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Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has announced its 2030 climate commitment plans to reduce direct greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 50% against a new baseline year of 2015.  The...

Bulab Holdings has announced that Robert Buckman, Memphis, Jacqueline Welch, Washington, D.C. Metro, and Gregg Sutherland, Denver, have been elected by its shareholders to join its board of directors. 

Kimberly-Clark Corporation has appointed Gustavo Ghory as senior vice president and chief supply chain officer.   Effective 1 July 2020, Ghory will have global responsibilities for procurement, manufacturing, transportation, continuous improvement, sustainability, and quality, safety and regulatory operations.   He will...

Vietnam’s Xuong Giang Paper mill has invested in an Andritz supplied PrimeLineCOMPACT S 1300 tissue machine. Start-up is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2020, and...

Germany’s WEPA Giershagen has recorded a constant speed of 2,200mpm on its Toscotec-supplied AHEAD-2.0S tissue line, PM19.   The machine came online in October 2015 and has since produced high-quality tissue from 15 to 16.5gsm basis weight at...

Industry insiders from Kimberly-Clark (K-C), Blue Earth Network, Cyber Advisory Services and Sam’s Club will discuss the current climate and the likely legacy of Covid-19 on the tissue market in Tissue World...

Chemicals company Solenis has closed its previously announced acquisition of paper business ChemSystems. Effective 1 June, ChemSystems is a leading producer and supplier of specialised chemical...

Cascades has launched a product line designed for e-commerce that encompasses a comprehensive range of customised, creative and sustainable packaging options for companies selling their products online.

Sofidel has targeted the consumer and hygiene market with the launch of Nicky Defend, a disposable tissue paper towel with antibacterial lotion. The product has been...

Northwood Hygiene Products has announced the closure of its Penygroes, UK-based tissue converting facility. Located in North Wales, the proposed closure will affect 94 staff.

Hungary’s Vajda Papír has boosted its tissue production capacity after starting up its PrimeLineCOMPACT tissue machine in Dunaföldvár. Supplied by Andritz, the line has a design...

Hayat Kimya has said it is still on track for its targeted TM start-up dates in Kaluga, Russia, and Mersin, Turkey, despite the Covid-19 pandemic. The...

Sofidel has targeted the AfH market with the launch of its Papernet product line. The line has been developed to maintain the hygiene of public spaces...

Cascades has launched a product line designed for e-commerce that encompasses a range of customised, creative and sustainable packaging solutions for companies selling their products online.

BTG has launched Pulp 4.0, an integrated solution that it said will improve overall fiberline performance and productivity. The company said that the integrated approach involves...

Poland’s FP Kaczory has started-up its PMP-supplied Intelli-YD Steel Yankee dryer. The line produces tissue and has a maximum operation speed of 1,500mpm and a paper...

Voith Group has completed its acquisition of Toscotec after obtaining all of the required regulatory approvals. Toscotec will continue to offer its established portfolio, operating under...

Sofidel has reported net sales growth of 12.5% from €1,706m to €1,919m in its 2019 Integrated Report. EBITDA was €258m, 13.47% of which were net sales,...

Clearwater Paper Corporation has reported net sales of $436m for the fourth quarter of 2019, up from $429m reported at the same period in 2018. Net income...

Andritz has officially launched its latest tissue machine, the PrimeLineVRT – Vertical Crescent Former – for the production of dry crepe tissue. It features a vertical Crescent Former in...

Clearwater Paper has appointed Arsen S. Kitch - the company’s senior vice president and general manager of its consumer products division - as chief executive as of 1 April....

Picknik Marketing Pty has started up a Toscotec-supplied MODULO-PLUS tissue machine at its Johannesburg mill. The new line produced high quality tissue from day one. It...

Kimberly-Clark de México has reported sales up 6% to Ps. $11.7bn in its first quarter results.  The tissue giant also reported that the quarter had “better volume, cost environment and continued cost savings...

PCMC has launched Smart TOUCH HMI, a new human-machine interface available on Forte tissue converting lines.  The machinery supplier said the line offers users “a clean, modern interface and enhanced help...

America’s tissue mills have produced 700,000 tonnes of tissue in March - more than any other month since 2007 - according to the American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA).   Heidi...

Asia Pulp & Paper’s (APP) partner Charta Global has introduced multipurpose tissue parent rolls to its existing product range in the USA and Latin America. The...

Turkish tissue manufacturer Essel Kağıt has signed for the turnkey supply of a high-performance AHEAD 2.2L tissue line at its Osmaniye mill. Supplied by Toscotec, the...

Resolute Forest Products has reported a net loss of $1m for the quarter ended 31 March, compared to net income of $42m in the same period in 2019.

Mexico’s Grupo Corporativo Papelera has boosted capacity after investing in an iDEAL mod. 2000S tissue machine. Supplied by A.Celli Paper, start-up took place on 20 March...

America’s Royal Paper Converting has invested in a new Gambini-supplied a Flex 700 Swing rewinder line. It is the fourth delivery of the complete line to...

Resolute Forest Products has said it will take temporary steps to reduce its production to demand levels “consistent with essential needs” for the duration of the pandemic.

Italy’s Iriapak has invested $7m in its first tissue packaging manufacturing facility in North America. The site will be based in New Orleans and will manufacture...

America’s Marcal Paper has found itself at the front lines of the coronavirus efforts, operating at full capacity just weeks after reopening. The company is running...

Essity has reported a 10% increase in first quarter sales, a “strong development” the company said is party due to Covid-19. Compared with the same time...

Tissue & Paper Bangkok - the combined long-standing brands of Asian Paper and Tissue World - will now be held at BITEC, Bangkok, on 9 - 11 September 2020. ...

Essity has strengthening its offering in incontinence products through the acquisition of the Dutch company Novioscan.   Novioscan was founded in 2014 in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and has ten employees, all...

Alan Ives, vice president, operations, Kadant Johnson Kadant Johnson has expanded its operations group and appointed Alan Ives as vice president, operations and Harry Brown as director...

Japan’s Fuji Satowa has invested in a Gambini-supplied TouchMax.Twin technology. The tissue manufacturer produces toilet paper using recycled pulp such as pre- and post-consumer waste material.  Yoshimasa Satowa, president of Fuji Satowa, said: “The...

Cascades has said it will supply the recycled plastic needed to make medical visors to help in the fight against Covid-19.   The move is in response...

Stefano Cassoli, chief executive, Cassoli Group Italy’s Cassoli Group has acquired 70% of the shares of Nema Automazione.   Based in Bologna, Nema Automazione manufactures packaging and end-of-line machines.