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    Essity reports increase in net sales in 2017 results

    Essity has reported an 8% increase in net sales to SEK 109,265m in its 2017 year-end results. The company attributed the increase to a rise in sales of higher priced products and...
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    Tissue World Miami – a unique platform for learning and business exchange

    Navigate your way from global trade and consumer trends, through sourcing and supply-chain shifts, and see first-hand the latest technological innovations, such as recent achievements in TAD technology. All this knowledge is...
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    Clearwater Paper restructures Lewiston mill; 100 redundancies

    Clearwater Paper has said it expects to layoff upwards of 100 staff at its Lewiston, Idaho-based mill. The move is in a bid to restructure the company's tissue operations amongst tough competition...
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    K-C to cut 5,500 jobs and close 10 plants amid “challenging environment”

    Tissue giant Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has announced a global restructuring plan that will cut 13% of its workforce and sell or close 10 manufacturing facilities. In its year-end results, the company said its...
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    Körber announces new CFO

    Körber has appointed Stefan Kirschke as its chief financial officer. As of 14 December, he has succeeded Harald Vogelsang as group CFO. According to the company, Vogelsang left the Group by mutual agreement, a premature release from...
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    OMET targets dispenser napkin market with FV.6: launch

    OMET has launched its latest version of the FV line, a high-performance vacuum folding machine that’s dedicated to the production of dispenser napkins. According to the supplier, the FV.6 is a vacuum...
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    Encore Tissue boosts capacity with a Steel Yankee start-up

    Australian’s Encore Tissue has started-up a Steel Yankee Dryer TT SYD line at its Laverton North mill. Supplied by Toscotec, the rebuilt tissue machine has a width of 3.6m and replaces a...
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    Tissue World 2018 Conference and Exhibition Returns to Miami March 20-23

    North America ‘s largest tissue industry event to draw over 3,000 attendees from 50 countries MIAMI BEACH (Jan. 22, 2018) — Tissue World Miami 2018 is slated to be the first global...
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    Tissue World First – the new look Miami showcase is set to win business...

    It’s TW’s 25th anniversary in 2018 and TW Miami looks set to raise the bar again. As the top tissue companies innovate to stay ahead of the game… so too Tissue World. Already the industry’s...
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    Kemira announces price hikes

    Kemira has announced a price increase for its paper wet strength products in EMEA. The increase will be up to 15%, depending on the specific formulations and can differ in selected geographies...
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    Polmak diversifies into tissue production

    Poland’s Polmak has moved into tissue production after acquiring a tissue machine with a production capacity of 90tpd. Based in Batorowo, Poznań, the company is a leading manufacturer of superior quality printed...
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    China urged to ‘Advance the Toilet Revolution Steadily’

    A toilet - and therefore a tissue revolution - is underway in China. Chinese president Xi Jinping has stressed the national imperative to upgrade China’s toilets in order to build a more...
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    Lucart boosts French tissue production capacity

    Lucart has started-up a tissue rewinder TT WIND-P at its facility in Laval sur Vologne, France. Supplied by Toscotec, it features two unwind stands and handles parent rolls with a width of...
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    Yibin Paper targets high quality tissue sector with TM investment

    China’s Yibin Paper Industry Co has invested in five high-speed tissue machines, each with a production capacity of 25,000tpy. Supplied by A.Celli Paper, the supply includes two new model iDEAL® lines with...
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    Kurita Europe boosts WSA capabilities with acquisition

    Kurita Europe has acquired a wet strength agent (WSA) production plant from Akzo Nobel in France. The acquisition boosts the Japanese-owned subsidiary’s presence in the WSA market for tissue and speciality paper...
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    Hengan Paper expands with PM start-up

    Xinjiang Hengan Paper has started up its MODULO-PLUS ES tissue line at its Changji-based mill. Supplied by Toscotec, PM25 includes the TT DOES (Drying Optimisation for Energy Saving) solution, which the supplier...
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    Papeles Tissue Rosario boosts capacity

    Argentina’s Papeles Tissue Rosario has increased its toilet roll and kitchen towel capacity after investing in a complete automatic converting and rewinding line. Supplied by the Amaco Group, the line was installed...
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    Drenik increases capacity with TM investment

    Serbia-based Drenik ND has boosted its production capacity by 120tpd after it invested in a Crescent Former line. Supplied by Recard, the complete turnkey plant has a speed of 1,850mpm, a width...
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    Accrol announces job losses amid operational review and profit warning

    Accrol Papers has confirmed the loss of 89 staff jobs at its UK tissue manufacturing sites. In a statement the company said: “During the operational review currently being undertaken at Accrol Papers,...
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    Sofidel Suppliers Sustainability Award sets global eco-friendly standard across tissue

    Suzano, Valmet, LKW WALTER and Fibria are amongst the winners of Sofidel’s second Suppliers Sustainability Award. Some 400 suppliers from 17 countries attended the event, held on 9 November at the magnificent...
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    Kemira announces price hike for EMEA

    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,...
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    Little Rapids boosts capacity with TM investment

    American tissue and specialty paper manufacturer Little Rapids Corporation has started-up its XcelLine VTM 3 tissue line. The Voith-supplied machine has replaced the company’s old PM3 at its Shawano, Wisconsin-based site. Scope of...
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    Lucart Group boosts AfH capacity with Grupo CEL purchase

    Lucart Group is understood to have placed the winning bid for Spain's Grupo CEL Technologies & Systems SLU (CEL). The move will boost the company's AfH presence in Spain and Portugal and...
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    GP focuses on AfH at Washington site amid restructure

    Georgia-Pacific has said it will focus its Camas, Washington-based facility on AfH tissue products after announcing restructuring plans for the site. The plant’s communication papers and pulping operations will be shut down,...
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    Suzano reports strong 3Q operating results

    Suzano Pulp & Paper has said its third quarter results show “a successful conclusion” to the projects that will prepare the company for the future. It reported operating cash generation of R$906m,...
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    Correll Tissue boosts capacity with TM rebuild

    South Africa’s Correll Tissue has started-up its PM1 after a rebuild undertaken by supplier Toscotec. The scope of supply included a modification of the existing Fourdrinier tissue machine into a MODULO Crescent...
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    Resolute lawsuit against Greenpeace dismissed in court; manufacturer to continue legal action

    Greenpeace International has won the latest round against Canadian manufacturer Resolute Forest Products in an ongoing defamation and racketeering case. On 31 May 2016, Resolute filed a CAD$300m lawsuit under the Racketeer...
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    Bashundhara paper mill boosts capacity

    Bangladesh’s Bashundhara Paper Mill has invested in two slitter rewinders. Supplied by Tecno Paper, the model TP-2US-TRH15 Top Performance rewinders will have a trim width of 2.8m and includes two unwind stands...
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    St. Croix Tissue boosts production after diversifying into tissue

    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...
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    APP China invests in TM for Jiangsu

    APP China is to invest 450 million yuan in a high-grade tissue manufacturing plant in Jiangsu. The investment will be made at the Yunnan Xinping Nanan Sugar Paper site. DingChang Machinery is understood to...
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    Clearwater Paper’s 3Q results impacted by pulp price hikes

    Clearwater Paper Corporation has said higher than expected pulp prices, maintenance costs and transportation rates have impacted its third quarter results. The company reported net sales of $426.5m, down 2.0% compared to...
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    Suzano boosts capacity with R$540m mill start-up

    Suzano Papel E Celulose has started the production and sale of jumbo rolls of sanitary paper at its mill in Mucuri, Bahia. The total estimated investment is R$540m and the total tissue...
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    G-P investing millions at Naheola mill

    Georgia-Pacific has boosted its tissue capacity after it invested $120m in new technology to be installed at its Naheola mill in Pennington. The investment will bring new technology to the mill's converting...
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    Celtex eyes expansion into Moldova

    Italian tissue manufacturer Celtex Industry Group is targeting eastern Europe with a potential expansion into Moldova. According to Moldova’s Ministry of Economy and Infrastructure, the company is planning to invest €3-4m in...
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    Guangdong Shaoneng starts up TM at Nanxiong Zhuji site

    China’s Guangdong Shaoneng has started-up its new tissue machine at its Nanxiong Zhuji paper mill. The machine was supplied by A.Celli and it is 2.8m wide with a working speed of 1,600m/min. It...
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    G-P sells chemicals business to Ecolab

    Georgia-Pacific (G-P) has sold its paper chemicals business to Ecolab. The transaction is expected to be completed before the end of the year subject to customary closing conditions. G-P declined to comment on...
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    Guizhou Chitianhua boosts capacity with 20-foot Steel Yankee start-up

    China’s Guizhou Chitianhua Paper Industry has increased production of high-quality tissue products after starting up its second PrimeLineST tissue machine. PM6 is based at the company’s Guizhou Province site and has a...
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    Tissue World Istanbul is returning at the Istanbul Congress Center from 4 – 6...

    Tissue World Istanbul is set to take place at the Istanbul Congress Center (ICC), Turkey from 4 – 6 September 2018. Part of the international Tissue World portfolio established since 1993, Tissue...
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    Södra Cell announces price hike for NBSK in Europe

    Södra Cell has increased the price of its northern bleached softwood kraft pulp in Europe to $960/tonne. The price hike came into effect on 1 October 2017. Magnus Björkman, VP Marketing and Sales,...
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    Grand Bay Paper and Care Products Group boosts Latin American presence

    The Grand Bay Paper and Care Products Group has invested in a new tissue paper mill. Supplied by Recard, the plant will produce toilet rolls, table napkins, facial tissue and kitchen towels. It...