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Khalid Saifullah, former Managing Director and shareholder of Star Tissue UK and future Managing Director of WEPA Professional UK (left), and Andreas Krengel, Chief Executive Business Unit Professional of the WEPA Group

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WEPA increases UK presence with Star Tissue UK acquisition

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WEPA boosts capacity with rebuilds; Leuna mill investment latest

Helen Morris - December 17, 2019

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Voith to be carbon neutral worldwide from 2022

Helen Morris - December 17, 2019

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Gambini delivers TouchMax.Air to Byness Company

Helen Morris - December 17, 2019

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APP invests in four new tissue lines

Helen Morris - December 17, 2019

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Hubei Zhencheng announces tissue expansion; 10 TMs ordered in first phase

Helen Morris - December 17, 2019

Irving Consumer Products invests in second TAD machine following Macon start-up Tissue World Magazine

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Irving boosts ultra-premium capacity with TAD investment

Helen Morris - December 17, 2019

K-C reports Q1 results; makes “excellent progress towards higher selling prices”

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 9, 2019

Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has reported a year-on-year net sales decrease of 2% to $4.6bn in its first quarter 2019 results. However, operating profit for the period was $655m in 2019...

Grupo Corporativo Papelera boosts capacity

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 25, 2019

Grupo Corporativo Papelera has invested in an iDEAL Forged_YD – 16” Yankee Cylinder.The Yankee has been shipped to Mexico and will be installed at the company's El Tepetloxto plant.IDEAL...

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...

ProMach boosts robotics capabilities with Quest Industrial acquisition

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 25, 2019

ProMach has acquired Quest Industrial, a provider of robotic integration solutions. The move means the packaging machinery provider will strengthen its robotics integration capabilities across multiple markets. Wisconsin, USA-based...

Tissue World 2019 welcomes 3,200 visitors from 91 countries!

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 25, 2019

Tissue World Milan 2019 was a global event which welcomed 3,200 participants from 91 countries, with the highest number of attendees coming from Italy,...

GP announces executive leadership changes

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 11, 2019

Georgia-Pacific (GP) has announced that Kathleen A. "Kathy" Walters will retire as executive vice president – consumer products group, effective 1 June 2019.David Duncan, who currently serves as executive...

PAPCEL changed its ownership structure

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 11, 2019

PAPCEL has changed its ownership structure and announced that 100% of its shares are now held by Czech company Vega-HSH.In the last four years, the company has been involved...

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...

Kruger Products announces AfH price hike

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 11, 2019

Kruger Products (KPLP) has announced a price increase for its AfH tissue products sold in Canada and the USA. The increase will be made effective as of 1 May....

Kemira increases prices for paper chemicals in APAC

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 11, 2019

Kemira has increased the price of its main paper chemical product lines in the Asia Pacific region by 12-28%. The supplier said the price hikes result from “significant increases...

Papel San Francisco boosts capacity

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 11, 2019

Mexico’s Papel San Francisco has invested in an Advantage DCT 100TS tissue production machine at its site in Mexicali. Supplied by Valmet, start-up is planned for the third quarter...

Tissue World Milan 2019 opens its doors; Tissue World 2021 moves to Düsseldorf, Germany

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - March 27, 2019

Tissue World Milan 2019 - the world’s largest tissue industry exhibition and conference - opened its doors at Fieramilanocity in Milan this week. The event welcomed over 3,000...

K-C invests $120m in North American market

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - March 26, 2019

Kimberly-Clark Corporation (K-C) has announced building expansion and new equipment plans worth $120m for its facility in Jenks, Oklahoma. The project will expand the site by 270,000 square feet...

Cascades announces new president and COO

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - March 26, 2019

Cascades Tissue Group has appointed Jean-David Tardif as president and chief operating officer.He will succeed Jean Jobin, who has said he is devoting time to personal projects. Tardif first...

Futura launches “first-in-tissue” technology

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - March 26, 2019

Futura has launched its JOI HYDRO-BOND technology, which it said is a first in tissue converting to achieve perfect adhesion of tissue plies using water alone. The company said...

Andritz targets textured tissue with PrimeLineTEX TM launch

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - March 26, 2019

Andritz has launched its new tissue machine for textured tissue, the PrimeLineTEX. According to the supplier, the machine enables customers to produce textured tissue of a quality superior to...

WEPA UK stockpiles products in case of no-deal Brexit

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - March 26, 2019

WEPA UK has been stockpilling 3.5m toilet and kitchen rolls in its warehouses during the past four months in case of a no-deal Brexit.It is hoped that the extra...

Fourstones boosts capacity with TM investment

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - March 14, 2019

Scotland’s Fourstones Group is understood to have invested in a new tissue machine at its Sapphire mill. According to reports, the line has been supplied...

WEPA applies to take over Arjowiggins’ Greenfield plant

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - March 14, 2019

Germany’s anti-trust authority the Bundeskartellamt has given its approval for a possible takeover of Arjowiggins' French Greenfield de-inked pulp mill by German tissue producer WEPA. According...

Cascades to close two Canadian-based tissue PMs

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - March 14, 2019

Cascades has said it will close two of its tissue paper machines located in Whitby and Scarborough, Ontario . The end date of the production remains...

Cascades announces results; reports “difficult industry-wide market dynamics” for tissue

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - March 14, 2019

Cascades has reported a sales increase up 2% to $1,196m for the fourth quarter of 2018 compared to $1,175m in the third quarter of 2018. This is...

Tissue World Milan – Experience the future of tissue making on the show floor!

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - February 28, 2019

At Tissue World Milan next month, cutting-edge tissue making technologies and solutions will be showcased through the lenses of VR headsets at “The Mill of the Future Zone”, a...

GP to exit communication papers business; focus on tissue and towel

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - February 28, 2019

Georgia-Pacific (GP) is exiting the communication papers business following an assessment of its long-term competitive position in a declining market. The company will permanently shut down the communication papers...

Metsä Tissue launches €25m fixed cost saving programme

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - February 28, 2019

Metsä Tissue has launched a fixed cost saving programme as part of its operational review.It is aiming to save €25m in annual fixed costs and has started co-determination negotiations...

Kemira announces sizing technologies price hike

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - February 28, 2019

Kemira is to increase the price for its sizing technologies in the Asia Pacific region. The price increase of FennoSize ASA will be an average of 15-25% and...

K-C increases capacity in Nigeria; closes current factory in Lagos

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - February 28, 2019

Kimberly-Clark (K-C) is to build a new factory in Nigeria and close its current factory in Lagos with the loss of 60 permanent employees. The investment in the new...

Resolute announces strong 2018 results; tissue segment reports $9m operating loss in Q4

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - February 14, 2019

Resolute Forest Products has reported net income of $36m for the fourth quarter of 2018 – up from $13m for the same quarter in 2017.For the full year, net...

Emtec announces TSA upgrade

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - February 14, 2019

Germany´s Emtec Electronic has responded to customer demand and upgraded its Tissue Softness Analyser (TSA).With the updated device and an advanced measuring method it is now possible to evaluate...

Thailand’s Berli Jucker Cellox has increased its tissue capacity after purchasing an E-WIND T100...

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - February 14, 2019

Thailand’s Berli Jucker Cellox has increased its tissue capacity after purchasing an E-WIND T100 rewinder. Supplied by A.Celli Paper, the line will be installed at the company’s Prachinburi-based plant.It...

Yibin Paper boosts 100% bamboo production capacity

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - February 14, 2019

China’s Yibin Paper has started up three A.Celli-supplied iDEAL tissue machines. The lines are producing unbleached tissue paper using 100% Bamboo slush pulp.Four tissue machines are currently installed and...

Essity reports sales increase despite higher raw material and energy costs

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - February 14, 2019

Essity has reported a net sales increase of 8.5% to SEK118,500m for the full-year 2018 compared with the preceding year. Operating profit before EBITA declined 8% to SEK 11,560m...

Historic Marcal mill in New Jersey, USA, devastated by fire; efforts underway to help...

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - February 14, 2019

A devastating fire that engulfed the famous Marcal tissue mill in New Jersey on 30 January has destroyed most of the historic building.No injuries were reported at the Elmwood...

Calling all sustainable and innovative tissue mills…!

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - January 30, 2019

The entry submission for TWM’s Mill Awards 2019 is now open. Launched in conjunction with the world’s largest tissue industry trade show and conference - Tissue World Milan -...

Klippans Bruk boosts premium tissue capacity

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - January 30, 2019

Swedish tissue manufacturer Klippans Bruk has invested in a roll handling and wrapping tissue line supplied by FIS Impianti. The line will be installed at the company’s Klippans Bruk...

PartexTissue increases capacity

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - January 30, 2019

Bangladesh’s PartexTissue has invested in an iDEAL forged YD: another new-generation Yankee. Supplied by A.Celli Group, the latest generation Yankee is part of a complete turnkey plant project, consisting...

Leicester Tissue Company doubles capacity with £24m investment

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - January 30, 2019

UK-based Leicester Tissue Company (LTC) is investing in two new PCMC-supplied machines and two TMC-supplied wrappers in 2019.Once fully up and running, the site’s current 20,000tpy toilet roll and...

CMPC boosts capacity with start-up

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - January 30, 2019

CMPC Tissue Latam group’s Papelera del Plata plant has fired up a TT SYD-12FT.Supplied by Toscotec, it is installed on PM3 at the company’s Zarate mill in Argentina. It...

K-C reports “challenging environment” in Q4 results; introduces ‘Strategy 2022’

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - January 30, 2019

Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has said net sales for the fourth quarter of 2018 decreased 1% to $4.6bn compared to the same period a year ago. Fourth quarter operating profit was...

Metsä Tissue boosts natural gas delivery in Finland

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - January 17, 2019

Metsä Tissue has invested in its Mänttä mill in Finland after signing up Valmet to supply automation for the site’s liquefied natural gas delivery. Valmet will supply an automation...

Kemira forms joint venture in South Korea

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - January 17, 2019

Kemira is to establish a joint venture – Kemira Yongsan Chemicals (NewCo) - in Ulsan, Republic of Korea, with Yongsan Chemicals, a South Korean privately-owned chemicals company. The...

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