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

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.
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Tissue World Milan set to be world’s largest tissue event

Italy is gearing up to host the world’s largest gathering of tissue professionals for the first time as the industry prepares for Tissue World Milan held during 10-12 April 2017. With an exhibition...
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Tissue World Milan 2017 rescheduled to April 10-12

Tissue World has announced the change of event dates for Tissue World Milan 2017 to 10-12 April 2017. The change of event dates takes place in combination with a change of exhibit...

Vajda-Papír boosts capacity with turnkey start-up

Hungary’s Vajda-Papír has started up its Toscotec-supplied double-width AHEAD 2.2L tissue machine at its Dunaföldvár facility.
Rizal Setiadi, Charta Global, TWM May June 2020

APP partner Charta Global adds multipurpose tissue parent rolls to USA and Latin American...

Asia Pulp & Paper’s (APP) partner Charta Global has introduced multipurpose tissue parent rolls to its existing product range in the USA and Latin America. The...
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BOR Biotechnology plans new tissue mill in Czech Republic

(News from RISI) - The Czech firm BOR Biotechnology is preparing to build a new tissue mill in the town of Kozomín just north of the capital city of Prague. The new...
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May / June 2015 – Global News

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...

Arkhbum Tissue Group boosts high-quality production by 70,000tpy

Russia’s Arkhbum Tissue Group has invested in a Valmet-supplied Advantage DCT 200 HS tissue line for start-up at the company’s mill in Vorsino, Kaluga.

Essity’s Donato Giorgio and AFRY’s Hampus Mörner announced as latest Tissue World webinar panelists

Tissue World has announced that Essity’s Global Supply Chain President Donato Giorgio will give a talk during Tissue World’s forthcoming Tissue World Talks: The road to Düsseldorf webinar.
Zeus Group: the company has acquired Italy’s Cima Paper

Zeus Group acquires Italy’s Cima Paper

Irish global packaging company Zeus Group has boosted its presence in Europe after acquiring Italian paper company Cima Paper.  With annual revenues of €65m, Cima Paper...

Italy

Lucart boosts packaging and converting capacity with Körber investments Lucart has invested in eight Körber-supplied Casmatic CMB270 packaging lines and a Perini MyLine converting line.
Essity products

Essity announces price hikes in response to energy cost pressures

Essity is announcing price increases for all product categories and markets following a raft of energy price hikes for electricity and gas in Europe. Prices for...

OMET launches ASV Storm Line

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...

Clearwater Paper appoints Arsen S. Kitch as CEO

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....

Kemira announces price hikes across EMEA

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...
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SCA to split group into two listed hygiene and forest products companies

SCA has said it will split the group into two listed companies in 2017, hygiene and forest products. Following a split, there will be two listed companies. One will be a hygiene...

Star Tissue invests after increase in customer demand

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...

Toscotec signs for rebuilds in Western Europe and Africa

Tissue machinery supplier Toscotec has announced two major rebuild projects in Western Europe and Africa. The confidential projects are for a leading manufacturer on a turnkey basis...
Jon Moeller

P&G reports “solid” Q2 fiscal results

Procter & Gamble (P&G) has reported “solid results” in its second quarter fiscal year report, despite “a very difficult cost and operating environment”. For the three-month...
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Guizhou Chitianhua Paper Industry boosts rewinder capacity

Published on 21 April 2016 | Guizhou Chitianhua Paper Industry has signed an agreement with A.Celli Paper for the supply of three tissue rewinders and an additional agreement for a further nine rewinders. Part...

K-C raises 2023 outlook following Q2 results  

Kimberly-Clark Corporation (K-C) has said its Revenue Growth Management programme and productivity have driven “continued margin recovery” in its second quarter results.  The company reported net...
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Essity records “highest net sales ever” in year-end results 

Essity has said record growth, significant price increases and acquisitions have resulted in record net sales up 28.2% year-on-year to SEK156bn. In its year-end results, sales...
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2014 March / April – Americas News

BRAZIL LEAL TO START UP 5,400TPY TISSUE SPECIALTY PM AT IBEMA PLANT IN BRAZIL Brazilian paper producer Leal Indústria e Comércio de Papéis is installing a 5,400tpy tissue and low basis weight gloss...
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Tissue marketplace in Chile: maturing retail and opportunities in away-from-home sales

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...

Vinda boosts capacity with four hybrid TM start-ups

Vinda has increased its ultra-premium quality tissue production capacity by 150,000 tonnes after starting up four Valmet-supplied hybrid machines.

Kimberly-Clark to permanently close Fullerton plant

Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has confirmed it will permanently close its Fullerton, CA, tissue plant in the first half of 2020. The move is part of previously...
Essity Lilla Edet plant

Essity attempts its first CO2 emission-free tissue production

Essity has started testing of its first CO2 emission-free, large-scale tissue production at its Lilla Edet plant in Sweden.   By completely replacing natural gas with biogas, Essity said the plant will reduce its fossil CO2 emissions to zero during normal operations. 

Marcal Paper “working round the clock” one year after devastating fire

America’s Marcal Paper has found itself at the front lines of the coronavirus efforts, operating at full capacity just weeks after reopening. The company is running...
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Nuqul Group’s Fine Hygienic to boost capacity

Nuqul Group’s Fine Hygienic Holding (FHH) has signed for a Valmet-supplied Advantage DCT 200TS tissue production line. The tissue machine will be installed at the Al Nakheel mill in Abu Dhabi and...
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Sofidel to boost capacity in Poland with NTT install

Italian tissue giant Sofidel has boosted its presence in Europe after signing for the latest-generation Advantage tissue machine from Valmet. The machine will be installed in the Delitissue plant in Ciechanów, Poland,...
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KCM announces capex for 2016-2017 at $400m; to invest in new tissue PM with...

(News from RISI) - Kimberly-Clark de México (KCM), a subsidiary of Kimberly-Clark Corporation, has announced its 2016-2017 capex at $400m. KCM chief executive Pablo González said: “We’re aggressively raising our investment plan...
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Romania – overall weakness offset by strength in T&T

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...
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SCA targets French tissue mills with restructuring measures

SCA has announced a series of restructuring measures at its production plants in Hondouville and Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, France. It includes the closure of the oldest tissue machine at the AfH producing Hondouville site...

Metsä Tissue boosts energy efficiencies in Mänttä

Metsä Tissue is to increase the efficiency of its fresh fibre tissue paper production at its Mänttä plant in Finland. The company said that the Valmet-supplied...

Rexcell boosts capacity with TM investment

Rexcell Tissue & Airlaid has invested in a Toscotec-supplied complete drying section rebuild for PM1 at its Skåpafors mill in Sweden.   Planned for the second half of 2024, the scope of supply...
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Essity reports Q1 net sales decline; demand boost expected from vaccine rollout

Essity has announced a net sales decrease of 18.3% to SEK27,528m in its Q1 results, but said it expects improved market conditions resulting from vaccination rollouts to boost demand...

Double E Company acquires Daven Manufacturing

Double E Company has increased its critical converting components portfolio after acquiring Daven Manufacturing.

Tissue industry braces for further impact; consequences for the market are two-fold

The world’s tissue industry is bracing itself for further substantial production increases following the world-wide outbreak of Covid-19. Mills globally are mobilising to meet the sudden...
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US upholds anti-dumping duties on certain tissue products from China

(News from RISI) - The US International Trade Commission (ITC) unanimously voted earlier this month to extend anti-dumping duties (ADD) on imports of certain tissue products from China. As a result of...
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CMPC and SCA allegedly colluded to control Chilean tissue market

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...