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The Home of Tissue: driving forward innovation to create the products of the future

Helen Morris - March 21, 2017

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Yuen Foong Yu orders four Intelli-TissueTM 1500

Helen Morris - May 15, 2013

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A Day in the Life of Joan Vila, LC Paper

Helen Morris - September 19, 2013

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Tissue World Americas 2018 moves to Miami

Helen Morris - March 23, 2016

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ST Tissue invests in “widest Steel Yankee” ever manufactured

Helen Morris - October 6, 2016

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Sun Paper boosts capacity with investment

Helen Morris - May 4, 2017

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Convertipap boosts capacity with TM investment

Helen Morris - July 13, 2017

Essity launches cost reduction programme as raw material costs hit margins

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - October 3, 2018

Essity has targeted its long-term cost efficiencies after announcing a group-wide cost-savings programme. The group said its margin was “negatively impacted in the first half of 2018 by significantly higher raw material...

K-C reports 1Q earnings growth despite “a challenging environment”

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 4, 2017

Kimberly-Clark Corporation has reported net sales of $4.5bn - even with a year earlier - in its first quarter 2017 results. Operating profit for the quarter was $834m in 2017 compared to...

Resolute files lawsuit against Greenpeace

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - June 30, 2016

Resolute Forest Products has filed a federal lawsuit against Greenpeace International, Greenpeace USA, Greenpeace Fund, STAND (formerly ForestEthics) and a number of their associates. The producer made the claim on 31 May...

Andritz to acquire Novimpianti

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - June 28, 2018

Andritz has boosted its product offering after signing a contract to acquire Novimpianti Drying Technology. Owned by Novigroup and based in Lucca, Novimpianti is a global supplier of engineered equipment and services...

St. Croix Tissue boosts production after diversifying into tissue

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - November 2, 2017

America’s St. Croix Tissue has increased its tissue capacity after investing in a roll handling system and a rewinder. Supplied by A.Celli Paper, the Maine-based company started-up the system at the end...

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...

Metsä Group’s tissue and cooking paper business invests in bioenergy

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 19, 2013

Katrinefors Kraftvärme (KKAB) is to build a new biomass combined heat and power (CHP) plant in Mariestad, Sweden, in conjunction with the Metsä Tissue mill. KKAB, a 50/50 joint venture owned by...

China’s tissue market under oversupply pressure

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - June 18, 2015

(News from RISI) - China's tissue capacity may rise to around 10.44 million tpy by the end of this year, up by 10.6% from 9.44 million tpy in 2014, according to...

Accrol finishes full-year 2019 in “much stronger position”

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - June 19, 2019

The UK’s Accrol Group Holdings has said the group “performed well” in the Q4 2018, following a “transformational” restructuring programme.Total revenues for the full year ended 30 April 2019...

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...

Lee & Man boosts latest TM start-up

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 5, 2018

China’s Lee & Man has started up its fourth Voith-supplied XcelLine tissue machine. Based in Guangdong, the machine has a wire width of 5.6m and is designed for an operational speed of...

‘We develop and innovate across the board…’

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - November 26, 2013

Dominant private label, high energy costs, influential NGOs, an ageing population... Metsä Tissue outlines its way forward in a challenging German market. Tissue World editor Helen Morris meets Christoph Zeiler, Metsä...

Metsä Group reports “good Q1 result as anticipated”; announces co-determination negotiations in operations as...

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 9, 2019

Metsä Group has reported year-on-year sales of €1,438m compared with €1,428m in its Q1 results. Operating result was €183m compared with €208m a year earlier.The company said that...

Bids for K-C’s European tissue unit ongoing

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - November 15, 2018

Kimberly-Clark’s European tissue unit will potentially be sold to private equity groups including Goldman Sachs, reports have claimed. The unit has been put up for sale by the New York-listed company as...

China’s Taison Group gets four tissue machines for Jiujiang mill in Jiangxi

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - January 25, 2017

(News from RISI) - The Taison Group is forging ahead with its tissue paper expansions in China, ordering four 60,000tpy tissue machines for its greenfield mill in Jiujiang city, Jiangxi province. Voith...

Buckman hikes up North America freight prices

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 17, 2018

Buckman is to increase the price of products sold and delivered to customers in North America by $0.02 to 0.04/pound. The increase will take place on 1 July and is being driven...

40% increase in participants in the latest record breaking Tissue World Americas

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 9, 2014

Tissue World Americas 2014 has been another record breaking show after it attracted 1,931 participants, a 40% increase compared to the 2012 edition. The statistics are stacking up after the Miami trade show...

WEPA boosts capacity with rebuilds; Leuna mill investment latest

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - December 17, 2019

German tissue manufacturer WEPA has invested in a total of seven Toscotec-supplied custom-made hood and air system rebuilds on a turnkey basis. Toscotec has supplied the complete package...

GP Muskogee tissue mill back up after 13 May fire

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - June 19, 2019

Georgia-Pacific (GP) has confirmed that production has restarted at its recycled-content tissue paper mill and converting operation in Muskogee, USA.A spokesperson for the company told TWM that: “The mill...

Brazil: P&P on a sharp positive trend despite country’s rollercoaster economic performance

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 18, 2017

By Bill Burns, Senior Consultant, Fisher International Brazil’s economy was in a strong growth cycle when the global financial crisis of 2008 hit, when its GDP growth rate plummeted from 4+% down to zero. However, recovery from...

K-C highlights progress towards 2022 sustainability target

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - July 12, 2018

Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has highlighted its ongoing commitment to environmental sustainability in its 2017 Global Sustainability Report. The report gives an update on its progress towards achieving its 2022 sustainability goals. In 2017, key...

Essity’s Kostheim mill hit by small fire

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - June 19, 2019

Essity has said a small fire hit one of its paper machines at its Kostheim mill in Germany on 12 June.No body was injured, and the company said it...

The Tissue World Runnability awards

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - February 20, 2013

Since 1993, Tissue World (www.tissueworld.com) has been the world’s meeting place for the soft hygienic tissue paper business. Now, on the 20th anniversary since Tissue World was created, the organizers wish...

Hayat Kimya expands further into the Middle East

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - July 3, 2014

Turkish tissue producer Hayat Kimya has ordered its fifth Advantage DCT 200 tissue line from Valmet. The line will add 70,000 tonnes of high quality tissue to the company’s current production of...

Toilet paper in the UK: private label sales have reached the ceiling

Latest Headlines Bill Burns - July 15, 2013

As fears of further economic downturn are fading branded toilet paper is enjoying a strong market position. By Tamara Bartels, Euromonitor International analyst - homecare, tissue & hygiene Toilet paper sales show once again that the...

Arkhangelsk to build a 100,000tpy tissue mill near Moscow

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - October 16, 2013

(News from RISI) - Russia's Arkhangelsk pulp and paper mill (APPM) is set to build a new tissue mill in Vorsino, in the Kaluga region, some 90 km southwest of Moscow. The...

Tissue World Istanbul: 1,767 total participants, 66 exhibiting companies, attendees from 93 countries

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - September 20, 2018

An impressive 66 exhibiting companies and a total of 1,767 participants have attended the second Tissue World Istanbul exhibition and conference. Held in Istanbul between 4-6 September, exhibitors from 14 countries included...

Essity invests SEK 400m in sustainable alternative fibre technology

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - June 6, 2019

Tissue manufacturer Essity is investing SEK 400m in an integrated facility for the production of pulp based on alternative fibre from plant-based agricultural by-products. The investment is taking place...

China’s Shandong Tranlin condemns report revealing legal problems and pledge of shares in subsidiary

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - November 17, 2016

(News from RISI) - Shandong Tranlin condemned a media report on its involvement in multiple lawsuits and its pledge of the entirety of its equity in a subsidiary, Chiping Tranlin Paper,...

Timeline for BOR Biotechnology tissue mill project in Czech Republic pushed back

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - November 17, 2016

(News from RISI) - The plans of Czech firm BOR Biotechnology to build a new tissue mill in the town of Kozomín, north of Prague, are moving forward but the timeline...

Clearwater Paper in $160m upgrade of Lewiston mill

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - September 23, 2015

Clearwater Paper is to upgrade its Lewiston mill in Idaho in a $160m investment. The tissue producer will start construction of a new continuous digester which is expected to begin in October...

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...

Délipapier to upgrade automation facilities

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - September 5, 2013

French tissue producer Délipapier has said it will upgrade its automation facilities to boost the availability and performance of its tissue production. The Sofidel Group site has signed up Metso to upgrade...

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