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Technical Theme

Driven by innovation – at the leading edge of machinery advances

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Leading tissue executives assess their companies’ priority issues – including saving energy, CO2 emissions, machine rebuilds, fibre usage, structured/textured products, remote expertise,...
Tissue World Magazine
Frontissues

North American tissue’s unprecedented boom … and a record nosedive

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The phrase ‘boom and bust’ is traditionally used in a sequential sense. If a boom gets out of control it may lead...
Bruce Janda, Senior consultant, ResourceWise
North America

Analysis of the North American tissue demand trajectory through the rest...

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• Infection rates to get worse before significant herd immunity no sooner than end Q2 or Q3 2021 •...
Q1 target for start-up: Critical weeks ahead to get TAD line on stream at Kruger’s impressive Sherbrooke plant in Quebec.
Operations Report

Kruger Products’ ‘Dynamic’ 2020 Continues with Imminent Major Start-Up and Planned...

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Canada’s leading manufacturer of quality tissue has redirected its strategy during the last three years. Chief Executive Dino Bianco has driven a...
Liying Qian, Research Analyst, Euromonitor International
North America

An unprecedented boom and a record nosedive – North America tissue...

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As the hygiene and AfH sectors reach opposite extremes, many manufacturers are repurposing some AfH-oriented manufacturing capacity to make more consumer-quality products....
Hendrik Otto, Chief Operating Officer, WEPA
Marketissues

People’s hygiene awareness has grown during the past months … we...

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Chief Operating Officer Hendrik Otto assesses the opportunities and challenges facing WEPA production sites in Germany, France, Italy, Poland, the UK and...
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Consumer Speak

“Don’t go anywhere without Kleenex” as my mother used to say...

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Charlotte Minor is a long-time Colorado resident but grew up in Maryland and Michigan and also lived in Arizona for a time....
Project Survey

Projects Survey 2020/21

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TWM’s Projects Survey charts all new capacity being added, ordered or in final planning stages during 2020–2021, as well as noting any...
Savvy consumers: Royal Paper's SuperSoft brand targets the value equation
Operations Report

“2020 was a record year of growth for us. We expect...

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An entrepreneurial spirit gives Royal Paper the means to diversify and expand west to east across the complete range of private label...
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Operations Report

New York’s historic tissue mill reinventing itself … after a devastating...

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“Overnight, we saw a shift across America … Covid changed the way everyone is behaving and thinking … we all need to...
Exitissues

Next investment cycle to see 5.8Mt additional supply of global BCP...

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Pierre Bach, Research manager, Hawkins Wright Last year’s subdued capacity growth – the first net contraction since 2014...
World News

Solenis announces EMEA price hikes

Helen Morris -
Solenis is to increase prices by up to 8% on all polyacrylamide polymers and retention aids across the EMEA region.  Effective 1 March or...
World News

Buckman announces price increases, forecasts continued rising costs

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Buckman has announced global price hikes of 8 - 25% for all products following recent raw material price increases that have created “an unsustainable strain” on the company.  
Suzano has made a series of pulp price increases for its bleached eucalyptus kraft products.
World News

Suzano announces BEK price hikes

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Suzano has made a series of pulp price increases for its bleached eucalyptus kraft products.   Effective 1 February, in Europe...
World News

Toscotec launches TT Defender

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Toscotec has officially launched TT Defender after it was successfully applied on a TT SYD operating at Lucart’s Diecimo tissue mill in Italy.  The paper machine...
Essity headquarters
World News

Essity reports net sales drop following Covid-19 outbreak

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Essity has reported net sales negatively impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic and related lockdowns in its year-end report but added that “profitability has developed positively”.  Group net...
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World News

Futura strengthens presence in North America

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Futura North America has appointed Cristian Giuliani as General Manager and Kevin Barliament as Vice President of Sales. Giuliani...
World News

Metsä Tissue boosts energy efficiencies in Mänttä

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Metsä Tissue is to increase the efficiency of its fresh fibre tissue paper production at its Mänttä plant in Finland.
World News

Europap Tezol Kağit boosts capacity by 40,000tpy with PM investment

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Turkey’s Europap Tezol Kağit has invested in a Toscotec-supplied AHEAD 2.2S tissue line. The line will be installed at...
World News

Cascades and Essity ranked amongst world’s 100 most sustainable companies

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Tissue manufacturers Cascades and Essity have been ranked amongst the world’s most environmentally sustainable companies in Corporate Knights’ 2021 Global 100 list.
World News

K-C reports “healthy” 2020 results as Q4 consumer tissue sales increase...

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Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has said a “healthy underlying performance” and increased demand because of Covid-19 boosted its full-year 2020 net sales by 4%...
World News

WEPA Group appoints Andreas Krengel to management board

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Germany’s WEPA Group has appointed Andreas Krengel as a member of the management board.   Effective 1 January 2021, Krengel has held various executive positions at WEPA since 2018 and will now assume responsibility for...
World News

Metsä Tissue to boost capacity at Mariestad

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Metsä Tissue has chosen BHM Engineering as the design service partner for the  expansion of its mill in Mariestad, Sweden.   The expansion of the mill...
World News

GP to sell nonwovens business to Glatfelter for $175m

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Georgia-Pacific (GP) is to sell its nonwovens business to Glatfelter, a global supplier of engineered materials headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.  
World News

K-C sells Swiss tissue mill

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Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has sold its Niederbipp tissue mill to the Queck family of entrepreneurs.    The transfer will take place on 1 May...
World News

Gorham Mill sold to Behrens

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Gorham Paper & Tissue and White Mountain Tissue (Gorham Mill) has been purchased by New York-based investment firm Behrens Investment Group.  
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World News

Royal Paper boosts USA presence with Sun Paper purchase

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Integrated tissue manufacturer Royal Paper Converting has expanded its presence across the American market after acquiring South Carolina-based Sun Paper Company.   
World News

Filar boosts high-quality tissue production

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Poland’s Filar Fijałkowscy Spółka Jawna has invested in a Tecno Paper-supplied tissue slitter rewinder.   The TP-3US-TRH18 rewinder will process high quality tissue.  
World News

Cascades Tissue Group Wisconsin wins energy award

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Cascades Tissue Group Wisconsin has won an energy efficiency award after it replaced and start-up its PM5 Yankee hood at its site in Eau Claire, USA.  Supplied...
World News

K-C looks to sell Niederbipp mill

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Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has confirmed it is currently in talks with a potential buyer to sell its Niederbipp mill in Switzerland.    A...
World News

Xuan Mai Paper targets premium tissue sector with TM start-up

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Vietnam’s Xuan Mai Paper has started up its PrimeLineCOMPACT tissue production line at its mill in Ho Chi Minh City.  Supplied...
Esko Uutela, Principal, Tissue, Fastmarkets RISI
Annual Review

In North America the pandemic rages … in China life has...

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Esko Uutela, Principal, Tissue, Fastmarkets RISI The Covid-19 pandemic has drastically changed daily life around the globe, including...
Andrew Green, Vice President, Tissue and Nonwovens, PCMC
Annual Review

I think that new products will be born following the change...

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Andrew Green, Vice President, Tissue and Nonwovens, PCMC We’ve seen an increase in the demand for at-home tissue...
Marutomi, Ultra long coreless
Operations Report

Marutomi Group targets unique product development in drive towards 20% home...

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The goal of Marutomi Seishi Co., a tissue product manufacturer with facilities across Japan, is to reach a 20% share of the...
Patrice Minguez, President, Resolute Tissue
Annual Review

We believe consumer behaviour triggered by the pandemic will continue in...

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Patrice Minguez, President, Resolute Tissue With the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, 2020 has been a year unlike...
Taro Yamato Research Analyst, Euromonitor International, Tokyo, Japan
Japan

Updated forecast puts Japan tissue growth at 6% in value and...

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All-industry model assumes third pandemic wave in 2021 and up to 7.5% decline in global GDP before an anticipated recovery to set...
Mr. Kazufumi Yamasaki, President, Nippon Paper Crecia Co.
Operations Report

Tissue use habits are changing as ‘new lifestyle’ takes hold in...

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Nippon Paper Crecia Co. President Mr. Kazufumi Yamasaki outlines focus on product development to meet challenges of rapidly changing market and the...
Simon Creasey Freelance journalist
Exitissues

Inside view of how leading companies are responding to the Covid...

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The surge in tissue consumption meant an intense focus on operating efficiencies, increasing control of entire supply chains, generational software updates, a...
Tissue World Magazine
Focus On

Eucalyptus – adding tensile strength and keeping formation and softness

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After nine years of research into reducing the consumption of wood per tonne of pulp, Suzano has launched industrial scale production at...
Tissue World Digital Days
Marketissues

Tissue World Digital Days brings the global industry together

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Three day online platform examined key trends across Asia, Yankee Dryer developments, the emerging dynamic in the Turkey region, Latin America and...
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