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Soundview Paper Company’s president and CEO steps down

Helen Morris - October 9, 2014

Latest Headlines

Clearwater Paper restructures Lewiston mill; 100 redundancies

Helen Morris - January 25, 2018

Von Drehle Corporation to start up NTT line

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - August 12, 2014

Von Drehle Corporation is to become the first tissue manufacturer in the USA to produce tissue with Valmet's flexible Advantage NTT technology. The new line will be installed at the company's facility...

Ipek Kagit Tissue Paper boosts capacity

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 9, 2014

Turkey’s Ipek Kagit Tissue Paper has invested in a new Advantage tissue production line. The Valmet Advantage DCT 200TS line will be installed at the company’s Manisa plant in Turkey and start-up...

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...

Andritz highlights innovative tissue technology and energy-efficiencies

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 29, 2017

Andritz is showcasing its latest range of high-tech technologies, from stock preparation to tissue machine, automation and pumps. Thomas Scherb, Andritz director of tissue and PB machines, Latin America, said: “Tissue World...

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...

Chilean FPC to start up new 70,000tpy tissue PM in 1Q15

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - July 17, 2014

(News from RISI) Chilean packaging producer Forestal y Papelera Concepción (FPC) has scheduled for the first quarter of 2015 the startup of its new 70,000tpy tissue paper machine (PM) to be...

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...

Northwood boosts AfH presence in the UK with acquisition

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - July 30, 2015

Northwood Paper Sales has targeted growth in the UK’s Away from Home (AfH) sector after it acquired the issued share capital of Disposables UK. Disposables UK operates from Meltham near Huddersfield and...

Ganzhou Hwagain Paper starts up TM2

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - June 3, 2014

China’s Ganzhou Hwagain Paper has successfully started up TM2. Supplied by Andritz, the scope of supply for TM 2 comprised the stock preparation plant for softwood, hardwood and bamboo pulp, the two-layer...

Papel San Francisco to boost capacity with second PM

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - June 16, 2016

Mexico’s Papel San Francisco has signed up Valmet to supply a repeat order for an Advantage DCT 100TS tissue production line. It will be installed at the company's mill in Mexicali and...

Yuen Foong Yu Corporation reaches speed record

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - January 29, 2014

Yuen Foong Yu Corporation has significantly boosted its capacity on two PMP Intelli-Tissue® 1500 machines after it reached a speed record of 1,700mpm. PM 5 and PM 6 are running in the...

Paper Prime enters into tissue production

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - September 23, 2015

Portugal’s Paper Prime has entered into the tissue market after it invested in a Toscotec-supplied tissue line. The new tissue line is scheduled to come on stream in the last quarter of...

CMPC to participate in mediation involving tissue cartel case in Chile

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - December 2, 2015

(News from RISI) - Empresas CMPC has agreed to join a mediation proposed by the Chilean Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Servicio Nacional del Consumidor – SERNAC) in order to compensate consumers...

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...

Daio Paper looking to buy Japanese tissue mills from Nisshinbo

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - February 23, 2017

(News from RISI) Daio Paper has announced it is in talks to take over the tissue production activities of fellow Japanese firm Nisshinbo Holdings. The latter operates four mills in Japan. Two...

Orchids Paper enters strategic alliance with Mexico’s Fabrica

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 7, 2014

Orchids Paper has boosted its presence in the west coast of America after it announced a strategic alliance with Fabrica de Papel San Francisco (Fabrica). Based in Mexicali, Mexico, Fabrica is a...

Sofidel aims to reduce 50% of its plastic production

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - June 19, 2019

Sofidel has further broadened its environmental efforts after announcing plans to reduce 50% of conventional plastic from its production by 2030 when compared to 2013.The Italian tissue giant said...

Guizhou Chitianhua Paper Industry boosts rewinder capacity

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 21, 2016

Published on 21 April 2016 | Guizhou Chitianhua Paper Industry has signed an agreement with A.Celli Paper for the supply of three tissue rewinders and an additional agreement for a further nine rewinders. Part...

How will the tissue connection between Europe and North America continue?

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - March 21, 2017

For several decades, North America and Europe shared some of the same tissue suppliers. However, during the last decade a lot has changed. Previously, North American companies were expanding into Europe, and now exactly the...

APP radically slowing down massive tissue expansion plan at Chinese and Indonesian mills

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 22, 2014

(News from RISI) - Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) has put the brakes on its aggressive tissue paper expansion plans after revisiting them in the wake of the economic slowdown in...

Kimberly Clark de México starts up DCT line

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - September 11, 2014

Kimberly Clark de México has successfully started up a Valmet Advantage DCT tissue line at its Bajío mill, Mexico. The Advantage DCT 200TS tissue line adds 60,000tpy of high quality tissue paper...

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...

Papelera San Andrés de Giles boosts high-quality tissue capacity

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - August 8, 2018

Papelera San Andrés de Giles has invested in a Valmet-supplied Advantage DCT100HS tissue machine and extensive automation package at its Buenos Aires-based mill. Start-up is planned for the second half of 2018...

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...

Looking for a chain reaction

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - August 11, 2013

Fabryka Papieru Kaczory is ready to start up its new tissue mill to supply customers as far away as Congo and Haiti. TW meets the independent producer diversifying in a changing market under German influence. By Helen...

Bashundhara Paper Mills boosts capacity

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - December 13, 2018

Bashundhara Paper Mills has started-up its Andritz-supplied turnkey PrimeLineCOMPACT VI tissue production line at its site in Bangladesh. It has a design speed of 2,100m/min and a paper width of 2.85m and...

Vinda continues expansion across Chinese tissue market

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 21, 2016

Published on 21 April 2016 | Vinda has signed an agreement with Futura for the supply of multiple high-performance converting lines for tissue roll products. The Chinese tissue giant has made the investment...

Vinda boosts tissue capacity to almost one million tpy in 2015

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - February 12, 2015

(News from RISI) - Vinda International Holdings plans to build three new 30,000tpy tissue PMs in China in 2015, raising its total tissue capacity to 980,000tpy. One of the three will be...

Metsä Group completes €55m Polish investment

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - October 16, 2013

Metsä Tissue has completed a €55m investment at its Krapkowic paper mill. The investment includes two new, state-of-the-art tissue paper machines, a new AfH product converting line as well as extending its...

Nuqul Group’s Fine Hygienic to boost capacity

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - February 11, 2016

Nuqul Group’s Fine Hygienic Holding (FHH) has signed for a Valmet-supplied Advantage DCT 200TS tissue production line. The tissue machine will be installed at the Al Nakheel mill in Abu Dhabi 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...

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...

Cascades PM ramp-up continues at St. Helens; machine rolls being sold

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - December 4, 2014

(News from RISI) - Cascades started up a converted uncoated freesheet (UFS) paper machine for making tissue paper in late October, a company official said. PM2 is a "wet crepe tissue machine...

Norske Skog and Roto-cart sever tissue ties; project to produce tissue at Bruck publication...

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 4, 2016

(News from RISI) - Norske Skog and Italy’s Roto-cart are no longer partnering on the project to replace the newsprint PM at Norske Skog’s Bruck mill in Austria with a tissue...

Historic Marcal mill starts trial TM production after devastating fire

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - June 19, 2019

Soundview Paper Company - which manufactures the famous Marcal tissue brand - has started trial production on one of its two tissue machines five months after a devastating fire...

Kemira announces price hike for EMEA

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - November 16, 2017

Global chemicals company Kemira has increased the prices of its coagulant and polymer products in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The price increases will come into effect on 1 January 2018,...

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...

OMET launches vacuum-fold FV Line

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - June 27, 2013

OMET has launched its latest vacuum-fold FV line, a new tissue converting line for the production of folded napkins. Its launch targets the market for medium and large runs of white embossed...

Taison Group paving the way for tissue expansions in Jiangxi, China

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - November 3, 2016

(News from RISI) - China’s Taison Group is planning to build a huge greenfield tissue and hygiene product mill in Jiujiang, Jiangxi province. The proposed project is subject to environmental impact assessments...

IP Cart boosts capacity

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - June 30, 2016

Italy’s IP Cart has boosted its production capacity after it installed an Omet-supplied machine. The TV 503 4-colour paper napkin dispensing machine will produce products for the catering industry in and around...

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