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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

Helen Morris - January 11, 2024

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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

Yankee Dryer System: critical asset protection, monitoring and control using 3D TRASAR™ Technology by...

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - October 11, 2013

A TW report by Steve Hoefs, senior industry development manager, Nalco, an Ecolab company. Reliable Yankee dryer performance is a key contributor to the smooth operation and finished product quality of every...

Taking advantage of NBSK pulp for soft and strong tissue grades

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - October 3, 2013

With the fibre cost of the finished tissue product still a dominant factor in the tissue industry, Canfor Pulp explains its latest developments to TW. By Wlad Janssen, Specialist on tissue for Canfor Pulp...

Setting the standard on environmental performance

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - October 3, 2013

The tissue industry faces increasing pressure to make sure its water and energy consumption is environmentally sustainable as well as energy efficient. Here, Sofidel Group tells TW how its adoption of an Environmental Group...

Södra increases NBSK prices

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - October 3, 2013

Pulp giant Södra has increased the cost of its softwood pulp in Europe to USD 900 per tonne. The company said the move was “due to improved market fundaments”. The...

Metso launches PressHusky and VacuHusky polyurethane roll covers

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - October 3, 2013

Metso has launched polyurethane roll covers for tissue machine press and suction press rolls. The new PressHusky and VacuHusky roll covers are designed especially for Yankee press applications widely used in dry...

Metso and Kawanoe Zoki extend cooperation in tissue making

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - October 3, 2013

Metso and Kawanoe Zoki have announced a new license agreement covering the supply of Advantage DCT 40 and DCT 60 technology to China. Under the new license agreement, Kawanoe Zoki will market, manufacture...

Tissue World exhibits at CIPTE

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - October 3, 2013

Tissue World has exhibited at the 2013 China International Paper Technology Exhibition and Conference (CIPTE). Held between 23-25 September at the National Agriculture Exhibition Center in Beijing, some 200 exhibitors from nearly...

Cascades targets growth on American west coast

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - October 3, 2013

Cascades has expanded its tissue presence on the west coast of America after it announced plans for a second paper machine at its Oregon plant. It will acquire the specialty paper machine...

Tissue World: calling all budding photographers!

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - October 3, 2013

Tissue World is launching the very first edition of the Tissue World Photography Awards. They will be the first major photographic awards ever launched in the US$80 billion a year industry and...

Celulosa Argentina boosts capacity

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - October 3, 2013

Celulosa Argentina has diversified its product offering after it invested in a complete tissue line from Voith. The company will now also produce high-quality tissue papers and continue to pursue its long-term...

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...

The UK: recovering from the global recession downturn

Latest Headlines Bill Burns - October 1, 2013

By Bill Burns, senior consultant, Fisher International The United Kingdom (UK) produces approximately 860 thousand mt/yr of Towel and Tissue (T&T) paper. That makes the UK the fourth largest T&T producing country in the European...

A Day in the Life of Joan Vila, LC Paper

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - September 19, 2013

Electricity plays a big part in Joan Vila’s life – from his electric Ampera car to energy saving factory production trials… and the 18th consecutive electric storm in Besalú, Spain. Here,...

Double E Company appoints CEO

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - September 19, 2013

Double E Company has appointed Bryan Gregory as its chief executive. Gregory has a broad background in industrial products, safety sensors, control systems and communications. Prior to joining the business he was president...

A pack of tissues is one of life’s essentials for James

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - September 19, 2013

James Adams is originally from South Africa and is now studying in Manchester in the UK. Here he describes why portable tissues remain one of his key purchases and why he prefers environmentally-friendly...

Strength technologies improve profitability

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - September 19, 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...

Green Hygienics launches 100% tree-free, bamboo-based line

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - September 19, 2013

Green Hygienics has launched a line of 100% tree-free, bamboo-based products under its Sensational® and Clearly Herbal® brands. The Green Innovations subsidiary said the bamboo products include bath tissue, facial tissue, paper...

ProCare develops ProTablet

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - September 19, 2013

ProCare, Futura’s training and support division, has developed the future use and management of maintenance documentation with its ProTablet product. In a statement, the company said that ProCare offers “access to continuously...

SCA launches high-end hand towels line

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - September 19, 2013

SCA has announced the availability of its most luxurious line of high-end hand towels. Featuring an embossed leaf throughout, the company said the hand towels are soft, strong, and smart - designed to...

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...

SCA to make offer for Vinda

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - September 19, 2013

Tissue giant SCA is to make a public cash offer for the Chinese tissue company Vinda. The offer is conditional on SCA achieving an ownership share in Vinda in excess of 50%. SCA...

Retail: shaping the global tissue industry

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - September 16, 2013

Following their retailer customers, tissue producers expand to new regions, provide the segments and qualities requested, and step up to meet environmental demands. A TW report. By Pirkko Petäjä, Pöyry Management Consulting RETAILERS IMPACT THE...

‘The economic crisis has redefined our marketplace’

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - September 16, 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...