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Liying Qian - April 23, 2024

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Metsä Group increases Lambi production with packaging line investment

Helen Morris - April 17, 2024

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Andritz acquires stake in HydrogenPro

Helen Morris - April 17, 2024

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Valmet targets process automation with Valmet DNAe launch

Helen Morris - April 17, 2024

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Xuong Giang Paper boosts capacity to 72,000tpy with TM start-up

Helen Morris - April 17, 2024

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GP invests $150m to grow consumer tissue business

Helen Morris - April 17, 2024

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Navigator Paper UK makes offer to acquire Accrol Group

Helen Morris - April 3, 2024

Sofidel targets tissue supply chain with sustainability award

World News 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...

Turinsky’s fire-hit tissue PM down until at least end December

World News Helen Morris - September 19, 2016

(News from RISI) - Russia’s Turinsky Pulp and Paper Mill will not be able to restart its blaze-damaged tissue machine PM1 before the end of December. The mill suffered Rouble 300 million...

Bashundhara Paper Mills boosts capacity

World News 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...

WEPA starts up largest TT SYD ever installed in Europe

World News 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

World News 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...

Lee & Man Paper boosts capacity with rewinders buy – delivery end of 2016

World News Helen Morris - September 16, 2016

Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing has ordered four tissue rewinders to be supplied by A.Celli Paper. The model AC882 rewinders will have a paper width of 5,620mm and a speed of 1,000...

Drenik boosts capacity with rebuild

World News 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...

Vinda gets two news 30,000tpy tissue PMs in Guangdong

World News Helen Morris - September 8, 2016

(News from RISI) - Vinda International Holdings started up two new 30,000tpy tissue PMs last month at its Sanjiang mill in Jiangmen city, Guangdong province, China, raising its total tissue capacity...

Yusen Paper starts 13,000tpy tissue PM in Baoding; five more to follow

World News Helen Morris - September 8, 2016

(News from RISI) - Yusen Paper has fired up a new 13,000tpy tissue PM in its sole mill in Baoding city, Hebei province, China. Supplied by fellow Chinese company Weifang Hicredit Machinery,...

Solenis boosts product offering with Nopco acquisition

World News 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...

Resolute’s Calhoun tissue operation on track for 1Q 2017 start-up

World News Helen Morris - September 8, 2016

Resolute Forest Products has completed the commissioning of its first tissue converting line at its tissue facility currently under construction in Calhoun, Tennessee. The remaining two lines will be commissioned by the...

SCA targets French tissue mills with restructuring measures

World News 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...

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...

SCA to integrate its business in the Middle East, India and Africa into consumer...

World News Helen Morris - August 25, 2016

SCA has said it will integrate its business in the Middle East, India and Africa into consumer goods. The company will integrate its Business Unit MEIA (Middle East, India and Africa) into...

Little Rapids Corporation boosts capacity

World News Helen Morris - August 25, 2016

Little Rapids Corporation has signed a contract with Voith Paper Brazil to purchase a new tissue paper machine. The new machine will replace the existing PM3, located in Shawano Wisconsin (USA). It will...

Hengan fires up 60,000tpy tissue PM in Anhui, China

World News Helen Morris - August 25, 2016

(News from RISI) - China's Hengan International has kicked off trial runs on a new 60,000tpy tissue PM at a mill in Wuhu city, Anhui province, in eastern China. When the new...

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...

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...

CMPC’s market pulp sales in 2Q16 boom 56% year-over-year; net revenues 0.5% up to...

World News Helen Morris - August 11, 2016

(News from RISI) - Chilean pulp and paper producer CMPC released its second quarter results showing consolidated sales of $1.1 billion, 0.5% higher than a year ago. Pulp sales volume rose 56%...

Lee & Man to get two more 60,000tpy TMs in Dongguan, China

World News Helen Morris - August 11, 2016

(News from RISI) - Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing is continuing its ambitious tissue expansion programme, planning to add a pair of 60,000tpy tissue machines at its Hongmei mill in Dongguan...

Cheng Loong tissue line breaks world record

World News 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...

Multipack targets tissue with sale of Pharma-Cosmetic branch

World News 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...

Celupaper increases capacity with start-up

World News Helen Morris - July 28, 2016

Argentina’s Celupaper has boosted its capacity with the start up of its Toscotec-supplied PM3. The new line is installed at Papelera Nicaragua mill, Argentina, and its start-up follows the rebuilding of PM2,...

Shandong Tranlin to install new tissue unit in Gaotang, China

World News Helen Morris - July 28, 2016

(News from RISI) Shandong Tranlin is going to install a new tissue PM at its flagship mill in Gaotang, Shandong province, China. The PM, scheduled to start up in the middle of...

Vinda International integrates SCA Asia tissue business, reports 19% increase in 1H 2016 revenue

World News Helen Morris - July 28, 2016

(News from RISI) - Vinda International Holdings has reported a 19% increase in revenue in the six-month period ending in June 2016, to HK$5.7bn, following the integration of the SCA Asia...

Countdown to Tissue World Istanbul

World News Helen Morris - July 28, 2016

The countdown to the first fully-fledged Tissue World Istanbul – the unique addition to the global Tissue World portfolio – has begun! Taking place in just under two months time between 27-29...

Kruger invests $55m on new PM at Crabtree plant

World News Helen Morris - July 28, 2016

Canadian tissue manufacturer Kruger Products has invested $55m to add a paper machine at its Crabtree Plant in Canada. PM8 will produce tissue products primarily for the AfH market and will be...

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...

Henan Yinge in China may change ownership

Asia Helen Morris - July 14, 2016

(News from RISI) - China’s Henan Yinge Industrial Investment announced that a plan to put its principal shareholder’s stake up for sale has been approved by local authorities. The statement sent the...

K-C announces shutdown in Venezuela following country’s deepening economic chaos

World News Helen Morris - July 14, 2016

Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has indefinitely suspended operations in Venezuela after it said it was “impossible” to manufacture there due to the country’s economic crisis. The tissue giant said the move was in response...

Sofidel breaks ground on $300m Ohio plant

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - July 14, 2016

Sofidel has broken ground at its $300m tissue paper mill and converting plant in Circleville, USA. The move will significantly increase the Italian company’s production capacity in the States, with the site’s...

Weifang Hicredit Machinery to supply two PMs to tissue mills in Baoding, China

Asia Helen Morris - July 14, 2016

(News from RISI) - Two small mills in Baoding city, Hebei province, recently ordered 15,000tpy tissue machines from Weifang Hicredit Machinery. A spokesperson from the Shandong-based supplier said the PMs, each having...

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...

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:...

Cascades targets American west coast with tissue investment

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - June 30, 2016

Cascades is to invest US$64m in constructing a tissue converting plant for the American AfH market. Located in Scappoose, Oregon, the investment includes new state-of-the-art converting lines that are scheduled for commissioning...

Resolute files lawsuit against Greenpeace

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - June 30, 2016

Resolute Forest Products has filed a federal lawsuit against Greenpeace International, Greenpeace USA, Greenpeace Fund, STAND (formerly ForestEthics) and a number of their associates. The producer made the claim on 31 May...

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...

Lee & Man Paper boosts capacity with rewinders buy

Asia Helen Morris - June 29, 2016

Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing has ordered four tissue rewinders to be supplied by A.Celli Paper. The model AC882 rewinders will have a paper width of 5,620mm and a speed of 1,000...

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...

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