Lucart boosts French tissue production capacity

Lucart has started-up a tissue rewinder TT WIND-P at its facility in Laval sur Vologne, France. Supplied by Toscotec, it features two unwind stands and...

Yibin Paper targets high quality tissue sector with TM investment

China’s Yibin Paper Industry Co has invested in five high-speed tissue machines, each with a production capacity of 25,000tpy. Supplied by A.Celli Paper, the supply...

Kurita Europe boosts WSA capabilities with acquisition

Kurita Europe has acquired a wet strength agent (WSA) production plant from Akzo Nobel in France. The acquisition boosts the Japanese-owned subsidiary’s presence in the...

Hengan Paper expands with PM start-up

Xinjiang Hengan Paper has started up its MODULO-PLUS ES tissue line at its Changji-based mill. Supplied by Toscotec, PM25 includes the TT DOES (Drying Optimisation...

Drenik increases capacity with TM investment

Serbia-based Drenik ND has boosted its production capacity by 120tpd after it invested in a Crescent Former line. Supplied by Recard, the complete turnkey plant...

Papeles Tissue Rosario boosts capacity

Argentina’s Papeles Tissue Rosario has increased its toilet roll and kitchen towel capacity after investing in a complete automatic converting and rewinding line. Supplied by...

Accrol announces job losses amid operational review and profit warning

Accrol Papers has confirmed the loss of 89 staff jobs at its UK tissue manufacturing sites. In a statement the company said: “During the operational...

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 400 suppliers from 17 countries attended the event,...

Kemira announces price hike for EMEA

Global chemicals company Kemira has increased the prices of its coagulant and polymer products in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The price increases will...

Lucart Group boosts AfH capacity with Grupo CEL purchase

Lucart Group is understood to have placed the winning bid for Spain's Grupo CEL Technologies & Systems SLU (CEL). The move will boost the company's...

Little Rapids boosts capacity with TM investment

American tissue and specialty paper manufacturer Little Rapids Corporation has started-up its XcelLine VTM 3 tissue line. The Voith-supplied machine has replaced the company’s old...

GP focuses on AfH at Washington site amid restructure

Georgia-Pacific has said it will focus its Camas, Washington-based facility on AfH tissue products after announcing restructuring plans for the site. The plant’s communication papers...

Suzano reports strong 3Q operating results

Suzano Pulp & Paper has said its third quarter results show “a successful conclusion” to the projects that will prepare the company for the...

Shrinkflation – reducing product size becomes an issue for tissue

Toxic combination of cost inflation, a stagnant economy, the fluctuating pound … and Brexit has forced the UK tissue sector, like many other producers, to...

Consumer tissue in Nigeria: Focus on affordability

Despite the economic recession in Nigeria in 2016 and slow recovery in 2017, retail tissue sales maintained their upward trajectory, recording an increase in volume of 1% in 2016....

Nigeria – solid GDP but significant population-to-capacity gap

Nigeria, with its oil wealth and sizable population (190 million, or more than half the population of the USA - it’s the most populous country in Africa) has...

Building a tissue empire from the Adelaide Mill… England

Angela Dawson is a writer and poet who has featured on community radio and at various venues around Melbourne, Australia, since 2000....

Hayat Kimya’s $100m Nigerian plant expands its dominance in Africa

In June, Turkish tissue manufacturer Hayat Kimya expanded its geographical presence with the inauguration of its $100m Nigerian diaper and tissue plant in Agbara, Nigeria. Hayat first...

“We are aiming to be the number one player in Nigeria...

TWM interviews Bola Ataiyero-Adefila, the chief operating officer of Nigeria’s second largest converter, Banrut Rolls Nigeria. TWM/1: What products do you currently produce? Bola Adefila: “We produce...

Overcapacity – Promotions – Private Label – Population – Prices –...

By TWM Senior Editor, Helen Morris Sacrifice short term profitability for long term opportunity – the increasing dilemma? TWM asked industry experts around the world to access...

Pulsar targets quality control with Quatis Bags launch

Technical Theme: key technical developments from across the packaging machinery industry. A TWM report. By Massimo Franzaroli, president of Pulsar Engineering Pulsar Engineering has broadened its range...

With 10-15% growth y-o-y, Star Tissue is making the headlines at...

Named as one of Europe’s most dynamic SMEs, this Blackburn, UK-based tissue converter talks opportunities in a post-Brexit Britain. UK-based, family-owned tissue converter Star Tissue is on...

Tissue and towel packaging: consumers demand higher quality.

Technical Theme: key technical developments from across the packaging machinery industry. A TWM report.  In recent years, the tissue market in North America has shifted dramatically to...

HMI redefined: a radical technological change in Human Machine Interface (HMI)...

Technical Theme: key technical developments from across the packaging machinery industry. A TWM report. OPTIMA Nonwoven’s Gustav Marwitz discusses the recent research results. Smartphones and tablets...

Simple, efficient and effective: equip your systems for the future, saving...

Technical Theme: key technical developments from across the packaging machinery industry. A TWM report. Edson Packaging’s Josh Goulet talks efficiencies. In today’s world, it’s more important than...

Getting the best out of our ever more sophisticated technology

HMI, the Human Machine Interface, might stand as a symbol of TWM’s Technical Theme on packaging, wrapping and logistics in this edition… as for the tissue industry across...

Correll Tissue boosts capacity with TM rebuild

South Africa’s Correll Tissue has started-up its PM1 after a rebuild undertaken by supplier Toscotec. The scope of supply included a modification of the existing...

Resolute lawsuit against Greenpeace dismissed in court; manufacturer to continue legal...

Greenpeace International has won the latest round against Canadian manufacturer Resolute Forest Products in an ongoing defamation and racketeering case. On 31 May 2016, Resolute...

Bashundhara paper mill boosts capacity

Bangladesh’s Bashundhara Paper Mill has invested in two slitter rewinders. Supplied by Tecno Paper, the model TP-2US-TRH15 Top Performance rewinders will have a trim width...

St. Croix Tissue boosts production after diversifying into tissue

America’s St. Croix Tissue has increased its tissue capacity after investing in a roll handling system and a rewinder. Supplied by A.Celli Paper, the Maine-based...

APP China invests in TM for Jiangsu

APP China is to invest 450 million yuan in a high-grade tissue manufacturing plant in Jiangsu. The investment will be made at the Yunnan Xinping...

Clearwater Paper’s 3Q results impacted by pulp price hikes

Clearwater Paper Corporation has said higher than expected pulp prices, maintenance costs and transportation rates have impacted its third quarter results. The company reported net...

Do you laser? In the world of packaging, less is more.

Technical Theme: key technical developments from across the packaging machinery industry. A TWM report. Following PCMC’s acquisition of flexible packaging machinery manufacturer Graphbury Machines in September,...

Suzano boosts capacity with R$540m mill start-up

Suzano Papel E Celulose has started the production and sale of jumbo rolls of sanitary paper at its mill in Mucuri, Bahia. The total estimated...

G-P investing millions at Naheola mill

Georgia-Pacific has boosted its tissue capacity after it invested $120m in new technology to be installed at its Naheola mill in Pennington. The investment will...

Celtex eyes expansion into Moldova

Italian tissue manufacturer Celtex Industry Group is targeting eastern Europe with a potential expansion into Moldova. According to Moldova’s Ministry of Economy and Infrastructure, the...

Guangdong Shaoneng starts up TM at Nanxiong Zhuji site

China’s Guangdong Shaoneng has started-up its new tissue machine at its Nanxiong Zhuji paper mill. The machine was supplied by A.Celli and it is 2.8m...

G-P sells chemicals business to Ecolab

Georgia-Pacific (G-P) has sold its paper chemicals business to Ecolab. The transaction is expected to be completed before the end of the year subject to...

Guizhou Chitianhua boosts capacity with 20-foot Steel Yankee start-up

China’s Guizhou Chitianhua Paper Industry has increased production of high-quality tissue products after starting up its second PrimeLineST tissue machine. PM6 is based at the...

Tissue World Istanbul is returning at the Istanbul Congress Center from...

Tissue World Istanbul is set to take place at the Istanbul Congress Center (ICC), Turkey from 4 – 6 September 2018. Part of the international...