LOGISTICS’ LEAN BUSINESS MODEL AND ‘KEY WORKER’ STATUS WELL PLACED TO MAINTAIN SUPPLIES...
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
‘In the near future a learning machine will be capable of autonomously interpreting data and improving on its own performance under every condition.’ Leading convertering machinery suppliers highlight their...
DRIVEN BY INNOVATION – AT THE LEADING EDGE OF MACHINERY ADVANCES
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...
Sustainability issues are of utmost importance in tissue, but should be approached in multiple...
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
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?
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
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?
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...
CANFOR’S CIRCULAR ECONOMY INITIATIVES DRIVING ITS ‘MORE VALUE, LESS IMPACT’ STRATEGY
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...
The importance of forest certification
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...
New technology for the circular economy
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...
UPM TAKES A STEP CHANGE AS A PULP SUPPLIER INVESTING IN A WORLD-CLASS...
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...
State-of-the-art mill to produce premium pulp
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
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...
Significant economic boost
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...
Long term commitment in sustainable eucalyptus plantations
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...
UPM Euca pulp for versatile tissue products
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,...
A PILOT MACHINE PARTNERSHIP FINE TUNES THE FURNISH MIX TO OPTIMISE QUALITY AND...
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...
Sustainable Product Sales Growing Three Times Faster Than Consumer-packaged Goods Market as a Whole
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...
Kemira KemView™ Gen II Sheet Structure Analyser for tissue
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
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
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
Marco Cirigliano, sales and application engineer, outlines why FIS Impianti’s new generation wrap is critical to preserve paper quality, hygiene, and avoid contamination.
Proving flexibility and speed can coexist for today’s converters
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...
Converting technical theme 2019 will be rich in projects to find the leading edge
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...
Top companies highlight their ongoing advances in technology. A TWM report.
TWM/1: What have been the most important technical developments...
Metsä Fibre’s most recent ambitious development project aims to increase its competences in the...
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...
Driving home the message – products from sustainable forests do make sense for consumers...
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 MARKET ANALYSIS 2018
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...
High quality NBSK for premium tissue
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...
Pulp: signs that prices are finally levelling
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...
‘The right fibres – treated correctly – gets the optimal fibre furnish’
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...
Environment Technical Theme – Our energy vision boosts our bottom line and sustains our...
At Tissue World Miami in March, Resolute Forest Products’ Calhoun mill was awarded the Most Energy-Aware Mill Award. Here, Patrice Minguez, president, Tissue Group, describes what the company did to achieve the award....
The chemistry of soft tissue
As urbanisation increases, so does demand for more varied and sophisticated tissue products. The tissue giant tells TWM why it has growing confidence in its Thai and Asian tissue operations.
The exact recipe for...
Widening the operating window to improve competitiveness in today’s environment
Tissue makers have to face consumer demands every day — demands for softer, stronger and more absorbent products at an efficient cost. Whether producing premium brands
or value brands for consumers or the away-from-home market, the need...
Discussing eco-friendly and effective repulping aids in response to new regulatory challenges
By Kemira Chemicals Germany’s Vladimir Grigoriev, senior manager, applications and marketing, Pulp&Paper EMEA, and Tea Hannuksela, group leader
Abstract
Wet-strengthened paper grades often require a use of oxidative repulping aids. Traditional hypochlorite is undesirable due...
Packaging, Wrapping & Logistics: Technical Theme
The global packaging machinery market is estimated to be worth €35.6bn in 2020. Here, our Technical Theme brings you a selection of some of the most recent innovations and the trends...
“ Digitisation is key; Our goal has been to focus on R&D that enables...
By Matteo Giardini, Global sales director packaging, Fabio Perini
Casmatic is the Fabio Perini brand dedicated to packaging solutions that create perfect line integration. Key criteria from customers include: reliability, efficiency, super-fast format change and attention to...
Revolutionary breakthrough in tissue packaging?
Mladen Starcevic, the founder and general manager of Stax Technologies, explains why he believes the company’s ULTIMA product is breaking new ground. A TWM report.
Technical packaging innovations during the past 50 years have...
Converting Technical Theme 2018: Process optimisation – customer loyalty – intelligent factories – worldwide...
Leading converters outline their priorities in business strategy towards producing a better roll more efficiently. A TWM report.
TWM/1: What events in 2017 have had the biggest impact on your business and...
