January / February 2017

Project Survey 2016

Helen Morris - January 23, 2017

Paper Machine Quality, energy, fibre, water, costs… the search for high end advances

Helen Morris - January 20, 2017

January / February 2017

2016 North American tissue statistics point to a balanced market

Helen Morris - January 20, 2017

January / February 2017

From the Himalayas to city life – a modern-day nomad’s world of tissue

Helen Morris - January 20, 2017

January / February 2017

PIX Pulp indices 27.9.2016

Helen Morris - January 20, 2017

January / February 2017

Focus on Sweden: a nation of tissue lovers

Helen Morris - January 19, 2017

January / February 2017

A tough modern makeover for the table top star ‘close to nowhere’ in Västra Götaland

Helen Morris - January 19, 2017

Tradition and passion creates Sofidel’s most advanced automated site

January / February 2017 Helen Morris - January 19, 2017

By Tissue World magazine editor Helen Morris TWM interviews Robert Jensen, Sofidel Sweden, country operations manager, on the latest tissue trends in the region. Sofidel’s Swedish plant produces 56,000tpy of private label products, specialist tissue in...

Back from the brink in Norway’s dramatic Paper Valley

January / February 2017 Helen Morris - January 19, 2017

By Tissue World magazine editor Helen Morris Amid the spectacular mountains and fjords, the story of a mill’s survival is barely less impressive. After all looked lost in 2013, Vajda-Papir Scandinavia is now investing,...

Scandinavia – regional provider of pulp and paper with local T&T business

January / February 2017 Helen Morris - January 19, 2017

By Bill Burns, Senior consultant, Fisher International Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway and Denmark) is well known for producing pulp and paper products for both the local market and export. Exports are heavily focused on Western European countries but the...

Eurozone’s ‘saturated’ market consumption has risen well above trend … thanks to oil. But...

January / February 2017 Helen Morris - January 19, 2017

Tissue usage increased 3.6% after a dramatic drop in energy prices in the winter of 2014-2015, plus an improvement in consumer confidence. TWM asked Numera Analytics to explain how it happened … and...

It does exactly what it says on the scented packaging

January / February 2017 Helen Morris - January 19, 2017

I like the sound of Vårt Finaste Toalettpapper. It means, as I’m sure you will have worked out, Our Finest Toilet Paper. It was launched by the grocery retailer ICA Sverige in Sweden in 2015,...

Tissue World Milan set to be world’s largest tissue event

January / February 2017 Helen Morris - January 12, 2017

Italy is gearing up to host the world’s largest gathering of tissue professionals for the first time as the industry prepares for Tissue World Milan held during 10-12 April 2017. With an exhibition...

Irving boosts capacity with TAD investment

January / February 2017 Helen Morris - November 30, 2016

Canadian tissue manufacturer Irving Consumer Products has invested in a Thru-Air Dried tissue making machine from Valmet. Delivery is expected in 2018 and once up and running the line will increase its household paper products capacity. President of the Dieppe-based company Robert K. Irving...

First Quality expands manufacturing capacity with PM investments

January / February 2017 Helen Morris - November 30, 2016

First Quality Tissue is to focus its long term growth plans on the ultra-premium towel and tissue sectors after it announced plans to invest in two new state-of-the-art tissue machines. The lines will be installed at the company's South Carolina and...

Bedford Paper invests in retail and AfH production capacity

January / February 2017 Helen Morris - November 30, 2016

America's Bedford Paper has invested in a tissue converting and packaging line for its facility in De Pere, Wisconsin. Supplied by PCMC, start-up is expected in 2017 and will increase the company's production of retail and AfH small bath...

C&S plans tissue expansion in Hebei; small mills in Mancheng forced to stop to...

January / February 2017 Helen Morris - November 30, 2016

(News from RISI) - C&S Paper is to add 75,000tpy of new tissue paper capacity at its mill in Tangshan city, Hebei province, to feed increasing demand in northern and northeastern China. The board...

Winners of Sofidel’s Suppliers Sustainability Award announced

January / February 2017 Helen Morris - November 30, 2016

Italian tissue company Sofidel has announced the winners of the first edition of its Suppliers Sustainability Award. The Award was created to encourage and spread best practice and improvement activity currently being carried out by the tissue mill's suppliers in the area of...