January / February 2016

Song Duong: on the brink of privatisation and expansion, TWM talks to director Nguyen Van Quan to get the latest on Vietnam’s tissue potential

Helen Morris - January 8, 2016

January / February 2016

Vinda boosts capacity with PM start-ups

Helen Morris - November 18, 2015

Svetlana Uduslivaia, Euromonitor International’s head of tissue & hygiene industry

Consumer tissue in Vietnam: changing lifestyles spell good news for the industry

January / February 2016 Svetlana Uduslivaia - January 8, 2016

While Vietnam’s household disposable incomes are the lowest, on average, of all major Asia Pacific nations, long-term economic growth continues to support strong gains in the country. Aside from the rising...

The Socialist Republic of Vietnam joins the world market – official

January / February 2016 Helen Morris - January 8, 2016

There have been calls recently for the inclusion of Vietnam among the MINT economies … the next major set of emerging nations comprised of Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey. V, unfortunately,...

Resolute in “step-change acquisition” of Atlas Paper

January / February 2016 Helen Morris - November 18, 2015

Resolute Forest Products has expanded its At-Home and AfH tissue product offering after it acquired Florida-based Atlas Paper Holdings. Atlas Paper manufactures branded and private label tissue products offering recycled and virgin...

Potosí’s new 25,000tpy tissue PM begins production in Mexico; PM2 stops

January / February 2016 Helen Morris - December 2, 2015

(News from RISI) - Mexican Fábricas de Papel Potosí has started up a new 25,000tpy tissue paper machine at its mill located in San Luis Potosí, north-central Mexico. The equipment was supplied...

Santher’s 3Q profits decline; company implements extra price adjustments

January / February 2016 Helen Morris - December 2, 2015

(News from RISI) Brazilian tissue producer Santher reported net revenues at Real 340.4 million in the third quarter of 2015, an increase of 0.9% over July-September 2014. Net loss for the period...

WEPA Giershagen boosts capacity

January / February 2016 Helen Morris - December 2, 2015

WEPA Giershagen has increased its high quality tissue capacity by 32,000tpy after it started up a Toscotec-supplied AHEAD line. The turnkey Toscotec delivery for the new TM#19 is based on the best...

A tes souhaits!*

January / February 2016 Helen Morris - January 8, 2016

Now living and working in London after 11 years in France, Rebecca was in New York when she discovered the one thing the much-loved multi-tasking kitchen roll is not great for. TWM/1....

PIX Pulp indices 24.11.2015

January / February 2016 Helen Morris - January 8, 2016

NBSK pulp Europe The consumption of softwood pulp was down and inventories up in October in Europe, compared to both September 2015 and October 2014, as reported by UTIPULP. The narrow price...

Not content with being a market leader, Saigon Paper plans to double capacity in...

January / February 2016 Helen Morris - January 8, 2016

Vietnam is a classic tissue growth market. One million new urban residents added each year - per capita consumption less than 1.0kg – behind only China and India among Asia’s growing...

Is Vietnam at last beginning to emerge from its troubled history?

January / February 2016 Helen Morris - January 8, 2016

Tissue demand is growing at 20%, so Vietnam Pulp & Paper Association vice chairman and secretary general Vu Ngoc Bao heralds a major opportunity as the country “joins the world’s economy.”...

January / February 2016

January / February 2016 Helen Morris - January 8, 2016

January / February 2016 DEPARTMENT NEWS: Frontissues: The Socialist Republic of Vietnam joins the world market – official Marketissues: US tissue market: dynamic phase following recent slow growth Exitissues: A radical step changer? WORLD NEWS: Global news Americas news Asia news Europe...

Solenis announces price hike for process chemicals

January / February 2016 Helen Morris - November 5, 2015

Solenis has increased the price of selected process chemicals and containers by 2-4% worldwide. Effective immediately, higher increases can be expected in countries where there has been significant local currency devaluation. Charles Robinson,...

Resolute to boost tissue capacity with Futura install

January / February 2016 Helen Morris - November 5, 2015

North America’s Resolute Forest Products has invested in the new Futura Andromeda Concept converting technology. It will be installed at the company’s plant in Calhoun, Tennessee, and will be delivered to coincide...

CMPC to participate in mediation involving tissue cartel case in Chile

January / February 2016 Helen Morris - December 2, 2015

(News from RISI) - Empresas CMPC has agreed to join a mediation proposed by the Chilean Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Servicio Nacional del Consumidor – SERNAC) in order to compensate consumers...

Lee & Man Paper boosts capacity

January / February 2016 Helen Morris - September 23, 2015

Chinese pulp and paper producer Lee & Man Paper has signed up Valmet for a repeat order of two Advantage DCT 200HS tissue production lines. The new tissue machines will have a...

SCA set to acquire Wausau Paper

January / February 2016 Helen Morris - October 21, 2015

SCA is to boost its presence in the north American Away-from-Home (AfH) tissue market with the acquisition of Wausau Paper for US$513m. The move enhances the tissue giant’s AfH premium tissue portfolio...

Sofidel boosts Nordic presence

January / February 2016 Helen Morris - October 21, 2015

Sofidel’s Swedish subsidiary Swedish Tissue has boosted its capacity after it started up a new converting plant in Kisa. The new converting plant is now fully operational with two active production lines:...

Papcel to deliver tissue paper line to Saudi Arabia

January / February 2016 Helen Morris - October 21, 2015

The Papcel Group has signed a contract to deliver a new paper machine to a confidential company in Saudi Arabia. It will produce papers for the production of napkins, paper towels, tissues...

CMPC and SCA allegedly colluded to control Chilean tissue market

January / February 2016 Helen Morris - November 5, 2015

Chilean forestry company CMPC and a subsidiary of SCA are guilty of price-fixing in Chile, according to Chilean prosecutor Fiscalía Nacional Económica (FNE). On 28 October, the FNE presented an injunction against...

US tissue market: dynamic phase following recent slow growth

January / February 2016 Esko Uutela - January 8, 2016

With America’s tissue market geared up for Tissue World New Orleans in March 2016, RISI’s Esko Uutela talks growth and demand trends in the world’s largest tissue market This year has been...

SCA strengthens presence in Asia

January / February 2016 Helen Morris - November 5, 2015

SCA has strengthens the cooperation with Chinese hygiene company Vinda by integrating its business in South East Asia, Taiwan and South Korea into the business. As part of the transaction, SCA and...

Yuen Foong Yu Taiwan starts up PM

January / February 2016 Helen Morris - November 5, 2015

Yuen Foong Yu (YFY) Taiwan has started up its first AHEAD-1.5m tissue machine at its plant in Chingshui. Supplied by Toscotec, the machine has started up at Yuen Foong Yu’s Chingshui mill...

Suzano installs two 60,000tpy tissue PMs

January / February 2016 Helen Morris - November 18, 2015

(News from RISI) – Brazil’s Suzano has announced a Real425 million investment in two tissue paper machines, each with capacity to produce 60,000tpy. One PM will be installed at its Mucuri plant...

Vinda boosts tissue capacity to almost one million tpy in 2015

January / February 2016 Helen Morris - February 12, 2015

(News from RISI) - Vinda International Holdings plans to build three new 30,000tpy tissue PMs in China in 2015, raising its total tissue capacity to 980,000tpy. One of the three will be...

A radical step changer?

January / February 2016 Helen Morris - January 8, 2016

The new Andromeda converting technology is, manufacturer Futura believes, going to revolutionise the market. TWM reports on the claims. It’s six months since Futura launched its new Andromeda converting technology for tissue...

Bringing Japanese efficiency – and patience – to Vietnam

January / February 2016 Helen Morris - January 8, 2016

Recycling pioneer JP CORELEX VIETNAM is poised to reap the benefits … but it has to narrow the gap between polar opposite tissue industries and cultural habits. TWM talked to Masahiko...

What to expect next: January/February 2016

January / February 2016 Helen Morris - November 18, 2015

Editorial content for the January/February 2016 issue includes: Country Report: Vietnam Reports from Fisher International and Euromonitor International. Plus Operations Reports: TWM visits Corelex Vietnam, Saigon Paper and Vietnam Paper Corporation to get...

Vietnam – modest but steady growth in an underdeveloped T&T market

January / February 2016 Bill Burns - January 8, 2016

By Fisher International's Bill Burns Globally, the Asia Pacific Region is the largest centre of Pulp and Paper (P&P) being first out of the six major global regions in total P&P production....

Project Survey 2015/16

January / February 2016 Helen Morris - January 8, 2016

Overcapacity and the mushrooming of new tissue projects, in particular in markets such as Brazil and Mexico, along with a lot of activity in many of the ‘CIVETS’ emerging economies: Colombia,...