Thursday, June 18, 2026
Frontissues

Fundamental changes are underway in Europe’s largest economy

Helen Morris -
Germany’s green transition may have been accelerated by five to ten years. And remarkably, it could have proceeded at a faster pace...
Operations Report

Industry partnerships key to tackling challenges with sustainability and innovation the...

Helen Morris -
With a market share of 25% in its home country, tissue giant WEPA Group has ambitious plans to maintain the top spot....
Germany

Under energy-price pressure Germany’s slow-growth stage sees its decarbonisation rate accelerate

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Economic growth of 0.2% is now forecast for 2023 instead of a recession. With machine replacements and upgrades focused on cost, quality...
Exitissues

China’s state of the nation tissue report: Overcapacity a serious concern...

Tissue World Magazine -
China’s National Household Paper Industry Association has urged its companies to invest “rationally” in its annual assessment of the current status of...
Sivashankari Bharathi, Analyst, AFRY Management Consulting, and Sanna Sosa, Senior Principal, AFRY Management Consulting
Marketissues

Market pulse 2023: American tissue’s rollercoaster ride is now on the...

Tissue World Magazine -
AfH is largely back to pre-pandemic levels. AH is seeing structural changes in buying habits, pressure on spending power, a rise in...
Project Survey

Special Feature: Projects Survey

Helen Morris -
The combination of life after the outbreak of Covid-19, the global energy crisis, and ongoing fluctuations across trades and raw materials, has...
Paper Machine

View from the inside – leading companies explain their strategies for...

Helen Morris -
High levels of flexibility – a necessity caused by unprecedented economic circumstances - characterise the global industry response in the supply chain...
Consumer Speak

Koehler’s Eco Black recycled paper – 250 metres of it –...

Helen Morris -
Italian artist Enrico Mazzone’s work includes Rubedo, a visual representation of Dante’s Divine Comedy, and the largest work of art said to...
Germany

German consumers finally decide they like tissue via e-commerce

Tissue World Magazine -
Notorious resistance has eased thanks to promotions, enforcement of personal data protection, same-day delivery, the ability to order anytime anywhere, auto-repeats, and...
Exitissues

China’s state of the nation tissue report: Overcapacity a serious concern...

Tissue World Magazine -
China’s National Household Paper Industry Association has urged its companies to invest “rationally” in its annual assessment of the current status of...
The opening of the ABB Dundalk R&D Centre in Ireland
World News

ABB opens global R&D facility in Ireland

Helen Morris -
ABB has opened a multi-million-dollar global R&D centre in Dundalk, Ireland, to drive technological advancements in pulp and paper.
Gomà-Camps Consumer facility in Zaragoza, Spain
World News

Navigator completes acquisition of all Gomà-Camps shares

Helen Morris -
The Navigator Company has completed the acquisition of all shares representing the share capital of Spain’s Gomà-Camps Consumer and French company Gomà-Camps...
Essity
World News

Essity and Voith partner to develop concept for sustainable tissue production

Helen Morris -
Essity has entered an exclusive partnership with Voith to develop a tissue making process it said will reduce energy and CO2 emissions...
TT SYD Steel Yankee Dryer
World News

WEPA France boosts production capacity with investment

Helen Morris -
WEPA France has invested in a Toscotec-supplied TT SYD Steel Yankee Dryer on PM11 at its Bousbecque plant near Lille.
Lucart’s logistics hub in the Hellieule business park in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France
World News

Lucart strengthens presence in France with logistics hub

Helen Morris -
Lucart has announces the acquisition of a logistics hub in the Hellieule business park in Saint-Diè-des-Vosges, France. The investment...
Sofidel’s Lucca, Italy-based HQ
World News

Sofidel to acquire insolvent Hakle’s trademark and other brands

Helen Morris -
Italy’s Sofidel has signed an agreement with Germany’s Hakle to acquire its consumer brand Hakle and other brands including Dick & Durstig...
Sponsored

 The Smart Evolution: beyond 4.0

Advertorial -
E80 Group has a long history in developing cutting-edge technologies that integrate the processes in tissue factories and distribution centers.
World News

Fire in one of Essity’s warehouses in Porcari

Helen Morris -
Essity has confirmed that a fire broke out around 1:30pm on 12 March at one of its warehouses in Porcari in Lucca and was completely extinguished by the morning of 13 March.
World News

Andritz targets energy efficiencies with electrically heated hood launch

Helen Morris -
Andritz has targeted the reduction of carbon emissions and increased tissue production with its latest innovation, the PrimeDry Hood E.
World News

Five Baotuo tissue machines start-up within a week

Helen Morris -
BaoSuo Enterprise Group subsidiary Baotuo Paper Machine has announced the start-up of five tissue machines at customers including Hengan Group’s, Vanov Group and Shaoneng Group, all within the space of one week.
World News

Essity produces tissue using CO2-free renewable hydrogen production process

Helen Morris -
Essity has said it is the first company in the industry to produce tissue in a CO2 emission-free production process using renewable hydrogen at its production facility in Mainz-Kostheim, Germany.
World News

KPLP reports “continued recovery” in latest results; revenue increases 14.8% in...

Helen Morris -
Canadian tissue manufacturer Kruger Products (KPLP) has reported a “continued recovery” that is driving revenue and profit growth in its Q4 and FY 2022 results.
World News

Paper Excellence Group completes Resolute acquisition

Helen Morris -
The Paper Excellence Group has boosted its overall product offering and geographic reach after closing the previously announced acquisition of Resolute Forest Products.
World News

Lucart signs 10-year renewable energy purchase agreement

Helen Morris -
Lucart has signed a 10-year Corporate Power Purchase Agreement (Corporate PPA) with Plenitude (Eni) Società Benefit, a move it said will reduce its CO2 emissions related to the purchase of electricity from the national grid by around 30%.
World News

GrandBay Papelera Internacional boosts premium capacity by 60,000tpy with TM start-up

Helen Morris -
Guatemala’s GrandBay Papelera Internacional has started-up a Toscotec-supplied double-width AHEAD 2.2L tissue machine at its Rio Hondo Zacapa site in Guatemala.
World News

Metsä Tissue to boost logistical capabilities with E80 Group investment

Helen Morris -
Metsä Tissue is investing in a fully automated E80 Group-supplied high-bay warehouse with state-of-the art in-house logistical solutions at its tissue paper mill in Mariestad.
World News

First Quality to purchase Domtar’s Dryden mill

Helen Morris -
First Quality and Paper Excellence Group subsidiary Domtar Corporation have entered into an agreement for First Quality to acquire Domtar's Dryden, Canada-based pulp mill.
World News

Cascades latest results report “continued positive momentum” in tissue

Helen Morris -
Cascades has reported “a stronger end to a challenging year” in its Q4 and full year 2022 results, as its tissue segment continues to show positive momentum.
World News

Zeus boosts packaging abilities with Polpack acquisition 

Helen Morris -
Irish-owned packaging company Zeus has further consolidated its operations across Europe after acquiring Polish packaging materials distribution and packaging machinery solutions business Polpack.  
World News

Sofidel announces renewable energy agreement for Buñuel plant in Spain  

Helen Morris -
Sofidel has signed a 10-year supply agreement with Spanish renewable energy company ACCIONA Energía, a move it said will save the group 12,870 metric tons of CO2 per year.
World News

Metsä Tissue boosts capacity by 70,000tpy with TM investment

Helen Morris -
Metsä Tissue is to boost its production capacity after investing in a Valmet-supplied tissue machine to be installed at its Mariestad mill in Sweden.
World News

P&G targets premium market boost with TM investment   

Helen Morris -
Procter & Gamble (P&G) has increased its premium consumer bath tissue production after investing in an Andritz-supplied PrimeLineTAD tissue machine.
World News

The changing face of European tissue: WEPA, Essity, Geopolitical Futures, and...

Helen Morris -
Operational efficiency, the green energy transition, future fibres: Tissue World Düsseldorf’s conference will discuss how the European tissue industry is at the core of the industry’s transformation - and what the future holds.
Frontissues

FRONTISSUES: Spain – a tissue laboratory for answers to a fluctuating...

Helen Morris -
In the major re-balancing of the Spanish tissue market some of the statistics in TWM’s Country Report are remarkable. First up: Spain...
Operations Report

OPERATIONS REPORT Northwood Dicepa: Open air restaurants, increased vacationing, sunny climes...

Helen Morris -
Two tissue plant acquisitions in Spain by the UK-based Northwood Group have seen a double win … the Spanish market’s continued recovery,...
Operations Report

OPERATIONS REPORT Essity Valls: After the ‘big evolution’ the market is...

Helen Morris -
Spanish consumer tissue leader Essity Valls met the turmoil of recent years with its own rapid response. Miriam Guasch, Operations Director Manufacturing...
Exitissues

ExitIssues: With the global recession accelerating in 2022, two key events...

Jacob Shapiro -
Tissue trade, like almost all trade, prefers a smooth, settled and thriving economic world. Exceptions occur when disruption, whatever the cause may...
Consumer Speak

ConsumerSpeak: From “no real awareness of this wonderful product,” to co-owning...

Helen Morris -
Netherlands-born Sander de Klerk is Founder and Chief Rolling Officer for the Good Roll company. Here, he explains the motivation behind the...
Spain

Spain balances its priorities in search of profit margin recovery

Liying Qian -
Now ahead of Germany in private label presence in Western Europe, key issues will be weighing quality and value, performance advancing innovation,...
Marketissues

MarketIssues: The growing role of biodiversity and carbon storage: what to...

H. Mörner C. Berg-Rustas S. Pastila -
Business-as-usual when utilising wood fibre is looking less likely for products such as tissue, as large policy readjustments for sustainability and forestry...
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