  TWM/1: What’s unique about the Mainz-Kostheim plant?

Industry partnerships key to tackling challenges with sustainability and innovation the drivers

With a market share of 25% in its home country, tissue giant WEPA Group has ambitious plans to maintain the top spot. Here, WEPA Chief Operations Officer Harm Bergmann-Kramer...

OPERATIONS REPORT Northwood Dicepa: Open air restaurants, increased vacationing, sunny climes – how the...

Two tissue plant acquisitions in Spain by the UK-based Northwood Group have seen a double win … the Spanish market’s continued recovery, and a solution to a potential Brexit...

OPERATIONS REPORT Essity Valls: After the ‘big evolution’ the market is stabilising again

Spanish consumer tissue leader Essity Valls met the turmoil of recent years with its own rapid response. Miriam Guasch, Operations Director Manufacturing Spain, Global Supply Chain, charts how the...

OPERATIONS REPORT Lucart Tissue & Soap: “2022 has shown a full recovery of the...

Lucart Tissue & Soap (Lucart T&S) is a Lucart Group subsidiary based in Artziniega in the north of Spain, running two industrial plants since the beginning of 2018. Here,...

OPERATIONS REPORT LC Paper: “AfH revenue to double in the next three years, AH...

With a new converting production site ready for start-up, Pau Vila, LC Paper’s General Manager, explains the new trends guiding consumer choices and the company’s innovative responses. A TWM...

OPERATIONS REPORT: MP HYGIÈNE ON TRACK FOR PIONEERING HIGH SPEED TISSUE MACHINE WITH EXCLUSIVELY...

Already an AfH market leader in the French tissue market, the AHEAD 2.2 tissue machine 2024 start-up will mean its CO2 footprint will be one of the lowest in the world, says President and Chief Executive Marc Miribel. Report by TWM Senior Editor Helen Morris.

Klabin’s southern softwood bleached market pulp, diversifying and differentiation in the fluff segment–innovation on...

By Marco Martins, MSc Science Forest and Chemical Engineering – Klabin’s Customer Technical Services Manager, Flaviana Milagres – Forest Engineer, Master and Doctor in Forest Science - Klabin’s Research...

Operations Report: Aktül Kagıt investments to boost production capacity to 210,000tpy

A 70,000tpy TM is planned for start-up in Q4 2022, and once up and running the business will look to export its new production. TWM speaks to Factory Director...

Operations Report: State-of-the-art-machinery gives Europap Tezol Kağit “a big opportunity”

In three years annual capacity rose from 95,000tpy to a projected 130,000tpy with an AHEAD 2.2S tissue line start up in 2023, boosting super-prime branded tissue products sold abroad...

Operations Report: “We want to continue to serve the sector by adding a high-capacity...

Essel Cellulose and Paper Industry has made substantial strides forwards since it was founded in 2005, when it commissioned its first tissue machine. Now, a worldwide shortage of raw...

Kimberly-Clark: Operations Report – A ‘fully reopening’ Thailand sees its tissue demand boom continue

The country’s market leader Kimberly-Clark, celebrating its 150th anniversary, reflects on local shifts in shopping habits and pandemic-accelerated opportunities to pivot and drive stronger penetration for in-home consumption. Ratree...

C.A.S. Paper Operations Report: Launched in the pandemic – this new tissue entrant survived...

With most countries in the region now opening up, tissue is continuing on its growth path. Here, C.A.S. Paper Mill Co. Managing Director Torpong Thongcharoen describes what’s next for...

Velvet Care: Poland’s tissue market leader seeing dynamic post-pandemic growth

Velvet Care has achieved a series of firsts in production capacity, workforce levels, turnover, quality and its Eco Agenda 2025. Wanda Ciesielczuk, Production and Technical Director, talks to TWM...

Operations Report: “We estimate that about 40% of all paper sold on the shelf...

With roughly half the per capita consumption rate of Germany and France, the Transylvania, Romania-based company’s extensive investment programme is targeting home growth, as well as international expansion where...

Operations Report: With a sixth tissue machine due to be started-up in the last...

The best laid development plans on 2018 were tested during the pandemic years. Today, continued investments have brought the goal of 125,000tpy production target into sight. TWM Senior Editor...

Fábrica de Papel San Francisco: Controlled capacity to meet demand growing through move into private...

Juan José Mubarak Helú Villavicencio, Sales & Marketing Director of Fábrica de Papel San Francisco, forecasts a 5% plus tonnage sales growth ahead. Report by TWM Senior Editor Helen...

WEPA Group: After the pandemic hit consumer business, 2022 is the year of recovery...

WEPA’s new strategies progressing product diversity, flexible machinery, recycled paper, packaging, hybrid products, and efficient renewable energy. Bernhard Gross, Managing Director WEPA Italia, talks to TWM. 

Operations Report: Essity expects professional hygiene market is set to grow faster compared to...

Italian operations at Lucca and Collodi playing leading roles in new “more agile and competitive” Consumer Tissue Private Label division for Europe announced in 2021. Here, Riccardo Trionfera, Commercial...

MEPCO: Launch of first state-of-the-art TM aims to redirect Saudi Arabia’s tradition as the...

Aided by population growth and high income per capita, Saudi Arabia’s tissue consumption is forecast to accelerate in the medium term with per capita consumption jumping to a potential...

FHH: The region’s top tissue company raises the bar higher: “We are going to...

Fine Hygienic Holding (FHH) – the tissue market leader in the Middle East and North Africa region – has a history dating back to 1958. Here, Chief Executive James...

Mili: Is Covid-19 the tipping point for accelerated growth in the Brazilian tissue market?

With over 70% of production dedicated to the At-Home market, one of Brazil’s leading tissue manufacturers Mili saw sales grow 18% in 2020 – and expects a 10% increase...

IPEL gearing up to ride the economic and industrial recovery

The hard-hit AfH sector is now back to pre-pandemic sales levels. Private label is structuring and professionalising while exports are targeted across South and Central America. IPEL’s Commercial Director...

DISPENSING A CLEANER, SAFER SERVICE FOR GERMANY’S HEALTH-CONSCIOUS PUBLIC

Metsä Tissue divested its napkin business in 2020 and has realigned its focus on tissue. Tobias Lüning, Vice President Supply Chain Western Europe, Country Manager Germany, spoke to TWM.

How the pandemic raised the demand for sustainable and innovative hygiene products, and may...

WEPA didn’t just think outside the box when the Covid-19 crisis hit, it created new boxes, says CEO Martin Krengel. Report by TWM Senior Editor Helen Morris.

‘A project that could change the course of the tissue industry’s future’

The circular economy, tissue from wheat straw, a dual strategy of private label and brands: TWM Senior Editor Helen Morris interviewed Donato Giorgio, President Global Supply Chain and member...
Gearing up: The company's 13-acre Sun Paper Source plant in Indonesia; Following the outbreak of Covid-19, the businesses have expanded into new and bigger markets they previously weren't able to get a foothold in.

WHEN THE COVID-19 CRISIS BROKE WE WERE ALREADY GEARED UP TO MEET THE NEW...

Sopanusa Tissue & Packaging Saranasukes and Sun Paper Source’s state-of-readiness was due to a dynamic business strategy which today sees it trading in over 80 countries and across five continents....
Green potential: The company’s environmentally-friendly products are seeing increased demand in Thailand and across Southeast Asia .

The return of a much-needed tourism boom is anticipated to bring back income –...

The anticipated rise in tissue use of three years ago has been hit by three waves of the Covid-19 pandemic. TWM interviewed Dr. Sumrit Yipyintum, Managing Director of Thailand’s...
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AfH is making a strong comeback in China and across Asia

People want to return to their traditional lifestyles … vacations, going to restaurants, theatres, bars, or just simply getting out, and a resurgence in commercial tissue shows it’s happening....
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Intense market competition sees China’s tissue industry setting record performance levels 

A November 2020 report by China National Household Paper Industry (CNHPIA) Association looks at margins, soft and hardwood pulp and parent roll prices, investment, capacity, import and export and...
Q1 target for start-up: Critical weeks ahead to get TAD line on stream at Kruger’s impressive Sherbrooke plant in Quebec.

Kruger Products’ ‘Dynamic’ 2020 Continues with Imminent Major Start-Up and Planned Future Expansion

Canada’s leading manufacturer of quality tissue has redirected its strategy during the last three years. Chief Executive Dino Bianco has driven a focus on consumer insight… “to up our...
Savvy consumers: Royal Paper's SuperSoft brand targets the value equation

“2020 was a record year of growth for us. We expect 2021 to be...

An entrepreneurial spirit gives Royal Paper the means to diversify and expand west to east across the complete range of private label products. Chief Executive Kevin Otero gives TWM...
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New York’s historic tissue mill reinventing itself … after a devastating fire and now...

“Overnight, we saw a shift across America … Covid changed the way everyone is behaving and thinking … we all need to keep a close eye on how many...
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Marutomi Group targets unique product development in drive towards 20% home market share

The goal of Marutomi Seishi Co., a tissue product manufacturer with facilities across Japan, is to reach a 20% share of the Japanese tissue market in the near future....
Mr. Kazufumi Yamasaki, President, Nippon Paper Crecia Co.

Tissue use habits are changing as ‘new lifestyle’ takes hold in Japan 

Nippon Paper Crecia Co. President Mr. Kazufumi Yamasaki outlines focus on product development to meet challenges of rapidly changing market and the possibility of a third wave of the...
Alpay Yalçın, Export Sales and Operations Manager, Europap Tezol Kağit

“We saw a very substantial sales increase in a very short time”

Alpay Yalçın, Export Sales and Operations Manager, Europap Tezol Kağit, says Turkey was more successful than many countries in combating the disease. Report by TWM Senior Editor Helen Morris.
Orhan Öğücü and the company's Çorlu, Tekirdağ-based plant: “Our share in the exports of our industry is 34%. In the world, we export to more than 80 countries in five continents.”

‘Global tissue consumption set to rise by 10-15% post-pandemic’

Will a new ‘Era of Hygiene’ emerge once Covid-19 is under control? Turkey’s Lila Group Chairman Orhan Öğücü believes it will, after consumers have grown to rely on and...
Guided by experience: Lutfi Aydin

Turkey’s tissue leader sets its sights on becoming Russia’s largest producer

Already dominating in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Hayat Kimya continues its impressive growth programme, and targeted pandemic response in manufacturing and marketing. Lutfi Aydın, Global Tissue...
Continued investments: Eczacıbaşı Consumer Products has full confidence in the potential of the Turkish tissue market

‘Changed consumer habits will bring Turkey’s per capita usage closer to that of developed...

At 6.3kg in Turkey - 26kg in the US – the figure has risen during the pandemic and will remain higher permanently, says Bilge Çiftçi, Chief Marketing Officer, Eczacıbaşı...
Growth set to continue: investment in equipment and human resources at the Pako Group factory in Belgrade

SERBIA: SEARCH FOR NEW MARKETS AS DEMAND FALLS BELOW PRE-COVID-19 LEVEL

Pako Group Company is a family business founded in Belgrade, Serbia in 1995. Under its UNO brand, it specialises in the production and distribution of toilet paper, tissue and...