PAPCEL changed its ownership structure

PAPCEL has changed its ownership structure and announced that 100% of its shares are now held by Czech company Vega-HSH.In the last...

Kruger Products announces AfH price hike

Kruger Products (KPLP) has announced a price increase for its AfH tissue products sold in Canada and the USA. The increase will...

WEPA acquires Arjowiggins; boosts European private label and recycled papers offering

Germany’s WEPA Group has taken over Arjowiggins Greenfield plant in Chateau-Thierry, France.The company’s WEPA Hygieneprodukte division has been awarded to take over...

Kemira increases prices for paper chemicals in APAC

Kemira has increased the price of its main paper chemical product lines in the Asia Pacific region by 12-28%. The supplier said...

Papel San Francisco boosts capacity

Mexico’s Papel San Francisco has invested in an Advantage DCT 100TS tissue production machine at its site in Mexicali. Supplied by Valmet,...

Converting technical theme 2019 will be rich in projects to find...

In terms of optimal maintenance and process, analysing what the machines are telling us gives enormous added-value. TWM asked the world’s leading...

China’s economic slowdown and New green regime is rippling across the...

The recent economic slowdown in China has hit a number of relatively nascent industry sectors hard. One...

Tissue World Milan 2019 opens its doors; Tissue World 2021 moves...

Tissue World Milan 2019 - the world’s largest tissue industry exhibition and conference - opened its doors at Fieramilanocity in Milan this...

K-C invests $120m in North American market

Kimberly-Clark Corporation (K-C) has announced building expansion and new equipment plans worth $120m for its facility in Jenks, Oklahoma. The project will...

Futura launches “first-in-tissue” technology

Futura has launched its JOI HYDRO-BOND technology, which it said is a first in tissue converting to achieve perfect adhesion of tissue...

Cascades announces new president and COO

Cascades Tissue Group has appointed Jean-David Tardif as president and chief operating officer.He will succeed Jean Jobin, who has said he is...

Andritz targets textured tissue with PrimeLineTEX TM launch

Andritz has launched its new tissue machine for textured tissue, the PrimeLineTEX. According to the supplier, the machine enables customers to produce...

WEPA UK stockpiles products in case of no-deal Brexit

WEPA UK has been stockpilling 3.5m toilet and kitchen rolls in its warehouses during the past four months in case of a...

Klippans Bruk is right now assembling the new tissue machine that...

Klippans Bruk is right now assembling the new tissue machine that will add 30.000 MT to the market. The start up is...

Mare exhibits in Tissue World 2019

MARE will be present in Tissue World, again this year, to meet its customers and update them about its latest developments in...

High-end, high-speed Handkerchief Lines with folding module from one hand

Today, SENNING is the one and only company worldwide, offering complete high end handkerchief lines. SENNING provides folding, single wrapping, taping and...

Buckman Showcases Differentiated Chemistries at Tissue World Milan 2019

Buckman, a global company specializing in innovative chemical and smart solutions for the pulp and paper industry, will be at Tissue World...

Essity and Hayat Kimya won the Tissue World magazine Mill Awards

Organised in collaboration with Tissue World magazine, the Mill Awards return for the second time in Tissue World Milan with the 2 award categories,...

9.Septembar team announces the launch of its newest Napkin Production Line...

DUO V is double head machine produced in accordance with the strictest rules of tissue converting industry, Read more >>

Follmann’s first appearance at Tissue World

Follmann, the printing ink experts for table decoration products will be presenting its water-based printing inks for table decoration products and its...

Ecol Studio takes its first steps in Europe

Ecol Studio, the Italian company which specialise in laboratory tests, consultancy and training officialized the opening of a...

Hugo Beck exhibits its film packaging solutions for the first time...

Hugo Beck, the world’s leading manufacturer of horizontal flowpack, film packaging and post-print processing machines, is exhibiting for the first time at...

The long and the short of it… A case of moral...

Alexandra Stuthridge lives in Vancouver, Canada, and is the technical business manager of the BioProducts Institute (BPI), a globally-leading research cluster at...

Niche tissue… Independence, recycled paper, rapid response, flexibility, personalised and increasingly...

French manufacturer Papeco director general Emmanuel Coulon explains his smart circular economy concept at his Normandy mill. Report: TWM Senior Editor Helen...

WEPA plans for Vive La Difference in the French market

WEPA France is investing while some competitors are selling or restructuring. Country Manager Christophe Dorin spoke to TWM Senior Editor Helen Morris.

Retail tissue in France: finding pockets of growth in a highly...

Retail tissue in France recorded sluggish volume sales growth in 2018 to reach 616,000 tonnes. Forecasts for...

A post-nuclear future… France faces its electric power generation dilemma

The French tissue business does not have as long a history as the United States or Germany,...

Industry 4.0 is underway… We look forward to Industry 5.0

TWM goes beyond the fourth industrial revolution in this edition. Our contributors focus on the many advances which are already well...

Tissue takes on the looming issue of rapid decline in P&W

Costs concern as the supply and use of printing and writing papers - the primary source of...

Smart factory robotics and automation has come to the rescue

Early adopters are reaping the rewards now. In a world where speed to market is critical, future...

Distribution Special: Tissue Delivery Trends

Access to information the key to optimal supply chains DELIVERY TRENDSThere are a few...

Logistics is entering a new age of efficiency – by design...

Vittorio Cavirani, general manager, Elettric80, discusses harnessing the virtues of speed, accuracy, safety and traceability through E2E...

Fourstones boosts capacity with TM investment

Scotland’s Fourstones Group is understood to have invested in a new tissue machine at its Sapphire mill. According...

WEPA applies to take over Arjowiggins’ Greenfield plant

Germany’s anti-trust authority the Bundeskartellamt has given its approval for a possible takeover of Arjowiggins' French Greenfield de-inked pulp mill by German...

Cascades to close two Canadian-based tissue PMs

Cascades has said it will close two of its tissue paper machines located in Whitby and Scarborough, Ontario .

Cascades announces results; reports “difficult industry-wide market dynamics” for tissue

Cascades has reported a sales increase up 2% to $1,196m for the fourth quarter of 2018 compared to $1,175m in the third quarter of...

Infinity: Solutions for Your Company by Packaging Specialists

For over 15 years, Infinity has been engineering and building packaging machines for customers around the globe. With offices in Green Bay, USA and...

Stronger tissue requires smarter solutions.

Helping our tissue customers succeed takes more than mere commitment. It takes a level of focus that only Buckman can bring. We...

Tissue World Milan – Experience the future of tissue making on...

At Tissue World Milan next month, cutting-edge tissue making technologies and solutions will be showcased through the lenses of VR headsets at...

GP to exit communication papers business; focus on tissue and towel

Georgia-Pacific (GP) is exiting the communication papers business following an assessment of its long-term competitive position in a declining market. The company...