Operations Report

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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...

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...

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: 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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: 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.

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 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 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 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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...
(MEPCO) Seizes Growth Opportunity with Tissue Diversification

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

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...
Hayat's Sustainable Innovations in Tissue Manufacturing

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

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...
Roberto Caballero, VP Supply Chain for LatAm, Essity.

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

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 ...

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...
Ronald Rusco, Chief Executive, Sopanusa Tissue & Packaging Saranasukses

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

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...