March / April 2017

March / April 2017

The countdown to TW Milan has started!

Helen Morris - March 21, 2017

March / April 2017

Trevipapel Group boosts capacity with Steel Yankee investment

Helen Morris - March 9, 2017

Cascades launches household tissue range

March / April 2017 Helen Morris - March 21, 2017

Cascades has targeted the consumer market with the launch of a range of household tissue products. Consisting of three varieties of toilet paper and two varieties of paper towels, the products will...

Defining the products of the future

March / April 2017 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...

Tissue World Magazine Mill Awards: entry submission is open!

March / April 2017 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...

Kemira increases prices of polymer products in Europe

March / April 2017 Helen Morris - April 6, 2017

Kemira has increased the price for its polymer product line by 4-8 % across all European countries. It said the price increase is “necessary due to overall significant cost increase and global...

PCMC launches tissue embosser-laminator Omnia

March / April 2017 Helen Morris - April 6, 2017

PCMC has launched Omnia, a new tissue embosser-laminator that the supplier said will “offer customers’ flexibility and safety in a small footprint”. According to the supplier, the Omnia, which in Latin means...

My three-point guide to tissue etiquette

March / April 2017 Helen Morris - March 21, 2017

Cheapest: too rough even for the toughest of men. Middle rank: comfortable, quality, full-bodied. Luxury: generally pointless, but essential for a girlfriend’s nose. I use toilet...

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

March / April 2017 Helen Morris - March 21, 2017

It’s pressure which produces diamonds, and the fiercely competitive nature of the Italian market is producing some sparkling results. They have been called “smart factories,” but tissue factories have always been smart ... these are...

Searching for distinction in a complex market

March / April 2017 Helen Morris - March 21, 2017

When competition is fierce and price discounting dominates, niche, flexibility and targeted response to rapidly changing consumer demands become crucial. TWM visited family owned Industria Cartaria Fenili By Helen Morris, Senior editor, Tissue...

We need greater speed on the production floor… and we need it now

March / April 2017 Helen Morris - March 21, 2017

The Smart robotics revolution is underway to meet the rapid pace of change in the feminine, adult and baby care products markets. As E-commerce and other market trends demand an increased range of...

Tissue EU Ecolabel: its current success is the best proof that the scheme works...

March / April 2017 Helen Morris - March 21, 2017

The tissue industry was stunned in November 2016 to hear that the EU College of Commissioners was considering not renewing three Ecolabels, including one of the most successful – the Ecolabel for tissue. This Ecolabel is a...

WEPA invests in new converting line in Germany

March / April 2017 Helen Morris - April 6, 2017

(News from RISI) German tissue giant WEPA is set to raise the converting capacity at its Kriebethal tissue mill in Saxony. The company is investing in a new line for cosmetic wipes,...

Universal Paper expands capacity with start-up

March / April 2017 Helen Morris - March 21, 2017

South Africa’s Universal Paper Manufacturers has successfully started up its turn-key green field tissue mill at its Ga-Rankuwa mill. Start-up of TM5, a PMP-supplied Intelli-Tissue Advanced 1600 tissue making line, was achieved...

Resolute boosts capacity with Calhoun start-up

March / April 2017 Helen Morris - April 6, 2017

Resolute Forest Products has boosted its private label capacity with the start-up of its new tissue machine in Tennessee. The first tissue parent roll was produced on 28 February 2017. It will...

Suzano to sell converted tissue products; investment in tissue increases to $176.1m

March / April 2017 Helen Morris - March 9, 2017

(News from RISI) - Brazilian pulp and paper producer Suzano is to acquire converting equipment that will enable it to sell finished products in the tissue segment. The company is currently installing...

China’s Mancheng Paper to add two new TMs to Baoding mill

March / April 2017 Helen Morris - April 6, 2017

(News from RISI) - Mancheng Paper (formerly known as Tiantian Paper) will install two new tissue production lines at its sole mill in Baoding city, Hebei province, northern China. Chinese supplier Liaoyang...

APP boosts capacity with TM investments

March / April 2017 Helen Morris - April 6, 2017

Tissue giant Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) has invested in eight new tissue machines. Supplied by Toscotec, the scope of supply includes AHEAD-2.0L crescent former tissue machines with a net trim width...

Japan’s Daio announces 10% hike for its household paper range

March / April 2017 Helen Morris - March 21, 2017

(News from RISI) - Daio Paper has announced its intention to hike all of its household paper prices, on shipments starting from 1 May. The 10% hike will apply to tissue, toilet...

Star Paper Mill boosts capacity

March / April 2017 Helen Morris - March 21, 2017

United Arab Emirates-based Star Paper Mill is to increase its production capacity after signing a contract for the supply of a turnkey plant. Supplied by Recard, once up and running the investment...

Italy – T&T capacity leader in Western Europe

March / April 2017 Helen Morris - March 21, 2017

By Bill Burns, Senior Consultant, Fisher International Italy is traditionally a major player in the story of tissue and today remains the capacity leader in the Western European market. Comparisons to competing countries within Italy’s natural...

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

March / April 2017 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...

Italian tissue mill Cartiera San Lorenzo hit by fire, production halted

March / April 2017 Helen Morris - March 9, 2017

(News from RISI) - Italy’s Cartiera San Lorenzo was hit by a fire last week and forced to stop production. The local fire brigade said the fire originated in the plant’s production...

Sofidel UK starts-up latest-generation tissue rewinder

March / April 2017 Helen Morris - March 9, 2017

Sofidel UK has boosted its tissue production capacity after it started up a tissue rewinder at its Lancaster-based site. Supplied by A.Celli, the latest-generation tissue rewinder is a Mod. 865 and 3.4m...

Trevipapel Group boosts capacity with Steel Yankee investment

March / April 2017 Helen Morris - March 9, 2017

Trevipapel Group has invested in a Toscotec-supplied tissue line at its Paper Prime mill in Vila Velha de Rodão, Portugal. The Steel Yankee Dryer TT SYD-16FT is due to be started-up in...

Distribution Special Feature

March / April 2017 Helen Morris - March 21, 2017

Adapting to every request for end of line or the automatic conveying system: TWM hears from OCME on its latest offerings. A TWM report. OCME is always on the lookout to respond to every-changing customer...

Converting Technical Theme: key innovations in the search for perfection on the converting line

March / April 2017 Helen Morris - March 21, 2017

Futura, PCMC, OMET, Fabio Perini, Maflex and MTorres talk to TWM about targeting their latest R&D efforts in response to customer demands. A TWM report. TWM/1: What new...