Southern America

Tissue World Magazine, World News: Southern America

Fibria announces July $20/tonne price hike on BEK in Europe and North America; Asia...

Southern America Helen Morris - June 29, 2017

(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...

MEXICO – Blue Tissue boosts capacity with TM start-up

Southern America Helen Morris - December 1, 2019

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...

Santher’s 3Q profits decline; company implements extra price adjustments

Southern America Helen Morris - December 2, 2015

(News from RISI) Brazilian tissue producer Santher reported net revenues at Real 340.4 million in the third quarter of 2015, an increase of 0.9% over July-September 2014. Net loss for the period...

Potosí’s new 25,000tpy tissue PM begins production in Mexico; PM2 stops

Southern America Helen Morris - December 2, 2015

(News from RISI) - Mexican Fábricas de Papel Potosí has started up a new 25,000tpy tissue paper machine at its mill located in San Luis Potosí, north-central Mexico. The equipment was supplied...

Mexico – Blue Tissue boosts capacity with TM start-up

Southern America Helen Morris - November 27, 2019

Mexico’s Blue Tissue has increased its production capacity after starting up an iDEAL Master Tissue Machine. Supplied by A.Celli, the turnkey plant includes the 2-ply slitter A.Celli E-Wind T100...

Forestal y Papelera Concepcion starts up new line

Southern America Helen Morris - March 24, 2016

Chile’s Forestal y Papelera Concepcion (FPC) has successfully boosted its capacity with the start up of a new Advantage NTT tissue line. The new line fulfils FPC's target of producing 100% textured...

SCA’s Productos Familia guilty in anti-trust inquiry

Southern America Helen Morris - June 2, 2016

Productos Familia has been found guilty in an anti-trust inquiry related to tissue products conducted by the Colombian competition authority. The inquiry targeted Familia and four other companies in the Colombian market...

SCA’s global business model finds a welcome and unique market in Chile

Southern America Helen Morris - May 25, 2015

As Latin America’s star economy, Chile is a well-developed and stable country where per capita tissue consumption reaches 10/11 kilos annually. Tissue World magazine editor Helen Morris meets SCA’s Gonzalo Diaz The...

K-C announces shutdown in Venezuela following country’s deepening economic chaos

Southern America Helen Morris - July 14, 2016

Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has indefinitely suspended operations in Venezuela after it said it was “impossible” to manufacture there due to the country’s economic crisis. The tissue giant said the move was in response...

‘Our target – to give America something new’

Southern America Helen Morris - May 29, 2015

With the start-up of the world’s second NTT line in May, Chile’s FPC Tissue (FPC) is used to thinking big... but to give the US market a premium, high-quality product it...

CMPC’s market pulp sales in 2Q16 boom 56% year-over-year; net revenues 0.5% up to...

Southern America Helen Morris - August 11, 2016

(News from RISI) - Chilean pulp and paper producer CMPC released its second quarter results showing consolidated sales of $1.1 billion, 0.5% higher than a year ago. Pulp sales volume rose 56%...

Alas Dorada boosts capacity with TM investment

Southern America Helen Morris - June 15, 2017

El Salvador’s Alas Dorada is to increase its capacity and production efficiency after signing up Valmet to rebuild its PM4. The main target for the rebuild is to raise production capacity by...

Carta Fabril to install “world’s largest Steel Yankee” for tissue

Southern America Helen Morris - October 20, 2016

Carta Fabril is to boost its capacity after it signed for a PrimeLineST W22 tissue machine with Steel Yankee and steam-heated hood. The line is scheduled to start up at the company’s...

Tissue marketplace in Chile: maturing retail and opportunities in away-from-home sales

Southern America David Mackinson - May 30, 2015

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...

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

Southern America Helen Morris - December 1, 2019

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...

Celupaper increases capacity with start-up

Southern America Helen Morris - July 28, 2016

Argentina’s Celupaper has boosted its capacity with the start up of its Toscotec-supplied PM3. The new line is installed at Papelera Nicaragua mill, Argentina, and its start-up follows the rebuilding of PM2,...

Suzano to sell converted tissue products; investment in tissue increases to $176.1m

Southern America Helen Morris - March 9, 2017

(News from RISI) - Brazilian pulp and paper producer Suzano is to acquire converting equipment that will enable it to sell finished products in the tissue segment. The company is currently installing...

Little Rapids Corporation boosts capacity

Southern America Helen Morris - August 25, 2016

Little Rapids Corporation has signed a contract with Voith Paper Brazil to purchase a new tissue paper machine. The new machine will replace the existing PM3, located in Shawano Wisconsin (USA). It will...

World’s first Advantage NTT to be started up

Southern America Helen Morris - February 4, 2013

World’s first Advantage NTT tissue line to be started up Mexican-based Fabrica De Papel San Francisco is to start up the world’s first tissue line based on Metso’s Advantage NTT concept. The new...

Suzano orders two tissue paper machines for Mucuri and Imperatriz mills

Southern America Helen Morris - January 27, 2016

(News from RISI) - Suzano Pulp and Paper has signed a $58 million order for two tissue paper machines (PM) to be installed at the company’s Mucuri and Imperatriz mills in...

CMPC to participate in mediation involving tissue cartel case in Chile

Southern America Helen Morris - December 2, 2015

(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...

Suzano installs two 60,000tpy tissue PMs

Southern America Helen Morris - November 18, 2015

(News from RISI) – Brazil’s Suzano has announced a Real425 million investment in two tissue paper machines, each with capacity to produce 60,000tpy. One PM will be installed at its Mucuri plant...

CMPC and SCA allegedly colluded to control Chilean tissue market

Southern America Helen Morris - November 5, 2015

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...

Grupo Corporativo Papelera boosts capacity with tissue investment

Southern America Helen Morris - February 23, 2017

Grupo Corporativo Papelera has invested in a tissue machine for its Mexico-based site. Supplied by A.Celli, the line will add an additional 34,000 tonnes to the company’s annual production. The machine is 2.6m...

Fábricas de Papel Potosí boosts production

Southern America Helen Morris - January 13, 2016

Mexico’s Fábricas de Papel Potosí has started-up a new tissue machine supplied by A.Celli Paper. The machine has a 2,850mm web width, a working speed of 1,500m/min and a production capacity of...

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

Southern America Helen Morris - December 1, 2019

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...

Suzano boosts presence in Brazil

Southern America Helen Morris - January 15, 2020

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...

Guatemala

Southern America Tissue World Magazine - August 16, 2021

GrandBay Group boosts capacity GrandBay Group has invested in a Toscotec-supplied AHEAD 2.2L tissue line to be installed at its subsidiary Papelera Internacional’s plant in Rio...