Thursday, June 4, 2026

World News

    Tissue World Magazine World News: Africa, Asia, Europe, Global, Northern America, and Southern America

    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    Valmet and Fabio Perini team up in Industrial Internet ecosystem partnership

    World News Helen Morris -
    Valmet and Fabio Perini have established an Industrial Internet ecosystem partnership to provide digital solutions for tissue production and converting.   The aim is to allow tissue producers and converters...
    El Salvador’s Alas Doradas has invested in a Valmet-supplied Advantage DCT100HS

    Alas Doradas boosts high-quality tissue production

    World News Helen Morris -
    El Salvador’s Alas Doradas has invested in a Valmet-supplied Advantage DCT100HS tissue production line, adding 35,000tpy to the site’s production.  The order includes a de-inking plant and an extensive automation...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    Metsä Tissue invests €10m in Raubach mill

    World News Helen Morris -
    Metsä Tissue is to boost its professional tissue papers production after announcing plans to invest €10m in a production line at its Raubach mill, Germany.   The new MF4 production line will have an annual production capacity of...
    Toscotec Voith

    Toscotec acquired by Voith Group

    World News Helen Morris -
    Toscotec has signed an agreement for 90% of its shares to be acquired by Voith Group.   Alessandro Mennucci, chief executive of Toscotec, will retain a 10% ownership.  The agreement was signed on 20 December 2019.  
    Tissue World Miami 2020

    200 exhibiting companies, 70 countries … the countdown to TW Miami begins!

    World News Helen Morris -
    Tissue World is preparing to welcome the tissue industry’s key personnel to its world-leading exhibition and conference on Miami beach, as Kimberly-Clark (K-C) North America’s Group President Kim Underhill is confirmed as keynote speaker.  Bringing the world’s largest...
    Start-up team: Japan's Marutomi boosts capacity with first of two Toscotec-supplied start-ups

    JAPAN – Marutomi boosts capacity with first of two start-ups; second line scheduled for...

    Asia Helen Morris -
    Marutomi has started-up a MODULO-PLUS ES tissue machine supplied by Toscotec at its paper mill in Fuji city, Shizuoka. It is the first of two tissue...
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    MEXICO – Blue Tissue boosts capacity with TM start-up

    Southern America Helen Morris -
    Blue Tissue has increased its production capacity after starting up an iDEAL Master Tissue Machine. Supplied by A.Celli, the turnkey plant includes the two-plies slitter A.Celli...
    Navigator aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2035

    Navigator aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2035

    Global Helen Morris -
    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...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    PCMC boosts packaging offering with STAX acquisition: move marks “new era”

    Global Helen Morris -
    Paper Converting Machine Company (PCMC) has increased its offering in the tissue packaging sector after acquiring Serbian-based STAX Technologies. The move adds reciprocating flow technology to PCMC’s tissue packaging product...
    Piero Ceccon, chief executive of Futura

    Futura announces partnership with Plusline which will “develop game- changer” concepts

    Global Helen Morris -
    Futura has announced a technical partnership with Plusline, a Bologna-based company offering packaging systems. Piero Ceccon, chief executive of Futura, said: "This technical partnership aimsto develop game-changer...
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    Fabio Perini completes AfH packaging division with DM Pack partnership

    Global Helen Morris -
    Fabio Perini has boosted its AfH packaging business after announcing a partnership with DM Pack. DM Pack is an Italian-based company specialised in designing and producing...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    Fabio Perini targets AfH market with Proxima S6 launch

    Global Helen Morris -
    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 Magazine, World News

    Voith to acquire BTG for €319m; expands competitive position as full-line supplier

    Global Helen Morris -
    Voith has strengthened its position as a full-line supplier after signing an agreement with Spectris to acquire BTG. The €319m acquisition of BTG - a multinational...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    Northwood Paper boosts recycled paper capacity with acquisitions in Spain and UK

    Global Helen Morris -
    Northwood Paper, Tissue & Hygiene has acquired Spanish paper producer Dicepa Papelera and the converting assets of Manipa in Madrid. The UK-based business also announced the...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    Sofidel commits to eradicating disposable plastics in its workplace

    Global Helen Morris -
    Sofidel has said it will abandon its use of disposable plastic items in its workplaces. The decision included its Italian companies as of 1 July and will be...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    Andritz acquires Kempulp

    Global Helen Morris -
    Andritz has acquired Swedish company Kempulp, a specialist provider of process technologies for the chemical pulping industry. The company designs and markets technologies used in chemical...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    Recard announces management changes

    Global Helen Morris -
    Recard has announces that Mauro Michelini exited the company on 31 July. Doctor of engineering Riccardo Lorenzo Campo has joined the company as managing director.
    “The purchase of Orchids Paper Products provides compelling optimisation opportunities for our tissue platform," Mario Plourde, Cascades president and chief executive

    CANADA – Cascades delivers “record quarterly sales”: Orchids Paper acquisition provides “compelling optimisation opportunities”

    Northern America Helen Morris -
    Cascades has said all segments executed well in its second quarter results, with its tissue results supported by favourable input costs and selling prices. For the three-month period ended 30...
    Cartiera Confalone: the mill is said to represent the biggest tissue investment in the south of Italy in the last twenty years.

    ITALY – Cartiera Confalone capacity boost ‘biggest in 20 years’ in southern Italy

    Europe Helen Morris -
    Cartiera Confalone: the mill is said to represent the biggest tissue investment in the south of Italy in the last twenty years. Cartiera Confalone has invested...
    CHINA Baoding Ruifeng Paper and Baosuo Enterprise Group boost capacity

    CHINA – Baoding Ruifeng Paper and Baosuo Enterprise Group boost capacity

    Asia Helen Morris -
    Baoding Ruifeng Paper and Baosuo Enterprise Group have signed for two sets of BaoTuo-supplied tissue machines. The BaoTuo Crescent Former tissue machines, model BC1300-2850, have a...
    Luoyang Jieda Paper boosts facial tissue capacity with investment

    Aowei Paper boosts tissue production capacity

    Asia Helen Morris -
    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-...
    INDONESIA APP boosts capacity; contract includes the delivery of two rebuilds

    INDONESIA – APP boosts capacity; contract includes the delivery of two rebuilds

    Asia Helen Morris -
    Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) has invested in two rebuilds at its Sinar Mas mill. Supplied by PMP, the contract includes the delivery of two rebuilds for the press...
    K-C invests US$40m to boost Central American presence

    COSTA RICA – K-C invests US$40m to boost Central American presence

    Southern America Helen Morris -
    Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has announced significant investment plan at its Coris Mill in Costa Rica. The expansion programme includes more than US$40m investment in the mill and the creation of jobs at...
    CMPC expands operations with acquisition of SEPAC

    BRAZIL – CMPC expands operations with acquisition of SEPAC; move means subsidiary Softys becomes...

    Southern America Helen Morris -
    CMPC subsidiary Softys has agreed to acquire family-owned tissue manufacturer SEPAC, a move it said will consolidate Softys as the largest tissue producer in Brazil. SEPAC...
    Klippans Bruk boosts coloured and white, high-quality tissue capacity with investment

    SWEDEN – Klippans Bruk boosts coloured and white, high-quality tissue capacity with investment

    Europe Helen Morris -
    Klippans Bruk has started up its Recard- supplied PM11. This new machine will add an annual capacity of 30,000tpy of coloured and white, high-quality tissue to...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    FRANCE – Global Hygiène boosts capacity

    Europe Helen Morris -
    Global Hygiène has signed for an iDEAL 1800S tissue machine. Supplied by A.Celli Paper, the line has a 2.8m format and an operating speedof 1,800mpm. The...
    Africaine Paper Mills starts up first tissue line

    Africaine Paper Mills starts up first tissue line

    Africa Helen Morris -
    Africaine Paper Mills (APM) has moved into the tissue market after starting up its first tissue machine. The Andritz-supplied PrimeLineCOMPACT line has a design speed of 2,100m/min...
    President and chief executive Linda K. Massman

    Clearwater Paper Reports Q2 results; positively impacted by higher retail tissue shipments and tissue...

    Northern America Helen Morris -
    Clearwater Paper Corporation has reported a net sales increase of 4.6% to $452.0m for the second quarter of 2019 compared with the same time a year earlier.
    Tissue World Magazine merger & acquisitions

    Cascades to acquire Orchids Paper; boosts retail tissue offering

    Northern America Helen Morris -
    Cascades has boosted its US retail tissue offering after entering into an agreement to acquire Orchids Paper Products Company. The move will include the Barnwell, South Carolina, and...
    Aldi to trial plastic-free toilet paper packaging

    Aldi to trial plastic-free toilet paper packaging

    Europe Helen Morris -
    Aldi has chosen the UK in which to trial removing plastic packaging from packets of toilet roll, in a move it said could save more than 900 tonnes of...
    UK_Tissue_World_Magazine

    UK – Northwood Group boosts AfH offering with KPP Converters acquisition

    Europe Helen Morris -
    UK-based Northwood has completed the purchase of 100% of the issued share capital of KPP Converters (KPP). KPP - a supplier of AfH tissue products - will continue to...
    Cheile Bicazului Hasmas National Park

    ROMANIA – MG TEC Group boosts capacity

    Europe Helen Morris -
    MG TEC Group has increased its production capacity after investing in two Ribo Tissue E-WIND T100 rewinders. Supplied A.Celli Paper, the lines will be installed at...
    APP invests in 18 TMs; all machines to produce tissue from 11.5gsm - 22.0gsm

    APP invests in 18 TMs; all machines to produce tissue from 11.5gsm – 22.0gsm

    Asia Helen Morris -
    Asia Pulp and Paper Group (APP) has boosted its capacity in China after investing in 18 Intelli-Tissue EcoEc 1600 Premium machines. Supplied by PMP, the 18...
    Libang Group boosts capacity in Hebei and Hubei

    Libang Group boosts capacity in Hebei and Hubei

    Asia Helen Morris -
    The Libang Group has ordered four new tissue machines for its mills in China, according to domestic supplier Baotuo Paper Machinery Engineering. The supplier told TWM...
    Luoyang Jieda Paper boosts facial tissue capacity with investment

    Luoyang Jieda Paper boosts facial tissue capacity with investment

    Asia Helen Morris -
    Luoyang Jieda Paper has signed a contract for the supply of two BC1300-2850 Crescent Former Tissue Machine. Supplied by Baotuo Enterprise, the two tissue machines have...
    Essity president and chief executive Magnus Groth

    Essity reports half-year results; implemented price increases had positive impact on organic net sales

    Global Helen Morris -
    Essity has reported a year-on-year net sales increase of 8.6% to SEK 62,724m in its half-year report and said innovation launches have strengthened its customer and consumer offering.
    Infinity's Dual Rotating Cassette C15: multiple benefit

    Infinity launches casepacker with 25% – 50% speed increase

    Global Helen Morris -
    Infinity Machine & Engineering Corp. has responded to customer demand with the launch of its Dual Rotating Cassette C15, a casepacker module designed for higher speed industrial and facial tissue...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    Lucart highlights Circular Economy and sustainability in its latest report

    Europe Helen Morris -
    Lucart has presented its 2018 Sustainability Report with a focus on Circular Economy, new investments and partnerships for sustainable development The company reported a turnover increase...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    ABB launches Winder Performance Optimisation digital solution

    Global Helen Morris -
    ABB has launched a Winder Performance Optimisation to maximise capacity and productivity for tissue manufacturers. The supplier said the patented digital solution “optimises winder performance for...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    Recard announces management changes; Riccardo Lorenzo Campo takes on MD role

    Global Helen Morris -
    Recard has announces that Mauro Michelini exited the company on 31 July. Doctor of engineering Riccardo Lorenzo Campo has joined the company as manging director.
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