ABB targets pulp and paper markets with latest ASM innovation

ABB has launched its latest Automation Software Maintenance (ASM) lifecycle management programme to cover the software related to Paper Machine Drives (PMC800)...

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. 

Sainsbury’s cuts own-brand toilet paper prices

British supermarket Sainsbury’s is cutting the price of its own-brand toilet paper, a result of the cost-of-living crisis and the falling cost...

2,222m/min – FHH announces world speed record

Fine Hygienic Holding’s (FHH) Al Nakheel mill has announced that its Valmet-supplied Advantage DCT 200 tissue machine has reached speeds of 2,222m/min...

CHEMICALS TECHNICAL THEME: The Safe Edge – the online colour compliance...

As the European Union’s list of ‘high concern’ chemicals increases, Simon Boyd, Business Development Manager Colorants at Switzerland-headquartered Archroma - a global...

CHEMICALS TECHNICAL THEME: GPAM – Is it the next generation alternative...

Downsides of PAE resins include process inefficiencies, difficulties with wet strength broke repulpability, and increased regulatory scrutiny due to harmful chloro-organic byproducts....

MARKETISSUES: Special Report – Tissue World Düsseldorf 2023

Tissue World returned in Europe for the first time in four years with an impressive event that hosted thousands of tissue colleagues...

FRONTISSUES: The South Korean market is changing rapidly… more single person...

TWM was welcomed in South Korea in 2012 to report on its successes… brilliant electronics, exported at the right price, an internet...

South Korea’s tissue business may relinquish more production volumes to its...

In the export-driven powerhouse, the tissue sector is a rare exception – a net importer. But with unemployment and inflation impacting less...

SOUTH KOREA COUNTRY REPORT: Bulk buying up by as much as...

South Korean retail tissue registered resilient volume year-on-year rise of 4% in 2022. Longer term growth likely through product launches targeting unmet...

EXITISSUES: Market leadership in sustainable hygiene, and 20% of the AfH...

TWM interviewed Managing Director Khalid Saifullah when Star Tissue UK was named in the London Stock Exchange Group’s top 1,000 companies to...

BAROMETER ISSUE: SPECIAL FEATURE

In 2022, TWM interviewed tissue mill executives in Italy, France, Türkiye, Thailand, Mexico, and Poland and Romania for the magazine’s Country Reports....

OPERATIONS REPORT: The MSS Group – demographic trends drive major changes...

Single-person households, a drop in marriages, the online warehouse and next-day-delivery malls are driving a new era of small-volume production. TWM interviews...

8 Reasons to Exhibit at Tissue World Miami (in 2024)

Tissue World Miami is North America’s largest tissue industry event and is made up of a three-day trade show and conference.

Suzano and Sofidel join forces in Amazon rainforest pilot project

Suzano and Sofidel have joined forces in a landmark pilot programme that aims to advance ecological conservation and restoration whilst supporting socio-economic...

Metsä Tissue joins sustainable paper research network Modellfabrik Papier

Metsä Tissue is to become a shareholder of Germany’s Modellfabrik Papier, a research project that works to develop sustainable paper technologies and...

WEPA integrates fibre processing at Kriebstein plant  

WEPA Group has acquired the stock preparation division of insolvent German papermaker Kübler & Niethammer Papierfabrik Kriebstein (K&N).  All...

Reduction of plastics and water-use highlighted in latest K-C sustainability report 

Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has addressed the social and environmental challenges it faces in the next decade - including the reduction of its environmental...

Essity to exit Russian market after divesting operations  

Essity has signed an agreement for the divestment of its Russian operations and the transaction has now been approved by authorities.  

“First of its kind” recyclability tool for fibre-based packaging launches in...

The Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI) has launched Papercycle, a recyclability assessment and certification service for fibre-based packaging.  Launched...

Billerud launches wrapping solution for toilet and kitchen rolls

Billerud has introduced a machine glazed kraft paper especially adapted for wrapping toilet and kitchen paper rolls.  The company...

Södra investigating possibilities of agricultural-enhanced softwood pulp 

Södra investigating possibilities of agricultural-enhanced softwood pulp  Södra is investigating “a ground-breaking new pulp” which will combine wood from...

Accrol reports strong performance in trading update; tissue mill project on...

UK-based independent tissue converter Accrol Group has reported FY23 results “at least in line” with market expectations and FY24 margins improving in...

Navigator reports “best performance ever” in Q1 results; pursues tissue and...

The Navigator Company has recorded its highest-ever turnover against what it described as a backdrop of “unprecedented” global contraction in demand across...

Infinity targets global tissue bundler market with Optic M1 launch  

Infinity Machine & Engineering Corp. has responded to its global customers’ requests for packaging versatility and speed by launching its latest innovation,...

Sofidel signs PPA to supply 100% renewable energy to Katerini plant

Italian tissue giant Sofidel has signed a 10-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to supply 100% renewable energy to its plant in Katerini,...

Cascades reports “solid first quarter”; tissue sales expected to improve sequentially 

Cascades has reported sales of $1,134m in Q1 – up $96m from the $1,038m recorded in Q1 2022 – and said it...

Kruger Products reports improved Q1 revenue of $451m  

Canadian tissue manufacturer Kruger Products has reported a “strong performance” driving revenue and adjusted EBITDA growth in its Q1 results.  

Velvet CARE reports 57% sales increase; eyes further acquisition  

Polish Consumer tissue producer Velvet CARE has reported increased sales in 2022 up 57% to PLN1.3bn (€280m), and said it is considering...

SPG boosts high quality production with TM start-up

Saudi Paper Group (SPG) has started up a Toscotec-supplied AHEAD 2.2 tissue machine and OPTIMA slitter rewinder at its Dammam mill in Saudi...

GP boosts retail consumer towel business with $50m investment  

Georgia-Pacific (GP) is making investments worth $50m at its Port Hudson mill in Zachary, Louisiana, to grow its retail consumer towel business. 

K-C delivers “strong top-line growth” in Q1 results 

Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has reported net sales up 2% year-on-year to $5.2bn in its Q1 results. Organic sales were up...

Cascades to close underperforming tissue plants

Cascades has announced a repositioning of its tissue papers operating platform that will see it close its tissue plants in Barnwell, South...

Essity reports “strong start” to the year in Q1 results; mulls...

Essity has reported a net sales increase of 25.1% in its Q1 results as it initiates a strategic review of its ownership...

P&G announces Board of Directors appointments

Procter & Gamble (P&G) has appointed Sheila Bonini, Senior Vice President of the World Wildlife Fund, and Rob Portman, former US Senator,...

Irving’s Royale tissue brand certified carbon neutral

Irving Consumer Products has announced that its Canadian household consumer tissue products brand Royale has been certified carbon neutral by the Carbon...

Körber aims to “revolutionise packaging” with Kit Bio Pack plus launch

Körber Business Area Tissue has launched its latest packaging innovation, the Kit Bio Pack plus, which it said will “revolutionise packaging” and...

K-C’s UK sites shortlisted for government’s Hydrogen Business Model Strategy

Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has said three of its UK-based green hydrogen projects it is developing with energy partners have won places on the...

MG TEC boosts capacity with TM start-up

Romania’s MG TEC has started up its second complete tissue production line from Andritz at its mill in Dej.

Circular economy pioneer Essity producing paper CO2 free 

Thorsten Becherer, Site Manager at Essity’s Mainz-Kostheim, Germany-based plant, explains the latest advances in award winning e-save programme.  TWM/1:...