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GP focuses on AfH at Washington site amid restructure

Helen Morris - November 16, 2017

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Cascades expands into US south east

Helen Morris - August 28, 2014

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Tezol Tütün Kagit boosts capacity

Helen Morris - December 12, 2013

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Metso’s pulp, paper and power business rebrands

Helen Morris - November 14, 2013

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Commemoration: Stefano Santini

Helen Morris - January 23, 2014

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Lee & Man starts up new 60,000tpy tissue PM in China

Helen Morris - November 18, 2015

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Brazilian Carta Fabril prepares to start up new tissue PM in April

Helen Morris - April 22, 2014

Sofidel acquires NTG Papermill

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - October 3, 2013

Tissue giant Sofidel has boosted its presence in the UK after it acquired Lancaster-based NTG Papermill. The agreement became effective on 1 October, with the company adding the move enables it to...

RCI Technology and Consos launch Softener SC-Q Liq

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - January 15, 2014

RCI Technology and partner company Consos have announced the availability of their newest offering, Softener SC-Q Liq. The 100% active Softener SC-Q Liq “pushes the envelope” for molecular weight on their eco-friendly...

Essity announces job cuts at Ohio tissue site

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - June 14, 2018

Tissue giant Essity has announced the loss of 55 jobs at its Middletown, Ohio-based operations. The site, which was a part of the company’s 2016 acquisition of Wausau Paper Corp, has around...

‘The economic crisis has redefined our marketplace’

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - September 11, 2013

Unprecedented private label growth, corporate social responsibility, sustainability, achieving the best price/quality/ performance value possible - Cascades Tissue Group chief executive Suzanne Blanchet discusses key retail trends with TW. Tissue World: What...

WEPA acquires Arjowiggins; boosts European private label and recycled papers offering

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 11, 2019

Germany’s WEPA Group has taken over Arjowiggins Greenfield plant in Chateau-Thierry, France.The company’s WEPA Hygieneprodukte division has been awarded to take over the business activities of the Arjowiggins Greenfield...

Solenis completes acquisition of Nopco Colombiana

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - July 27, 2017

Solenis has boosted its product offering after completing the acquisition of Nopco Colombiana. Headquartered in Medellin, Colombia, Nopco Colombiana produces and supplies specialised chemical solutions for water intensive industries in Central 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...

Suzano and Fibria merge to form global pulp giant

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 19, 2018

Brazilian pulp producer Suzano Papel e Celulose has acquired Brazilian eucalyptus pulp producer Fibria in a deal worth BRL36 billion. The move has created a pulp giant with a 17% share of...

Södra raises softwood pulp price

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 2, 2013

Pulp manufacturer Södra has raised the price of its softwood pulp to US$ 890 in Europe. The increase took effect as of 1 May. In a statement, the company said: “The...

APP completes 20MW solar project in Indonesia

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - December 4, 2014

Asia Pulp & Paper has completed a 20MW rooftop solar project at its site Gold HongYe tissue mill in Suzhou, China. The panels cover around 300,000 square meters (the equivalent of 42...

APP continues to build tissue machines in China and Indonesia but slows its pace

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - November 4, 2014

News from RISI - Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) group has brought a total of eight tissue paper machines on stream at its mills in China and Indonesia this year. However, that...

Metalicplas boosts capacity with TM start-up

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - January 27, 2016

Romania’s Metalicplas has increased its production capacity by 34,000tpy after starting up its new tissue PM. Part of the Pehart Tec Group, the A.Celli-supplied machine has a width of 2.8m at the...

Solenis announces price hikes on process chemicals and PAM products

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - January 25, 2017

Solenis has increased the price on its process chemicals and Polyacrylamide (PAM) Products for the Asia Pacific region. Effective immediately or as contracts allow, a 5-10% increase will occur on select process...

PMP Group celebrates sale of 101st PMP Intelli-Jet V® hydraulic headbox

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - July 25, 2013

PMP Group has announced the sale of the 101st PMP Intelli-Jet V® hydraulic headbox since 2000. The headbox can now be found in 15 countries and across three continents, North America, Asia...

Resolute appoints Patrice Minguez as president of Tissue Group

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - August 24, 2017

Resolute has appointed the former founder and former president of Cellynne Holdings, Patrice Minguez, as president of its Tissue Group. The new role will see Minguez reporting to Richard Garneau, president and...

Hayat Kimya inaugurates 70,000tpy Alabuga tissue mill

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 8, 2015

(News from RISI) - Turkish tissue producer Hayat Kimya has inaugurated its 70,000tpy Alabuga tissue mill located in Tatarstan, Russia. The mill, which occupies a 73,000m2 site in the special economic zone...

Kimberly-Clark Europe boosts Swiss converting facilities

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - March 10, 2016

Kimberly-Clark Europe has invested in the latest generation Futura JOI Embosser for an existing tissue converting line at its Niederbipp facility in Switzerland. The new JOI Embosser started up in October 2015 and...

Tissue World opens in Miami next week

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - March 12, 2014

2013 was a year to remember: in the season that marked the 20th anniversary of Tissue World, the show moved from Nice to Barcelona, expectations were building up, and thanks to...

Private equity consortium takes minority stake in Nuqul’s FINE Hygienic Holding

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 20, 2015

(News from RISI) - A consortium led by Standard Chartered Private Equity (SCPE), the private equity arm of Standard Chartered Bank, has invested $175 million to acquire a "significant minority stake"...

Productos Familia starts up tissue machine

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - February 15, 2013

Columbia tissue producer Productos Familia has boosted its tissue paper production capacity after it installed a Voith Paper machine. The new TM7 has been installed in the Cajica plant where another Voith...

Metalicplas boosts capacity with installation

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - August 27, 2015

Romania’s Metalicplas has expanded its production tonnage after it signed for a new tissue machine from supplier A.Celli Paper. The tissue producer is part of Pehart Group Companies and the PM purchase...

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...

SCA and Vinda to integrate hygiene business in China

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - July 30, 2014

SCA has strengthened its cooperation with Vinda International by transferring its hygiene business in China (mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau) to Vinda. As part of the transaction, SCA and Vinda have...

K-C to call off European tissue sale: FT

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - January 17, 2019

Kimberly-Clark (K-C) is understood to have called off its plans to sell its European tissue unit, according to the Financial Times. It follows reports during 2018 that the tissue...

Tissue World 2018 Conference and Exhibition Returns to Miami March 20-23

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - January 22, 2018

North America ‘s largest tissue industry event to draw over 3,000 attendees from 50 countries MIAMI BEACH (Jan. 22, 2018) — Tissue World Miami 2018 is slated to be the first global...

Suavecel boosts capacity in Iberian Peninsula

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - June 6, 2019

Suavecel has recently purchased two OMET TV 840 lines and one OMET ASV Line for interfolded production. In addition to the production of tissue paper, the company works as...

China’s Mancheng Paper to add two new TMs to Baoding mill

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 6, 2017

(News from RISI) - Mancheng Paper (formerly known as Tiantian Paper) will install two new tissue production lines at its sole mill in Baoding city, Hebei province, northern China. Chinese supplier Liaoyang...

GRIGIŠKĖS targets tissue business with 6m loan agreement

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - October 7, 2015

GRIGIŠKĖS has signed a six million euros loan agreement with Nordea Bank for development of its tissue paper business. The producer has also completed a €20 million investment project this year during...

Wangpaper to boost capacity

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - September 19, 2013

Thailand’s Wangpaper is to boost its capacity with the installation of an Intelli-Tissue® 900 machine supplied by PMP Group. The deal was made at the end of August and is promised to...

PT Suparma Tbk boosts capacity

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 20, 2015

PT Suparma Tbk has started up a new tissue line at its site in Surabaya, Indonesia. The Valmet-supplied Advantage DCT 100 TM increases the company's production of bathroom tissue, towel and diaper...

PCMC Italy boosts production capacity after inaugurating facilities

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - October 20, 2016

PCMC Italy has officially opened its three new buildings in Fornaci di Barga, Italy. The premise covers 14,000sqm and will facilitate four converting lines for a production capacity of 36 lines per...

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:...

Focus on: Tango Roll makes a point for point-to-point

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 7, 2013

Futura’s Tango line has been lauded as the latest breakthrough in high efficiency, value- adding technologies. It marked the debut of the latest JOI Technology; the first embosser to feature a...

Spanish competition authority slaps fines of Euro 128.8 million on heavy inco cartel

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - June 16, 2016

(News from RISI) - The Spanish National Market and Competition Commission, Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC), has imposed fines of Euro 128.8 million ($142.6 million) on seven...

Brazilian Ipel postpones tissue PM 4 startup to August

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - July 3, 2014

(News from RISI) Brazilian tissue producer Indaial Papel Embalagens (Ipel) has rescheduled the startup of its new 26,400tpy paper machine PM4 until August, RISI has learned. Ipel's marketing manager, Luciana Dobuchak, said:...

SCA targets environment with Okay® Compressé launch

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - October 20, 2016

SCA’s consumer tissue brand Okay® has launched a compressed household towel “Okay® Compressé”. The company said the product performs as well as regular household paper towels but added that it is half...

Clearwater boosts private label capacity with $340m NTT investment

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - February 23, 2017

Clearwater Paper has responded to customer demand for premium and ultra-premium products by investing in a second tissue machine and converting facility at its site in North Carolina. The 200-inch, Valmet-supplied NTT...

Sofidel boosts Nordic presence

Latest Headlines 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:...

K-C announces 1Q 2014 results

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 22, 2014

Kimberly-Clark has reported “solid first quarter” results but said first quarter sales for its consumer tissue segment decreased 2%. For the first quarter of 2014, the group’s net sales of $5.3 billion...

Clearwater Paper’s 3Q results impacted by pulp price hikes

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - November 2, 2017

Clearwater Paper Corporation has said higher than expected pulp prices, maintenance costs and transportation rates have impacted its third quarter results. The company reported net sales of $426.5m, down 2.0% compared to...

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