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Solenis announces price hike for process chemicals

Global Helen Morris - November 5, 2015

Solenis has increased the price of selected process chemicals and containers by 2-4% worldwide. Effective immediately, higher increases can be expected in countries where there has been significant local currency devaluation. Charles Robinson,...

Yuen Foong Yu Taiwan starts up PM

Asia Helen Morris - November 5, 2015

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...

Resolute to boost tissue capacity with Futura install

January / February 2016 Helen Morris - November 5, 2015

North America’s Resolute Forest Products has invested in the new Futura Andromeda Concept converting technology. It will be installed at the company’s plant in Calhoun, Tennessee, and will be delivered to coincide...

SCA strengthens presence in Asia

Asia Helen Morris - November 5, 2015

SCA has strengthens the cooperation with Chinese hygiene company Vinda by integrating its business in South East Asia, Taiwan and South Korea into the business. As part of the transaction, SCA and...

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...

CMPC and SCA allegedly colluded to control Chilean tissue market

January / February 2016 Helen Morris - November 5, 2015

Chilean forestry company CMPC and a subsidiary of SCA are guilty of price-fixing in Chile, according to Chilean prosecutor Fiscalía Nacional Económica (FNE). On 28 October, the FNE presented an injunction against...

Papcel to deliver tissue paper line to Saudi Arabia

Asia Helen Morris - October 21, 2015

The Papcel Group has signed a contract to deliver a new paper machine to a confidential company in Saudi Arabia. It will produce papers for the production of napkins, paper towels, tissues...

Sofidel boosts Nordic presence

Europe Helen Morris - October 21, 2015

Sofidel’s Swedish subsidiary Swedish Tissue has boosted its capacity after it started up a new converting plant in Kisa. The new converting plant is now fully operational with two active production lines:...

Portucel targets tissue market with €120m investment

Europe Helen Morris - October 21, 2015

The Portucel Soporcel group is to significantly boost its tissue capacity after announcing plans to install a new tissue machine at its Cacia pulp mill. The €120 million investment will increase the...

SCA set to acquire Wausau Paper

January / February 2016 Helen Morris - October 21, 2015

SCA is to boost its presence in the north American Away-from-Home (AfH) tissue market with the acquisition of Wausau Paper for US$513m. The move enhances the tissue giant’s AfH premium tissue portfolio...

Lee & Man Paper boosts capacity

Asia Helen Morris - September 23, 2015

Chinese pulp and paper producer Lee & Man Paper has signed up Valmet for a repeat order of two Advantage DCT 200HS tissue production lines. The new tissue machines will have a...

2015 Sept/Oct Asia News

World News Helen Morris - September 16, 2015

CHINA APP China brings six tissue machines on stream, building another unit at new Chinese mill; new capacity totalling 354,000tpy Out of the one million tonnes/yr of new tissue paper capacity coming online...

2015 Sept/Oct Americas News

World News Helen Morris - September 16, 2015

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...

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...

2015 Sept/Oct Europe News

World News Helen Morris - September 16, 2015

EUROPE K-C Europe boosts capacity with TouchMax embossers buy Kimberly-Clark Europe has finalised the purchase of four TouchMax embossers supplied by Gambini. The company has invested in three TouchMax Large versions and one standard...

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 July/August Americas News

World News Helen Morris - July 8, 2015

COLUMBIA SCA says Columbian anti-trust inquiries “will not have a material financial impact” SCA has said its joint venture Productos Familia S.A. is under investigation by Colombian authorities over anti-trust issues. The company owns...

2015 July/August Global News

World News Helen Morris - July 8, 2015

SCA reports 15% net sales increase SCA has reported an increase in net sales in its Q1 interim report, up 15% to SEK 27,958m. Between 1 January and 31 March 2015 compared with...

2015 July/August Europe News

World News Helen Morris - July 7, 2015

GERMANY Man killed in accident at Metsä Tissue’s Stotzheim facility in Germany A 41-year-old truck driver was killed in an accident at Metsä Tissue’s Stotzheim facility in Euskirchen in Germany on 29 April. According...

May / June 2015 – Asia News

World News Helen Morris - July 2, 2015

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...

2015 May / June – America News

World News Helen Morris - July 2, 2015

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...

May / June 2015 – Europe News

World News Helen Morris - July 2, 2015

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...

May / June 2015 – Global News

World News Helen Morris - July 2, 2015

Audit finds SCA representatives acted in compliance with Swedish law SCA has said an independent audit investigating claims its staff were involved in extravagant corporate perks found its representatives “acted in compliance with...

Tissue marketplace in Chile: maturing retail and opportunities in away-from-home sales

Country Report David Mackinson - May 30, 2015

By David Mackinson, senior research analyst, Euromonitor International A bit of time spent in Chile, and you might consider it an outlier amongst its Latin American family. The country runs with German-style...

‘Our target – to give America something new’

Country Report Helen Morris - May 29, 2015

With the start-up of the world’s second NTT line in May, Chile’s FPC Tissue (FPC) is used to thinking big... but to give the US market a premium, high-quality product it...

Chile – Modest T&T business with recent growth

Country Report Bill Burns - May 29, 2015

Chile is the number three pulp and paper producing country in a Latin American market that is heavily weighted to pulp production. Nearly half of the 48M FMT pulp and paper...

SCA’s global business model finds a welcome and unique market in Chile

Country Report Helen Morris - May 25, 2015

As Latin America’s star economy, Chile is a well-developed and stable country where per capita tissue consumption reaches 10/11 kilos annually. Tissue World magazine editor Helen Morris meets SCA’s Gonzalo Diaz The...

March / April 2015 – Asia News

World News Helen Morris - April 8, 2015

JAPAN Tokushu Tokai tests new tissue machine in Japan (News from RISI) - Tokushu Tokai Paper has kicked off trial runs on a new tissue paper machine at its Shimada mill in Shimada...

March / April 2015 – Americas News

World News Helen Morris - April 8, 2015

USA Cascades PM ramp-up continues at St. Helens; machine rolls being sold (News from RISI) - Cascades started up a converted uncoated freesheet (UFS) paper machine for making tissue paper in late October,...

March / April 2015 – Europe News

World News Helen Morris - April 8, 2015

POLAND Almus boosts converting capacity Poland’s Almus has boosted its converting capacity after it signed for a Gambini TouchMax line. The family-run company is based in Slomniki and produces Almusso products, consumer and AfH...

March / April 2015 – Global News

World News Helen Morris - April 8, 2015

SCA's Jan Johansson steps down following on-going aviation and hospitality audits SCA has said its president and CEO Jan Johansson is to step down. The company has been in the spotlight over media...

Vinda boosts tissue capacity to almost one million tpy in 2015

Asia Helen Morris - February 12, 2015

(News from RISI) - Vinda International Holdings plans to build three new 30,000tpy tissue PMs in China in 2015, raising its total tissue capacity to 980,000tpy. One of the three will be...

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...

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...

November / December 2014 – World News

World News Helen Morris - November 27, 2014

GLOBAL NEWS Cascades Tissue president and CEO steps down Södra hikes up prices Futura appoints Piero Ceccon EUROPE GERMANY: WEPA to build two new tissue machines TURKEY: Parteks boosts capacity TURKEY: Ipek Kagit Tissue boosts converting capacity UK: Accrol Papers reveals plans...

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