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Start-up team: Japan's Marutomi boosts capacity with first of two Toscotec-supplied start-ups

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JAPAN – Marutomi boosts capacity with first of two start-ups; second line scheduled for start- up in 2020 at Ono Paper’s mill

Helen Morris - December 1, 2019

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Vinda boosts capacity with PM start-ups

Helen Morris - November 18, 2015

Zhuji Paper fires up 25,000tpy tissue PM in Guangdong, China

Asia Helen Morris - August 11, 2016

(News from RISI) - China’s Shaoguan Nanxiong Zhuji Paper has started trial runs on a new 25,000tpy tissue PM at a mill in Nanxiong city, Guangdong province. Andritz provided the PM, which...

Vinda to acquire SCA’s hygiene business in Asia

Asia Helen Morris - January 13, 2016

Vinda International Holdings is to purchase SCA’s hygiene business in South East Asia, Taiwan and South Korea. The divestment of the business for integration with Vinda was approved on 13 January and...

Henan Yinge’s principle shareholder listed for sale in China

Asia 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...

Daio Paper firms up plans to start tissue production at Kawanoe mill

Asia 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...

Luoyang Jieda Paper boosts facial tissue capacity with investment

Aowei Paper boosts tissue production capacity

Asia Helen Morris - December 1, 2019

Chinese tissue manufacturer Aowei Paper has increased its tissue capacity after investing in a Baosuo Enterprise Group- supplied paper machine and converting line. The supply includes a BaoTuo BC1300-...

Japan’s Daio loses appeal in NPI tissue patent infringement case

Asia Helen Morris - November 17, 2016

(News from RISI) - The latest ruling in a legal battle that has been in the Japanese courts since 2012 between Nippon Paper Industries (NPI) and Daio Paper was made in...

November / December 2014 – Asia News

Asia Helen Morris - November 27, 2014

RUSSIA Syktyvkar Tissue Group starts up new tissue PM Syktyvkar Tissue Group (STG) has started up a new 114tpd tissue machine at its brownfield Semibratovo plant in the Yaroslavl region in northwestern Russia. The...

2014 July / August – Asia News

Asia Helen Morris - July 15, 2014

MALAYSIA Malaysia’s Fudak starts up Amica line Fudak has successfully started up its new Amica line at its Malaysian facilities in Johor Bahru. The line will produce high-quality consumer rolled products at a...

2015 July/August Asia News

Asia Helen Morris - July 8, 2015

INDONESIA PT Suparma Tbk boosts capacity PT Suparma Tbk has started up a new tissue line at its site in Surabaya. The Valmet-supplied Advantage DCT 100 TM increases the company’s production of bathroom tissue,...

2014 September / October – Asia News

Asia Helen Morris - October 12, 2014

TAIWAN Cheng Loong to invest NT$1.28bn in tissue paper expansion (News from RISI) Cheng Loong has earmarked NT$1.28bn to build a tissue paper machine at its Chu Pei mill in Hsinchu county, Taiwan. Output on...

2013 November / December – Asia News

Asia Helen Morris - December 16, 2013

China CHINA’S ZHEJIANG JINGXING PAPER ENTERS TISSUE MARKET Chinese linerboard producer Zhejiang Jingxing Paper has entered the tissue market after it ordered two Steel Yankees from Andritz. The machines will be supplied to the...

Weifang Hicredit Machinery to supply two PMs to tissue mills in Baoding, China

Asia Helen Morris - July 14, 2016

(News from RISI) - Two small mills in Baoding city, Hebei province, recently ordered 15,000tpy tissue machines from Weifang Hicredit Machinery. A spokesperson from the Shandong-based supplier said the PMs, each having...

Hayat Kimya restarts tissue PM at Yeniköy mill in Turkey after rebuild

Asia Helen Morris - March 2, 2016

Tissue producer Hayat Kimya has resumed production on the 70,000tpy PM1 at its Yeniköy mill, some 100km southeast of Istanbul, following downtime lasting more than a month. The aim is to increase...

Ningxia Jiamei gets two new TMs for mill in Wuzhong, Ningxia

Asia Helen Morris - May 4, 2017

(News from RISI) Ningxia Jiamei Paper will install two new 20,000tpy tissue machines at its mill in Wuzhong city, in northwest China’s Ningxia autonomous region. The producer has placed orders for the...

APP halts tissue expansion in China in face of oversupply; continues in Indonesia

Asia Helen Morris - June 30, 2016

(News from RISI) - While gearing up for the commissioning of a massive 2.8m tpy pulp mill in South Sumatra, Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) has shifted its tissue paper expansion...

Lee & Man Paper boosts capacity with rewinders buy

Asia Helen Morris - June 29, 2016

Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing has ordered four tissue rewinders to be supplied by A.Celli Paper. The model AC882 rewinders will have a paper width of 5,620mm and a speed of 1,000...

Kuban Papir boosts production with TM1 wet-end rebuild

Asia Helen Morris - July 14, 2016

Russia’s Kuban Papir has signed a contract with PMP for a TM1 wet-end rebuild. The TM has a reel trim 2,750mm and produces tissue with basis weight range at the reel from...

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

Asia 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...

China’s Guangxi Tianlifeng starts 20,000tpy tissue machine in Nanning

Asia Helen Morris - February 9, 2017

(News from RISI) - Guangxi Tianlifeng has kicked off production on a new 20,000tpy tissue machine at its sole mill in Nanning city, in southwestern China’s Guangxi autonomous region. The first sheet...

C&S plans tissue expansion in Hebei; small mills in Mancheng forced to stop to...

Asia Helen Morris - November 30, 2016

(News from RISI) - C&S Paper is to add 75,000tpy of new tissue paper capacity at its mill in Tangshan city, Hebei province, to feed increasing demand in northern and northeastern China. The board...

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

Asia 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...

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

Asia 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...

Lee & Man starts two 60,000tpy TMs in Chongqing

Asia Helen Morris - October 20, 2016

(News from RISI) - Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing has fired up two 60,000tpy tissue machines at its Chongqing mill in southwestern China, boosting its total tissue capacity to 270,000tpy. TM5 and...

Abu Dhabi’s Ittihad to invest in new UWF PM; mulls new tissue PM

Asia Helen Morris - October 20, 2016

(News from RISI) - Abu Dhabi’s Ittihad International Investments will start construction of a 325,000tpy uncoated woodfree (UWF) paper machine at its Ittihad Paper Mill in November. The 7.5m wide machine –...

Sun Paper moves ahead with hygiene production

Asia Helen Morris - May 19, 2016

(News from RISI) China’s Sun Paper is moving ahead with its incursion into the hygiene product market in partnership with Nippon Paper Industries subsidiary Crecia. The partnership will see Sun Paper market...

Lee & Man advances tissue plans

Asia Helen Morris - June 2, 2016

(News from RISI) - Despite being a latecomer to the Chinese tissue paper industry, Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing aims to become one of its top producers. It is targeting a total...

2015 Sept/Oct Asia News

Asia Helen Morris - September 16, 2015

CHINA APP China brings six tissue machines on stream, building another unit at new Chinese mill; new capacity totalling 354,000tpy Out of the one million tonnes/yr of new tissue paper capacity coming online...

May / June 2015 – Asia News

Asia Helen Morris - July 2, 2015

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Nuqul Group relocates Jordan tissue mill Nuqul Group to relocate Jordan tissue mill to new facility in UAE in $90m Greenfield project. FINE Hygienic Holding (FHH), a subsidiary of Jordan’s Nuqul...

March / April 2015 – Asia News

Asia Helen Morris - April 8, 2015

JAPAN Tokushu Tokai tests new tissue machine in Japan (News from RISI) - Tokushu Tokai Paper has kicked off trial runs on a new tissue paper machine at its Shimada mill in Shimada...

YFY brings first of two medium-sized tissue machines on stream in China

Asia Helen Morris - January 13, 2016

(News from RISI) - Yuen Foong Yu (YFY) has started up a 27,000tpy tissue paper machine at its mill in Zhaoqing city, Guangdong province, China. Guangdong Dingfeng Paper, the YFY subsidiary operating...

Tissue mills in Baoding, China, keep expanding

Asia Helen Morris - February 11, 2016

(News from RISI) - Two small tissue mills in Baoding city, Hebei province recently ordered four new tissue PMs with a combined capacity of 80,000tpy. On 22 January, Hebei Jinboshi Group signed...

2014 March / April – Asia News

Asia Helen Morris - April 2, 2014

CHINA YUEN FOONG YU CORPORATION REACHES SPEED RECORD Yuen Foong Yu Corporation has significantly boosted its capacity on two PMP Intelli-Tissue® 1500 machines after it reached a speed record of 1,700mpm. PM 5 and...

Nuqul Group’s Fine Hygienic to boost capacity

Asia Helen Morris - February 11, 2016

Nuqul Group’s Fine Hygienic Holding (FHH) has signed for a Valmet-supplied Advantage DCT 200TS tissue production line. The tissue machine will be installed at the Al Nakheel mill in Abu Dhabi and...

China’s Shanghai Welfare invests in new 12,000tpy tissue PM

Asia Helen Morris - February 25, 2016

(News from RISI) - China’s Shanghai Welfare Group has ordered a new 12,000tpy tissue PM for its mill in Shaoxing city, Zhejiang province. Kawanoe Zoki has been signed up to supply the...

Hengan Group boosts capacity with investment

Asia Helen Morris - May 4, 2017

China’s Hengan Group has started up its 12th Andritz-supplied PrimeLineTM W8 tissue machine. The line is based at the company’s Chongqing mill and has a design speed of 2,000m/min and a width...

China’s Mancheng Paper to add two new TMs to Baoding mill

Asia Helen Morris - April 6, 2017

(News from RISI) - Mancheng Paper (formerly known as Tiantian Paper) will install two new tissue production lines at its sole mill in Baoding city, Hebei province, northern China. Chinese supplier Liaoyang...

APP boosts capacity with TM investments

Asia Helen Morris - April 6, 2017

Tissue giant Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) has invested in eight new tissue machines. Supplied by Toscotec, the scope of supply includes AHEAD-2.0L crescent former tissue machines with a net trim width...

Hengan Group ramps up capacity with investment

Asia Helen Morris - May 31, 2017

China’s Hengan Group has boosted its presence in the tissue market after starting up an Andritz-supplied tissue line. The PrimeLineTM W8 tissue machine started up at the tissue mill’s Chongqing mill on...

Daio Paper looking to buy Japanese tissue mills from Nisshinbo

Asia Helen Morris - February 23, 2017

(News from RISI) Daio Paper has announced it is in talks to take over the tissue production activities of fellow Japanese firm Nisshinbo Holdings. The latter operates four mills in Japan. Two...

Vinda boosts tissue capacity to almost one million tpy in 2015

Asia Helen Morris - February 12, 2015

(News from RISI) - Vinda International Holdings plans to build three new 30,000tpy tissue PMs in China in 2015, raising its total tissue capacity to 980,000tpy. One of the three will be...

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