November / December 2016

Tissue World Istanbul attracts 1,602 attendees

Helen Morris - October 6, 2016

November / December 2016

Sofidel America to boost capacity with NTT purchases

Helen Morris - October 6, 2016

Henan Yinge’s principle shareholder listed for sale in China

November / December 2016 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...

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

November / December 2016 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

November / December 2016 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...

India’s T&T – a market profoundly influenced by cultural preferences

November / December 2016 Helen Morris - November 17, 2016

By Bill Burns, Senior Consultant, Fisher International The second most populous nation in the world, India is ranked fifth in a worldwide listing of countries producing paper products. With a population of 1.25 billion, one...

China’s Hwagain Paper starts five tissue machines in Jiangxi province

November / December 2016 Helen Morris - September 19, 2016

(News from RISI) - Hwagain Paper kicked off trial runs on five new tissue PMs with a combined capacity of 18,000tpy in the first half of August at its mill in...

Södra’s Värö pulp mill amongst world’s largest following start-up

November / December 2016 Helen Morris - October 6, 2016

Södra has started up its state-of-the-art pulp line in Värö, Sweden, boosting the site’s current 425,000tpy capacity to 700,00tpy. The expansion is part of a SEK 6 billion investment, with SEK 4...

K-C invests €15m in tissue converting line at Villey-Saint-Etienne plant

November / December 2016 Helen Morris - November 3, 2016

(News from RISI) - Kimberly-Clark has invested approximately €15m in a hand towel tissue converting line at its Villey-Saint-Etienne facility in France. After installation at the start of the year, the new...

İpek Kağıt invests in regional power

November / December 2016 Helen Morris - November 17, 2016

By Sertaç Nişli, general manager, İpek Kağıt A long-time pioneer and leader of Turkey’s tissue paper sector, İpek Kağıt has opened two new plants in Turkey and Kazakhstan that will advance its goal of...

PIX Pulp indices 27.9.2016

November / December 2016 Helen Morris - November 17, 2016

By FOEX Indexes’ Lars Halén and Timo Teräs NBSK pulp Europe The PPPC-statistics were fairly weak over July, but the August performance was again strong in softwood, especially taking into account the summer season, but...

Tissue ‘the unsung hero of our daily lives’

November / December 2016 Helen Morris - November 17, 2016

Dave Ripper is one of many to discover how prominent tissue is only when asked, as here, to recall their encounters with the vital aid to living. He lives in the south of England...

Market trends inspire advanced delivery for diverse customer needs

November / December 2016 Helen Morris - November 17, 2016

By Giulio Bignami, Microline chairman, for TWM Microline’s Giulio Bignami talks about the company’s latest technology developments plus a new line installation at Dubai-based Metropolic Paper Industries. A TWM report. For many years, Microline has been responding...

Quality product initiatives, greater technology efficiency, energy and labour costs – keys to the...

November / December 2016 Helen Morris - November 17, 2016

By Helen Morris, Editor, Tissue World Magazine TWM asked industry experts around the world to explain how they see emerging technologies, cultural trends, financial markets, political initiatives and energy costs affecting their short and long...

Kruger invests $55m on new PM at Crabtree plant

November / December 2016 Helen Morris - July 28, 2016

Canadian tissue manufacturer Kruger Products has invested $55m to add a paper machine at its Crabtree Plant in Canada. PM8 will produce tissue products primarily for the AfH market and will be...

Sofidel targets tissue supply chain with sustainability award

November / December 2016 Helen Morris - September 19, 2016

Sofidel has launched the ‘Sofidel Suppliers Sustainability Award’, an annual award that aims to motivate its national and international suppliers to promote high sustainable standards. Celebrating its 50th anniversary, the award will...

Multipack targets tissue with sale of Pharma-Cosmetic branch

November / December 2016 Helen Morris - July 28, 2016

Packaging equipment company Multipack has realigned its business focus to the international tissue market by selling off its pharmaceutical and cosmetic branch. The Italian company specialises in primary and secondary packaging systems...

Lee & Man to get two more 60,000tpy TMs in Dongguan, China

November / December 2016 Helen Morris - August 11, 2016

(News from RISI) - Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing is continuing its ambitious tissue expansion programme, planning to add a pair of 60,000tpy tissue machines at its Hongmei mill in Dongguan...

CMPC’s market pulp sales in 2Q16 boom 56% year-over-year; net revenues 0.5% up to...

November / December 2016 Helen Morris - August 11, 2016

(News from RISI) - Chilean pulp and paper producer CMPC released its second quarter results showing consolidated sales of $1.1 billion, 0.5% higher than a year ago. Pulp sales volume rose 56%...

Hengan fires up 60,000tpy tissue PM in Anhui, China

November / December 2016 Helen Morris - August 25, 2016

(News from RISI) - China's Hengan International has kicked off trial runs on a new 60,000tpy tissue PM at a mill in Wuhu city, Anhui province, in eastern China. When the new...

Resolute’s Calhoun tissue operation on track for 1Q 2017 start-up

November / December 2016 Helen Morris - September 8, 2016

Resolute Forest Products has completed the commissioning of its first tissue converting line at its tissue facility currently under construction in Calhoun, Tennessee. The remaining two lines will be commissioned by the...

SCA targets French tissue mills with restructuring measures

November / December 2016 Helen Morris - September 8, 2016

SCA has announced a series of restructuring measures at its production plants in Hondouville and Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, France. It includes the closure of the oldest tissue machine at the AfH producing Hondouville site...

Vinda International integrates SCA Asia tissue business, reports 19% increase in 1H 2016 revenue

November / December 2016 Helen Morris - July 28, 2016

(News from RISI) - Vinda International Holdings has reported a 19% increase in revenue in the six-month period ending in June 2016, to HK$5.7bn, following the integration of the SCA Asia...

Celupaper increases capacity with start-up

November / December 2016 Helen Morris - July 28, 2016

Argentina’s Celupaper has boosted its capacity with the start up of its Toscotec-supplied PM3. The new line is installed at Papelera Nicaragua mill, Argentina, and its start-up follows the rebuilding of PM2,...

Raptor SL integrates features from top-of-the-range packers

November / December 2016 Helen Morris - November 17, 2016

Chris Bladek, marketing specialist, Edson Packaging Machinery, discusses the latest case packaging design innovations in the Raptor SL case packer. A TWM report. The tissue packaging industry is continually evolving and demanding reliable, easy to...

Cheng Loong tissue line breaks world record

November / December 2016 Helen Morris - August 11, 2016

Supplier Voith has said its tissue line at Taiwan’s Cheng Loong Corporation has broken world records “substantially ahead of the industry in several indexes”. TM16 has an operating speed of 2,001m/min, which...

Tissue World Istanbul A Success; Attracts 1,602 attendees from 65 countries

November / December 2016 Helen Morris - November 17, 2016

First dedicated event covering huge region attracted 1,602 attendees from 65 countries Tissue World Istanbul 2016 concluded successfully after attracting 1,602 unique attendees – of which 1,231 were unique visitors – from across 65 countries. Held in...