Daio and Marubeni expand into South America market with Santher acquisition

Japanese tissue companies Daio and Marubeni have acquired Brazilian consumer goods company Santher-Fábrica de Papel Santa Therezinha. Santher announced...

Azur Papier boosts capacity with second TM

Tunisia’s Azur Papier has increased its tissue production capacity after starting up its second Recard-supplied tissue line. In...

Andritz starts-up “world’s first fossil-free biomethanol plant” at Södra

Andritz has recently started up the world’s first biomethanol plant using its self-developed A-Recovery+ concept at the Södra Cell Mönsterås pulp...

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

South Africa’s Picknik Marketing Pty has started up a Toscotec-supplied MODULO-PLUS tissue machine at its Johannesburg mill.

Tissue World Miami reschedules for November 2020

Informa Markets has announced that Tissue World Miami will now be held at the Miami Beach Convention Center on 11–13 November 2020.

Tissue industry braces for further impact; consequences for the market are...

The world’s tissue industry is bracing itself for further substantial production increases following the world-wide outbreak of Covid-19. Mills...

IN A WORLD WHERE SPEED TO MARKET AND DYNAMIC PRODUCTION FLOWS...

While initial capital investment in a mobile robot with control software and interfaces and changes to existing systems may cost close to...

Internal distribution – largely exempt from technological improvements – offers the...

Producers and distributors face tough challenges responding to rapidly changing consumer demands in facilities and warehouses not designed to handle them. The...

70% OF CONSUMERS MAY BE ROUTINELY BUYING CONSUMER PACKAGED GOODS ONLINE...

Sanna Sosa, principal, AFRY Management Consulting. Millennials and Generation Z are moving into a powerful position to dictate...

Tissue World Miami: the safety of our industry must come first

Tissue World Miami will be back. We intend to reschedule our major US tradeshow for later in the year – dates to be...

A NEW ERA OF CONVERTING CORE PRINCIPLES INTO GROWTH

‘In the near future a learning machine will be capable of autonomously interpreting data and improving on its own performance under every...

TISSUE: INDISPENSABLE FOR GAME CREATORS

The multi-dimensional board and construction game Vektorelle® has advanced simple building blocks to new educational levels covering geometry, mathematics and Cartesian space....

SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS – THE GROWTH WORLD LEADER IN TISSUE DEMAND

The emerging ASEAN trade bloc is being powered by a new generation of young spenders, quality products and low production costs. Economic...

REBRAND AND M&A TAKES CASCADES UP TO 4TH BIGGEST PRODUCER IN...

Like all tissue companies the easing of the pulp price crisis has been warmly welcomed. Like most, the Canadian green and private...

CANADA: MATURE CONSUMER TISSUE MARKET UNDER PRICING AND COMPETITIVE PRESSURES

Svetlana Uduslivaia, Euromonitor International’s head of tissue & hygiene industry Lingering around 500,000 tonnes in retail consumer...

CANADIAN TISSUE COMPANIES INCREASINGLY BUYING AND BUILDING SOUTH OF THE BORDER

Bruce Janda, Senior consultant, Fisher International CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA SECOND ONLY TO THAT OF THE US, WITH STRONG...

Toscotec acquired by Voith Group; Toscotec to continue to provide its...

Italian tissue machine manufacturer Toscotec has signed an agreement for 90% of its shares to be acquired by Voith Group. Alessandro Mennucci,...

HOW LONG WILL THE RAPID EXPANSION OF THE CHINESE TISSUE BUSINESS...

Esko Uutela, Principal, tissue, Fastmarket RISI Today tissue products are part of normal daily life in the vast...

Arkhbum Tissue Group boosts capacity

Russia’s Arkhbum Tissue Group has started up its PrimeLineTM W6 tissue machine in Vorsino. Supplied by Andritz, the TM...

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...

Lucart increases capacity with rebuilds

Italy’s Lucart has completed two dry section rebuilds at its Lucart Diecimo tissue mill. Supplied by Toscotec, the project...

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....

Cascades reports “historic results” which affirm solid growth progress

Cascades has reported solid results for the fourth quarter and full year 2019. Sales for the fourth quarter were...

THE SHAPE OF THE ECONOMIES OF THE FUTURE BELONGS TO MILLENNIALS...

Helen Morris Senior Editor, Tissue World Magazine Any industry today has to know what Millennials and Generation Z consumers want. This new...

Hayat Kimya Alabuga claims World Record

Hayat Kimya Alabuga has said its TM4 set a world record by using Voith’s QualiFlex CrownT sleeve on the ViscoNip application...

Russ Torres appointed as president of K-C Professional

Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has appointed Russ Torres as president of its Professional division. Effective 9 March, Torres will lead...

APP Group boosts capacity in China

APP Group has purchased three new tissue E-WIND T-200S rewinders. Supplied by A.Celli, APP Group management signed...

Papeterie Le Bourray announces PM4 rebuild

France’s Papeterie Le Bourray has announced plans to rebuild PM4 at its Saint-Mars-la-Brière tissue mill. Supplied by Toscotec,...

BTG launches its first Industry 4.0 solution

BTG has launched SMART Monitoring, its first Industry 4.0 solution which the company said allows real-time performance information on all BTG assets...

Futura confirms first Together orders

Futura has received the first two orders for its newly launched Together converting and packaging lines. The clients...

FHH plans sixth tissue mill site following double-digits growth

Fine Hygienic Holding (FHH) has begun evaluating locations for the establishment of a sixth paper mill. The...

Kimberly-Clark to permanently close Fullerton plant

Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has confirmed it will permanently close its Fullerton, CA, tissue plant in the first half of 2020.

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 -...

Resolute: 4Q results reflect “bottom-of-the-cycle conditions” in market pulp

Resolute Forest Products has said its financial position “will remain strong” following the acquisition of three sawmills, as it reports preliminary fourth...

Cartiere Carrara boosts premium tissue offering with M&A

Italy’s Cartiere Carrara has completed the acquisition of converting companies Carind and CRC from the Caldaroni Group. Consistent...

DRIVEN BY INNOVATION – AT THE LEADING EDGE OF MACHINERY...

Searching for ever more quality while keeping production costs under control ... “it’s sometimes like reconciling water and fire.” The world’s leading tissue...

K-C reports “excellent progress” in year-end results

“Looking ahead, our plan for 2020 is to deliver top- and bottom-line growth consistent with our medium-term financial objectives while continuing to...

SCANDINAVIA’S PRODUCTION IS OLD AND SLOW – BUT POISED TO REAP...

Tissue in Scandinavia - Denmark, Sweden and Norway - is the classic story of whereto find the growth. A combined population of...

WORLD TISSUE GROWTH – BIG DATA – AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS – INDUSTRY...

Tissue World São Paulo, Brazil, has again raised the standard for the region’s dynamic tissue industry. Trade visitors to the event, now...

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC César Iglesias enters tissue market with TT SYD start-up

César Iglesias Group has moved into the tissue market after starting up a Toscotecsupplied TT SYD. The second-generation machine was successfully started-up...