BTG launches Pulp 4.0

BTG has launched Pulp 4.0, an integrated solution that it said will improve overall fiberline performance and productivity. The...

FP Kaczory boosts capacity with TM start-up

Poland’s FP Kaczory has started-up its PMP-supplied Intelli-YD Steel Yankee dryer. The line produces tissue and has a maximum...

Voith boosts strategic growth following completed Toscotec acquisition

Voith Group has completed its acquisition of Toscotec after obtaining all of the required regulatory approvals. Toscotec will continue...

Sofidel reports strong 2019 results; Inola inauguration to happen within months

Sofidel has reported net sales growth of 12.5% from €1,706m to €1,919m in its 2019 Integrated Report. EBITDA was...

Our formidable army of professionals has geared up to meet unprecedented...

We are enduring extraordinary times. It seems unreal that a pandemic of such tragic consequences was unthinkable just a few months ago. Before the relative...

Clearwater Paper reports “strong sales quarter for tissue” in results

Clearwater Paper Corporation has reported net sales of $436m for the fourth quarter of 2019, up from $429m reported at the same period...

Andritz launches PrimeLineVRT – Vertical CrescentFormer

Andritz has officially launched its latest tissue machine, the PrimeLineVRT – Vertical Crescent Former – for the production of dry crepe tissue....

Clearwater Paper appoints Arsen S. Kitch as CEO

Clearwater Paper has appointed Arsen S. Kitch - the company’s senior vice president and general manager of its consumer products division -...

Picknik Marketing Pty boosts high-quality tissue capacity with start-up

Picknik Marketing Pty has started up a Toscotec-supplied MODULO-PLUS tissue machine at its Johannesburg mill. The new line produced...

THE TWM MAY-JUNE 2020 “MARKETISSUES” OPENING: Pandemic special, part 1

TWM interviewed tissue mills and industry insiders to get their views on how the pandemic is impacting the tissue market –...

ANALYSIS: INDUSTRY INSIDERS. Pandemic Special, part 2

As the world is set for recession, this is shaping up to be a banner year for consumer tissue producers. Bathroom...

USA TISSUE IN COVID-19 ENVIRONMENT: TEMPORARY UPTAKE IN RETAIL, TROUBLES IN...

By Svetlana Uduslivaia, Euromonitor International’s head of tissue & hygiene industry Svetlana Uduslivaia, Euromonitor International’s head...

POTENTIAL IMPACT ON COMMERCIAL HAND TOWEL DEMAND. Pandemic Special, part...

Please wash your hands and dry them with a paper towel! By Bruce Janda, senior consultant, Fisher International

CONSUMER TISSUE IN PORTUGAL: 2020 DISRUPTION VS LONG-TERM OPPORTUNITIES

Svetlana Uduslivaia, Euromonitor International’s head of tissue & hygiene industry At 7kg per capita in retail consumer...

THE AUTOMATED CARBON-T AND ADVANCES IN ECOLOGICAL PACKAGING LEAD FABIO...

Report by Fabio Perini’s Giuseppe Alberti, sales manager packaging, Massimo Grandi, regional sales director north, south west Europe and Italy, and...

ARE TISSUE’S GREEN CREDENTIALS AS GOOD AS ITS MAJOR COMPANIES CLAIM?

A report has claimed that the tissue industry is not as environmentally friendly as it used to be. For TWM, freelance...

SMARTER CASE PACKING FOCUSES ON END-OF-LINE THROUGHPUT OF AFH TISSUE PRODUCTS

Packaging’s search for optimum operational integration has a new leading product. Here Steve Boothe, senior account manager at Edson, a manufacturer...

ECOVA – HELPING TO CREATE A PLASTIC- FREE LINE AT...

Infinity Machine & Engineering Corp. teamed with Little Rapids Corporation to target market leadership with their new 100% recycled fibre paper...

‘AS PANIC BUYING SOARS, ALL SUPPLIERS EMPHASISE THE RESILIENCE OF...

Pirkko Petäjä and Mikko Helin, principals at AFRY Management Consulting, weigh the short- and long-term consequences for consumer tissue growth and...

THE GAME CHANGER IN RECENT TIMES HAS BEEN ACCESS TO TISSUE...

London based Mark Hendriksen is a researcher and blogger about the world of toilets, with humorous and educational health related books...

LOGISTICS’ LEAN BUSINESS MODEL AND ‘KEY WORKER’ STATUS WELL PLACED...

Covid-19 has led to a surge in demand for toilet paper, and concerns that tissue production and imports could grind to...

NET TISSUE EXPORTER ON TREND TOWARDS THREE TIMES MORE THAN COUNTRY...

PORTUGAL HAS HAD A SIGNIFICANT EFFECT ON WORLD HISTORY AS A MARITIME POWER AND EXPLORER. IT MADE A LASTING IMPACT ON...

K-C de México Q1 sales up 6%

Kimberly-Clark de México has reported sales up 6% to Ps. $11.7bn in its first quarter results.  The tissue giant also reported that the quarter had “better...

PCMC launches Smart TOUCH HMI

PCMC has launched Smart TOUCH HMI, a new human-machine interface available on Forte tissue converting lines.  The machinery supplier said the line offers...

USA reports “record-high” levels of tissue production during pandemic

America’s tissue mills have produced 700,000 tonnes of tissue in March - more than any other month since 2007 - according to the American Forest &...

APP partner Charta Global adds multipurpose tissue parent rolls to USA...

Asia Pulp & Paper’s (APP) partner Charta Global has introduced multipurpose tissue parent rolls to its existing product range in the USA...

Essel Kağıt invests in “Turkey’s biggest tissue machine”

Turkish tissue manufacturer Essel Kağıt has signed for the turnkey supply of a high-performance AHEAD 2.2L tissue line at its Osmaniye mill.

Resolute reports Q1 net loss; market pulp and tissue segments contribute...

Resolute Forest Products has reported a net loss of $1m for the quarter ended 31 March, compared to net income of $42m in...

Grupo Corporativo Papelera boosts capacity

Mexico’s Grupo Corporativo Papelera has boosted capacity after investing in an iDEAL mod. 2000S tissue machine. Supplied by A.Celli...

Royal Paper boosts capacity with rewinder investment

America’s Royal Paper Converting has invested in a new Gambini-supplied a Flex 700 Swing rewinder line. It is the...

Resolute announces temporary impact to operations

Resolute Forest Products has said it will take temporary steps to reduce its production to demand levels “consistent with essential needs” for...

Iriapak to open its first packaging film plant in North America

Italy’s Iriapak has invested $7m in its first tissue packaging manufacturing facility in North America. The site will be...

Marcal Paper “working round the clock” one year after devastating fire

America’s Marcal Paper has found itself at the front lines of the coronavirus efforts, operating at full capacity just weeks after reopening.

Essity reports “strong development” in Q1 results

Essity has reported a 10% increase in first quarter sales, a “strong development” the company said is party due to Covid-19.

Tissue & Paper Bangkok postponed to September

Tissue & Paper Bangkok - the combined long-standing brands of Asian Paper and Tissue World - will now be held at BITEC,...

Essity acquires Novioscan

Essity has strengthening its offering in incontinence products through the acquisition of the Dutch company Novioscan.   Novioscan was founded in 2014 in Nijmegen,...

Kadant Johnson expands operations; Alan Ives appointed VP

Alan Ives, vice president, operations, Kadant Johnson Kadant Johnson has expanded its operations group and appointed Alan Ives as vice...

Fuji Satowa boosts production capacity with TouchMax.Twin investment

Japan’s Fuji Satowa has invested in a Gambini-supplied TouchMax.Twin technology. The tissue manufacturer produces toilet paper using recycled pulp such as pre- and post-consumer waste material. 

Cascades to manufacture medical visors

Cascades has said it will supply the recycled plastic needed to make medical visors to help in the fight against Covid-19.  

Cassoli Group acquires shares in Nema Automazione

Stefano Cassoli, chief executive, Cassoli Group Italy’s Cassoli Group has acquired 70% of the shares of Nema Automazione.   Based in Bologna, Nema Automazione manufactures...