Monday, June 23, 2025
Global

P&G to lay off 7,000 staff; exit some product categories and...

Helen Morris -
Procter & Gamble (P&G) is to reduce up to 7,000 non-manufacturing roles - approximately 15% of its current non-manufacturing workforce - over the next...
Global

Longjing Paper starts-up first Andritz-supplied PrimeLineHyTAD tissue machine

Helen Morris -
China’s Chongqing Longjing Paper Co. has started-up the first Andritz-supplied PrimeLineHyTAD tissue machine. This start-up marks a milestone for premium tissue production in China, and...
World News

“Pioneering rebuild”: Essity and Toscotec harness geothermal energy

Helen Morris -
Essity and Toscotec have started up the world’s first tissue machine running solely on geothermal steam at Essity’s Kawerau site in New Zealand. With the...
World News

K-C to invest $130m to boost North American consumer products

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Kimberly-Clark (K-C) is to expand production at its Mobile, Alabama-based facility after investing over $130m in a consumer hygiene production line. The line is expected...
World News

Eren Holding invests in furnace upgrade at Shotton Mill

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Türkiye’s Eren Holding is to boost production capacity at its Shotton Mill in Wales, UK, after investing in a Valmet-supplied furnace upgrade. Most of the...
World News

Changes in Metsä Tissue’s management team; Johan Holvik appointed SVP

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Metsä Tissue has announced a series of management changes. Johan Holvik has been appointed Metsä Tissue's Senior Vice President, Scandinavia, member of Metsä Tissue’s management...
Front Page

K-C and Suzano announce $3.4bn joint venture

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Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has entered a $3.4bn agreement with Brazil’s Suzano to form a joint venture, creating an international tissue and professional products company. It will...
World News

WEPA boosts capacity with PM and converting investment at Bridgend

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Germany’s WEPA Group has announced plans to invest in a 70,000tpy paper machine and two converting lines at its site in Bridgend, UK. The project...
World News

Tamil Nadu diversifies into tissue with TM investment

Helen Morris -
India’s Tamil Nadu Newsprint & Papers (TNPL) has officially entered the tissue market after investing in an Andritz-supplied tissue machine to be installed at...
World News

Lila Group orders first tissue machine for Erzurum

Helen Morris -
Turkish tissue manufacturer Lila Group has invested in a Valmet-supplied 70,000tpy Advantage DCT 200 tissue machine to be installed at its new TL3bn facility...
World News

K-C to invest $2bn to expand US growth; Russ Torres promoted...

Helen Morris -
Kimberly-Clark (K-C) is to invest over $2bn in the next five years in its North America business, a move it said is its largest...
World News

Cascades reports “lower volumes” in Q1 results; stronger Q2 results expected

Helen Morris -
Cascades has reported lower first quarter volumes across its business following uncertainty regarding tariffs and higher seasonal energy costs, adding that stronger second quarter...
World News

Essity appoints Ulrika Kolsrud as President and Chief Executive

Helen Morris -
Ulrika Kolsrud – currently President of Essity’s business unit Health & Medical – has been announced as the company’s President and Chief Executive. Kolsrud will...
World News

Fripa boosts capacity with production upgrade

Helen Morris -
Germany’s Fripa Papierfabrik Albert Friedrich (Fripa) has started-up a Toscotec-supplied TT NextPress shoe press supplied at its Miltenberg mill. The company confirmed the shoe press...
World News

GPM boosts production capacity with TM rebuild

Helen Morris -
Gulf Paper Manufacturing (GPM) has started-up a Toscotec-supplied forming section upgrade on its PM2 tissue line based at its Mina Abdullah facility in Kuwait. The...
Global

Fastmarkets Forest Products Latin America Conference returns to São Paulo for...

Fastmarkets -
São Paulo, Brazil – Global experts and varied industry stakeholders will meet at the Forest Products Latin America Conference 2025, for two days of...
World News

Solenis to apply temporary surcharge in the US in response to...

Helen Morris -
Solenis will temporarily apply a minimum 5% surcharge on all products and services sold in the United States, effective 1 May 2025. The company said...
World News

César Iglesias boost production capacity with TM investment

Helen Morris -
César Iglesias is to boost its production capacity after investing in a Toscotec-supplied AHEAD 1.8 tissue line to be installed at its facility in...
Global

“Before being a great entrepreneur, my father was a great man”:...

Helen Morris -
Piero Celli - Italian entrepreneur and co-founder of A.Celli - has peacefully passed away at his home in Porcari, Lucca, on 24 April 2025...
World News

Essity reports “solid performance” in Q1 results

Helen Morris -
Essity has reported a net sales increase of 0.4% to SEK34,976m in its first quarter results, and reiterated its commitment to “innovation, strong brands,...
World News

K-C announces Q1 results; bids continue for potential sale of its...

Helen Morris -
Kimberly-Clark Corporation (K-C) has reported first quarter 2025 results driven by “resilient consumer demand, the introduction of pioneering innovative products, and leveraging sustained productivity...
Global

Wacker announces price hikes

Helen Morris -
The Wacker Group has announced a range of price hikes for its dispersions and dispersible polymer powder sourced from its production sites in Europe...
Global

Toscotec announces “world’s first fully electric TM” at Fortissue

Helen Morris -
Portuguese tissue manufacturer Fortissue and machinery supplier Toscotec have celebrated the start-up of the “world’s first fully electric tissue machine” at Fortissue’s Viana do...
Global

Andritz signs agreement to acquire A.Celli Paper

Helen Morris -
Andritz has diversified its product offering after signing an agreement to acquire the Italian company A.Celli Paper. The company said the move will strengthen its...
Global

Exclusive: Sofidel enters Stalking Horse bid to acquire assets of Royal...

Helen Morris -
Sofidel has entered into a Stalking Horse Asset Purchase Agreement (APA) to acquire certain assets of American At-Home and AfH business Royal Interco (Royal...
ITA Holding acquires Sipack; Sipack founder and Chief Executive Walter Pacioni (left), shakes hands with ITA Holding shareholder Mauro Celli
Europe

ITA Holding (A.Celli Group) acquires Sipack

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Italia Technology Alliance (ITA Holding) has diversified its product offering after acquiring Lucca-based corrugated cardboard box machinery manufacturer Sipack. Sipack manufactures complete production lines for...
Europe

K-C announces Koblenz plant on track to 100% renewable energy use

Helen Morris -
Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has announced its Koblenz, Germany-based tissue manufacturing plant is its first that’s on track to move to 100% renewable energy by 2029. The...
Switzerland’s Cartaseta to boost capacity with combustion system upgrade investment. Photo: Andritz
Europe

Cartaseta to increase capacity with combustion system upgrade

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Switzerland’s Cartaseta is to boost its production capacity after investing in an Andritz-supplied combustion system upgrade for a tissue machine at its mill in...
Frontissues

FRONTISSUES: We are midway through a tumultuous decade. What do the...

Helen Morris -
Adaptability, strategic foresight, and agility key in rapidly changing landscape Eight out of 10 Americans now wash their hands more diligently than before Covid. Good...
Mathieu Wener, Senior Economist, Numera Analytics.
Focus On

Defying the pandemic rollercoaster: Tissue demand back to long-term trend after...

Mathieu Wener -
As inflation has eased, producers have maintained relatively elevated margin returns. Report by Mathieu Wener, Senior Economist, Numera Analytics. Tissue demand in mature markets –...
(L-r): Fabrizio Tonello, Technical Director, A.Celli Paper / Marco Dalle Piagge, Sales Director Tissue, Toscotec/ Wojciech Niemczyk, Vice President Sales and Application, Paper & Board and Tissue, Andritz / Arvid Johansson, Director Tissue Mills Technology, Valmet / Shinji Goda, Director and Head of Design Department, Kawanoe Zoki / Benny Peng, Vice president, Baosuo Paper Machinery Manufacture Co.
Technical Theme

PM TECHNICAL THEME: Target Zero – The global tissue industry’s drive...

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Green electricity, process integration, advancing machinery, supply chain coordination, multidisciplinary teams, charting diverse cultural and regulatory environments, and “learning the ropes” with AI. TWM...
Consumer Speak

CONSUMERSPEAK: Bringing Picasso’s Seated Harlequin to life in ethereal tissue

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“Strong yet delicate, this medium creates fabulous textured grounds for layering and painting into. Watercolour paint will sink into the grooves and form dark...
AFRY Management Consulting’s Brigit Kaila, Analyst, Patricia Marques, Principal, Sanna Sosa, Senior Principal.
Marketissues

MARKETISSUES: Navigating uncertainty in the 2020s: the past, present, and future...

Tissue World Magazine -
With world trade predicted to continue to face many challenges throughout the decade, adaptability is the key to meeting the changing demands of tissue...
Project Survey

Projects Survey 2025

Helen Morris -
TWM’s annual Projects Survey charts all new capacity being added, ordered or in final planning stages during 2024-2025, as well as noting any projects...
Image: PURPLEPRINT Creative
Exitissues

EXITISSUES: Tissue enters the age of wellness and beauty enhancement

Tissue World Magazine -
For decades an adjacent niche category, skin health promoted by natural ingredients and vitamins is an increasing demand for consumers. Euromonitor International’s Liying Qian,...
Sarah Wood, Senior Research Analyst, Euromonitor International.
Italy

ITALY COUNTRY REPORT: New packaging, new formulations, new sustainability features …...

Sarah Wood -
Italy’s all sector volume growth tops pre-pandemic levels, and per capita volume consumption is the highest in Western Europe. Report by Sarah Wood, Senior...
Image cc: Milan, City Life, Elisa Lovene
Italy

ITALY COUNTRY REPORT: Europe’s top exporter – its tissue, machines and...

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Slow growth, population decline, viability risk with relatively narrow and slow machinery suggest a risk to status … but long-term. Report by Bruce Janda,...
World News

Metsä Group advances fresh fibre strategy for tissue business; plans to...

Tissue World Magazine -
Metsä Group has announced plans to further invest in the production of fresh fibre-based tissue papers and modernise the water circulation systems of two...
World News

“World first”: Essity unveils 100% geothermal steam operation, reduces CO2 emissions...

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Essity has unveiled the world’s first tissue machine operating wholly on geothermal steam at its production facility in Kawerau, New Zealand. The compay added that...
World News

Europe’s tissue industry titans unite for Tissue World’s strongest-ever speaker line-up

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Tissue World Düsseldorf 2025 will host the most powerful speaker line-up in its history, featuring an elite league of European-headquartered tissue industry heavyweights including...
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