CHEMICALS TECHNICAL THEME – TRANSFORMATIVE TAD: AS THE USE OF TAD...

Kelly Buchheit, Global Marketing Director, Tissue, Solenis, explains how the company’s latest Rezosol TAD fabric release agent enhances tissue strength and softness while improving...

AFRICA REGIONAL REPORT: Balancing affordability against a vast tissue potential still...

With a central market dynamic of value gains set against volume decline, manufacturers look to population trends and changes in hygiene routines for expected...

AFRICA REGIONAL REPORT: Continent-wide economic development has stalled … but greater...

Per capita GDP in several countries is higher than $15,000. Yet even there the various issues holding back development – unemployment, climate, inflation, conflict...

Accrol Papers and P&G launch Flash Kitchen Roll

UK-based Accrol Papers and Procter & Gamble have collaborated to launch the latest development of the Flash range of products into the UK market,...

Andritz acquires machine vision specialist Procemex

Andritz has further strengthened its automation and digitalisation portfolio after acquiring Finnish-headquartered Procemex. The global company is an integrated web monitoring and web inspection solutions...

Kartogroup boosts capacity with Yankee hood rebuild

Spain’s Kartogroup has started up its Andritz-supplied PrimeDry Hood HT and air system, supplied for the rebuild of a tissue machine at its España’s...

Cartiera del Vignaletto invests in cogeneration upgrade

Cartiera del Vignaletto has invested in a Toscotec-supplied cogeneration upgrade at its plant in Zevio, Northern Italy. The project includes the complete upgrade of the...

Sofidel launches its toilet paper maxi rolls to key European locations

Sofidel Group has responded to customer demand by introducing its Regina Rotoloni toilet paper maxi rolls in Spain, Poland, the Netherlands, Hungary, and Romania. The...

Andritz completes acquisition of NAF business

Andritz has strengthened its process control and automation systems offering for pulp and paper mills after completing the acquisition of NAF business. The company said...

Hugues Simon to succeed Mario Plourde as Cascades President and CEO

Cascades has appointed Resolute Forest Products’ Hugues Simon as its President and Chief Executive, succeeding Mario Plourde who is taking planned retirement. Simon is currently...

Metsä Group completes sale of Russian subsidiaries to VLP Group

Metsä Group has completed the sale of its Russian subsidiaries Metsä Svir, Metsä Forest St. Petersburg, Metsä Forest Podporozhye and Metsä Board Rus to...

Lila Kağıt holds ground-breaking ceremony for TL3bn tissue facility

Türkiye’s Lila Kağıt has held a ground-breaking ceremony to celebrate the start of construction on its TL3bn tissue facility in Erzurum. According to the company,...

CMPC starts process for 2.5m tpy pulp mill in Brazil

Chile’s Empresas CMPC has announced plans for a pulp mill project in Brazil that will involve a $4bn industrial unit, $420m road infrastructure work,...

Essity invests in tissue R&D centre in France

Essity is investing in a global tissue centre for research and development in Alsace, France, that it said will “re-shape” the paper-making process. Dedicated to...

Africaine Paper Mills to increase presence in MENA with investment

Algerian tissue manufacturer Africaine Paper Mills (APM) is to boost its production capacity across the MENA tissue market after investing in a Toscotec-supplied rewinder...

Cascades reports favourable sales mix in Tissue segment’s Q1 results

Cascades has said its Tissue Papers division “executed well” in its latest results, with increased average selling prices for the division despite a context...

Suzano denies reports of acquisition of International Paper

Brazilian pulp and paper company Suzano has confirmed that there is no formal document or decision regarding media reports of its potential acquisition of...

Tissue World Istanbul returns as premier tissue industry event for Türkiye...

Tissue World has confirmed that its conference and tradeshow in Istanbul - at the heart of the dynamic Türkiye, Middle East, Eastern Europe, North...

Tissue World Istanbul Returns as Premier Tissue Industry Event for Türkiye...

Tissue World Istanbul, the leading exhibition for the tissue industry in Türkiye, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, is set to return...

K-C delivers “solid start” to the year in latest results

Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has reported net sales of $5.1bn in its latest results, which it said were driven by its “powerhouse pipeline of innovation”. First quarter...

Essity “in better shape than ever” in latest results

Essity has reported “high profitability and strong cash flow” in its Q1 results, as all three business areas increase their margins. Net sales decreased year-on-year...

P&G announces “solid sales and strong earnings growth” in latest results

Procter & Gamble (P&G) has reported net sales of $20.2bn up 1% year-on-year in its Q3 fiscal year 2024 results, as it reports “strong...

C.Y.P. Del R boosts capacity with TM start-up

Colombian tissue manufacturer C.Y.P. Del R. has started up a Toscotec-supplied complete AHEAD 1.8 tissue line at its mill in Risaralda. According to the supplier,...

Combustion System Upgrade on PM2 TAD machine at Essity

Sweden’s Essity has invested in an Andritz-supplied combustion system upgrade on its PM2 TAD machine at its plant in Prudhoe Mill, England. The completed upgrade...

Navigator increases tissue prices by 8 to 10%

The Navigator Company has announced tissue price hikes of 8 to 10% in all markets, effective for all dispatches from May 2024 onwards. The company...

Suzano announces May pulp price hikes

Suzano has announced price increases for eucalyptus pulp orders in May. In Asia, prices will increase by $30 per ton. In Europe, prices will increase by...

Sipat optimises operations to meet growth target with ABB investment

Morocco’s Societé Industrielle Des Papiers Tissues (Sipat) has invested in two ABB-supplied advanced Quality Control System (QCS) to be installed at the company’s Meknes-based...

OPERATIONS REPORT: A Southeast Asian “premier titan” embarks on visionary expansion

In March, Indonesia’s Sun Paper Source announced it had invested in four tissue machines at its plant in Ngoro, Mojokerto, boosting production capacity to...

MARKETISSUES – TISSUE WORLD MIAMI 2024: The global tissue industry steps...

Event organiser Informa Connect has hailed the impressive success of Tissue World Miami 2024 after recording visitor growth up 61% compared with 2022’s exhibition. North...

FRONTISSUES: The results are in, and the post-Covid surge gathers pace

You will quickly pick up the mood of the industry in TWM’s pages as analysts and executives across global tissue look back on fiscal...

FOCUS ON – GLOBAL TISSUE: Outlook for global consumer tissue and...

2023 was a year of demand recovery in consumer tissue. However, elevated inflation has led to diverging performance in value and volume sales across...

EXITISSUES: North American tissue is back on track after the pandemic...

Against a background where grocery prices have risen by 26% and consumers are spending the highest share of their income on food for 30...

PACKAGING TECHNICAL THEME: Infinity’s latest automation advance completes total modular production...

In January, Infinity Machine & Engineering Corp., headquartered in De Pere, Wisconsin, US, announced it had further expanded its roster of automated machinery to...

INDONESIA COUNTRY REPORT: Tissue export powerhouse: Indonesia retains its Southeast Asian...

Technology upgrades are seeing capacity CAGR of 11% from 2007 to 2025 … a more than five-fold increase, as exports exceed imports 166-fold. By...

INDONESIA COUNTRY REPORT: Poised to get back on its fast-growth pathway

The pandemic caused a four-year economic slowdown and hit consumer confidence – but an impressive projected five-year CAGR is now “inevitable,” says Euromonitor International...

PACKAGING TECHNICAL THEME: The bundler was standing idle … that made...

In the tissue packaging technology market Plusline wanted to set new efficiency standards. Business Development Director Matteo Giardini explains how they went about it....

PACKAGING TECHNICAL THEME: Flexibility, precision, reliability and speed – overcoming the...

Edson has launched its 4000TL-Robotic Top Load Case Packer. Josh Goulet, Account Manager at Edson, outlines its qualities. A TWM report. In the fast-paced world...

Metsä Group increases Lambi production with packaging line investment

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 acquires stake in HydrogenPro

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 targets process automation with Valmet DNAe launch

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...