Tissue World Magazine

Metsä Group has boosted production of its Lambi Home Towel household towel sheets after starting up a packaging line at its Mänttä tissue mill...

Andritz has acquired a 13.8% stake in Norwegian tech-company HydrogenPro. The company was founded in 2013 and supplies pressurised alkaline electrolysers (AEL) for green hydrogen...

Valmet has introduced its next-generation Distributed Control System (DCS), the Valmet DNAe, into the global tissue market. The fully web-based process control system includes a...

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...

Georgia-Pacific (GP) is to boost production in its consumer tissue business after announcing an investment of over $150m to rebuild a paper machine at...

Navigator Paper UK has launched a public all-cash firm offer for the acquisition of UK-based tissue paper converter Accrol Group Holdings. Accrol converts and supplies...

UK-based Northwood Tissue has increased its production capacity after investing in an Andritz-supplied gas-heated PrimeDry Hood HT and air system for a tissue machine...

China’s Hengan International Group has officially launched premium quality structured TAD tissue products into the local market, following the start-up of its Toscotec-supplied TADVISION...

Grigeo has acquired a tissue paper mill from Polish tissue paper and paperboard producer Głuchołaskie Zakłady Papiernicze (GZP). Grigeo Hygiene – which is controlled by the...

Suzano has announced a range of price increases for orders of eucalyptus pulp in April. In Asia, orders will increase by US$30 per ton. In Europe,...

Finland’s Metsä Group has begun a three-week public consultation regarding its plans to build a multi-million-pound landmark tissue plant in Goole, UK. The 240,000tpy tissue...

Tissue World Miami 2024: 1,862 visitors from 86 countries attended North America’s largest tissue exhibition and conference, which was held in January on Miami Beach

Clearwater Paper Corporation has said it will “explore strategic options for its tissue business”, as it rates the divisions performance improvement “outstanding” in its 2023 results.

Crown Paper’s Valmet-supplied Advantage DCT 200 TM will boost the company’s production of high-quality tissue products

Canada’s Kruger Products has targeted future growth in the facial tissue sector as it highlights “record sales” in its Q4 2023 and full year 2023 results.

Indonesia’s PT Sun Paper Source (PT SPS) has invested in four paper machines to be installed at its plant in Ngoro, Mojokerto, boosting its production capacity to 300,000tpy in total with sister company PT. Sopanusa.

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Walter Schalka is to step down from his role as the President of Suzano and be succeeded by João Alberto Abreu, who is leaving the Presidency of Latin America's largest logistics operator Rumo.

Peru’s Papelera Reyes has boosted its production capacity after starting up an Eil / Replus Tissue-supplied Crescent Former tissue machine.

French tissue manufacturer Papeteries du Cotentin (PAPECO) has purchased a Toscotec-supplied TT SYD Steel Yankee Dryer and a complete high-performance steam and condensate plant for its Orval sur Sienne mill in Normandy.

Romania’s Pehart Group has diversified its product offering after entering the AfH market with the launch of its Sovio brand of products.  

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%.

Metsä Group has invested in three new state-of-the-art converting lines supplied by Valmet Tissue Converting and C.G Bretting Manufacturing Co.

Toscotec has responded to customer demand and introduced its latest generation of Distributed Control System TT Brain DCS.

Double E Group has introduced the Appleton side load slabber into the global tissue converting market.

The Paper Excellence Group has appointed Richard Tremblay to President of its pulp and tissue business unit.

Brazil’s Suzano has confirmed it will start up a Valmet-supplied complete tissue paper making line, tissue converting equipment and a biomass boiler at its Aracruz mill.

Hinnerskov will take up the position during the second half of the year, or by the end of September 2024 at the latest. Laine will continue as the President and Chief Executive until then.

British supermarket chain Tesco has partnered with tissue manufacturer WEPA to introduce a range of premium toilet roll and kitchen towel products made from recycled corrugated cardboard* and recycled pulp.

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

Argentinian packaging paper and tissue producer UnionPel has boosted its production capacity after investing in a Toscotec-supplied upgrade of PM1 at its Pacheco mill.

Brazilian eucalyptus pulp producer Suzano has confirmed pulp price hikes across its various markets, effective from February.

The Sofidel Group has again been positioned in the leadership band of the Climate Change 2023 and Forests 2023 ratings by international non-profit organisation CDP.

Yuen Foong Yu Consumer Products Co. has started up an Andritz-supplied PrimeLineCOMPACT tissue production line at its mill in Chingshui.

China’s Guangdong Hengan Paper Co. has successfully started up two Andritz-supplied PrimeLineCOMPACT M 1600 tissue machines at its mill in Yunfu, Guangdong.

Procter & Gamble (P&G) has reported net sales up 3% year-on-year to $21.4bn for the Q2 fiscal year 2024, as organic sales increase 4% driven by higher pricing.

Essity has recorded its “highest profit ever and strong platform for growth” as net sales increase to SEK147bn in its year-end results.

Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has reported better-than-anticipated organic sales growth and stronger cost, margin, and earnings recovery in its fourth quarter and full-year 2023 results.

Putney Paper Mill is to close its site in Putney, Vermont, ending more than 200 years of production.