Northwood Paper boosts recycled paper capacity with acquisitions in Spain and...

Northwood Paper, Tissue & Hygiene has acquired Spanish paper producer Dicepa Papelera and the converting assets of Manipa in Madrid.

Sofidel commits to eradicating disposable plastics in its workplace

Sofidel has said it will abandon its use of disposable plastic items in its workplaces. The decision included its Italian companies...

Andritz acquires Kempulp

Andritz has acquired Swedish company Kempulp, a specialist provider of process technologies for the chemical pulping industry. The company...

Recard announces management changes

Recard has announces that Mauro Michelini exited the company on 31 July. Doctor of engineering Riccardo Lorenzo Campo has joined...

CANADA – Cascades delivers “record quarterly sales”: Orchids Paper acquisition provides...

Cascades has said all segments executed well in its second quarter results, with its tissue results supported by favourable input costs and...

CANADA – Atlantic Packaging Products announces sale of assets for napkin...

Atlantic Packaging Products has announced it is selling off the site’s machinery assets. At the time of going to print, the...

ITALY – Cartiera Confalone capacity boost ‘biggest in 20 years’ in...

Cartiera Confalone: the mill is said to represent the biggest tissue investment in the south of Italy in the last twenty years.

CHINA – Baoding Ruifeng Paper and Baosuo Enterprise Group boost capacity

Baoding Ruifeng Paper and Baosuo Enterprise Group have signed for two sets of BaoTuo-supplied tissue machines. The BaoTuo Crescent...

Aowei Paper boosts tissue production capacity

Chinese tissue manufacturer Aowei Paper has increased its tissue capacity after investing in a Baosuo Enterprise Group- supplied paper machine and converting...

INDONESIA – APP boosts capacity; contract includes the delivery of two...

Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) has invested in two rebuilds at its Sinar Mas mill. Supplied by PMP, the contract includes the...

COSTA RICA – K-C invests US$40m to boost Central American presence

Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has announced significant investment plan at its Coris Mill in Costa Rica. The expansion programme includes more than US$40m investment in the...

BRAZIL – CMPC expands operations with acquisition of SEPAC; move means...

CMPC subsidiary Softys has agreed to acquire family-owned tissue manufacturer SEPAC, a move it said will consolidate Softys as the largest tissue...

SWEDEN – Klippans Bruk boosts coloured and white, high-quality tissue capacity...

Klippans Bruk has started up its Recard- supplied PM11. This new machine will add an annual capacity of 30,000tpy...

FRANCE – Global Hygiène boosts capacity

Global Hygiène has signed for an iDEAL 1800S tissue machine. Supplied by A.Celli Paper, the line has a 2.8m...

Africaine Paper Mills starts up first tissue line

Africaine Paper Mills (APM) has moved into the tissue market after starting up its first tissue machine. The Andritz-supplied PrimeLineCOMPACT...

SPAIN: SATURATION, PREMIUMISATION, PRIVATE LABEL, SUSTAINABILITY – STRATEGIES FOR FUTURE GROWTH

In 2018, retail tissue sales in Spain recorded less than 1% growth in volume to reach 485,000 tonnes. Projections for the next...

‘I WANT TO BE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY. I...

Danny Alexander is a co-founder of the Australian-based environmentally conscious tissue producer Who Gives A Crap. He established the company along with Simon...

Paul Fecher, Northwood chairman, Northwood Paper, Tissue & Hygiene

TWM/1: How have the events in the tissue industry in the last year impacted your business?  “2018 and 2019...

Scott Griffin, director – tissue sales, Central National Gottesman (CNG)

TWM/1: How have the events in the tissue industry in the last year impacted your business and the global tissue industry? 

Daniel Signori, technical director, Mili

TWM/1: What key events has the tissue industry been impacted by during 2019?  “The Brazilian market is going through...

Sustainability issues are of utmost importance in tissue, but should be...

Pirkko Petäjä, Principal, Poyry Management Consulting Environmental and sustainability requirements have long been a ticket to play in...

Pathway to sustainable tissue packaging

Pirkko Petäjä, Principal, Poyry Management Consulting It is our understanding that tissue producers should map the alternatives for...

Is paper packaging of tissue a marketing trick?

Pirkko Petäjä, Principal, Poyry Management Consulting Tissue is now starting to be offered in paper pack by many...

Fibre-based packaging

Pirkko Petäjä, Principal, Poyry Management Consulting Paper packaging of tissue has woken a lot of interest and many...

IS A FUTURE PAPER LAMINATED OR EXTRUDED WITH ECOLOGICAL BIOPLASTICS THE...

The tissue industry, like all production systems, must find the answer to the planet’s plastic problem. Many companies are already advanced in research....

Fernanda Accorsi, founder, F.A. Retail

Fernanda Accorsi, founder, F.A. Retail TWM/1: How have the events in the tissue industry in the last year...

Steve Peters, sales and business development manager, Bedford Paper

TWM/1: How have events in the tissue industry in the last year impacted your business and the global tissue industry? 

Simec

Simec Group is an Italian family-run company that for the past sixty years has been producing several kinds of rollers and sleeves...

TKM. The service partner at your side.

TKM ranks among the leading producers of knives for tissue paper, paper producing and processing industries globally. With twelve locations as well...

PREMIUM PRODUCTS LEADING BALTIC STATES’ STEADY GROWTH AFTER THE SOVIET ERA

Relatively new to western style consumerism, increasing numbers of sophisticated consumers with more money to spend are leading tissue from functionality to...

State of local manufacturing

Greg Grishchenko, Industry analyst In 2018 Grigeo Grigiskes was the strongest player in the Lithuanian retail tissue market....

Strong growth in AfH tissue is driven by HoReCa channel

Greg Grishchenko, Industry analyst According to Euromonitor International, in 2018 the AfH segment in the Baltic States reached...

Private label holds its strong share in retail sales

Greg Grishchenko, Industry analyst During the last decade toilet paper matured in the region where the demographic situation...

Brand competition

Greg Grishchenko, Industry analyst In 2018, the Zewa brand remained the tissue sales leader in Latvia and Estonia...

DIGITALISATION AND ITS INTEGRATION – KEYS TO REACHING GLOBAL TISSUE’S ‘HUGE...

In a major analysis of costs and technology trends across world markets, senior manager Alexander Wirth at StepChange Consulting urges a greater...

Clearwater Paper Reports Q2 results; positively impacted by higher retail tissue...

Clearwater Paper Corporation has reported a net sales increase of 4.6% to $452.0m for the second quarter of 2019 compared with the...

Cascades to acquire Orchids Paper; boosts retail tissue offering

Cascades has boosted its US retail tissue offering after entering into an agreement to acquire Orchids Paper Products Company. The move...

Aldi to trial plastic-free toilet paper packaging

Aldi has chosen the UK in which to trial removing plastic packaging from packets of toilet roll, in a move it said...

UK – Northwood Group boosts AfH offering with KPP Converters acquisition

UK-based Northwood has completed the purchase of 100% of the issued share capital of KPP Converters (KPP). KPP - a supplier of...

ROMANIA – MG TEC Group boosts capacity

MG TEC Group has increased its production capacity after investing in two Ribo Tissue E-WIND T100 rewinders. Supplied A.Celli...