Thursday, December 12, 2024

Operations Report

    Tissue World Magazine, Departments: Operations Report

     

    Belkacem Becharef, Africaine Paper Mills (APM) General Manager

    OPERATIONS REPORT: Five years on from its tissue start-up Africaine Paper Mills is enjoying...

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    Algeria is attracting a lot of trade because of its low costs base. After having to turn away orders due to mill capacity, General Manager Belkacem Becharef is determined to gear...
    Ronald Rusco, Chief Executive, Sopanusa Tissue & Packaging Saranasukses

    OPERATIONS REPORT: A Southeast Asian “premier titan” embarks on visionary expansion

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    In March, Indonesia’s Sun Paper Source announced it had invested in four tissue machines at its plant in Ngoro, Mojokerto, boosting production capacity to 300,000tpy in total with sister company Sopanusa...
    Roberto Caballero, VP Supply Chain for LatAm, Essity.

    ESSITY OPERATIONS REPORT: Supply chain integration the key as diverse Latin American market enters...

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    Following the start-up of a TAD tissue machine at the company’s Sahagún facility in Mexico in 2020, Essity continues to target premium products in its main global growth market. TWM Senior...
    Leonardo Grimaldi, Head of Global Pulp Sales, Marketing and Logistics; Suzano

    SUZANO OPERATIONS REPORT: The Latin American pulp giant emerging as a major force ...

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    Just seven years after moving into the tissue manufacturing market, Suzano’s Head of Global Pulp Sales, Marketing and Logistics Leonardo Grimaldi says the company is embarked on era-defining expansion. TWM Senior...
    Hayat's Sustainable Innovations in Tissue Manufacturing

    HAYAT OPERATIONS REPORT: Middle East region’s largest tissue manufacturer targets “immense potential for growth...

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    As one of the leading global companies in the FMCG sector, in 2023 Turkish-headquartered Hayat announced investment plans worth $55m which will see it open two tissue and non- woven production...
    (MEPCO) Seizes Growth Opportunity with Tissue Diversification

    MEPCO OPERATIONS REPORT: With global tissue consumption projected to double in two decades, one...

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    The newly announced India Middle East Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) will add even greater incentive to the rising young population and tourism boom fuelling growth. For the Middle East Paper Company...

    KRUGER PRODUCTS OPERATIONS REPORT: Margin recovery, strong top-line growth, ramped up production … a...

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    Here, Kruger Products speaks to TWM about how it is building momentum through innovative products, marketing, and sustainability initiatives, as its expansion plans fuel growth across Canada and U.S.  As the leading...

    ST PAPER: The low capital dynamic: re-utilise shut or under-used facilities … and build...

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    With its latest investment – a PrimeLineTM W 2000 – started-up at its site in Duluth, Minnesota, in January this year, ST Paper is primed for further expansion. TWM interviews Senior...

    OPERATIONS REPORT: The MSS Group – demographic trends drive major changes in tissue shopping...

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    Single-person households, a drop in marriages, the online warehouse and next-day-delivery malls are driving a new era of small-volume production. TWM interviews Monalisa Chief Executive and MSS Group Chief...

    Circular economy pioneer Essity producing paper CO2 free 

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    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

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    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...

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    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

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    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...

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    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...

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    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...

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    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...

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    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

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    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”

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    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...

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    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

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    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...

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    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

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    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...

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    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...

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    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...

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    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...

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    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...

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    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...

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    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...

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    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?

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    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

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    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

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    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...

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    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’

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    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...

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    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 –...

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    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

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    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 

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    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

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    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...
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