Miami is a big stride … as the global industry begins...

Just how fit-for-purpose the $92bn* global issue industry is in the early months of 2022 is made abundantly clear in the pages...

AFRY: Costs have reached unprecedented highs: How to mitigate their worst...

Tissue producers faced multiple challenges in 2021 as demand cooled down and input costs increased significantly. During the third quarter of 2021,...

Fisher: Italy’s tissue business becomes more export-driven with 50% of exports...

Even as per capita GDP has vastly increased over the last 14 years, low domestic demand growth has pushed the industry to...

Euromonitor: Safety is the watchword for the post-pandemic, endemic era

Italy, the European tissue hub, has seen unprecedented growth figures for a developed market. Core trends of sustainability and digitalisation allied to...

Special Focus: How Chinese tissue performed in 2021… and its development...

The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the intellectualisation of tissue machinery across the world, and no more so than in China. Here, in...

Paper Machine Technical Theme: At the leading edge of the industry’s...

In twenty years tissue machine technology has reduced energy consumption by half, and water consumption by up to 80%. Today, the level...

ExitIssues: Supply chain challenges in UK home and international markets at...

Spiraling energy costs, rising inflation, changing labour market forces, and Brexit regulations adding to pandemic restrictions have created issues “we have never...

WEPA Group: After the pandemic hit consumer business, 2022 is the...

WEPA’s new strategies progressing product diversity, flexible machinery, recycled paper, packaging, hybrid products, and efficient renewable energy. Bernhard Gross, Managing Director WEPA...

Special Feature: Projects Survey 2021-2023

TWM’s annual Projects Survey charts all new capacity being added, ordered or in final planning stages during 2021-2022, as well as noting...

Operations Report: Essity expects professional hygiene market is set to grow...

Italian operations at Lucca and Collodi playing leading roles in new “more agile and competitive” Consumer Tissue Private Label division for Europe...

ConsumerSpeak: Covid didn’t change my buying habits very much … but...

Brazilian-born world traveller Márcio Moura is, unsurprisingly, an avid football fan. His team is São Paulo’s Corinthians, and Márcio lives in Belo...

Canfor Pulp announces production curtailment at Taylor Pulp

Canfor Pulp Products has announced a minimum six-week curtailment of BCTMP production at its Taylor Pulp plant in response to “significant transportation...

Körber targets taco market with interfolded napkin line launch

Körber Business Area Tissue has officially launched its interfolded napkin line, the MTC ITF omni Taquera. The Taquera line...

Metsä Group reports “excellent” 2021 results; demand for tissue products “expected...

Metsä Group has reported sales of €6,017m - up from €5,055m in 2020 - in its 2021 full-year results and announced plans...

Kruger, Sofidel, Fisher and Suzano to headline TW Miami conference

Tissue World Miami Conference 2022 has confirmed the theme of Tissue Today & Forever: Drivers and Strategies for a Sustainable Future will...

Sofidel announces price hikes in Europe

Sofidel has announced it will increase the price of its products in all European markets and in all sales channels.

Solenis increases prices in EMEA

Solenis has increased the price of all its polyacrylamide polymers and retention aids across the EMEA region by 8 – 15%.

Edson launches 4000TL-Robotic

Edson has launched the 4000TL-Robotic, a top-load case packer aimed at small to midsized companies that manufacture a variety of SKUs within...

Papeterie Le Bourray invests in IQ Quality Control System

France’s Papeterie Le Bourray has invested in a Valmet-supplied IQ Quality Control System to be installed on TM3 at its plant in...

Essity announces price increases across all markets

Essity has said it will introduce price hikes across all its product categories and markets in an attempt to compensate the “substantially...

K-C reports 2021 sales growth; Q4 Consumer Tissue sales decline 10%

Kimberly-Clark Corporation (K-C) has reported a 2% rise in its full-year 2021 net sales to $19.4bn, as its Consumer Tissue segment's fourth...

Essity reports 4.5% sales growth for 2021; announces further price hikes

Essity has announced sales growth of 4.5% year-on-year with organic sales up 3.3%. In the period 1 January –...

Solenis closes acquisition of SCL

Solenis has closed on the acquisition of 100% of the outstanding shares of German-headquartered SCL.

ERS launches CCM OCT dust filter into tissue market

Atlanta-headquartered Engineered Recycling Systems (ERS) has introduced its CCM OCT dust filter system into the global tissue, towel and non-woven converting markets.

Pehart Group boosts capacity with €10m Constellation start-up

Romania’s Pehart Group has increased its converting capacity after starting up its Körber Group-supplied Constellation line.

MG TEC increases high-quality tissue capacity with start-up

Romania’s MG TEC Industry has started-up its Andritz-supplied PrimeLineCOMPACT tissue machine at its plant in mill in Dej.

Partex Star Group boosts capacity

Bangladesh’s Partex Star Group has boosted its bulky and soft tissue production capacity after starting up an iDEAL tissue machine.

Guangxi Sun Paper boosts capacity with 60,000tpy start-up

China’s Guangxi Sun Paper has started up the second of two Andritz-supplied PrimeLineTM W 2000 tissue machines at its plant in Beihai City, Guangxi Province.

Kruger Products’ Sherbrooke plant to double capacity

Canada’s Kruger Products (KPLP) is to double the capacity of its Sherbrooke expansion project by constructing a double width Light Dry Crepe (LDC) tissue machine with a capacity of at least 60,000tpy, instead of the previously announced 30,000tpy LDC tissue machine.

Hengan Group boosts capacity

China’s Hengan Group has started up its PM29 Baotuo-supplied tissue machine at its subsidiary company Hengan (China) Paper Co.

Navigator applies 15% surcharge to tissue prices

The Navigator Company is to apply an energy, logistics and commodities surcharge to its tissue products, amounting 15% of the sales price, to “offset the significant and unexpected raising of its input cost”.

WEPA Group reduces multipack sizes in UK

WEPA Group has reduced the size of its multipacks bathroom tissues in the UK.

Infinity launches VISION G3 Wrapper

The automated packaging machinery manufacturer said the wrapper can produce packs up to five lanes wide, three layers high and six rows deep, all within a small footprint while using sustainable design practices.

Toscotec launches TT LowMistFormer

Toscotec has launched the TT LowMistFormer, which the paper machine supplier said is its latest energy-efficient innovation of the wire section of Crescent Former tissue machine

Liansheng Pulp and Paper boosts capacity

China’s Liansheng Pulp & Paper has boosted its production capacity after investing in two Andritz-supplied CrescentFormer tissue machines.

Ehab Abou-Oaf named President, K-C Professional

Kimberly-Clark Corporation (K-C) has announced that Ehab Abou-Oaf - currently Managing Director of the company’s Middle East and Africa business – will become President of its Professional division.

MEPCO enters tissue market with 60,000tpy plant announcement

Saudi Arabia’s Middle East Paper Co. (MEPCO) has celebrated the inauguration of its 60,000tpy Toscotec-supplied tissue jumbo roll manufacturing facility in King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC).

Intertrade Hellas invests to become Greece’s largest tissue manufacturer

Greek tissue converter Intertrade Hellas has signed for the supply of a complete turnkey line, a move which will make it the country’s largest tissue manufacturer.

Sun Paper boosts capacity with first of two start-ups

China’s Guangxi Sun Paper has started up the first of two Andritz-supplied PrimeLineTM W 2000 tissue machines.

WEPA Group: European sustainability pioneer advances its targets across entire value...

Stefan Gräter, Head of Sustainability at WEPA Group, discusses the key aspects of the company's recently published sustainability report. A TWM report.