World News

Turkey’s Eczacibasi Consumer Products has invested in a Valmet Advantage DCT 200TS tissue line to be supplied at its Manisa plant.   The scope of supply includes a complete tissue production...

A.Celli Paper announces management changes A.Celli Paper has appointed Mario Fazzi as its new managing director. Giuseppe Antonini has been nominated president of A.Celli Paper; Mauro Celli and Alessandro Celli remain at the...

Kartogroup España has invested in an Andritz-supplied PrimeDry Steel Yankee and air and energy systems for its Burriana mill in Spain.   Start-up is scheduled for the summer of 2021, and the turnkey...

(News from RISI) - China’s Sichuan Yibin Paper has announced that the planned transfer of a majority stake in it to an environmental protection company has been cancelled. The move comes after...

Astrabel has invested in an Andritz-supplied PrimeLineCOMPACT S 1300 TM to be installed at its Belišće plant in Croatia. Start-up is expected in 2023 and the...

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Romania’s MG TEC Industry has started-up its Andritz-supplied PrimeLineCOMPACT tissue machine at its plant in mill in Dej.

Kimberly-Clark Corporation has appointed Gustavo Ghory as senior vice president and chief supply chain officer.   Effective 1 July 2020, Ghory will have global responsibilities for procurement, manufacturing, transportation, continuous improvement, sustainability, and quality, safety and regulatory operations.   He will...

Georgia-Pacific (GP) has boosted its bath tissue capacity after investing $25m in a converting line at its Wauna, Oregon-based mill.  The plant produces the company’s Angel Soft bath tissue line, and start-up for the line is expected in 2021.  

Packaging machinery solutions provider ProMach has acquired Panther Industries, a manufacturer of automated labelling equipment.   The company said the move expands its labelling capabilities further “into key strategic...

Italian paper machine supplier A.Celli Paper has diversified its product offering after acquiring PMT Italia.   PMT Italia was established in 2000 in Pinerolo, Italy, and produces machinery for the tissue and paper industry. It is a former subsidiary of the Beloit...

Metsä Tissue has appointed Mikko Forsell as CFO and member of the Metsä Tissue management team as of 1 January 2014. He joined the company in 2005 and has since held...

Portugal’s Navigator Company has reported a “strong industrial performance” in its 2023 full year results, as its recently expanded tissue division reports sales up 49%.

Ukraine-based JCS Kochavinska Paper Factory has diversified into virgin tissue paper production after investing €4m in a Maflex-supplied Hermes line. The scope of supply includes a...

Georgia-Pacific (GP) is making investments worth $50m at its Port Hudson mill in Zachary, Louisiana, to grow its retail consumer towel business.  Investments will include upgrading...

Northwood responds to increased AfH and consumer demand with investment UK-based Northwood Hygiene Products has boosted its AfH product offering with a multi-million-pound investment in a...

Sofidel has signed a 10-year contract with ENGIE for the supply of renewable gas biomethane at its production plant in Roanne, France.   The contract is a BPA (Biomethane Purchase Agreement), which Sofidel...

Brazil’s Manikraft has increased its production of high-quality tissue after starting-up a Hergen-supplied PM rebuild.   The family-run business is aiming to improve the quality of its products and enable the production of double ply tissue. 

WEPA Group has acquired the stock preparation division of insolvent German papermaker Kübler & Niethammer Papierfabrik Kriebstein (K&N).  All land, buildings, and the production facilities in...

Resolute Forest Products has completed the previously disclosed sale of the Thunder Bay (Ontario) pulp and paper mill to an affiliate of Atlas Holdings.  The company confirmed it will continue to operate...

Suzano has made a series of pulp price increases for its bleached eucalyptus kraft products.   Effective 1 February, in Europe prices will increase by +$70 per tonne...

Tissue manufacturers Cascades and Essity have been ranked amongst the world’s most environmentally sustainable companies in Corporate Knights’ 2021 Global 100 list. The ‘Global 100 Most...

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...

Resolute Forest Products has reported a “challenging business environment” in its preliminary Q2 2020 results, with sales of $612m - a decrease of $143m from the year-ago period.   Net income for the quarter ended 30 June was $6m, compared...

Essity has signed an agreement for the divestment of its Russian operations and the transaction has now been approved by authorities.   The deal is expected to...

Cascades has announced the death of Bernard Lemaire, 87, a Cofounder of the company. Born in Drummondville, Québec in 1936, un 1960 Lemaire joined the family business of waste recovery, Drummond Pulp...

Packaging equipment company Multipack has realigned its business focus to the international tissue market by selling off its pharmaceutical and cosmetic branch. The Italian company specialises in primary and secondary packaging systems...

China has recently publicised its 2014 old capacity closure campaign results, confirming some 5.47 million tpy of pulp and paper (P&P) capacity was removed. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT)...

Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) has invested in three tissue E-WIND T-200S rewinders that will be installed at its Gold Hongye Paper production plant in Nantong, China.   Supplied by A.Celli Paper, the investment will process mother rolls with diametres of...

Turkish tissue manufacturer Essel Kağıt has signed for the turnkey supply of a high-performance AHEAD 2.2L tissue line at its Osmaniye mill. Supplied by Toscotec, the...

Tissue World Istanbul 2016 has been concluded successfully after attracting 1,602 unique attendees – of which 1,231 were unique visitors - from across 65 countries. Held in Istanbul from 27-29 September, the...

Sofidel is to install a Valmet-supplied Advantage ViscoNip press and an Advantage ReDry on its TM1 at its plant in Baglan, UK. 

Poland’s FP Kaczory has started-up its PMP-supplied Intelli-YD Steel Yankee dryer. The line produces tissue and has a maximum operation speed of 1,500mpm and a paper...

Andritz has officially launched its latest tissue machine, the PrimeLineVRT – Vertical Crescent Former – for the production of dry crepe tissue. It features...

C&S is to start up its twelfth Valmet-supplied tissue machine at its Tangshan-based site in China. Start-up of the IntelliTissue 1600 line is scheduled for the...

(News from RISI) - Brazilian bleached eucalyptus kraft (BEK) pulp producer Fibria has announced a $20/tonne price increase for North American and European markets effective 1 July. With the increase, Fibria’s BEK...

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.

Irish tissue converter Aldar Tissues has increased its consumer and AfH production capacity after investing in TMC-supplied tissue roll packaging lines.

Star Tissue has bought a PCMC AMICA Industria to boost the quality of its products and bring greater efficiency to its UK-based production unit. The company commissioned the machine on 1 March...

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...