Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Technical Theme

    Tissue World Magazine, Technical Theme: Chemicals, Converting, Environment, Logistics, Packaging, Paper Machine, and Pulping / Fibre

    David Marshall Project Manager, Sustainability & Public Affairs, Resolute Forest Products

    $4m investment at Alabama mill takes Resolute Forest Products to second national energy award

    Environment Tissue World Magazine -
    Case study: The modernisation of Coosa Pines, Alabama Pulp Mill - by David Marshall, Project Manager, Sustainability & Public Affairs, Resolute Forest Products.  In November 2020, Resolute...
    Pirkko Petäjä Principal, Poyry Management Consulting

    Tissue proves its resilience as the pulp market responds to Covid

    Technical Theme Pirkko Petäjä -
    With predicted declines in GDP growth in leading economies up to -10%, lower and relatively stable pulp prices have proved to be the main boost to the industry’s financial...
    Voith

    “The combination of high speed and low basis weight is the most challenging operating...

    Technical Theme Paul Bicho -
    Between 2014 and 2019, Canfor Pulp’s Innovation Center (CPI) and paper machinery supplier Voith agreed to a cooperation where Canfor Pulp would supply NBSK pulps to a pilot tissue...
    Richard Cho, Global marketing director, Solenis.

    SEIZING THE OPPORTUNITY TO ADVANCE THE QUALITY SPECTRUM FOR AFH TISSUE

    Technical Theme Tissue World Magazine -
    The hard hit Away-from-Home market is set to rebound, and is expected to be stronger than ever. Richard Cho, global marketing director at Solenis, says now is the time...

    KEMIRA’S NEW GENERATION FIELD TEST DUST AND LINT PARTICLE ANALYSER

    Technical Theme Tissue World Magazine -
    An accurate field test to improve detection and measurement of dusting and linting during tissue production has major significance for cost and customer satisfaction. Kemira’s Clay Campbell, senior manager...
    Technical Theme, Packaging, Tissue World Magazine, TWM, May-June 2020

    THE AUTOMATED CARBON-T AND ADVANCES IN ECOLOGICAL PACKAGING LEAD FABIO PERINI’S PIONEERING PERFORMANCE

    Technical Theme Giuseppe Alberti -
    Report by Fabio Perini’s Giuseppe Alberti, sales manager packaging, Massimo Grandi, regional sales director north, south west Europe and Italy, and Eros Burelli, marketing product manager for packaging...
    Steve Boothe, Senior account manager, Edson

    SMARTER CASE PACKING FOCUSES ON END-OF-LINE THROUGHPUT OF AFH TISSUE PRODUCTS

    Technical Theme Steve Boothe -
    Packaging’s search for optimum operational integration has a new leading product. Here Steve Boothe, senior account manager at Edson, a manufacturer of secondary packaging equipment for the tissue...
    ECOVE, 100% plastic-free: the perfect paper wrapped pack is created

    ECOVA – HELPING TO CREATE A PLASTIC- FREE LINE AT HIGH SPEEDS OF...

    Technical Theme Ryan Holmer -
    Infinity Machine & Engineering Corp. teamed with Little Rapids Corporation to target market leadership with their new 100% recycled fibre paper overwrap. Ryan Holmer, technical sales, Infinity, is...
    Sarah Laouadi, European policy manager, Freight Transport Association

    LOGISTICS’ LEAN BUSINESS MODEL AND ‘KEY WORKER’ STATUS WELL PLACED TO MAINTAIN SUPPLIES...

    Technical Theme Sarah Laouadi -
    Covid-19 has led to a surge in demand for toilet paper, and concerns that tissue production and imports could grind to a halt. Yet logistics are adaptable and...
    A NEW ERA OF CONVERTING CORE PRINCIPLES INTO GROWTH

    A NEW ERA OF CONVERTING CORE PRINCIPLES INTO GROWTH

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    ‘In the near future a learning machine will be capable of autonomously interpreting data and improving on its own performance under every condition.’ Leading converting machinery suppliers highlight their...
    Tissue World Magazine Technical Theme

    DRIVEN BY INNOVATION – AT THE LEADING EDGE OF MACHINERY ADVANCES

    Paper Machine Helen Morris -
    Searching for ever more quality while keeping production costs under control ... “it’s sometimes like reconciling water and fire.” The world’s leading tissue machinery manufacturers outline their business strategies to...
    Pirkko Petäjä Principal, Poyry Management Consulting

    Sustainability issues are of utmost importance in tissue, but should be approached in multiple...

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    Pirkko Petäjä, Principal, Poyry Management Consulting Environmental and sustainability requirements have long been a ticket to play in many markets. Certain basic requirements must be...

    Pathway to sustainable tissue packaging

    Technical Theme Pirkko Petäjä -
    Pirkko Petäjä, Principal, Poyry Management Consulting It is our understanding that tissue producers should map the alternatives for sustainable tissue packaging and define the pathway;...

    Is paper packaging of tissue a marketing trick?

    Technical Theme Pirkko Petäjä -
    Pirkko Petäjä, Principal, Poyry Management Consulting Tissue is now starting to be offered in paper pack by many players, however, there is hardly anyone full...

    Fibre-based packaging

    Technical Theme Pirkko Petäjä -
    Pirkko Petäjä, Principal, Poyry Management Consulting Paper packaging of tissue has woken a lot of interest and many producers have made tests and trials together...

    IS A FUTURE PAPER LAMINATED OR EXTRUDED WITH ECOLOGICAL BIOPLASTICS THE ANSWER?

    Technical Theme Pirkko Petäjä -
    The tissue industry, like all production systems, must find the answer to the planet’s plastic problem. Many companies are already advanced in research. Pirkko Petäjä, principal at ÅF Pöyry AB...
    Tissue World Magazine Canada

    CANFOR’S CIRCULAR ECONOMY INITIATIVES DRIVING ITS ‘MORE VALUE, LESS IMPACT’ STRATEGY

    Pulping / Fibre Paul Bicho -
    Paul Bicho, PhD Manager, optimisation and innovation, Canfor Pulp Innovation High tensile strength pulp, major reforest planting, a bio-crude oil program, and a commitment to...
    Paul Bicho, PhD Manager, optimization and innovation, Canfor Pulp Innovation

    The importance of forest certification

    Pulping / Fibre Paul Bicho -
    Paul Bicho, PhD Manager, optimisation and innovation, Canfor Pulp Innovation When it comes to sustainability, we focus on reducing our environmental impact by streamlining manufacturing...
    Climate control: Canfor maintains forest certification on the 23 million hectares of forest licenses in Canada.

    New technology for the circular economy

    Technical Theme Paul Bicho -
    Paul Bicho, PhD Manager, optimization and innovation, Canfor Pulp Innovation We have a vision to be a leader in the circular economy and have embarked...
    Uruguay UPM Pulp

    UPM TAKES A STEP CHANGE AS A PULP SUPPLIER INVESTING IN A WORLD-CLASS...

    Pulping / Fibre Helen Morris -
    Sari Hörkkö, Director, stakeholder relations US$2.7bn mill investment and a US$350m boost to port and local logistics will increase pulp production capacity by more than...
    UPM Pulp

    State-of-the-art mill to produce premium pulp

    Pulping / Fibre Helen Morris -
    Sari Hörkkö, Director, stakeholder relations The new pulp mill has been created as an efficient single-line operation representing state-of-the-art design in the pulp industry. The machines,...
    Efficient wood supply and logistics

    Efficient wood supply and logistics

    Pulping / Fibre Helen Morris -
    Sari Hörkkö, Director, stakeholder relations Availability of sustainably sourced eucalyptus wood for the new mill is secured through UPM’s plantations on its own and leased...
    Montevideo, Uruguay, Tissue World Magazine

    Significant economic boost

    Pulping / Fibre Helen Morris -
    Sari Hörkkö, Director, stakeholder relations Based on independent socioeconomic impact studies, the new pulp mill is estimated to increase Uruguay’s gross national product by about...
    Sustainable eucalyptus plantations - Ensuring natural biodiversity

    Long term commitment in sustainable eucalyptus plantations

    Pulping / Fibre Helen Morris -
    Sari Hörkkö, Director, stakeholder relations In Uruguay UPM today operates a eucalyptus pulp mill in the southwestern town of Fray Bentos, as well as a...
    Efficient single-line operation UPM eucalyptus pulp mill Uruguay

    UPM Euca pulp for versatile tissue products

    Pulping / Fibre Helen Morris -
    Sari Hörkkö, Director, stakeholder relations The Fray Bentos pulp mill started operations in 2007. Its annual production capacity is 1.3 million tonnes of eucalyptus pulp,...
    Pilot partnership: Time-share arrangement allows customers to optimise production costs by varying softwood/ hardwood recipes

    A PILOT MACHINE PARTNERSHIP FINE TUNES THE FURNISH MIX TO OPTIMISE QUALITY AND...

    Pulping / Fibre Helen Morris -
    Peter Carlsson, Technical product manager, Södra As the quest for cost efficiency without compromise on performance continues, how far can tissue producers be engaging their...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Sustainable Product Sales Growing Three Times Faster Than Consumer-packaged Goods Market as a Whole

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    As awareness of the climate crisis increases across the world – especially among millennials - environmentally-friendly production and delivery expected to grow to $140.5bn market by 2023. Report by...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Kemira KemView™ Gen II Sheet Structure Analyser for tissue

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    By Kemira’s Clay Campbell, global business development, senior mgr. Kemira, and Lucyna Pawlowska, tissue process application specialist, Kemira Clay Campbell Senior manager, Global business...

    The right chemistry to lower your pulp costs

    Technical Theme Buckman -
    By Mark Christopher, global market development manager – Tissue, Buckman, Daniel Glover, innovation director – Pulp & Paper, Buckman Daniel Glover Innovation director – Pulp...

    The Challenge – to find a high quality and industry compatible bioplastic

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    Plastic – hundreds of millions of tonnes of it every year – has been intrinsic to tissue product packaging. So the urgently needed bioplasticreplacement...

    Pre-stretched film tensioned and tough enough for jumbo roll protection

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    Marco Cirigliano, sales and application engineer, outlines why FIS Impianti’s new generation wrap is critical to preserve paper quality, hygiene, and avoid contamination.
    Tissue World Magazine

    Proving flexibility and speed can coexist for today’s converters

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    The escalating demands of today’s converting market continue to increase pressure on converters. Factors like trade wars, pulp prices, and global markets create external...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Converting technical theme 2019 will be rich in projects to find the leading edge

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    In terms of optimal maintenance and process, analysing what the machines are telling us gives enormous added-value. TWM asked the world’s leading converting machinery suppliers – Fabio Perini, Futura,...

    Paper Machine Technical Theme: Industry 4.0 – energy – cost optimisation – high-quality grades...

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    Top companies highlight their ongoing advances in technology. A TWM report. TWM/1: What have been the most important technical developments...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Metsä Fibre’s most recent ambitious development project aims to increase its competences in the...

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    The Northern softwood pulp supplied by Metsä Fibre in its Botnia-branded products are used as raw material for a range of fibre-based paper and board products, and products based on refined wood-based...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Driving home the message – products from sustainable forests do make sense for consumers...

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    In October, Södra was awarded the “Best Sustainable Project/Social Category” at the Sofidel Suppliers Sustainability Award. The award acknowledged the pulp supplier’s “Act of a hero” marketing campaign, which encourages the conscious...
    Tissue World Magazine

    TISSUE MARKET ANALYSIS 2018

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    By Knut Omholt, Södra’s market research manager There are now several events within the pulp and paper business that are influencing the softwood pulp market globally and in Europe specifically. Firstly, we have the...
    Tissue World Magazine

    High quality NBSK for premium tissue

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    By Paul Bicho, Ph.D., manager, optimisation and innovation, Canfor Pulp Innovation The makers of premium bathroom and facial tissue strive to maximise softness and bulk while maintaining tensile strength to ensure runnability and...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Pulp: signs that prices are finally levelling

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    Pulp price is the single most important driver of tissue profitability. Currently at a record high, analysts point towards a temporarily more static market, and even a modest decrease. Report for TWM...
    Tissue World Magazine

    ‘The right fibres – treated correctly – gets the optimal fibre furnish’

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    In the last few years UPM has expanded its pulp production intensively. Due to its recent investments UPM Pulp has established a strong position on the pulp market through developing a versatile...
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