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Blue Tissue boosts capacity with TM start-up

Helen Morris - August 29, 2019

World News

2014 March / April – Global News

Helen Morris - April 2, 2014

Global

Andritz acquires Kempulp

Helen Morris - July 1, 2019

Europe

Essel boosts production with rebuild

Helen Morris - June 2, 2016

World News

Trevipapel Group boosts capacity with Steel Yankee investment

Helen Morris - March 9, 2017

Country Report

Chile – Modest T&T business with recent growth

Bill Burns - May 29, 2015

World News

Hayat Kimya inaugurates its Nigerian diaper and tissue factory; launches Familia and Papia brands into the market

Helen Morris - June 15, 2017

November / December 2014 – Asia News

World News 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...

2015 July/August Asia News

World News 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,...

2015 Sept/Oct Global News

World News Helen Morris - September 16, 2015

GLOBAL K-C sales for consumer tissue down 8% in 2Q Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has reported second quarter sales of $1.5bn for its consumer tissue segment, a decrease 8% year-on-year. The tissue giant explained the result...

OverMeccanica acquired by OVERMADE

World News Helen Morris - February 11, 2016

OverMeccanica - in temporary operation since September 2014 after entering bankruptcy proceedings - has been acquired by OVERMADE in November 2015. OVERMADE is a new company of Italian investors headed up by...

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

World News 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...

SCA to split group into two listed hygiene and forest products companies

World News Helen Morris - August 25, 2016

SCA has said it will split the group into two listed companies in 2017, hygiene and forest products. Following a split, there will be two listed companies. One will be a hygiene...

ST Tissue invests in “widest Steel Yankee” ever manufactured

World News Helen Morris - October 6, 2016

ST Tissue has invested in “the widest Steel Yankee ever to be manufactured”, according to supplier Toscotec. The Franklin, Virginia-based mill will convert its F-5 machine to produce bathroom tissue and kitchen...

PCMC Italy boosts production capacity after inaugurating facilities

World News 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...

Henan Yinge’s principle shareholder listed for sale in China

World News 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...

SCA targets environment with Okay® Compressé launch

World News Helen Morris - October 20, 2016

SCA’s consumer tissue brand Okay® has launched a compressed household towel “Okay® Compressé”. The company said the product performs as well as regular household paper towels but added that it is half...

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

World News 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...

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

World News 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...

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

World News 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...

First Quality expands manufacturing capacity with PM investments

World News Helen Morris - November 30, 2016

First Quality Tissue is to focus its long term growth plans on the ultra-premium towel and tissue sectors after it announced plans to invest in two new state-of-the-art tissue machines. The lines will be installed at the company's South Carolina and...

Irving boosts capacity with TAD investment

World News Helen Morris - November 30, 2016

Canadian tissue manufacturer Irving Consumer Products has invested in a Thru-Air Dried tissue making machine from Valmet. Delivery is expected in 2018 and once up and running the line will increase its household paper products capacity. President of the Dieppe-based company Robert K. Irving...

Tissue World Magazine Mill Awards: entry submission is open!

World News Helen Morris - March 9, 2017

Tissue World is calling all green and innovative tissue mills across Western Europe to get in touch to showcase their latest developments in our TW Awards. If you are a tissue...

First Quality boosts capacity with 70,000tpy TAD investment

World News Helen Morris - May 31, 2017

America’s First Quality Tissue has invested in an Andritz-supplied PrimeLineTAD tissue line with complete stock preparation for its mill in Lock Haven. Start-up is scheduled for 2019 and once up and...

Fabricas de Papel Potosì boosts capacity with converting investment

World News Helen Morris - June 15, 2017

Mexico’s Fabricas de Papel Potosì has invested in its bathroom tissue production capacity after acquiring a Gambini-supplied converting line. The FLEX 600 line has a rollface width of 2.9m and a production...

PAPCEL boosts presence with PMT Italia acquisition

World News Helen Morris - June 15, 2017

PAPCEL has completed the acquisition of Pinerolo-based company PMT Italia, helping it expand its presence in the USA and China. PMT manufactures and supplies technology for the production of graphic papers and...

Hayat Kimya boosts Russian capacity

World News Helen Morris - June 29, 2017

Turkey’s Hayat Kimya has boosted its capacity in Russia after investing in an Advantage DCT machine, to be supplied at its mill in Yelabuga in Tartaristan. TM7 will have a width of...

Fibria announces July $20/tonne price hike on BEK in Europe and North America; Asia...

World News Helen Morris - June 29, 2017

(News from RISI) - Brazilian bleached eucalyptus kraft (BEK) pulp producer Fibria has announced a $20/tonne price increase for North American and European markets effective 1 July. With the increase, Fibria’s BEK...

Clearwater Paper reports Q1 results

World News Helen Morris - May 23, 2019

Clearwater Paper has reported net sales of $428.8m for the first quarter of 2019, 1.9% lower than $437.0m recorded in the first quarter of 2018. The company said the...

K-C reports a “more challenging economic and competitive environment” in 3Q results

Global Helen Morris - November 3, 2016

Kimberly-Clark has reported a net sales decrease y-o-y of 3% in its 3Q 2016 results, as chairman and chief executive Thomas J. Falk describes the company’s market share positions as “broadly...

Resolute in “step-change acquisition” of Atlas Paper

January / February 2016 Helen Morris - November 18, 2015

Resolute Forest Products has expanded its At-Home and AfH tissue product offering after it acquired Florida-based Atlas Paper Holdings. Atlas Paper manufactures branded and private label tissue products offering recycled and virgin...

US upholds anti-dumping duties on certain tissue products from China

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - June 16, 2016

(News from RISI) - The US International Trade Commission (ITC) unanimously voted earlier this month to extend anti-dumping duties (ADD) on imports of certain tissue products from China. As a result of...

Sofidel America to boost capacity with NTT purchases

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - October 6, 2016

Italian tissue giant Sofidel is to start-up two Valmet-supplied Advantage NTT 200 machines at its site in Circleville, Ohio. Each line will have a width of 5.5m, a speed of 2,000m/min and...

Resolute reports results; prepares to ramp-up Calhoun tissue operations

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - February 9, 2017

Resolute Forest Products has reported a net loss for the quarter ended 31 December 2016 of $45m, compared to a loss of $214m in the same period a year earlier. Sales were...

Irving Consumer Products boosts premium product capacity

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 20, 2017

Irving Consumer Products has invested in an Advantage ThruAir tissue production line. Supplied by Valmet, the machine increases Irving's capacity to provide premium household paper products to the North American market. It will...

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...

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...

Syassky Pulp and Paper Mill increases capacity

Asia Helen Morris - June 2, 2016

Syassky Pulp and Paper Mill has started up a 45,000tpy Toscotec-supplied AHEAD tissue machine at its Syasstroy mill in Russia. The AHEAD-1.5M tissue line came on stream on 29 April. The site...

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

Asia Helen Morris - March 2, 2016

China has recently publicised its 2014 old capacity closure campaign results, confirming some 5.47 million tpy of pulp and paper (P&P) capacity was removed. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT)...

Fruits of a smart marketing strategy

Asia Helen Morris - June 10, 2016

Japanese designers are never afraid to turn stereotypes on their head if it makes for a sale. Their latest idea means we can once again celebrate style genius. Fruits Toilet Paper off ers orange, watermelon, strawberry...

China Environment State Investment cancels Sichuan Yibin Paper purchase; tissue project delayed

Asia Helen Morris - July 14, 2016

(News from RISI) - China’s Sichuan Yibin Paper has announced that the planned transfer of a majority stake in it to an environmental protection company has been cancelled. The move comes after...

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-...

Tissue World in Barcelona is moving at full speed

Europe Helen Morris - December 17, 2012

New ideas, new technology, new methods for tissue makers and converters Excitement is now building for Tissue World 2013, the world’s largest event targeted specifically at the soft hygienic tissue paper business....

1,037 first day exhibition visitors at Tissue World 2013

Europe Helen Morris - March 20, 2013

Some 1,037 visitors have attended the first exhibition day of Tissue World 2013 in Barcelona! The show opened its exhibition hall doors on 19 March to visitors from 97 countries and counting;...

Romania – overall weakness offset by strength in T&T

Country Report Bill Burns - January 22, 2015

By Fisher International’s Bill Burns Romania had enjoyed a diverse and solid paper industry for many years. In the last decade, however, the shrinking global market for printing and writing and newsprint...

Wepa starts up tissue line in France

Europe Helen Morris - November 5, 2015

The Wepa Group has started up a Toscotec-supplied tissue line in Lille, France. The 2.8m-wide machine came on-stream after the commissioning period and is now producing high quality tissue products. It has a...

Wepa Professional Piechowice to boost capacity

Europe Helen Morris - March 23, 2016

Wepa Professional Piechowice is to boost its capacity after it signed for a Toscotec-supplied tissue line to be installed at its Poland-based site. The new AHEAD-2.0S line will strengthen Wepa’s recent strategic growth...

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