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    CMPC Tissue boosts capacity

    World News Helen Morris -
    CMPC Tissue has announced it will install an Advantage tissue production line at the mill of its subsidiary Absormex CMPC Tissue de CV in Mexico. Supplied by Valmet, the new production line...

    GrandBay Papelera Internacional boosts premium capacity by 60,000tpy with TM start-up

    World News Helen Morris -
    Guatemala’s GrandBay Papelera Internacional has started-up a Toscotec-supplied double-width AHEAD 2.2L tissue machine at its Rio Hondo Zacapa site in Guatemala.
    Buckman launches immersive digital technology range

    Buckman launches immersive digital technology range

    World News Helen Morris -
    Buckman has announced a range of immersive digital technology that combines artificial, augmented, and mixed reality capabilities.Supported by its expanding Ackumen platform, the company said its Ackumen Connected Reality...
    Exhibitor showing products to visitor at Tissue World

    8 Reasons to Exhibit at Tissue World Miami (in 2024)

    World News Tissue World Magazine -
    Tissue World Miami is North America’s largest tissue industry event and is made up of a three-day trade show and conference.

    Toscotec targets premium quality structured tissue with INGENIA launch

    World News Helen Morris -
    Toscotec has launched INGENIA, the tissue machinery supplier’s latest concept machine that produces premium quality structured tissue paper
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    Sofidel continues drive in America with GBC purchase

    January / February 2016 Helen Morris -
    Italian tissue giant Sofidel has further strengthened its position in the American tissue market after announcing the acquisition of Green Bay Converting (GBC). With its subsidiary Sofidel America, the purchase includes a...
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    Resolute in “step-change acquisition” of Atlas Paper

    January / February 2016 Helen Morris -
    Resolute Forest Products has expanded its At-Home and AfH tissue product offering after it acquired Florida-based Atlas Paper Holdings. Atlas Paper manufactures branded and private label tissue products offering recycled and virgin...

    KPLP reports “solid top-line growth” in Q3 results

    World News Helen Morris -
    Canada’s Kruger Product (KPLP) has reported “significantly improved profitability” in its Q3 results as the impact of announced price increases across all segments and productivity gains take effect.
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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...

    Sofidel commits to net zero by 2050

    World News Helen Morris -
    Sofidel has committed to achieving net zero – reducing its greenhouse gas emissions and the subsequent removal of residual emissions to as close to zero as possible along the entire value chain – by 2050.  
    Ilkka Hämälä

    Metsä Group reports “excellent” 2021 results; demand for tissue products “expected to grow”

    World News Helen Morris -
    Metsä Group has reported sales of €6,017m - up from €5,055m in 2020 - in its 2021 full-year results and announced plans to increase prices in its Metsä Tissue...
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    Bolton Group shuts Softex tissue production in Greece

    Europe Helen Morris -
    (News from RISI) - The manufacture of Softex tissue products in Greece has come to an end. In mid-January, the employees of the factory based in Athens were informed that the site...

    Kemira announces price hikes across EMEA

    World News Helen Morris -
    Kemira has increased the price of its inorganic coagulants in the EMEA region.   Iron coagulants will increase between 8-15% and aluminum coagulants will increase between 4-6%, varying based...
    Essel plant

    Essel Selüloz diversifies into consumer tissue with TM investment

    World News Helen Morris -
    Turkey’s Essel Selüloz ve Kağıt and sister company Yöntem Kağıt have expanded their AfH product offering to include consumer tissue products after announcing plans for a tissue machine in Osmaniye.   Construction at the Osmaniye plant - which has an...

    Velvet Care acquired by Partners Group

    World News Helen Morris -
    Swiss-based global private equity firm Partners Group is to acquire Polish-headquartered tissue manufacturer Velvet Care from Abris Capital Partners. Velvet Care is one of the largest manufacturers of hygiene tissue products in...

    Fabio Perini patents technology to make bamboo masks

    World News Helen Morris -
    Fabio Perini has diversified its product offering with the introduction of a patented technology that produces up to 10,000 biodegradable bamboo masks per minute.  The technology...
    Gareth Jenkins,

    Accrol reports H1 revenue drop following Covid outbreak

    World News Helen Morris -
    UK-based tissue converting company Accrol Group has reported a revenue drop of 4.3% to £62.3m for the six months ended 31 October 2020, down from £57.6m for the same period a year earlier.  
    ITA and Taiprora

    ITA acquires intralogistics business Taiprora

    World News Helen Morris -
    Italia Technology Alliance (ITA), A.Celli Paper's holding company, has boosted its presence in the national and international market for advanced intralogistics solutions after acquiring the majority of Italy’s Taiprora.

    First Quality to purchase Domtar’s Dryden mill

    World News Helen Morris -
    First Quality and Paper Excellence Group subsidiary Domtar Corporation have entered into an agreement for First Quality to acquire Domtar's Dryden, Canada-based pulp mill.
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    2015 July/August Americas News

    World News Helen Morris -
    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...

    Metsä Tissue announces 240,000tpy tissue investment in UK

    World News Tissue World Magazine -
    Metsä Tissue has announced plans to build a multi-million pound landmark tissue plant in Goole, Yorkshire, a plant it said will be “the largest of its kind in the UK.” 
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    May / June 2015 – Asia News

    World News Helen Morris -
    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...

    Valmet claims world record in ViscoNip belt lifetime

    World News Helen Morris -
    Valmet has said it achieved a world record in a ViscoNip belt lifetime at its customer Yunnan Yun Jing Forest & Paper Co.’s TM1 in China.   The supplier...

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

    World News Helen Morris -
    Vietnam's Xuong Giang Paper has started up its second Andritz-supplied PrimeLineCOMPACT S 1300 tissue line at its plant in Song Khê - Nội Hoàng Industry Park, Bắc Giang Province. With this new...
    Workers at Softy's, Chile

    Softys completes PM rebuild

    World News Helen Morris -
    CMPC Group subsidiary Softys has completed a rebuild of its Recard-supplied PM. Recard revamped the Puente Alto, Chile-based PM17 in order to replace the fourdrinier with...
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    2014 September / October – Americas News

    World News Helen Morris -
    CHILE FPC to start up new 70,000tpy tissue PM in 1Q15 (News from RISI) Chilean packaging producer Forestal y Papelera Concepción (FPC) has scheduled for the first quarter of 2015 the startup of its...
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    CMPC to participate in mediation involving tissue cartel case in Chile

    January / February 2016 Helen Morris -
    (News from RISI) - Empresas CMPC has agreed to join a mediation proposed by the Chilean Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Servicio Nacional del Consumidor – SERNAC) in order to compensate consumers...
    Arsen Kitch, Clearwater Paper President and Chief Executive

    Clearwater reports “outstanding” 4Q and 2020 results

    World News Helen Morris -
    Clearwater Paper has said it delivered “exceptional results” in its fourth quarter and 2020 financial and operating results, despite the challenges of Covid-19. In the fourth...

    Kemira announces price hike for AKD wax in Asia Pacific

    World News Helen Morris -
    Kemira has increased the price of selected AKD (alkyl ketene dimer) wax-based sizing products in the APAC region by 10-18%.  The price adjustment has been implemented immediately, or as the existing AKD wax contracts allow.
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    Cascades reports “mixed” outlook for tissue segment in 3Q results

    World News Helen Morris -
    Cascades has reported a generally positive outlook in its third quarter results, but said that its tissue segment results were “mixed” following a drop in demand for AfH products due to Covid-19. For the three-month period...
    Essity’s Tork brand of carbon neutral certified dispensers

    Tork brand offers range of carbon neutral certified dispensers 

    World News Helen Morris -
    Essity has said its Tork brand is the first in Europe to reduce and compensate carbon emissions for the entire life cycle* of selected soap, toilet paper and hand...

    Essity “in better shape than ever” in latest results

    World News Helen Morris -
    Essity has reported “high profitability and strong cash flow” in its Q1 results, as all three business areas increase their margins. Net sales decreased year-on-year by 4.1% to SEK34,850m, while organic growth...

    Cassoli Group acquires shares in Nema Automazione

    World News Helen Morris -
    Stefano Cassoli, chief executive, Cassoli Group Italy’s Cassoli Group has acquired 70% of the shares of Nema Automazione.   Based in Bologna, Nema Automazione manufactures packaging and end-of-line machines.

    Navigator Company boosts international presence with rewinder investment

    World News Helen Morris -
    Portugal’s Navigator Company has invested in a Toscotec-supplied OPTIMA 1800 slitter rewinder to be installed at its Cacia plant in Aveiro, Portugal.

    Northwood responds to increased AfH and consumer demand with investment

    World News Helen Morris -
    UK-based Northwood Hygiene Products has boosted its AfH product offering with a multi-million-pound investment in a Gambini-supplied converting line and an additional 14,500m2 DC warehouse.
    K-C’s headquarters in Dallas

    K-C announces North American price hike

    World News Helen Morris -
    Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has announced mid-to-high single digit percentage price increases for its North American Consumer Products business. Customers in the USA and Canada have now been...

    BuyFirst Network launches RR cores product into market    

    World News Helen Morris -
    New-launch business BuyFirst has introduced its RR Core product - which it said helps tissue producers reduce bulky packaging storage and shipping by up to 30% - into the global tissue market.

    Infinity targets increased automation with launch of R10SW palletiser

    World News Helen Morris -
    Infinity Machine & Engineering Corp. has further expanded its roster of automated machinery to cover the end of the production line by launching its latest palletiser, the R10SW.   Introduced into the global...
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    SHORT ISSUES

    World News Helen Morris -
    ABB has appointed the head of its discrete automation and motion (DM) division Ulrich Spiesshofer as chief executive. He will succeed Joe Hogan in this role on 15 September. Hogan will...

    Northwood Consumer announces £7m investment

    World News Helen Morris -
    The UK’s Northwood Consumer has announced a £7m investment project to increase its “rapidly expanding” retail and cash and carry production capacity by over 300%.   Formerly Freedom Paper Products, a...
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