Tuesday, July 28, 2026

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    Clearwater Paper appoints Arsen S. Kitch as CEO

    World News Helen Morris -
    Clearwater Paper has appointed Arsen S. Kitch - the company’s senior vice president and general manager of its consumer products division - as chief executive as of 1 April....

    Resolute: 4Q results reflect “bottom-of-the-cycle conditions” in market pulp

    World News Helen Morris -
    Resolute Forest Products has said its financial position “will remain strong” following the acquisition of three sawmills, as it reports preliminary fourth quarter and 2019 results hit by ongoing...

    Cartiere Carrara boosts premium tissue offering with M&A

    World News Helen Morris -
    Italy’s Cartiere Carrara has completed the acquisition of converting companies Carind and CRC from the Caldaroni Group. Consistent with the company’s M&A-based growth strategy, the...

    K-C reports “excellent progress” in year-end results

    World News Helen Morris -
    “Looking ahead, our plan for 2020 is to deliver top- and bottom-line growth consistent with our medium-term financial objectives while continuing to increase our growth investments and allocate capital...
    Increase of production capacity: César Iglesias Group starts up its Toscotec-supplied TT SYD. Tissue World Magazine

    DOMINICAN REPUBLIC César Iglesias enters tissue market with TT SYD start-up

    World News Helen Morris -
    César Iglesias Group has moved into the tissue market after starting up a Toscotecsupplied TT SYD. The second-generation machine was successfully started-up at its paper mill in Santo Domingo...
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    TURKEY Lila Group doubles production capacity with TRY450m investment

    World News Helen Morris -
    Turkish hygienic tissue paper manufacturer Lila Group is to increase its production capacity by 50% after investing in an integrated tissue plant. According to the company, the TRY450m...

    Metsä Tissue divests napkin business to “focus on tissue”

    World News Helen Morris -
    Metsä Tissue is to divest its napkin business to keeeper Group, part of the Mutares Group.  The transaction includes the real estate, machinery and equipment and warehouses at the Stotzheim mill in Germany...

    OMET launches ASV Storm Line

    World News Helen Morris -
    OMET has targeted the interfolded towel and facial tissue sector with its latest launch, the ASV Storm Line. The line has a new automatic interfolding head that combines...
    K-C names Aaron Powell as president of its Asia-Pacific consumer business

    K-C names Aaron Powell as president of its Asia-Pacific consumer business

    World News Helen Morris -
    Kimberly-Clark (K-C) Corporation has appointed Aaron Powell, president of K-C Professional, as president of its Asia-Pacific consumer business. K-C appoints Aaron Powell as president of its Asia-Pacific consumer business

    Marcal Paper – “back in business”; finalises merger with Nittany Paper

    World News Helen Morris -
    Marcal Paper has said it will return to regular papermaking operations in New Jersey, America, in January, less than one year after a 10-alarm fire destroyed its iconic manufacturing...

    Essity reports 8.8% net sales increase

    World News Helen Morris -
    Essity has said price increases, improved product mix and higher volumes have resulted in growth and profitability in its year-end report.   Between 1 January – 31 December 2019, net sales increased 8.8% to SEK128,975m, compared with...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Suzano boosts presence in Brazil

    World News Helen Morris -
    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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    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...
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    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.
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