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Tissue World Talks: The road to Düsseldorf

Tissue World has launched a series of webinars in the run up to Tissue World Düsseldorf, the world’s largest exhibition and conference for the global tissue industry.

Körber presents MTC ITF Change folding head

Körber Business Area Tissue has introduced its latest folding head capable of changing a product’s cut off. The MTC ITF Change is the company’s latest machine...
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2015 May / June – America News

AMERICA Tissue: KP ‘very hard’ at work on TAD; von Drehle NTT set for early 2016 startup While considering a new machine for almost nine months, KP Tissue chief executive Mario Gosselin told...
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May / June 2015 – Europe News

TURKEY Hayat Kimya starts up 70,000tpy TM Hayat Kimya has started up its up 70,000tpy tissue machine at its Mersin mill in Turkey. The company started production at its new mill in Mersin in...

Select Products Holdings boost private label capacity

America’s Select Products Holdings has invested in a PCMC-supplied Amica consumer rewinder line, a STAX-supplied Prima wrapper, a STAX RCP-15 case-packer and all connecting conveyors.   The company – which was established eight years ago...
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2014 March / April – Europe News

ITALY Guinness World Record: the world’s largest collection of tissue packs goes to... Italy’s Silvio Fioravanti has been awarded a Guinness World Record for his collection of tissue packets. He started his collection...
Navigator aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2035

Navigator aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2035

The Navigator Company has announced a €158m investment to achieve carbon neutrality by 2035 by giving all of its industrial complexes a net zero carbon footprint. In view of...
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WEPA boosts packaging capacity with Infinity investment

WEPA Group has increased its automated tissue paper packaging abilities after purchasing seven machines from Infinity Italia for its facilities in France, the Netherlands and Poland.
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CMPC to participate in mediation involving tissue cartel case in Chile

(News from RISI) - Empresas CMPC has agreed to join a mediation proposed by the Chilean Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Servicio Nacional del Consumidor – SERNAC) in order to compensate consumers...

Panda Paper Mills (1997) boosts AfH capacity with rebuild

Panda Paper Mills (1997), a subsidiary of Israeli manufacturer Sano Enterprises, has invested in a Toscotec-supplied complete drying section rebuild of PM1 at the company’s Netanya production facility in Israel. PM1 produces...
The Carbon Trust has certified that Irving’s Royale tissue products are carbon neutral

Irving’s Royale tissue brand certified carbon neutral

Irving Consumer Products has announced that its Canadian household consumer tissue products brand Royale has been certified carbon neutral by the Carbon Trust. Royale tissue products...

Papeterie Le Bourray invests in IQ Quality Control System

France’s Papeterie Le Bourray has invested in a Valmet-supplied IQ Quality Control System to be installed on TM3 at its plant in Saint-Mars-La-Brière.It will replace an aging third-party system...

GP breaks ground on $500m Green Bay expansion

Georgia-Pacific (GP) has officially broken ground on its $500m expansion project in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Investments include building a new paper machine using TAD technology and...
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EUROPE NEWS: Russia, Romania, UK & Turkey

RUSSIA Syassky starts up Toscotec line Syassky Pulp and Paper mill has boosted its presence in the domestic market after it started up a new Toscotec Ahead 1.5m tissue line. It features a single...
Dusseldorf

Tissue World Düsseldorf rescheduled for Spring 2023; all eyes on Tissue World Miami in...

Event organiser Informa Markets has announced that its September 2021 Tissue World Düsseldorf trade show and conference will now take place in the Spring of 2023.
“A ground-breaking new pulp”: Södra investigates possibilities of agricultural-enhanced softwood pulp

Södra investigating possibilities of agricultural-enhanced softwood pulp 

Södra investigating possibilities of agricultural-enhanced softwood pulp  Södra is investigating “a ground-breaking new pulp” which will combine wood from its forests in southern Sweden with agricultural...
Thomas Hinnerskov appointed President and Chief Executive of Valmet.

Valmet has appointed Thomas Hinnerskov President and Chief Executive of Valmet, succeeding Pasi Laine.

Hinnerskov will take up the position during the second half of the year, or by the end of September 2024 at the latest. Laine will continue as the President and Chief Executive until then.

Turkey

Eczacibasi boosts global capacity with investment Eczacibasi Consumer Products has invested in a Valmet Advantage DCT 200TS tissue line to be supplied at its Manisa plant....
Billerud’s wrapping solution for toilet and kitchen rolls

Billerud launches wrapping solution for toilet and kitchen rolls

Billerud has introduced a machine glazed kraft paper especially adapted for wrapping toilet and kitchen paper rolls.  The company said the wrapping is renewable, recyclable and...
Dino Bianco, Kruger Products Chief Executive

Kruger boosts North America TAD capacity; announces $240m expansion project

Canada’s Kruger Products has increased its presence across the North American tissue market after starting up a TAD tissue machine at its Sherbrooke plant. Once up...

Suzano announces April price hikes

Suzano has announced a range of price increases for orders of eucalyptus pulp in April. In Asia, orders will increase by US$30 per ton. In Europe, they will increase by US$80 per ton,...

Voith boosts strategic growth following completed Toscotec acquisition

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...
the MTC ITF omni Taquera

Körber targets taco market with interfolded napkin line launch

Körber Business Area Tissue has officially launched its interfolded napkin line, the MTC ITF omni Taquera. The Taquera line can be added to the company’s existing...

Essity begins tissue production from wheat straw

Essity begins tissue production from wheat straw
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Fabio Perini targets AfH market with Proxima S6 launch

Fabio Perini has launched the Proxima S6, a rewinder the company said is designed “to guarantee excellent performances and quality for every type of AfH product”.

Tissue World Miami 2024 Opens Next Week: Unlock Your Tissue Industry Potential in Miami

Miami, Jan 31 – Feb 2, 2024 — Next week, Tissue World Miami 2024, the global hub for the tissue manufacturing industry, will open its doors at the Miami Beach Convention...

Guangxi Sun Paper boosts capacity

China’s Guangxi Sun Paper has invested in two Andritz-supplied PrimeLineTM W 2000 tissue machines to be installed at its new mill in Beihai City, Guangxi Province.   Start-up is planned for 2021, and the...

Intertrade Hellas invests to become Greece’s largest tissue manufacturer

Greek tissue converter Intertrade Hellas has signed for the supply of a complete turnkey line, a move which will make it the country’s largest tissue manufacturer.
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Suzano boosts presence in Brazil

Suzano is to invest R$933.4m in three projects in Espírito Santo state, including a R$130m tissue paper converting unit. The plant’s annual capacity will be...
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Yuen Foong Yu Taiwan starts up PM

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...
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May / June 2015 – Asia News

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...
Price drop: by Sainsbury’s Super Soft White Toilet Tissue Double Rolls 2 equals 4

Sainsbury’s cuts own-brand toilet paper prices

British supermarket Sainsbury’s is cutting the price of its own-brand toilet paper, a result of the cost-of-living crisis and the falling cost of pulp.   The retailer...
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2015 Sept/Oct Americas News

AMERICA Bretting Manufacturing celebrates 125 years and five generations Bretting Manufacturing has announced it is celebrating 125 years in business as the fifth generation of the Bretting family joins the ranks of managing...
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Lucart starts-up PM4 in Porcari after rebuild

Italian tissue producer Lucart has successfully started-up its PM4 tissue machine in Porcari, Lucca, after a rebuild undertaken by Toscotec. The upgrade includes a modification of the forming section and the complete...

Sofidel boosts USA capacity to 320,000tpy with Inola opening

Italian tissue giant Sofidel Group has opened its integrated greenfield plant in Oklahoma, increasing its AfH and consumer production capacity across the USA by 120,000tpy.  With a total investment of $360m, the...

Bangladesh

Meghna Pulp & Paper Mills boosts capacity Meghna Pulp & Paper Mills has invested in a Recard-supplied tissue and MG paper production plant. Installation and start-up...

Canfor Pulp extends Taylor Pulp product curtailment

Canfor Pulp has announced a minimum six-week extension of the curtailment of Softwood Bleached Chemi-Thermo Mechanical Pulp (BCTMP) production at its Taylor pulp mill in Canada.

Metsä Tissue to boost capacity at Mariestad

Metsä Tissue has chosen BHM Engineering as the design service partner for the  expansion of its mill in Mariestad, Sweden.   The expansion of the mill will include the construction of a new paper...

Buckman board elects three directors

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. 

Softys boosts capacity in Mexico with TM investment

CMPC subsidiary Softys has invested in a Toscotec-supplied AHEAD 2.2 turnkey tissue line to be installed at its facility in Altamira, Mexico.   Scheduled for start-up in the first quarter of 2025, the...