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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

OverMeccanica acquired by OVERMADE

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - February 11, 2016

OverMeccanica - in temporary operation since September 2014 after entering bankruptcy proceedings - has been acquired by OVERMADE in November 2015. OVERMADE is a new company of Italian investors headed up by...

Lee & Man boosting tissue presence in China; year-end profits increase 22.4% from 2014

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - March 10, 2016

(News from RISI) - Lee & Man is aggressively expanding in the tissue sector in China. It looks set to add around 220,000tpy of tissue capacity by the end of this year...

CMPC hires Ignacio Goldsack as new CFO; to announce new general secretary soon

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - March 10, 2016

(News from RISI) - Chilean CMPC has hired Ignacio Goldsack to be the company's new CFO, effective February 2016 and replacing Luis Llanos. According to CMPC, Goldsack studied business and administration at...

Wepa Professional Piechowice to boost capacity

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - March 23, 2016

Wepa Professional Piechowice is to boost its capacity after it signed for a Toscotec-supplied tissue line to be installed at its Poland-based site. The new AHEAD-2.0S line will strengthen Wepa’s recent strategic growth...

Eliodoro Matte leaves CMPC; company hires Luis Felipe Gazitúa as new president

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - March 24, 2016

(News from RISI) - Chilean pulp and paper producer CMPC’s president Eliodoro Matte has decided to leave the company for personal reasons and will be substituted by Luis Felipe Gazitúa. Matte has...

SCA appoints president for Global Hygiene Category

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 4, 2016

SCA has appointed Georg Schmundt-Thomas as its president of its Global Hygiene Category. He will have global responsibility for SCA’s customer and consumer brands and innovation in the hygiene area. He will take...

Workers stage 24 hour strike at SCA’s Saint-Etienne du Rouvray tissue plant in France

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 19, 2016

(News from RISI) - Employees at SCA’s Saint-Etienne du Rouvray tissue plant in France downed tools for 24 hours on May 12, stopping production at the factory. The employees were protesting against...

Syassky Pulp and Paper Mill increases capacity

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - June 2, 2016

Syassky Pulp and Paper Mill has started up a 45,000tpy Toscotec-supplied AHEAD tissue machine at its Syasstroy mill in Russia. The AHEAD-1.5M tissue line came on stream on 29 April. The site...

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...

US upholds anti-dumping duties on certain tissue products from China

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - June 16, 2016

(News from RISI) - The US International Trade Commission (ITC) unanimously voted earlier this month to extend anti-dumping duties (ADD) on imports of certain tissue products from China. As a result of...

China Environment State Investment cancels Sichuan Yibin Paper purchase; tissue project delayed

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - July 14, 2016

(News from RISI) - China’s Sichuan Yibin Paper has announced that the planned transfer of a majority stake in it to an environmental protection company has been cancelled. The move comes after...

Zhuji Paper fires up 25,000tpy tissue PM in Guangdong, China

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - August 11, 2016

(News from RISI) - China’s Shaoguan Nanxiong Zhuji Paper has started trial runs on a new 25,000tpy tissue PM at a mill in Nanxiong city, Guangdong province. Andritz provided the PM, which...

SCA to split group into two listed hygiene and forest products companies

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - August 25, 2016

SCA has said it will split the group into two listed companies in 2017, hygiene and forest products. Following a split, there will be two listed companies. One will be a hygiene...

Sofidel America to boost capacity with NTT purchases

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - October 6, 2016

Italian tissue giant Sofidel is to start-up two Valmet-supplied Advantage NTT 200 machines at its site in Circleville, Ohio. Each line will have a width of 5.5m, a speed of 2,000m/min and...

ST Tissue invests in “widest Steel Yankee” ever manufactured

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - October 6, 2016

ST Tissue has invested in “the widest Steel Yankee ever to be manufactured”, according to supplier Toscotec. The Franklin, Virginia-based mill will convert its F-5 machine to produce bathroom tissue and kitchen...

PCMC Italy boosts production capacity after inaugurating facilities

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - October 20, 2016

PCMC Italy has officially opened its three new buildings in Fornaci di Barga, Italy. The premise covers 14,000sqm and will facilitate four converting lines for a production capacity of 36 lines per...

Henan Yinge’s principle shareholder listed for sale in China

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - October 20, 2016

(News from RISI) - China’s Henan Yinge Industrial Investment has revealed that its principle shareholder has been put up for sale for RMB 3.08 billion ($457 million). Luohe Yinge Industrial Group holds...

SCA targets environment with Okay® Compressé launch

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - October 20, 2016

SCA’s consumer tissue brand Okay® has launched a compressed household towel “Okay® Compressé”. The company said the product performs as well as regular household paper towels but added that it is half...

K-C reports a “more challenging economic and competitive environment” in 3Q results

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - November 3, 2016

Kimberly-Clark has reported a net sales decrease y-o-y of 3% in its 3Q 2016 results, as chairman and chief executive Thomas J. Falk describes the company’s market share positions as “broadly...

Daio Paper firms up plans to start tissue production at Kawanoe mill

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - November 3, 2016

(News from RISI) - Japan’s Daio Paper has announced that its board of directors have green-lit a plan to restart operations at its inactive Kawanoe mill in Ehime prefecture. The site, which...

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...

Japan’s Daio loses appeal in NPI tissue patent infringement case

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - November 17, 2016

(News from RISI) - The latest ruling in a legal battle that has been in the Japanese courts since 2012 between Nippon Paper Industries (NPI) and Daio Paper was made in...

First Quality expands manufacturing capacity with PM investments

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - November 30, 2016

First Quality Tissue is to focus its long term growth plans on the ultra-premium towel and tissue sectors after it announced plans to invest in two new state-of-the-art tissue machines. The lines will be installed at the company's South Carolina and...

Irving boosts capacity with TAD investment

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - November 30, 2016

Canadian tissue manufacturer Irving Consumer Products has invested in a Thru-Air Dried tissue making machine from Valmet. Delivery is expected in 2018 and once up and running the line will increase its household paper products capacity. President of the Dieppe-based company Robert K. Irving...

Resolute reports results; prepares to ramp-up Calhoun tissue operations

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - February 9, 2017

Resolute Forest Products has reported a net loss for the quarter ended 31 December 2016 of $45m, compared to a loss of $214m in the same period a year earlier. Sales were...

Tissue World Magazine Mill Awards: entry submission is open!

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - March 9, 2017

Tissue World is calling all green and innovative tissue mills across Western Europe to get in touch to showcase their latest developments in our TW Awards. If you are a tissue...

Converting technology sector in positive mood heading into 2017

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - March 21, 2017

Despite a modest 1.5% GDP growth forecast for the EU and a world economy still emerging from a lacklustre 2016, research by TWM sees Italy’s major companies expecting strong performances in 2017-18. By Martin...

Defining the products of the future

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - March 21, 2017

Greater efforts to save margins, fearless investment in technological innovation and new products, e-commerce selling, increasing of stakeholder engagement processes, potential double digit growth in the US. Luigi Lazzareschi, chief executive of the...

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