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Recard announces management changes

Helen Morris - August 29, 2019

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Lee & Man boosts latest TM start-up

Helen Morris - April 5, 2018

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Lamix diversifies product offering

Helen Morris - November 19, 2014

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Essity’s Kostheim mill hit by small fire

Helen Morris - June 19, 2019

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Cascades expands into US south east

Helen Morris - August 28, 2014

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PAPCEL changed its ownership structure

Helen Morris - April 11, 2019

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Tissue World São Paulo announces conference speakers: Kimberly-Clark, Finep, The Navigator Company, Euromonitor, Fastmarkets RISI in line-up

Helen Morris - July 18, 2019

Sofidel reduces CO2 emissions by 11%

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - July 25, 2013

Sofidel has reduced its CO2 emissions by 186,000 tonnes, a target that was set when the tissue giant became part of the WWF’s international Climate Savers programme. The company has invested over...

Essel boosts production with rebuild

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - June 2, 2016

Turkey’s Essel Cellulose and Paper Industry Trade has boosted its capacity after finalising the rebuild of a Steel Yankee tissue machine. The A.Celli-supplied rebuild has taken place at the tissue manufacturer’s Caycuma...

The countdown to TW Milan has started!

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - March 21, 2017

Over 200 exhibitors and key industry speakers are gearing up for Tissue World’s leading exhibition and conference, held in Milan in just over two weeks’ time. With over 25 new exhibiting companies,...

Double E Company acquires Convertech

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 5, 2018

Double E Company has boosted its web handing capacity after acquiring Convertech. Headquartered in Wharton, NJ, Convertech joins Appleton Manufacturing, Epoch Industries, and Double E Europe as part of the Double E...

China’s Bazhou Mingxing Paper starts up 12,500tpy tissue machine in Xinjiang

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - December 12, 2013

(News from RISI) - China's Bazhou Mingxing Paper has started up a 12,500tpy tissue paper machine at its mill in Korla city in the Xinjiang autonomous region. The 2.76m wide PM, which...

Petri Helsky appointed CEO of Metsä Tissue

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - January 14, 2015

Metsä Tissue has appointed Petri Helsky as CEO of Metsä Tissue Corporation. Helsky will start his new position as well as becoming a member of Metsä Group’s Executive management team no later than...

Almus boosts converting capacity

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - February 12, 2015

Poland’s Almus has boosted its converting capacity after it signed for a Gambini TouchMax line. The family-run company is based in Slomniki and produces Almusso products, consumer and AfH products as well...

Trevipapel Group boosts capacity with Steel Yankee investment

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - March 9, 2017

Trevipapel Group has invested in a Toscotec-supplied tissue line at its Paper Prime mill in Vila Velha de Rodão, Portugal. The Steel Yankee Dryer TT SYD-16FT is due to be started-up in...

Strength technologies improve profitability

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - July 15, 2013

Kemira’s Vladimir Grigoriev, Mikko Mäkinen and Roberto Zulian review the new developments in strength technologies and discuss the economic benefits found from industrial case studies. The tissue market is one of the...

KP Tissue and KPLP boost EBITDA by 8.1%

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - August 22, 2013

KP Tissue has reported EBITDA of $31.7m compared to $29.3m a year earlier in its Q2 2013 results. The Canadian tissue manufacturer released its results and those of Kruger Products (KPLP) reporting...

Luoyang Jieda Paper boosts facial tissue capacity with investment

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - August 15, 2019

Luoyang Jieda Paper has signed a contract for the supply of two BC1300-2850 Crescent Former Tissue Machines. Supplied by Baotuo Enterprise, the two tissue machines have...

Global impacts, local challenges, Latin American prospects: Tissue World São Paulo 2019

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - August 15, 2019

Tissue World São Paulo 2019’s conference will unlock opportunities for sustainable success in the region’s most dynamic tissue markets. Latin America’s tissue industry has exciting further potential thanks to...

SCA closes Wausau Paper acquisition

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - January 27, 2016

SCA has closed its acquisition of Wausau Paper for USD 513 million in cash. The European tissue giant consolidated Wausau Paper on 21 January 2016. Magnus Groth, SCA president and chief executive, said:...

Hayat Kimya inaugurates its Nigerian diaper and tissue factory; launches Familia and Papia brands...

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - June 15, 2017

Turkey’s Hayat Kimya has further boosted its geographical presence after it inaugurated its $100m diaper and tissue plant in Agbara, Nigeria. In attendance at the inauguration held in May was the vice...

Northwood Group boosts AfH offering with KPP Converters acquisition

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - August 15, 2019

UK-based Northwood has completed the purchase of 100% of the issued share capital of KPP Converters (KPP). KPP - a supplier of AfH tissue products...

Tissue retail in Africa’s southern region

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - July 11, 2013

The current state of the continent’s strongest economy, South Africa, has had a noticeable impact with many consumers suffering a sharp dip in their disposable income. As a result, they are opting for a...

Beskidy orders Hergen Smart tissue line

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - February 13, 2014

Poland’s Fabryka Papieru i Tektury Beskidy has boosted its production capacity after it invested in a Hergen-supplied HCF 920 SMART FIT. The 2.8m machine has a 50tpd capacity and will work at...

Ecofibras rebuilds TM5 into Crescent Former

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - February 26, 2014

Spanish tissue manufacturer Ecofibras has rebuilt its TM5 into a Crescent Former. Toscotec have been awarded the contract to deliver the rebuild. Ecofibras Aranguren is part of the CEL group which was the...

Carta Fabril starts-up 22ft Steel Yankee

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - March 8, 2018

Brazil’s Carta Fabril has started up its PrimeLineST W22 tissue machine, which supplier Andritz said has the world’s largest Steel Yankee dryer. It will produce tissue with grammage of 15 g/m2 that...

OMET launches Industry 4.0 Intelligent Plant

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 25, 2019

OMET has launched its new software developed for production control, which allows real-time connection with any OMET machine, anywhere installed in the world, for data collection and analysis. The...

Körber Group acquires Roll-Tec; expands converting and packaging machine expertise

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - August 15, 2019

Körber Group has increased its Business Area Tissue division after acquiring Roll-Tec Cilindro, a Brazilian-based embossing roll specialist. Roll-Tec develops, produces and sells engraving cylinders for embossing machines for tissue...

CMPC expands operations in Brazil with acquisition of SEPAC

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - August 15, 2019

CMPC subsidiary Softys has agreed to acquire family-owned tissue manufacturer SEPAC, a move it said will consolidate Softys as the largest tissue producer in Brazil. SEPAC was...

Cascades delivers “record quarterly sales”; Orchids Paper acquisition provides “compelling optimisation opportunities”

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - August 29, 2019

Cascades has said all segments executed well in its second quarter results, with its tissue results supported by favourable input costs and selling prices. For...

Poppies Europe invests in Maflex line

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - January 29, 2014

UK-based manufacturer of catering disposable products Poppies Europe has invested in a complete production line from Maflex following its acquisition of McNulty Wray. The company said it made the investment on the...

RVP boosts production with start-up

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - February 26, 2014

RiverPRO Pulp & Paper Company Limited (RVP) has boosted its production after it successfully started up a 25,000tpy tissue machine at its mill in Saraburi province, Thailand. The PM was bought from...

Vinda boosts capacity with PM start-ups

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - November 18, 2015

Vinda Sichuan and Vinda Shandong Paper have started-up two Toscotec-supplied AHEAD-1.5m tissue machines. The two machines have come on-stream according to schedule at Vinda’s tissue mills in Deyang, Sichuan, and Laiwu, Shandong, and...

SCA to shut up shop at Mediona tissue mill in Spain

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - June 2, 2016

(News from RISI) - SCA is set to close its tissue mill in Sant Joan de Mediona, Barcelona. In future, the production of mother reels in Spain will be concentrated at SCA’s...

‘We are facing a sophistication of demand’

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - March 21, 2017

Only in Italy could there be a fibre di latte, one of many pioneering products of fibre experts Lucart at its Diecimo site. In a price war when competition is fierce, balanced expansion...

Papeles Tissue Rosario boosts capacity

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - November 30, 2017

Argentina’s Papeles Tissue Rosario has increased its toilet roll and kitchen towel capacity after investing in a complete automatic converting and rewinding line. Supplied by the Amaco Group, the line was installed...

Procter & Gamble launches Charmin Forever Roll

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - July 18, 2019

Procter & Gamble (P&G) has launched the Charmin Forever Roll - a month’s supply of toilet paper in one giant roll - in the United States.The product holds 850...

Clearwater Paper Reports Q2 results; positively impacted by higher retail tissue shipments and tissue...

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - August 15, 2019

Clearwater Paper Corporation has reported a net sales increase of 4.6% to $452.0m for the second quarter of 2019 compared with the same time a year earlier.

SCA secures ownership share in Vinda

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - October 31, 2013

SCA has secured an ownership share of 56.33% in the Chinese tissue manufacturer Vinda, signifying that the terms for completion of the offer have been met. The company announced on 9 September...

High quality and added value – at speed – are key at SCAs Neuss...

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - November 22, 2013

Since the SCA purchase of G-P's European tissue business mill manager Brend Bichbeimer has met the 'biggest challenge' of a rapid change from a focus on forestry to hygiene... now he...

Guangdong Shaoneng invests in Steel Yankee

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - September 24, 2014

China’s Guangdong Shaoneng has invested in an Andritz-supplied PrimeLineCOMPACT II tissue machine with Steel Yankee. It will be installed at its Shao Guan, Guangdong province site and start-up is scheduled for the...

Fábricas de Papel Potosí boosts capacity

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - June 18, 2015

Mexico’s Fábricas de Papel Potosí has invested in a new TM complete with 12-ft steel Yankee and latest-generation hoods. Supplied by A.Celli Paper, the new 2,800-mm tissue machine is equipped with a...

UK-based Poppies Europe boosts converting production

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - March 10, 2016

Tissue producer Poppies Europe has invested in three OMET napkin production lines. They will join six existing OMET lines installed by the company in the last two years. Poppies Europe has been operating...

Sofidel breaks ground on $300m Ohio plant

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - July 14, 2016

Sofidel has broken ground at its $300m tissue paper mill and converting plant in Circleville, USA. The move will significantly increase the Italian company’s production capacity in the States, with the site’s...

Vinda Paper (Zhejiang) boosts capacity with TM investments

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - January 25, 2017

Vinda Paper (Zhejiang) has taken delivery of two tissue machines supplied by Toscotec. TM3 and TM4 are scheduled to be installed at the company’s Longyou mill in spring and complete start-up in...

Körber announces new CFO

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - January 24, 2018

Körber has appointed Stefan Kirschke as its chief financial officer. As of 14 December, he has succeeded Harald Vogelsang as group CFO. According to the company, Vogelsang left the Group by mutual agreement, a premature release from...

Hayat Kimya to invest $150m in Pakistan

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - February 22, 2018

Hayat Kimya – the FMCG company of Turkish conglomerate Hayat Group – has launched a sales and marketing subsidiary in Pakistan. The investment includes the introduction of tissue brands Papia and Familia...

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