Wednesday, May 8, 2024

Technical Theme

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

    Brazilian eucalyptus and pine planted wood production: “The innovation drivers of Brazilian pulp industry”

    Technical Theme Marco Martins and Rodrigo Fantini -
    Marco Martins, Customer Technical Service Manager, Klabin By Marco Martins, Msc Science Forest and Chemical Engineering – Klabin’s Customer Technical Service Manager, and Rodrigo Fantini,...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Södra invests to make its totally chlorine-free pulp stronger still

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    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...
    Josh Goulet, Account Manager, Edson

    Opportunity for suppliers to assume dual roles of project management and integrator for full...

    Packaging Tissue World Magazine -
    Case study: Josh Goulet, Account Manager, Edson, discusses designing and installing automation into end-of-line packaging for diaper manufacturers. A TWM report. There was a time not...
    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...

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

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    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...
    Tissue World Magazine

    “ Digitisation is key; Our goal has been to focus on R&D that enables...

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    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...

    Strength technologies improve profitability

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    Kemira’s Vladimir Grigoriev, Mikko Mäkinen and Roberto Zulian review the new developments in strength technologies and discuss the economic benefits found from industrial case studies. The tissue market is one of the...

    Tissue World asked the world’s leading converting machinery manufacturers to comment on the annual...

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    A TW report TW: What technical developments can we expect in converting for 2013 and beyond? PCMC’s operations director Luca Tagliasacchi: “One of the sections on which the work of our R&D department...

    The hybrid designed to combine speed, box size range and production capacity: Packaging Technical...

    Packaging Mladen Starcevic -
    DIVERSA is STAX Technologies’ answer to a trend which emerged as online sales increased. Mladen Starcevic, President and Executive Vice President Tissue Packaging, explains the history of its development...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Converting companies are surging through Europe’s economic woes

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    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...

    PACKAGING TECHNICAL THEME: Flexibility, precision, reliability and speed – overcoming the rigors of industrial...

    Packaging Tissue World Magazine -
    Edson has launched its 4000TL-Robotic Top Load Case Packer. Josh Goulet, Account Manager at Edson, outlines its qualities. A TWM report. In the fast-paced world of manufacturing and packaging, efficiency, precision, and...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Key innovations in the search for perfection on the converting line

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    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...

    Kimberly-Clark in bamboo fibre

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    Tissue giant Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has teamed up with biotechnology company Booshoot to support the production of tissue products made with bamboo fibre. K-C said the partnership “marks a significant breakthrough” for the...
    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...
    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...
    Tissue World Magazine

    As energy efficiencies and raw materials continue to dominate the headlines, TW asks paper...

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    1. What have been the most important technical developments at your company during 2012? Emmanuel Allibe, ABK Group managing director: “ABK Group has taken a decisive step in 2011 with the acquisition of...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Meeting the WSR challenge head on

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    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...
    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

    Taking a closer look at innovation and sustainability

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    By Solenis’ Todd Sarraf and Ronald Staib In every region of the world, the tissue market is experiencing exciting expansion. Consequently, although the specific challenges and opportunities vary depending on the...

    A single source provider for one interconnected network creates harmony and optimises production

    Packaging Tissue World Magazine -
    Sections of most tissue and towel packaging systems in the industry can be supplied by four or five different manufacturers. Kyle Demerath, Director of Product Management, Packaging and Conveying...

    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

    A half billion Euro investment with tissue at its core

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    Södra’s expansion at Värö has the needs of tissue makers at heart. A TW report. On 24 February 2014, Södra’s board of directors gave the green light to invest SEK 4 billion...
    Pau Vila General Manager, LC Paper

    TECHNICAL THEME: Decarbonising – with an 8,500 panel solar plant, non-fossil methane, a biomass...

    Technical Theme Tissue World Magazine -
    LC Paper’s energy was already 100% renewable, mostly bought from small hydroelectric plants high in the mountains north of Barcelona, Spain. Now, a total net zero life cycle is being brought in-house. General Manager Pau Vila explains the schedule.
    Tissue World Magazine

    Packaging, Wrapping & Logistics: Technical Theme

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    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...

    With demand for hygiene products forever on the increase, pulp producer Sappi tells TW...

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    With demand for hygiene products forever on the increase, pulp producer Sappi tells TW how sugar cane waste residue has enabled it to develop its Triple GreenTM hygiene range. Hygiene products form...
    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...
    Tissue World Magazine

    As energy efficiencies and raw materials continue to dominate the headlines, TW asks paper...

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    1. What have been the most important technical developments at your company during 2012? Emmanuel Allibe, ABK Group managing director: “ABK Group has taken a decisive step in 2011 with the acquisition of...
    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...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Cascades launches facial tissue product

    Chemicals Helen Morris -
    Cascades Tissue Group has extended its Cascades Moka line with the launch of what it claims is the first-ever unbleached, 100% recycled beige facial tissue. The company said the single-use paper product...

    CHEMICALS TECHNICAL THEME: GPAM – Is it the next generation alternative for wet strength...

    Technical Theme Lucyna Pawlowska -
    Downsides of PAE resins include process inefficiencies, difficulties with wet strength broke repulpability, and increased regulatory scrutiny due to harmful chloro-organic byproducts. The market has been on the lookout...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Tissue and towel packaging: consumers demand higher quality.

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    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...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Converting Technical Theme 2018: Process optimisation – customer loyalty – intelligent factories – worldwide...

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    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...
    Gary Urban, Elettric80’s Sales Director Americas: Food, Beverage, Paper & Hygiene Products

    The key design criteria to raise logistics reliability levels to between 90-95%

    Logistics Tissue World Magazine -
    The challenge: to create a fully-automated facility producing more tissue tonnes per person and more tonnes per metre than any other same-size mill in the world. Gary Urban, Elettric80’s...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Improved DAF control delivers water savings and minimises TCO. A TW report

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    By Nalco’s Michael Murcia, Mita Chattoraj, JC Ye, Steve Hoefs Dissolved air flotation (DAF) units are used throughout the paper industry for solids / liquid separation in process and primary wastewater treatment...

    Technical Theme: Side load or top load for your case and tray packing machine?...

    Packaging Josh Goulet -
    Josh Goulet, Account Manager, Edson, explains the pros and cons that best suit your system. Josh Goulet, Account Manager, Edson When it...

    Soft options

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    Södra Cell Värö has transformed itself into a tissue-focussed mill with pioneering environmental credentials. A TW report With hindsight, would you have re- orientated a softwood pulp mill towards the tissue market...

    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...

    Converting special: Covid changed the dynamics and balances of the markets as companies evolved...

    Technical Theme Tissue World Magazine -
    TWM/1: How have 2022’s tissue & towel trends changed the direction of your company’s Research & Development (R&D) efforts? Stan Sheng, Deputy General Manager, Baosuo: “The...

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

    Technical Theme Joan Vila -
    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 –...
    Tissue World Magazine

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

    Technical Theme Helen Morris -
    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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