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Recard announces management changes

Helen Morris - August 29, 2019

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Lee & Man boosts latest TM start-up

Helen Morris - April 5, 2018

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Lamix diversifies product offering

Helen Morris - November 19, 2014

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Essity’s Kostheim mill hit by small fire

Helen Morris - June 19, 2019

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Cascades expands into US south east

Helen Morris - August 28, 2014

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PAPCEL changed its ownership structure

Helen Morris - April 11, 2019

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Tissue World São Paulo announces conference speakers: Kimberly-Clark, Finep, The Navigator Company, Euromonitor, Fastmarkets RISI in line-up

Helen Morris - July 18, 2019

Yunnan Yun-Jing to install high-quality tissue line

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 29, 2013

China’s Yunnan Yun-Jing forestry and pulp mill company is to boost its product range after it announced it will install a complete tissue production line. Metso will supply the line to the...

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...

Voith rebuilds tissue machine at WEPA

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - June 27, 2013

WEPA’s TM1 has been successfully rebuilt and modernised by Voith to “substantially increase the availability and efficiency” of the tissue machine. Located in Mainz, Germany, TM1 produces toilet paper from 100% recovered...

Young and dynamic – Lamix typifies Poland’s emerging tissue sector

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - July 11, 2013

Successive investment has strengthened Lamix’s hold on the hygiene market. Here the company discusses its market strategy with TW. “The customer is getting richer and richer as Poland has become better off,” says owner Miroslaw Laszko...

GLOBAL NEWS

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - July 10, 2013

Global Wausau Paper launches DublNature T&T Line Wausau Paper has launched its new Green Seal certified, DublNature line of premium, cloth-like towel and tissue products. It uses 100% recycled fibre on the company’s recently...

Xerium targets tissue industry with press felt plant build

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - August 22, 2013

Consumables company Xerium Technologies has targeted the tissue industry with its plans to build a press felt plant near Shanghai, China. The company said the greenfield plant will employ the industry’s most...

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...

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...

Metsä Tissue boosts capacity at Mariestad mill

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - November 14, 2013

Metsä Tissue will invest €10m in a new converting line at its Mariestad mill in Sweden. The investment will increase the company’s consumer tissue products capacity and strengthen its position in the...

German tissue sales: stagnant but still a regional force

Latest Headlines Ian Bell - November 22, 2013

The biggest economic power in Europe is facing a future of uncertainty with challenges that can already be felt in the tissue market. By Ian Bell, Euromonitor International’s global head of tissue...

Day in the life: Enrique Todd, Roses Paper

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - November 26, 2013

Enrique Todd is the executive vice president of Roses Paper, a Sanford, Florida-based independent tissue manufacturer that originated in Mexico. Here, he explains his working day to TW. “I start my day...

APP China’s pulp and paper complex in Hainan struck by fire, production loss minor

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - November 19, 2013

(News from RISI) - A fire broke out at APP China's Haikou facility on China's southernmost island of Haina at the end of October, incinerating several thousand tonnes of tissue products...

Fabrica De Papel San Francisco starts up Advantage NTT tissue line

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - November 27, 2013

The world’s first Advantage NTT tissue line has been successfully started up at Fabrica De Papel San Francisco in Mexico. Supplied by Valmet, the new line is the tissue manufacturer’s third tissue...

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...

Forest Papir boots capacity

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - February 26, 2014

Hungary’s Forest Papir has boosted its product offering after it started up a new converting line supplied by Futura. Dedicated to roll products, the installation comprises the usual key converting elements and...

Kiss-u Corps launches 2-go cap

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - March 12, 2014

Kiss-u Tissue has launched its new, reseal-able cap on the back of customer demand. The company said it developed the product on the back of customer feedback that tissues were getting dirty...

Voith and Canfor Pulp announce developments

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - March 27, 2014

Voith Tissue & Pulp Innovation Centre and Canfor Pulp have announced the latest developments of their on-going technical collaboration. The technical cooperation was first established between Voith Paper Tissue & Pulp Innovation...

China’s P&B production and consumption declined in 2013; tissue growth also slowing

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - June 3, 2014

News from RISI - China's paper and board (P&B) production and consumption declined in 2013 after years of rapid growth. The latest statistics from the China Paper Association (CPA), released earlier this...

Romania’s Petrocart boosts capacity

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - June 3, 2014

Romanian tissue producer Petrocart has boosted its capacity after it started up a new Toscotec-supplied tissue line at its Piatra Neamt plant. It is based on a turn-key concept and will...

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...

China’s Shandong Dongshun starts up three tissue PMs, six more coming

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - July 17, 2014

(News from RISI) Shandong Dongshun Group has started up three new tissue PMs in China, adding a combined capacity of 48,000tpy. All three units, provided by Kawanoe Zoki, are identical. Each has...

K-C starts up PM at Bajío mill in Mexico

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - July 17, 2014

Kimberly-Clark de Mexico (KCM) has fired up late in June its new 60,000tpy tissue paper machine PM5. It is understood that the machine started production in the end of June. The PM is...

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...

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...

Cascades Tissue president and CEO steps down

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - August 14, 2014

Cascades Tissue has announced that its president and chief executive Suzanne Blanchet is to step down after more than 17 years at the head of the group. She will join the corporate...

Syktyvkar Tissue Group starts up new tissue PM in western Russia

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - September 24, 2014

(News from RISI) Syktyvkar Tissue Group (STG) has started up a new 114tpd tissue machine at its brownfield Semibratovo plant in the Yaroslavl region in northwestern Russia. The 2.7m wide PM makes...

Strikes break out at APP’s Gold East and at Henan Yinge in China

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - November 4, 2014

News from RISI - Employees of Gold East Paper and Henan Yinge Industrial Investment in China have recently carried out significant strikes. On 15 October, hundreds of female staff working in paper-sorting...

K-C investing in bigger capacity at Australian tissue mill

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - November 19, 2014

(News from RISI) - Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has announced its intention to invest in operations at its Millicent mill in South Australia, expanding its capacity. It declined to reveal the new target capacity...

Syassky mill to install new tissue PM in western Russia

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - January 14, 2015

(News from RISI) Russia's Syassky pulp and paper mill has signed up Toscotec to supply a new tissue line at its mill in Syasstroy, in the Leningrad region. The new 125tpd tissue...

SCA audit finds representatives acted in compliance with Swedish law

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 23, 2015

SCA has said an independent audit investigating claims its staff were involved in extravagant corporate perks found its representatives “acted in compliance with Swedish law and company policies”. The company had been...

Krishna Tissue to boost capacity

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 23, 2015

India’s Krishna Tissue is to boost its capacity after it signed for a state-of-the-art winder supplied by A.Celli Paper. The model AC842 paper rewinder is the main element of a new project...

CMPC posts sales of $1.16bn in 1Q 2015; aims to start commercial operations for...

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 20, 2015

(News from RISI) - Chilean group CMPC has registered consolidated sales of $1.16bn in the first quarter of 2015, down 3% compared to the previous quarter and down 1% year-on-year. EBITDA hit...

Suzano announces entry into hardwood fluff pulp segment

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - June 3, 2015

Suzano Pulp and Paper has introduced its new EucaFluff product at Tissue World São Paulo, marking the company’s move into the hardwood fluff pulp segment. The Brazilian market for fluff pulp –...

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...

A.Celli Paper announces management changes

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - September 9, 2015

A.Celli Paper has appointed Mario Fazzi as its new managing director. Giuseppe Antonini has been nominated president of A.Celli Paper; Mauro Celli and Alessandro Celli remain at the helm of the family...

Gomà-Camps becomes sole shareholder of GC & Wepa

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - September 9, 2015

Gomà-Camps and WEPA Group have ended the joint cooperation they have maintained for the last 10 years through the joint venture GC & Wepa. Gomà-Camps acquired Wepa’s shares in the business to...

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...

Wepa starts up tissue line in France

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - November 5, 2015

The Wepa Group has started up a Toscotec-supplied tissue line in Lille, France. The 2.8m-wide machine came on-stream after the commissioning period and is now producing high quality tissue products. It has a...

Resolute in “step-change acquisition” of Atlas Paper

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - November 18, 2015

Resolute Forest Products has expanded its At-Home and AfH tissue product offering after it acquired Florida-based Atlas Paper Holdings. Atlas Paper manufactures branded and private label tissue products offering recycled and virgin...

Vinda to acquire SCA’s hygiene business in Asia

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - January 13, 2016

Vinda International Holdings is to purchase SCA’s hygiene business in South East Asia, Taiwan and South Korea. The divestment of the business for integration with Vinda was approved on 13 January and...

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