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Velvet CARE boosts private label presence with Germany-branch launch

Helen Morris - July 15, 2026

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Sofidel and WWF Italy renew partnership on climate and energy

Helen Morris - July 15, 2026

Europe

Voith announces leadership transition; Tero Kokko to assume role of President and CEO

Helen Morris - June 29, 2026

Europe

Lucart releases sustainability report; CO₂e emissions reduced by 4% y-o-y

Helen Morris - June 29, 2026

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Papeterie Le Bourray starts-up PM3 after drying section rebuild

Helen Morris - June 16, 2026

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The Navigator Company launches pulp brand gCELL

Helen Morris - June 16, 2026

Europe

“A new benchmark for modern tissue production in Europe”: Metsä Group inaugurates Mariestad tissue mill

Helen Morris - June 2, 2026

Italian tissue mill Cartiera San Lorenzo hit by fire, production halted

Europe Helen Morris - March 9, 2017

(News from RISI) - Italy’s Cartiera San Lorenzo was hit by a fire last week and forced to stop production. The local fire brigade said the fire originated in the plant’s production...

Sofidel UK starts-up latest-generation tissue rewinder

Europe Helen Morris - March 9, 2017

Sofidel UK has boosted its tissue production capacity after it started up a tissue rewinder at its Lancaster-based site. Supplied by A.Celli, the latest-generation tissue rewinder is a Mod. 865 and 3.4m...

Trevipapel Group boosts capacity with Steel Yankee investment

Europe Helen Morris - March 9, 2017

Trevipapel Group has invested in a Toscotec-supplied tissue line at its Paper Prime mill in Vila Velha de Rodão, Portugal. The Steel Yankee Dryer TT SYD-16FT is due to be started-up in...

Arkhbum to start up 70,000tpy tissue PM in H2 2018

Europe Helen Morris - February 23, 2017

(News from RISI) - Arkhbum Tissue Group, managed by Arkhangelsk pulp and paper mill (APPM), has detailed a timeline for the construction of the greenfield tissue mill in Vorsino, in the...

Tissue Italy appoints president for iT’s Tissue 2018

Europe Helen Morris - February 9, 2017

Tissue Italy Network has appointed Massimo Franzaroli as president for iT’s Tissue 2018. He replaces Sergio Casella who has stepped down due to other commitments. Casella will remain on the board as vice...

Lucart’s French site starts-up PM rebuild

Europe Helen Morris - February 9, 2017

Lucart has started up its PM10 at its Laval sur Vologne mill after a rebuild project undertaken by Toscotec. The rebuild will boost the machine speed from the current 1,300mpm to 1,600mpm...

Omet launches No-Stop unwinder

Europe Helen Morris - February 9, 2017

Omet has responded to customer demand with the launch of the No-Stop unwinder. The patented module allows operators to change paper rolls without stopping the machine within a specific timeframe, which according...

SCA strengthens UK tissue presence with TAD investment

Europe Helen Morris - February 9, 2017

SCA is to invest SEK160m in a through-air drying (TAD) machine at its tissue plant in Skelmersdale, UK. The investment is to “meet the growing demand for high-quality tissue and strengthen the...

Tissue World Milan set to be world’s largest tissue event

Europe Helen Morris - January 12, 2017

Italy is gearing up to host the world’s largest gathering of tissue professionals for the first time as the industry prepares for Tissue World Milan held during 10-12 April 2017. With an exhibition...

Gomà‐Camps to boost capacity by 34,000tpy following investment

Europe Helen Morris - November 30, 2016

Spain's Gomà‐Camps Group has signed for a new high quality paper machine to be installed at its Gomà‐Camps Consumer site in Ejea de los Caballeros. Supplied by Voith, PM7 has a trim width of 2.8m, a design speed of 2,000m/min...

Winners of Sofidel’s Suppliers Sustainability Award announced

Europe Helen Morris - November 30, 2016

Italian tissue company Sofidel has announced the winners of the first edition of its Suppliers Sustainability Award. The Award was created to encourage and spread best practice and improvement activity currently being carried out by the tissue mill's suppliers in the area of...

Timeline for BOR Biotechnology tissue mill project in Czech Republic pushed back

Europe Helen Morris - November 17, 2016

(News from RISI) - The plans of Czech firm BOR Biotechnology to build a new tissue mill in the town of Kozomín, north of Prague, are moving forward but the timeline...

K-C invests €15m in tissue converting line at Villey-Saint-Etienne plant

Europe Helen Morris - November 3, 2016

(News from RISI) - Kimberly-Clark has invested approximately €15m in a hand towel tissue converting line at its Villey-Saint-Etienne facility in France. After installation at the start of the year, the new...

SCA announces capital structure and dividend policy for hygiene business; doesn’t rule out potential...

Europe Helen Morris - November 3, 2016

SCA has decided on capital structure and dividend policy targets for its hygiene business. The capital structure target for SCA’s hygiene business is to have an effective capital structure at the same...

Russia’s Arkhangelsk pitches for state aid for domestic tissue investments

Europe Helen Morris - November 3, 2016

(News from RISI) - The Russian pulp and paper giant Arkhangelsk Pulp and Paper Mill (APPM), which is implementing a large tissue mill investment in Vorsino, in the Kaluga region, is...

PCMC Italy boosts production capacity after inaugurating facilities

Europe Helen Morris - October 20, 2016

PCMC Italy has officially opened its three new buildings in Fornaci di Barga, Italy. The premise covers 14,000sqm and will facilitate four converting lines for a production capacity of 36 lines per...

ICT to double capacity at Spanish mill with new tissue PMP

Europe Helen Morris - October 6, 2016

(News from RISI) - Italy's Industrie Cartarie Tronchetti (ICT) will double the production capacity of its paper mill in El Burgo de Ebro, Spain, by installing a new 70,000tpy tissue paper...

Södra’s Värö pulp mill amongst world’s largest following start-up

Europe Helen Morris - October 6, 2016

Södra has started up its state-of-the-art pulp line in Värö, Sweden, boosting the site’s current 425,000tpy capacity to 700,00tpy. The expansion is part of a SEK 6 billion investment, with SEK 4...

Eurovast restarts former Eurotec tissue mill in Italy, plans more investments

Europe Helen Morris - September 19, 2016

(News from RISI) - Production is up and running again at the former Eurotec Fabbriche di Vallico tissue mill near Lucca in Italy. Eurovast, which took over the 20,000tpy site earlier this...

Sofidel targets tissue supply chain with sustainability award

Europe Helen Morris - September 19, 2016

Sofidel has launched the ‘Sofidel Suppliers Sustainability Award’, an annual award that aims to motivate its national and international suppliers to promote high sustainable standards. Celebrating its 50th anniversary, the award will...

WEPA starts up largest TT SYD ever installed in Europe

Europe Helen Morris - September 19, 2016

WEPA has successfully started up a Toscotec-supplied TT SYD-18FT at its Cassino mill in Italy. According to the supplier, the 5,600mm wide PM3 is Europe’s largest Steel Yankee Dryer for tissue...

Competition authority slaps fines of Euro 128.8 million on heavy inco cartel

Europe Helen Morris - September 16, 2016

(News from RISI) – The Spanish National Market and Competition Commission, Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC), has imposed fines of Euro 128.8 million ($142.6 million) on seven manufacturers of...

Drenik boosts capacity with rebuild

Europe Helen Morris - September 16, 2016

Tissue manufacturer Drenik is to increase the production capacity of its Belgrade-based facilities after it placed an order with supplier Recard to rebuild PM1. The move will boost the machine’s maximum speed...

Solenis boosts product offering with Nopco acquisition

Europe Helen Morris - September 8, 2016

Solenis is to acquire the shares in Nopco Holding and related subsidiaries (Nopco), a producer and supplier of advanced chemical solutions for the pulp and paper industry. The transaction is expected to...

SCA targets French tissue mills with restructuring measures

Europe Helen Morris - September 8, 2016

SCA has announced a series of restructuring measures at its production plants in Hondouville and Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, France. It includes the closure of the oldest tissue machine at the AfH producing Hondouville site...

Multipack targets tissue with sale of Pharma-Cosmetic branch

Europe Helen Morris - July 28, 2016

Packaging equipment company Multipack has realigned its business focus to the international tissue market by selling off its pharmaceutical and cosmetic branch. The Italian company specialises in primary and secondary packaging systems...

IP Cart boosts capacity

Europe Helen Morris - June 30, 2016

Italy’s IP Cart has boosted its production capacity after it installed an Omet-supplied machine. The TV 503 4-colour paper napkin dispensing machine will produce products for the catering industry in and around...

SCA to close tissue production plant in Spain

Europe Helen Morris - June 30, 2016

SCA will close its tissue production plant in Sant Joan de Mediona, Spain. The site has an annual capacity of 45,000 tonnes and production will be discontinued in July. An SCA spokesperson said:...

WEPA Lille boosts energy savings

Europe Helen Morris - June 16, 2016

WEPA Lille has signed a contract with PMPower for the delivery of a recovery boiler steam system at its mill in France. PMPower is a division of paper machine supplier PMP, and...

Drenik boosts capacity with rebuild

Europe Helen Morris - June 16, 2016

Serbian tissue manufacturer Drenik is to increase the production capacity of its Belgrade-based facilities after it placed an order with supplier Recard to rebuild PM1. The move will boost the machine’s maximum speed of 800m/min...

Spanish competition authority slaps fines of Euro 128.8 million on heavy inco cartel

Europe Helen Morris - June 16, 2016

(News from RISI) - The Spanish National Market and Competition Commission, Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC), has imposed fines of Euro 128.8 million ($142.6 million) on seven...

Tissue World Milan 2017 rescheduled to April 10-12

Europe Helen Morris - June 16, 2016

Tissue World has announced the change of event dates for Tissue World Milan 2017 to 10-12 April 2017. The change of event dates takes place in combination with a change of exhibit...

Essel boosts production with rebuild

Europe Helen Morris - June 2, 2016

Turkey’s Essel Cellulose and Paper Industry Trade has boosted its capacity after finalising the rebuild of a Steel Yankee tissue machine. The A.Celli-supplied rebuild has taken place at the tissue manufacturer’s Caycuma...

SCA to shut up shop at Mediona tissue mill in Spain

Europe Helen Morris - June 2, 2016

(News from RISI) - SCA is set to close its tissue mill in Sant Joan de Mediona, Barcelona. In future, the production of mother reels in Spain will be concentrated at SCA’s...

Lucart Group acquires Bokk Paper

Europe Helen Morris - June 2, 2016

Italian producer Lucart Group has acquired the total capital of Bokk Paper, the main independent Hungarian player in the AfH tissue products market. The name of the company has already been changed...

ICT’s Kostrzyn mill boosts capacity

Europe Helen Morris - May 19, 2016

ICT Poland has started up a Valmet-supplied Advantage DCT 200HS tissue line at its Kostrzyn-based plant. The new line will add 70,000tpy of high-quality toilet and towel grades for the European market....

Södra Group reports operating profit of SEK 334 million

Europe Helen Morris - May 19, 2016

Södra Group has reported operating profit for the first four months of the year of SEK 334 million, compared with SEK 941 million the same time a year earlier. The group said...

Workers stage 24 hour strike at SCA’s Saint-Etienne du Rouvray tissue plant in France

Europe Helen Morris - May 19, 2016

(News from RISI) - Employees at SCA’s Saint-Etienne du Rouvray tissue plant in France downed tools for 24 hours on May 12, stopping production at the factory. The employees were protesting against...

Norske Skog and Roto-cart sever tissue ties; project to produce tissue at Bruck publication...

Europe Helen Morris - May 4, 2016

(News from RISI) - Norske Skog and Italy’s Roto-cart are no longer partnering on the project to replace the newsprint PM at Norske Skog’s Bruck mill in Austria with a tissue...

EBRD might back tissue investment of Poland’s Velvet Care

Europe Helen Morris - May 4, 2016

(News from RISI) - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is considering the provision of a long-term loan of up to Euro 20 million to the Polish tissue specialist...

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