Blue Tissue boosts capacity with TM start-up

Mexico’s Blue Tissue has increased its production capacity after starting up an iDEAL Master Tissue Machine. Supplied by...

Africaine Paper Mills starts up first tissue line

Algeria’s Africaine Paper Mills (APM) has moved into the tissue market after starting up its first tissue machine.

Cascades delivers “record quarterly sales”; Orchids Paper acquisition provides “compelling optimisation...

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

Recard announces management changes

Recard has officially announced that Mauro Michelini exited the company on 31 July. He had been general manager at...

GP boosts bath tissue capacity with $120m investment

Georgia-Pacific (GP) will install a new tissue machine and roll storage building to increase its consumer (retail) bath tissue business at its...

Fine Hygienic Holdings Begins Operation of Innovative Water Treatment Facility in...

In its bid to optimise the conservation of water, Fine Hygienic Holding (FHH) has partnered with Engicon to design, finance and build...

CMPC expands operations in Brazil with acquisition of SEPAC

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

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 same time...

Global impacts, local challenges, Latin American prospects: Tissue World São Paulo...

Tissue World São Paulo 2019’s conference will unlock opportunities for sustainable success in the region’s most dynamic tissue markets. Latin America’s tissue...

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...

Körber Group acquires Roll-Tec; expands converting and packaging machine expertise

Körber Group has increased its Business Area Tissue division after acquiring Roll-Tec Cilindro, a Brazilian-based embossing roll specialist.  Roll-Tec develops, produces and...

Luoyang Jieda Paper boosts facial tissue capacity with investment

Luoyang Jieda Paper has signed a contract for the supply of two BC1300-2850 Crescent Former Tissue Machines. Supplied...

Infinity launches new casepacker module for higher speed industrial and facial...

This summer Infinity launched its most innovative casepacker yet, the Dual Rotating Cassette C15. The development was completely customer driven. A...

Sustainable Product Sales Growing Three Times Faster Than Consumer-packaged Goods Market...

As awareness of the climate crisis increases across the world – especially among millennials - environmentally-friendly production and delivery expected to grow...

Kemira KemView™ Gen II Sheet Structure Analyser for tissue

By Kemira’s Clay Campbell, global business development, senior mgr. Kemira, and Lucyna Pawlowska, tissue process application specialist, Kemira

The right chemistry to lower your pulp costs

By Mark Christopher, global market development manager – Tissue, Buckman, Daniel Glover, innovation director – Pulp & Paper, Buckman

TWM goes to Poland to see what a tissue boom looks...

Helen Morris, Senior Editor, Tissue World Magazine Outside of China – and the China of a few years...

Chinese consumption growth down from recent high of 10% to a...

Tissue’s strong upswing was broken in 2018. Much now depends on the economy and consumer expenditures recovering from external and internal pressures....

Growth in Tissue Industry’s Share of BCP Likely to Continue

Rapid changes in supply and pricing in the pulp market presents major challenges for both suppliers and buyers. The need for price...

Procter & Gamble launches Charmin Forever Roll

Procter & Gamble (P&G) has launched the Charmin Forever Roll - a month’s supply of toilet paper in one giant roll -...

Tissue World São Paulo announces conference speakers: Kimberly-Clark, Finep, The Navigator...

Tissue World has announced a range of key speakers and a variety of hot topics to be put under the microscope at...

Valmet launches stand-alone wet end control package

Valmet has launched a stand-alone wet end control package for paper, board and tissue machines.The control product called Valmet Stand-Alone Retention Control...

Kemira to help develop 100% bio-based chemicals

Kemira is to participate in the development of 100% bio-based chemicals for paper and cardboard production as part of an EU funded...

Metsä Tissue to book €107m review and focus on tissue

Metsä Tissue, part of Metsä Group, has announced a strategy update that includes an operational review with the target to improve internal...

Libang Group boosts capacity in Hebei and Hubei

The Libang Group has ordered four new tissue machines for its mills in China, according to domestic supplier Baotuo Paper Machinery Engineering.The...

Cascades to acquire Orchids Paper

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

Lucart highlights Circular Economy and sustainability in its latest report

Lucart has presented its 2018 Sustainability Report with a focus on Circular Economy, new investments and partnerships for sustainable development The...

Star Paper Mill boosts capacity

Star Paper Mill (SPM) has increased its production capacity after starting up its DCT Crescent Former tissue machine in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Infinity launches casepacker with 25% – 50% speed increase

Infinity Machine & Engineering Corp. has responded to customer demand with the launch of its Dual Rotating Cassette C15, a casepacker module designed for...

Slovak Hygienic Paper Group boosts capacity at Paloma site

Slovenia’s Slovak Hygienic Paper Group (SHP Group) has invested in a Toscotec-supplied AHEAD-2.0L tissue line. Delivery to its Paloma mill in...

Essity reports half-year results

Essity has reported a year-on-year net sales increase of 8.6% to SEK 62,724m in its half-year report and said new innovation launches have strengthened...

APP invests in 18 TMs; all machines to produce tissue from...

Asia Pulp and Paper Group (APP) has boosted its capacity in China after investing in 18 Intelli-Tissue EcoEc 1600 Premium machines.

OMET launches TV 840 Tronic

OMET has targeted the napkin market with the launch of its TV 840 Tronic machine.The supplier said the machine improves automation, offering...

Andritz acquires Kempulp

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

ABB launches Winder Performance Optimisation digital solution

ABB has launched a Winder Performance Optimisation to maximise capacity and productivity for tissue manufacturers.The supplier said the patented digital solution “optimises...

MG TEC Group boosts capacity

Romania’s MG TEC Group has increased its production capacity after investing in two Ribo Tissue E-WIND® T100 rewinders.Supplied A.Celli Paper, the lines...

Aldi to trial plastic-free toilet paper packaging

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

Accrol finishes full-year 2019 in “much stronger position”

The UK’s Accrol Group Holdings has said the group “performed well” in the Q4 2018, following a “transformational” restructuring programme.Total revenues for...

Essity’s Kostheim mill hit by small fire

Essity has said a small fire hit one of its paper machines at its Kostheim mill in Germany on 12 June.No body...

GP Muskogee tissue mill back up after 13 May fire

Georgia-Pacific (GP) has confirmed that production has restarted at its recycled-content tissue paper mill and converting operation in Muskogee, USA.A spokesperson for...