Buckman highlights latest technologies

Buckman is showcasing its latest range of tissue technologies at Tissue World São Paulo, including the its latest generation of creping products and enzymatic...

OMET showcases converting lines for folded disposable products

OMET is exhibiting its latest converting machines for the production of folded disposable products. Alberto Redaelli, OMET international sales manager, said: “We are pleased to...

Andritz highlights innovative tissue technology and energy-efficiencies

Andritz is showcasing its latest range of high-tech technologies, from stock preparation to tissue machine, automation and pumps. Thomas Scherb, Andritz director of tissue and...

Conference targets potential in Southern American tissue market

Tissue World São Paulo has started its first day of conference sessions, under the theme ‘Challenges and opportunities – approaches to accelerate the success’. The...

Tissue World São Paulo opens its doors!

The South American tissue industry is gathering in São Paulo to attend the only key meeting point for the region’s growing and dynamic tissue...

Brazil: P&P on a sharp positive trend despite country’s rollercoaster economic...

By Bill Burns, Senior Consultant, Fisher International Brazil’s economy was in a strong growth cycle when the global financial crisis of 2008 hit, when its GDP growth rate...

Unprecedented number of tissue machines installed since 2010

With tissue consumption growing at a rapid pace in emerging markets, particularly in China, an unprecedented number of new tissue paper machines have been installed. Numera’s...

The future for fibres

The higher web strength that premium reinforced pulps bring the tissue maker improves tissue machine and converting efficiency, says Bill Adams, senior director at Canfor Pulp,...

Investments mean more ECF pulp from Södra

Södra Cell has pioneered TCF pulp but with the evolution in the market and in ECF bleaching technology, the company has significantly boosted its growing position...

Multi-solutions for multi-shoppers

Product positioning, choosing a loud and clear way to communicate a product’s attributes, inspiring and educating shoppers: Fernanda Accorsi, founder of F.A. Retail, talks to TWM...

Brazil consumer tissue: lingering effects of economic downturn

Brazil’s economy has experienced one of its worst recessions, with real GDP contracting once again by 3.4% in 2016. With economic downturn, the value of private final consumption fell...

Chinese tissue market in a good growth phase but oversupply continues

According to a recent talk by Zhang Yulan, of the China National Household Paper Association (CNHPIA), in 2016 the Chinese tissue business maintained growth, and the expansion of the...

Pulp and Paper United do the nation proud

Let’s describe general economic performance in recent years as a football match … why not, this is Brazil after all: it has been an end-to-end thriller. TWM...

How to achieve growth in a national crisis

These are turbulent times in Brazil – but tissue is toughing it out. Helen Morris, Tissue World magazine senior editor, visits Carta Fabril’s Rio de...

Family tissue: for babies’ noses… and Construction Club

Creativity is at the heart of Brazilian Melissa Hoemke’s family. After living in London for 12 years she wants to do right...

‘We diversified, it was the only way to survive. And it...

If ever a company was poised for an economic uplift it’s IPEL at its impressive new site in Indaial city. Managing director Juliano Silva...

Tissue World Milan: Global tissue ‘is reaching new peaks year after...

Worldwide consumption stands at 36.3 million tonnes with estimated unmet potential at over 15 million tonnes in retail alone. As an increasingly complex and diverse marketplace presents...

Baotuo Paper Machinery supplying Baoding firms with TMs in China

(News from RISI) - Two small producers in Baoding city, Hebei province, China, recently purchased new tissue machines from domestic supplier Baotuo Paper Machinery. Mancheng...

China’s Hengan starts new 60,000tpy TM in Chongqing

(News from RISI) - Hengan International has fired up a new 60,000tpy tissue machine at its mill in Chongqing municipality, southwestern China. The Andritz-supplied PM23...

Algeria’s PMI boosts capacity with TM investment

Paper Mill Investment (PMI) has invested in an Andritz-supplied PrimeLineCOMPACT tissue machine with Steel Yankee and shoe press. The new plant will produce high-quality facial...

Cascades 1Q margins impacted; results in the near-term to benefit from...

Cascades has said higher raw material prices, lower jumbo roll sales and new facility construction investments have impacted its first quarter 2017 results. Sales were...

WEPA targets European AfH market with Van Houtum acquisition

WEPA Hygieneprodukte is to boost its AfH capacity in Europe with the acquisition of Netherlands-based Van Houtum Group Holding. The purchase is subject to the...

GP invests $400m in consumer business; funding approved for TAD line

Georgia-Pacific (GP) is to boost its private label branded capacity with a $400m investment in its GP Consumer (retail) tissue and towel business. Funding has...

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K-C reports 1Q earnings growth despite “a challenging environment”

Kimberly-Clark Corporation has reported net sales of $4.5bn - even with a year earlier - in its first quarter 2017 results. Operating profit for the...

Hengan Group boosts capacity with investment

China’s Hengan Group has started up its 12th Andritz-supplied PrimeLineTM W8 tissue machine. The line is based at the company’s Chongqing mill and has a...

Sun Paper boosts capacity with investment

South Carolina-based Sun Paper has invested in its packaging facilities after purchasing a XF800 wrapper line from PCMC. It will be installed in October 2017...

Ningxia Jiamei gets two new TMs for mill in Wuzhong, Ningxia

(News from RISI) Ningxia Jiamei Paper will install two new 20,000tpy tissue machines at its mill in Wuzhong city, in northwest China’s Ningxia autonomous...

The countdown to Tissue World São Paulo has begun!

The Latin American tissue industry is gearing up to attend Tissue World São Paulo - the only key meeting point for the region’s growing...

SCA reports 1Q EBITDA decrease of 2%; 5% net sales increase

SCA has reported an EBITDA decreased of 2% to SEK 797m in its first quarter 2017 interim results. Net sales increased 5% to SEK 3,969m...

WEPA Group boosts capacity with Piechowice start-up

WEPA Group has started-up a Toscotec-supplied paper machine in Piechowice, boosting the group’s production capacity to 750,000tpy. Following a successful construction phase, the first paper...

Vajda Papir and LC Paper take home TWM Mill Awards

Hungary’s Vajda Papir and Spain’s LC Paper have been awarded prestigious awards during Tissue World Milan 2017. Tissue World magazine’s Mill Awards recognise marketing strategy...

Mtorres acquires Italian automatic tissue line manufacturer Universal Tissue Technology

Mtorres has acquired Italian automatic tissue line manufacturer Universal Tissue Technology (UTT). The company announced the purchase at TW Milan and will operate under the...

Ariete increases capacity with MODULO-PLUS order

Italian tissue manufacturer Ariete has ordered a new MODULO-PLUS machine from Toscotec for its paper mill in Cava dei Tirreni, Salerno. The new tissue machine...

Irving Consumer Products boosts premium product capacity

Irving Consumer Products has invested in an Advantage ThruAir tissue production line. Supplied by Valmet, the machine increases Irving's capacity to provide premium household paper...

Tissue World Milan 2017 attracts 3,284 participants

The industry’s most prestigious and international tradeshow - this year held in Italy, the heart of the tissue industry - has been attended by...

Voith SkySoft

Deliver better tissue quality with SkySoft Offering excellent and consistent tissue quality, the high-precision SkySoft creping blade is finished with an oxide ceramic coating for...

Innovative tissue technology and energy-efficient solutions: Andritz highlights key technologies

Andritz is showcasing a range of technologies for tissue production – complete tissue lines as well as key components – at Tissue World Milan. The...

Mtorres acquires Italian automatic tissue line manufacturer Universal Tissue Technology

Mtorres has acquired Italian automatic tissue line manufacturer Universal Tissue Technology (UTT). The company will operate under the name of Mtorres Tissue. This new brand will...

Stax launches Ultima roll wrapper technology

Stax has used Tissue World Milan to launch Ultima, which it said is a revolutionary roll wrapping machine. According to the supplier, the wrapping method...