January / February 2017

Japan’s Daio loses appeal in NPI tissue patent infringement case

Helen Morris - November 17, 2016

January / February 2017

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

Helen Morris - January 19, 2017

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...

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...

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,...

Carta Fabril to install “world’s largest Steel Yankee” for tissue

January / February 2017 Helen Morris - October 20, 2016

Carta Fabril is to boost its capacity after it signed for a PrimeLineST W22 tissue machine with Steel Yankee and steam-heated hood. The line is scheduled to start up at the company’s...

China’s Shandong Tranlin condemns report revealing legal problems and pledge of shares in subsidiary

January / February 2017 Helen Morris - November 17, 2016

(News from RISI) - Shandong Tranlin condemned a media report on its involvement in multiple lawsuits and its pledge of the entirety of its equity in a subsidiary, Chiping Tranlin Paper,...

Project Survey 2016

January / February 2017 Helen Morris - January 23, 2017

While 2016 has gone down in history for the many significant global events that took place, for the tissue industry it’s been a slightly more subdued period according to this year’s annual Projects Survey. TWM’s...

2016 North American tissue statistics point to a balanced market

January / February 2017 Helen Morris - January 20, 2017

Shipments and operating rates are currently strong but we worry about the supply side So the demand side of the North American tissue market appears strong, but we continue to worry about the lineup of...

Twinsaver Group to become “largest tissue manufacturer” in Sub-Saharan Africa

January / February 2017 Helen Morris - November 17, 2016

South Africa’s Twinsaver Group has boosted its capacity after it invested R500m in a new Toscotec AHEAD-2.0S tissue production line. Based at its Kliprivier site in Gauteng, the line will be started-up...

Timeline for BOR Biotechnology tissue mill project in Czech Republic pushed back

January / February 2017 Helen Morris - November 17, 2016

(News from RISI) - The plans of Czech firm BOR Biotechnology to build a new tissue mill in the town of Kozomín, north of Prague, are moving forward but the timeline...

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...

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,...

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

January / February 2017 Helen Morris - January 20, 2017

TWM/1 What new technical advances have you made in the last year concerning issues such as energy, fibre and water reduction, sheet quality and reliability? Paolo Raffaelli, technical director, Toscotec: “The focus...

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...

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

January / February 2017 Helen Morris - January 19, 2017

By Tissue World magazine editor Helen Morris After closures and a sharp market re-focus, global coloured tissue leader Duni’s SEK110m investment has brought its 5% mature market growth target into sight. Helen Morris...

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

January / February 2017 Helen Morris - January 20, 2017

Gary J. Carroll is an adventurer and professional photographer. Born in Birmingham, England, he travels the world as a street/urban photographer exploring different cultures, infrastructure and day-to-day living.

Japan’s Daio loses appeal in NPI tissue patent infringement case

January / February 2017 Helen Morris - November 17, 2016

(News from RISI) - The latest ruling in a legal battle that has been in the Japanese courts since 2012 between Nippon Paper Industries (NPI) and Daio Paper was made in...

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...

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...