Metsä Tissue launches €25m fixed cost saving programme

Metsä Tissue has launched a fixed cost saving programme as part of its operational review.It is aiming to save €25m in annual...

Kemira announces sizing technologies price hike

Kemira is to increase the price for its sizing technologies in the Asia Pacific region. The price increase of FennoSize ASA...

K-C increases capacity in Nigeria; closes current factory in Lagos

Kimberly-Clark (K-C) is to build a new factory in Nigeria and close its current factory in Lagos with the loss of 60...

G4U PILOT LINE WITH AIRMILL IS READY FOR TESTING AT GAMBINI’S...

Since 1870, the Gambini family has renewed and innovated, and today the Company researches, designs, and manufactures technologically advanced machinery and converting...

END OF LINE PALLETIZING SOLUTIONS

Flexible High Performance Palletizing, Customized Conveyor Technology and System Integration Langhammer GmbH is a leading supplier of transport and...

Touch’n’Roll: Design your Tissue Roll in One Touch!

Engraving Solutions introduces the new 3D configurator for tissue products. Engraving Solutions confirms its commitment to research and innovation...

Resolute announces strong 2018 results; tissue segment reports $9m operating loss...

Resolute Forest Products has reported net income of $36m for the fourth quarter of 2018 – up from $13m for the same...

Emtec announces TSA upgrade

Germany´s Emtec Electronic has responded to customer demand and upgraded its Tissue Softness Analyser (TSA).With the updated device and an advanced measuring...

Thailand’s Berli Jucker Cellox has increased its tissue capacity after purchasing...

Thailand’s Berli Jucker Cellox has increased its tissue capacity after purchasing an E-WIND T100 rewinder. Supplied by A.Celli Paper, the line will...

Yibin Paper boosts 100% bamboo production capacity

China’s Yibin Paper has started up three A.Celli-supplied iDEAL tissue machines. The lines are producing unbleached tissue paper using 100% Bamboo slush...

Essity reports sales increase despite higher raw material and energy costs

Essity has reported a net sales increase of 8.5% to SEK118,500m for the full-year 2018 compared with the preceding year. Operating profit...

Historic Marcal mill in New Jersey, USA, devastated by fire; efforts...

A devastating fire that engulfed the famous Marcal tissue mill in New Jersey on 30 January has destroyed most of the historic...

Project Survey 2019

TWM’s annual Projects Survey charts all new capacity being added, ordered or in final planning stages during 2018- 2019, as well as...

Calling all sustainable and innovative tissue mills…!

The entry submission for TWM’s Mill Awards 2019 is now open. Launched in conjunction with the world’s largest tissue industry trade show...

Klippans Bruk boosts premium tissue capacity

Swedish tissue manufacturer Klippans Bruk has invested in a roll handling and wrapping tissue line supplied by FIS Impianti. The line will...

PartexTissue increases capacity

Bangladesh’s PartexTissue has invested in an iDEAL forged YD: another new-generation Yankee. Supplied by A.Celli Group, the latest generation Yankee is part...

Leicester Tissue Company doubles capacity with £24m investment

UK-based Leicester Tissue Company (LTC) is investing in two new PCMC-supplied machines and two TMC-supplied wrappers in 2019.Once fully up and running,...

CMPC boosts capacity with start-up

CMPC Tissue Latam group’s Papelera del Plata plant has fired up a TT SYD-12FT.Supplied by Toscotec, it is installed on PM3 at...

K-C reports “challenging environment” in Q4 results; introduces ‘Strategy 2022’

Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has said net sales for the fourth quarter of 2018 decreased 1% to $4.6bn compared to the same period a...

In balance – WEPA Group ethos mirrors Germany’s stable tissue performance

A key ‘produce where you sell’ policy is just one of the strategies behind the consumer sector’s second largest private label...

Fundamentals drive Australian and New Zealand tissue consumption higher

Steady population growth, population ageing and rising per capita consumption have combined to push tissue production in Australia to capacity. The...

Toilet Twinning initiative brings new appreciation to luxuries like toilet roll

Lesley Quirk is a specialist relationship manager for a charity initiative called Toilet Twinning. She liaises with corporates who support its...

Paper Machine Technical Theme: Industry 4.0 – energy – cost optimisation...

Top companies highlight their ongoing advances in technology. A TWM report. TWM/1: What...

German consumers are eager for innovation – and are prepared to...

Italian tissue giant Sofidel’s German sites offer a blueprint for its business strategy globally. Here, TWM meets Andreas Meyer and Domenico...

Germans are serious about sustainability, and it’s driving the nation’s tissue...

The economic powerhouse has slowed of late, but despite European regulatory changes underway – fibre costs, exchange...

Consumer tissue in Germany: maturity, private label pressures, and value-added innovation

With nearly 11kg per capita retail tissue consumption in 2017, Germany is the third most saturated market...

Growing consumer awareness and education is driving Russia’s market performance in...

Industry analyst Greg Grishchenko examines the rising level of quality products, retail display, home production and consumer choice in the world’s...

From east to west – the sun is rising on tissue’s...

A Happy New Year to you all. I don’t know whether you gave Auld Lang Syne a...

Metsä Tissue boosts natural gas delivery in Finland

Metsä Tissue has invested in its Mänttä mill in Finland after signing up Valmet to supply automation for the site’s liquefied natural...

Kemira forms joint venture in South Korea

Kemira is to establish a joint venture – Kemira Yongsan Chemicals (NewCo) - in Ulsan, Republic of Korea, with Yongsan Chemicals, a...

Global Hygiène boosts capacity with investment

France’s Global Hygiène is to increase its production capacity after signing for a complete turnkey tissue production plant.Supplied by A.Celli Paper, the...

Metsä Tissue in management shake-up

Metsä Group has announced a series of changes to its Metsä Tissue company to “improve internal efficiency, reduce complexity and focus on...

K-C to call off European tissue sale: FT

Kimberly-Clark (K-C) is understood to have called off its plans to sell its European tissue unit, according to the Financial Times. It...

Tissue World Milan 2019 Conference to focus on global megatrends driving...

Over 50 expert speakers will offer insights into new suppliers, emerging markets, and changing trade flows shaping the tissue sector.This year’s Tissue...

Entry submission for TWM Mill Awards 2019 is now open!

Tissue World magazine Mill Awards 2019 - the premier awards celebrating excellence in the tissue industry - is now open for entry submission. An initiative...

Toilet paper was a luxury on Haiti when Glory Industries began...

A new era of enterprise has started for one industry on the Caribbean republic eight years after a devastating earthquake caused major damage and killed...

‘We are at a very dynamic moment in the tissue industry’

TWM asks leading figures across tissue’s global supply chain for their retrospectives on 2018 and prospectives for 2019. Here they analyse key issues … raw...

Metsä Fibre’s most recent ambitious development project aims to increase its...

The Northern softwood pulp supplied by Metsä Fibre in its Botnia-branded products are used as raw material for a range of fibre-based paper and board...

Driving home the message – products from sustainable forests do make...

In October, Södra was awarded the “Best Sustainable Project/Social Category” at the Sofidel Suppliers Sustainability Award. The award acknowledged the pulp supplier’s “Act of a...

TISSUE MARKET ANALYSIS 2018

By Knut Omholt, Södra’s market research manager There are now several events within the pulp and paper business that are influencing the softwood pulp market globally...