DIGITAL TISSUETM – Increase OEE – High Performance –...

FABIO PERINI S.p.A. DIGITAL TISSUETM: COMPLETE 4.0 SOLUTIONS FOR TISSUE INDUSTRY With the fourth industrial revolution being hyped in the tissue industry, the Digital Tissue™...

Buckman – Chemistry, connected.

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

Tissue World Miami Conference – When Best in Class isn’t Good...

Interdependencies in today’s global market are driving us towards a knowledge based economy. During the Business and Management Day on March 21, following a...

Suzano boosts presence in tissue market with investment

Brazilian Suzano Papel e Celulose has boosted its tissue capacity after starting up two tissue machines. Supplied by Voith Paper, the double-width XcelLine VTM 4...

Metsä Tissue boosts production capacity

Metsä Tissue is modernising an existing DIP line at its mill in Mänttä, Finland, in order to increase its production output. The project will be...

K-C to close two Wisconsin facilities; 600 redundancies

Kimberly-Clark will close its Neenah facility and Cold Spring plant as part of its announced global restructuring programme. Some 100 staff will be made redundant...

Buckman announced global price increase

Speciality chemical company Buckman has said it will increase its prices on select paper and pulp product lines as of 1 March, or as...

Lucart invests and secures commitment to Italian tissue market

Lucart Group has strengthened its presence in the tissue market after investing in an AHEAD-2.0S tissue machine. Supplied by Toscotec, PM12 will be installed at...

Hayat Kimya to invest $150m in Pakistan

Hayat Kimya – the FMCG company of Turkish conglomerate Hayat Group – has launched a sales and marketing subsidiary in Pakistan. The investment includes the...

Pol-Mak boosts capacity with rewinder investment

Poland’s Pol-Mak has increased its capacity after investing in a high-performance Slitter Rewinder, model TP-3US-TRH18. Supplied by Tecno Paper, the rewinder has a trim width...

Södra announces price hikes

Södra Cell has increased the price of its NBSK in Europe to USD 1,070/tonne. The hike was made effective 1 January 2018. Magnus Björkman, VP Marketing...

SPS Corporate eyes global growth with TM investments

Indonesia’s SPS Corporate has boosted its presence in the global tissue market after investing in two tissue machines. The lines will be installed at the...

Vinda International boosts capacity by 120,000tpy

Vinda International Group has purchased four AHEAD-2.0M tissue machines to be installed in its new production base in Xiaonan district, Xiaogan, Hubei. Toscotec will deliver...

Resolute reports preliminary 4Q and 2017 results; appoints Yves Laflamme as...

Resolute Forest Products has reported sales of $898m in the fourth quarter of 2017, an increase of $9m compared to a year earlier. Net income...

Essity reports increase in net sales in 2017 results

Essity has reported an 8% increase in net sales to SEK 109,265m in its 2017 year-end results. The company attributed the increase to a rise...

EPC PROJECT SOLUTIONS FOR THE TISSUE & TOWEL INDUSTRY

Whether you are looking to revitalize your existing lines or build a new optimized mill, Jedson Engineering can help reduce your energy costs with...

Tissue World Miami – a unique platform for learning and business...

Navigate your way from global trade and consumer trends, through sourcing and supply-chain shifts, and see first-hand the latest technological innovations, such as recent...

Clearwater Paper restructures Lewiston mill; 100 redundancies

Clearwater Paper has said it expects to layoff upwards of 100 staff at its Lewiston, Idaho-based mill. The move is in a bid to restructure...

K-C to cut 5,500 jobs and close 10 plants amid “challenging...

Tissue giant Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has announced a global restructuring plan that will cut 13% of its workforce and sell or close 10 manufacturing facilities. In...

First Preview: BIGGER AND BETTER – the drive for ultra-quality sees...

  By Pöyry principal Sanna Kallioranta (pictured) and director Soile Kilpi The year 2017 adds another year on to a string of years reflecting stable tissue demand and capacity growth...

Körber announces new CFO

Körber has appointed Stefan Kirschke as its chief financial officer. As of 14 December, he has succeeded Harald Vogelsang as group CFO. According to the company, Vogelsang left the Group...

OMET targets dispenser napkin market with FV.6: launch

OMET has launched its latest version of the FV line, a high-performance vacuum folding machine that’s dedicated to the production of dispenser napkins. According to...

Encore Tissue boosts capacity with a Steel Yankee start-up

Australian’s Encore Tissue has started-up a Steel Yankee Dryer TT SYD line at its Laverton North mill. Supplied by Toscotec, the rebuilt tissue machine has...

Tissue World 2018 Conference and Exhibition Returns to Miami March 20-23

North America ‘s largest tissue industry event to draw over 3,000 attendees from 50 countries MIAMI BEACH (Jan. 22, 2018) — Tissue World Miami 2018...

Extreme automation – energy – process monitoring – premium quality –...

Top experts at the world’s leading tissue machinery suppliers detail their assessments of state-of-the-art systems... and explain how they see advances yet to come. A TWM...

How to triple sales in three years, by South Florida Tissue...

It’s listed in Inc. Magazines’ top 5,000 fastest growing US companies, has tripled sales from 2014 to 2017, notched up a growth rate of 179%,...

“A significant number of smaller converters and importers are popping up...

With distribution consolidating and M&As on the rise, tissue giant Cascades PRO targets opportunities in dispensers, towels and bath tissue. TWM talks to marketing director André...

Northern USA: Where are you on the axis of survival?

By Bill Burns, Senior consultant, Fisher International With the constantly changing habits of US consumers continuing to challenge tissue companies across America’s tissue belt, being fit...

Even the great Bobby Fischer would find tissue’s US chess game...

Our cover image depicts the US tissue battlefield. The reds strategically occupying the hill represent all we know of the status quo. For many decades the industry in...

The Whole World Toilet Paper Museum

From the Kremlin to the McMurdo Station in The Antarctic and with celebrity signatures including Madonna and Woody Allen, Boston, Massachusetts couple Rich and...

“We’ve spent a lot of R&D time, energy and money to...

 Morris Housen, chief executive and president of Erving Industries, operates a paper mill in Erving, Massachusetts. Established in 1905, the company employs more than 100 people...

US tissue: mature demand, highly competitive landscape and future growth opportunities

With 21kg per capita total tissue consumption in 2016, the US is one of the most saturated tissue markets in the world. Total demand for consumer and AfH tissue...

What does China’s Belt & Road master plan mean for tissue?

China is a major financier to the world. Just one of many investment vehicles is its initiative to transform transport systems and smooth trade across...

On the offensive for a place in the Big League

By Helen Morris, Senior Editor, Tissue World Magazine Having touched-down in the Green Bay home of the famous NFL stars the Packers, Italian giant Sofidel plans...

Sofidel Suppliers Sustainability Award sets global eco-friendly standard across tissue

Suzano, Valmet, LKW WALTER and Fibria are amongst the winners of Sofidel’s second Suppliers Sustainability Award. Some 330 participants from 17 countries attended the event, held on 9...

Project Survey 2017/18

2017 has seen an increase in tissue projects compared to the same time a year earlier. TWM’s annual survey charts all new capacity being added, ordered or in final...

Tissue World First – the new look Miami showcase is set...

It’s TW’s 25th anniversary in 2018 and TW Miami looks set to raise the bar again. As the top tissue companies innovate to stay ahead of...

Kemira announces price hikes

Kemira has announced a price increase for its paper wet strength products in EMEA. The increase will be up to 15%, depending on the specific...

Polmak diversifies into tissue production

Poland’s Polmak has moved into tissue production after acquiring a tissue machine with a production capacity of 90tpd. Based in Batorowo, Poznań, the company is...

China urged to ‘Advance the Toilet Revolution Steadily’

A toilet - and therefore a tissue revolution - is underway in China. Chinese president Xi Jinping has stressed the national imperative to upgrade China’s...