Thursday, March 20, 2025

World News

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    Trevipapel Group boosts capacity with Steel Yankee investment

    World News Helen Morris -
    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...
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    Tissue World Magazine Mill Awards: entry submission is open!

    World News Helen Morris -
    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...
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    Italian tissue mill Cartiera San Lorenzo hit by fire, production halted

    World News Helen Morris -
    (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...
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    Sofidel UK starts-up latest-generation tissue rewinder

    World News Helen Morris -
    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...
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    Hayat Kimya boosts presence with Egypt start-up

    World News Helen Morris -
    Turkey’s Hayat Kimya has boosted its presence in the Middle East after it started-up a PM at its new mill in Egypt. The Valmet-supplied line will produce 70,000tpy of high quality facial,...
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    Trevipapel Group boosts capacity with Steel Yankee investment

    World News Helen Morris -
    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...
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    Suzano to sell converted tissue products; investment in tissue increases to $176.1m

    World News Helen Morris -
    (News from RISI) - Brazilian pulp and paper producer Suzano is to acquire converting equipment that will enable it to sell finished products in the tissue segment. The company is currently installing...
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    Grupo Corporativo Papelera boosts capacity with tissue investment

    World News Helen Morris -
    Grupo Corporativo Papelera has invested in a tissue machine for its Mexico-based site. Supplied by A.Celli, the line will add an additional 34,000 tonnes to the company’s annual production. The machine is 2.6m...
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    Kemira hikes up prices

    World News Helen Morris -
    Kemira has increased the price of its pulp and paper FennoSize AKD chemicals in EMEA. The price increase of the AKD sizing chemicals will be approximately 5-10%, depending on the specific formulations...
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    Arkhbum to start up 70,000tpy tissue PM in H2 2018

    World News Helen Morris -
    (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...
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    Daio Paper looking to buy Japanese tissue mills from Nisshinbo

    World News Helen Morris -
    (News from RISI) Daio Paper has announced it is in talks to take over the tissue production activities of fellow Japanese firm Nisshinbo Holdings. The latter operates four mills in Japan. Two...
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    Sofidel America boosts American capacity with rewinder investment

    World News Helen Morris -
    Sofidel America has increased its presence in the American market after signing for a rewinder for its facility in Circleville, Ohio. Supplied by A.Celli Paper, the E-WIND T200 model has a width...
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    Clearwater boosts private label capacity with $340m NTT investment

    World News Helen Morris -
    Clearwater Paper has responded to customer demand for premium and ultra-premium products by investing in a second tissue machine and converting facility at its site in North Carolina. The 200-inch, Valmet-supplied NTT...
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    China’s Guangxi Tianlifeng starts 20,000tpy tissue machine in Nanning

    Asia Helen Morris -
    (News from RISI) - Guangxi Tianlifeng has kicked off production on a new 20,000tpy tissue machine at its sole mill in Nanning city, in southwestern China’s Guangxi autonomous region. The first sheet...
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    Tissue Italy appoints president for iT’s Tissue 2018

    Europe Helen Morris -
    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...
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    Lucart’s French site starts-up PM rebuild

    Europe Helen Morris -
    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...
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    Omet launches No-Stop unwinder

    Europe Helen Morris -
    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...
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    Resolute reports results; prepares to ramp-up Calhoun tissue operations

    Latest Headlines Helen Morris -
    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...
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    SCA strengthens UK tissue presence with TAD investment

    Europe Helen Morris -
    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...
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    2016 North American tissue statistics point to a balanced market

    Exitissues Helen Morris -
    Shipments and operating rates are currently strong but we worry about the supply side So the demand side of the North American tissue market appears strong, but we continue to worry about the lineup of...
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    Tissue World Milan set to be world’s largest tissue event

    World News Helen Morris -
    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...
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    Irving boosts capacity with TAD investment

    World News Helen Morris -
    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...
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    First Quality expands manufacturing capacity with PM investments

    World News Helen Morris -
    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...
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    Gomà‐Camps to boost capacity by 34,000tpy following investment

    World News Helen Morris -
    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...
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    Bedford Paper invests in retail and AfH production capacity

    World News Helen Morris -
    America's Bedford Paper has invested in a tissue converting and packaging line for its facility in De Pere, Wisconsin. Supplied by PCMC, start-up is expected in 2017 and will increase the company's production of retail and AfH small bath...
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    C&S plans tissue expansion in Hebei; small mills in Mancheng forced to stop to...

    World News Helen Morris -
    (News from RISI) - C&S Paper is to add 75,000tpy of new tissue paper capacity at its mill in Tangshan city, Hebei province, to feed increasing demand in northern and northeastern China. The board...
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    Winners of Sofidel’s Suppliers Sustainability Award announced

    World News Helen Morris -
    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...
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    China’s Shandong Tranlin condemns report revealing legal problems and pledge of shares in subsidiary

    World News Helen Morris -
    (News from RISI) - Shandong Tranlin condemned a media report on its involvement in multiple lawsuits and its pledge of the entirety of its equity in a subsidiary, Chiping Tranlin Paper,...
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    Japan’s Daio loses appeal in NPI tissue patent infringement case

    World News Helen Morris -
    (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...
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    Timeline for BOR Biotechnology tissue mill project in Czech Republic pushed back

    World News Helen Morris -
    (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...
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    Twinsaver Group to become “largest tissue manufacturer” in Sub-Saharan Africa

    World News Helen Morris -
    South Africa’s Twinsaver Group has boosted its capacity after it invested R500m in a new Toscotec AHEAD-2.0S tissue production line. Based at its Kliprivier site in Gauteng, the line will be started-up...
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    Daio Paper firms up plans to start tissue production at Kawanoe mill

    World News Helen Morris -
    (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...
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    K-C invests €15m in tissue converting line at Villey-Saint-Etienne plant

    Europe Helen Morris -
    (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...
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    K-C reports a “more challenging economic and competitive environment” in 3Q results

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

    Europe Helen Morris -
    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...
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    Russia’s Arkhangelsk pitches for state aid for domestic tissue investments

    Europe Helen Morris -
    (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...
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    Taison Group paving the way for tissue expansions in Jiangxi, China

    World News Helen Morris -
    (News from RISI) - China’s Taison Group is planning to build a huge greenfield tissue and hygiene product mill in Jiujiang, Jiangxi province. The proposed project is subject to environmental impact assessments...
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    Abu Dhabi’s Ittihad to invest in new UWF PM; mulls new tissue PM

    World News Helen Morris -
    (News from RISI) - Abu Dhabi’s Ittihad International Investments will start construction of a 325,000tpy uncoated woodfree (UWF) paper machine at its Ittihad Paper Mill in November. The 7.5m wide machine –...
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    SCA targets environment with Okay® Compressé launch

    World News Helen Morris -
    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...
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    Lee & Man starts two 60,000tpy TMs in Chongqing

    Asia Helen Morris -
    (News from RISI) - Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing has fired up two 60,000tpy tissue machines at its Chongqing mill in southwestern China, boosting its total tissue capacity to 270,000tpy. TM5 and...
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