Technical Theme

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

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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...
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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...
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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...
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“ 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...
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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...
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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...
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Extreme automation – energy – process monitoring – premium quality – predictive data –...

Top experts at the world’s leading tissue machinery suppliers detail their assessments of state-of-the-art systems... and explain how they see advances yet to come. A TWM report. TWM/1: What were your key technical developments during...
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Pulsar targets quality control with Quatis Bags launch

Technical Theme: key technical developments from across the packaging machinery industry. A TWM report. By Massimo Franzaroli, president of Pulsar Engineering Pulsar Engineering has broadened its range of Quatis machines with the launch of the...

HMI redefined: a radical technological change in Human Machine Interface (HMI) hardware – and...

Technical Theme: key technical developments from across the packaging machinery industry. A TWM report. OPTIMA Nonwoven’s Gustav Marwitz discusses the recent research results. Smartphones and tablets are continually driving tissue machine operator’s expectations from packaging equipment....
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Tissue and towel packaging: consumers demand higher quality.

Technical Theme: key technical developments from across the packaging machinery industry. A TWM report.  In recent years, the tissue market in North America has shifted dramatically to structured sheet, high-quality, product-branded and private-label products. Similarly, packaging needs...
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Simple, efficient and effective: equip your systems for the future, saving costs and unlocking...

Technical Theme: key technical developments from across the packaging machinery industry. A TWM report. Edson Packaging’s Josh Goulet talks efficiencies. In today’s world, it’s more important than ever to reduce downtime and access real-time data...
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Do you laser? In the world of packaging, less is more.

Technical Theme: key technical developments from across the packaging machinery industry. A TWM report. Following PCMC’s acquisition of flexible packaging machinery manufacturer Graphbury Machines in September, PCMC product & applications leader Carl DuCharme discusses...
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High efficiency wet strength resin technology breakthrough

  Mark Zempel, Georgia-Pacific Paper Chemicals business manager, describes the path to a wet strength resin with step-change performance claims. A TWM report. For many years, wet strength resins have allowed paper producers to take paper...

Tissue and towel sustainability: how next-generation chemicals can enhance sustainable development

By Richard Cho, global marketing director, Solenis. A TWM report. Sustainability is often defined as a requirement of the current generation to manage resources effectively so that future generations can enjoy a similar quality of life. For...
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Meeting the WSR challenge head on

Wet strength resins are the most expensive chemical application in tissue production. Hence the urgent need for economically effective solutions to reduce consumption. Kemira’s Vladimir Grigoriev and Eric Padovani discuss. A TWM report.     Wet...
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New OnePly product that “easily competes with TAD and NTT”

Spain’s LC Paper won Tissue World Milan’s prestigious Most Energy-Aware Mill Award. Here, chief executive Joan Vila talks through the development process which led the independent niche tissue producer to energy savings of...
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The future for fibres

The higher web strength that premium reinforced pulps bring the tissue maker improves tissue machine and converting efficiency, says Bill Adams, senior director at Canfor Pulp, the world’s fifth largest producer of market...
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Investments mean more ECF pulp from Södra

Södra Cell has pioneered TCF pulp but with the evolution in the market and in ECF bleaching technology, the company has significantly boosted its growing position in ECF. Södra’s latest investments have included the new...
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Converting Technical Theme: key innovations in the search for perfection on the converting line

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...

Paper Machine Quality, energy, fibre, water, costs… the search for high end advances

TWM/1 What new technical advances have you made in the last year concerning issues such as energy, fibre and water reduction, sheet quality and reliability? Paolo Raffaelli, technical director, Toscotec: “The focus...
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Tradition and passion creates Sofidel’s most advanced automated site

By Tissue World magazine editor Helen Morris TWM interviews Robert Jensen, Sofidel Sweden, country operations manager, on the latest tissue trends in the region. Sofidel’s Swedish plant produces 56,000tpy of private label products, specialist tissue in...
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Market trends inspire advanced delivery for diverse customer needs

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

                  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...

Chemical technology breakthrough targets significant Yankee Dryer performance improvement

Thomas L. Wright, technical director, Georgia-Pacific Chemicals, explains how the NAVIGATOR coating programme is designed to operate in today’s demanding environment of high temperatures and low reel moisture. A TWM report. The...
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Utilising KemView™ sheet analyser to optimise softness and control the creping process

By Kemira’s Clay Campbell, Lucyna Pawlowska, Xiaosong Huang There are different roads one can take to achieve tissue softness. The key is to be able to determine how to get there and...

Just how committed are consumers – and the industry – to eco-friendly products?

The strongest motivations fade when set against the cost. Pirkko Petäjä, principal, Pöyry Management Consulting, explains the hard-nosed reality behind the environmental issue. Corporate social and environmental responsibility is commonly claimed to...
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Tissue colour safety standards have got tougher … and will get tougher still

Only a rapid and flexible response to the increasing safety concerns of legislators and consumers will succeed. Here, Simon Boyd, global product manager colourants, Paper Solutions Business, Archroma, offers one company’s...

Fibre of the future

With substantially more softwood pulp capacity coming on stream, what are the benefits for the tissue maker?​ Södra Cell’s marketing director Marcus Hellberg talks to TWM. A TWM report. The steady growth...
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Strength and softness – how NBSK pulp fibres deliver

Canfor Pulp, the world’s fifth largest supplier of softwood kraft pulps, planted 78 million trees in 2015 alone in British Colombia, Canada. Here, manager of innovation and optimisation Paul Bicho explains...
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Key innovations in the search for perfection on the converting line

We asked the world’s leading converting machinery manufacturers to explain where their R&D efforts are leading them for TWM’s annual Converting Technical Theme. Gambini, Futura, PCMC, Maflex and MTorres responded. What events...

Energy efficiencies, new technology start-ups, emerging market potential, product innovation, softness and strength, customer...

TWM interviews the world’s leading tissue machinery suppliers to bring you the latest knowledge in our ‘Technical Theme: Paper Machine’. TWM/1 What have been the most important technical developments made at your...
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Preferred Packaging: Geos and Star Evo Packaging machines

TWM’s Packaging Technical Theme takes an in-brief look at DM Pack – Preferred Packaging’s most recent innovations to launch into the market place. A TWM report.     Preferred Packaging’s owner Luca De Marchi...
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EVT: Eye vision technology

EVT’s innovative EyeVision software can be used in the packaging production of all general tissue products. Chief executive Michael Beising talks to TWM about its latest technical developments. A TWM report.  “The...
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Blox: the compact versatile cross-sector option

OCME has revolutionised the end-of-line concept with a compact and integrated solution that focuses all phases of packaging in a single block: Blox. Fabio Cavalchi, OCME sales engineering department project leader,...

Grade specific optimisation: Permanent (PAE) versus temporary (GPAM) wet strength utilisation

By Kemira’s Clay Campbell, Harold Goldsberry, Kristin Wittich and Felipe Higa Kemira talks us through the latest chemical technical developments relevant to your business. Historically, it has been quite clear in the manufacture...

Is there a limit to environmental advancement in tissue’s current industry model?

By Joan Vila, chief executive of L.C. Paper 1881 A purchasing manager told me recently that we have reached the limits of invention in tissue. He was wrong on all counts –...
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Nuqul’s Al-Sindian mill sets the standard for environmental and commercial success

Management commitment to sustainability, employee engagement, enhanced public image, competitive advantage and financial benefits… that’s what taking control of natural resources has delivered for a MENA leader. Waheed Al-Qannas, operation manager...
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Södra invests to make its totally chlorine-free pulp stronger still

Latest developments at Södra’s Mönsterås mill in Sweden target tissue makers favouring TCF pulp. The company talks to TWM about responding to customer demand for an equally bright but even more...
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NBSK… keeping the industry’s benchmark pulp at the highest grade

From the mighty pines and spruce of British Columbia to the tiny crill from wood chip particles - Canfor Pulp’s Innovation director Paul Watson and scientist Paul Bichot tell TWM about...
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Converting companies are surging through Europe’s economic woes

From strengthening core technology to a new project to “revolutionise” the tissue industry – leading companies look ahead   TW1: How are you tackling the recessionary climates in Europe? Sergio Casella, Paper Converting Machine...