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

Helen Morris - October 20, 2016

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Hengan starts-up 19th tissue machine

Helen Morris - September 8, 2016

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2014 July / August – Asia News

Helen Morris - July 15, 2014

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Yuen Foong Yu Taiwan starts up PM

Helen Morris - November 5, 2015

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2014 May / June – Asia News

Helen Morris - May 12, 2014

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

Helen Morris - November 17, 2016

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China unveils 2014 closure results; 5.47 million tpy of old pulp and paper capacity scrapped

Helen Morris - March 2, 2016

Taison Group paving the way for tissue expansions in Jiangxi, China

Asia Helen Morris - November 3, 2016

(News from RISI) - China’s Taison Group is planning to build a huge greenfield tissue and hygiene product mill in Jiujiang, Jiangxi province. The proposed project is subject to environmental impact assessments...

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...

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...

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...

Lee & Man starts up tissue machine in Jiangxi

Asia Helen Morris - May 31, 2017

(News from RISI) - Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing started trial runs on a new 60,000tpy tissue machine earlier this month at its mill in Jiujiang city, in the inland province...

CHINA – Baoding Ruifeng Paper and Baosuo Enterprise Group boost capacity

Asia Helen Morris - December 1, 2019

Baoding Ruifeng Paper and Baosuo Enterprise Group have signed for two sets of BaoTuo-supplied tissue machines. The BaoTuo Crescent Former tissue machines, model BC1300-2850, have a...

2015 November/December Asia News

Asia Helen Morris - November 5, 2015

CHINA Clearwater reports net sales drop follow speciality mills sale Clearwater Paper Corporation has posted net sale results of $444.6m for the second quarter of 2015, down 10.9% year-on-year. The company said this was...

Bashundhara Paper Mills boosts capacity

Asia Helen Morris - September 19, 2016

Bashundhara Paper Mills has signed up Andritz to supply a turnkey tissue production line at its site in Bangladesh. The PrimeLineCOMPACT VI tissue machine has a design speed of 2,100m/min and a...

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...

Guizhou Chitianhua Paper Industry boosts rewinder capacity

Asia Helen Morris - April 21, 2016

Published on 21 April 2016 | Guizhou Chitianhua Paper Industry has signed an agreement with A.Celli Paper for the supply of three tissue rewinders and an additional agreement for a further nine rewinders. Part...

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...

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...

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...

Cheng Loong tissue line breaks world record

Asia Helen Morris - August 11, 2016

Supplier Voith has said its tissue line at Taiwan’s Cheng Loong Corporation has broken world records “substantially ahead of the industry in several indexes”. TM16 has an operating speed of 2,001m/min, which...

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,...

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...

2014 January / February – Asia News

Asia Helen Morris - February 7, 2014

China APP CHINA STARTS UP SIX TISSUE MACHINES, ADDING NEW CAPACITY OF 200,000TPY TO HAINAN APP China has stayed on course with its plans for tissue paper expansion, bringing six tissue machines online...

Lee & Man boosting tissue presence in China; year-end profits increase 22.4% from 2014

Asia Helen Morris - March 10, 2016

(News from RISI) - Lee & Man is aggressively expanding in the tissue sector in China. It looks set to add around 220,000tpy of tissue capacity by the end of this year...

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...

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...

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...

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...

APP invests in 18 TMs; all machines to produce tissue from 11.5gsm – 22.0gsm

Asia Helen Morris - November 27, 2019

Asia Pulp and Paper Group (APP) has boosted its capacity in China after investing in 18 Intelli-Tissue EcoEc 1600 Premium machines. Supplied by PMP, the 18...

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...

2014 May / June – Asia News

Asia Helen Morris - May 12, 2014

THAILAND RVP BOOSTS PRODUCTION WITH START-UP RiverPRO Pulp & Paper Company Limited (RVP) has boosted its production after it successfully started up a 25,000tpy tissue machine at its mill in Saraburi province, Thailand. The...

Daio Paper to make tissue products at Kawanoe mill in Japan

Asia Helen Morris - June 16, 2016

(News from RISI) - Japan’s Daio Paper has announced a plan to restart operations at its inactive Kawanoe mill in the Ehime prefecture. The site, which is near Daio’s huge Mishima mill,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Luoyang Jieda Paper boosts facial tissue capacity with investment

Asia Helen Morris - November 27, 2019

Luoyang Jieda Paper has signed a contract for the supply of two BC1300-2850 Crescent Former Tissue Machine. Supplied by Baotuo Enterprise, the two tissue machines have...

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...

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...

Yuen Foong Yu Taiwan starts up PM

Asia Helen Morris - November 5, 2015

Yuen Foong Yu (YFY) Taiwan has started up its first AHEAD-1.5m tissue machine at its plant in Chingshui. Supplied by Toscotec, the machine has started up at Yuen Foong Yu’s Chingshui mill...

Hengan starts-up 19th tissue machine

Asia Helen Morris - September 8, 2016

Hengan has boosted its one million tpy tissue production capacity by a further 60,000tpy after it started up an Advantage DCT 200HS tissue machine at its Wuhu mill in China. It has...

Lee & Man Paper boosts capacity

Asia Helen Morris - September 23, 2015

Chinese pulp and paper producer Lee & Man Paper has signed up Valmet for a repeat order of two Advantage DCT 200HS tissue production lines. The new tissue machines will have a...

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...

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-...

Vinda boosts capacity with three TMs

Asia Helen Morris - March 10, 2016

Chinese giant Vinda Group has invested in three Toscotec-supplied tissue machines that are scheduled for start-up in the second half of 2016. Two Ahead 2.0M machines will be installed at the company’s...

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...

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