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How Maxi is surviving Greece’s economic tragedy

Helen Morris -
Bankruptcies and closures saw an end to production at five paper machines in recent years, but with Greece still seeing the tissue market grow...
Foex

PIX Pulp indices 14.7.2015

Helen Morris -
By FOEX Indexes’ Lars Halén and Timo Teräs NBSK pulp Europe The pulp market in Europe is slowing down in the seasonally quieter period of the...
Consumer Speak

From massage therapy to Muay Thai, quality tissue goes hand in...

Helen Morris -
Nadia Hussain is a therapist living and working in London. In her spare time she practises Muay Thai, a form of...
September / October 2015

Why (not) Private Labels?

Fernanda Accorsi -
F.A. RETAIL founder Fernanda Accorsi talks to TWM about the issues for tissues Private Label (PL) is already a recognised brand in the market. If...
September / October 2015

FOCUS ON: Southeast Asia

Bill Burns -
By Fisher International’s Bill Burns An area of high growth using value engineered conventional machines Southeast Asia’s Towel and Tissue (T&T) production had been experiencing modest...
Tissue World Magazine
Exitissues

Southern America: Engaging in the world production chain

Geraldo Ferreira -
By Geraldo Ferreira, partner, Huntsfield Brasil Consultancy, Brazil  The region’s tissue market has three alternatives to respond to an ever-increasing import wave: entrench, adapt or...
Chemicals

Grade specific optimisation: Permanent (PAE) versus temporary (GPAM) wet strength utilisation

Clay Campbell -
By Kemira’s Clay Campbell, Harold Goldsberry, Kristin Wittich and Felipe Higa Kemira talks us through the latest chemical technical developments relevant to your business. Historically, it...
Tissue World Magazine
Marketissues

APP welcomes competition from multinational and local players … it’s just...

Helen Morris -
Asia Pulp & Paper’s Chinese tissue division is to bring six new tissue machines on stream making a total new capacity of 354,000tpy –...
Latest Headlines

Toscotec absorbs Milltech into business

Helen Morris -
Toscotec has absorbed its tissue machine hood and ventilation sister company Milltech into its tissue technology business. The PM supplier purchased Milltech in 2012 and...
Latest Headlines

Gomà-Camps becomes sole shareholder of GC & Wepa

Helen Morris -
Gomà-Camps and WEPA Group have ended the joint cooperation they have maintained for the last 10 years through the joint venture GC & Wepa. Gomà-Camps...
Tissue World Magazine
Latest Headlines

Vinda appoints Christoph Michalski as CEO

Helen Morris -
Vinda International Holdings has appointed the president of SCA’s Global Hygiene Category Christoph Michalski as chief executive. Effective as of 1 October, the company said...
Tissue World Magazine
Latest Headlines

A.Celli Paper announces management changes

Helen Morris -
A.Celli Paper has appointed Mario Fazzi as its new managing director. Giuseppe Antonini has been nominated president of A.Celli Paper; Mauro Celli and Alessandro Celli...
Latest Headlines

Resolute Forest Products boosts production

Helen Morris -
Resolute Forest Products has increased its product offering after it invested in Valmet’s Advantage NTT 200HS tissue machine. The new tissue line will have a...
Tissue World Magazine
Latest Headlines

SCA strengthens hygiene operations

Helen Morris -
SCA has announced it will strengthen its competitiveness in the hygiene market to “intensify growth and the pace of innovation”, making a number of...
Tissue World Magazine
Latest Headlines

Cascades reports 3Q sales increase of 4%

Helen Morris -
Cascades has reported a sales increase of 4% to $950m for the three month period ending 30 June compared to the same time a...
Tissue World Magazine
Latest Headlines

SCA closes tissue plant in France

Helen Morris -
SCA has announced the closure of its Saint-Cyr-en-Val-based production plant in France. The company said the move was part of its on-going cost-savings programme related...
Latest Headlines

Metalicplas boosts capacity with installation

Helen Morris -
Romania’s Metalicplas has expanded its production tonnage after it signed for a new tissue machine from supplier A.Celli Paper. The tissue producer is part of...
Tissue World Magazine
Latest Headlines

Metsä Tissue boosts capacity in Germany

Helen Morris -
Metsä Tissue is to increase its tissue capacity at its Raubach, Germany-based site after it signed up Valmet to upgrade its TM 1. The rebuild...
Tissue World Magazine
Latest Headlines

SCA’s Skelmersdale investment doubles site’s capacity

Helen Morris -
SCA has boosted its tissue capacity in the UK after construction at its Skelmersdale tissue site was completed. Work started 18 months ago and included...
Tissue World Magazine
Latest Headlines

Clearwater reports net sales drop follow speciality mills sale

Helen Morris -
Clearwater Paper Corporation has posted net sale results of $444.6m for the second quarter of 2015, down 10.9% year-on-year. The company said this was primarily...
Tissue World Magazine
Latest Headlines

Beskidy boosts capacity with new crescent former machine

Helen Morris -
Fabryka Papieru i Tektury Beskidy has started up a new crescent former machine supplied by Hergen Paper Machinery. The HCF 920 SMART FIT machine has...
Tissue World Magazine
Latest Headlines

Valmet acquires tissue rewinder business from Massimiliano Corsini

Helen Morris -
Valmet has acquired MC Paper Machinery and Focus Rewinding from Massimiliano Corsini. The acquired operations mainly supply rewinders for tissue and non-woven machines. In the past...
Tissue World Magazine
Latest Headlines

Norske Skog to enter tissue market in joint venture with Roto-cart

Helen Morris -
Newsprint and magazine paper manufacturer Norske Skog is to replace newsprint production at its Austrian Bruck-based mill with tissue manufacture. The Norwegian company made the...
Tissue World Magazine
Latest Headlines

Tissue World Jakarta: Event merged with Tissue World Shanghai

Helen Morris -
Due to an insufficient number of relevant papers from the ASEAN region submitted for the conference planned in Jakarta, the Tissue World team has...
Tissue World Magazine
Latest Headlines

SCA Hygiene Spain boosts performance with rewinder upgrade

Helen Morris -
SCA Hygiene Spain has signed up A.Celli Paper to refurbish its Allo site’s rewinder. The rebuild project will involve an updated service to move the...
Tissue World Magazine
Latest Headlines

Multipack sells Pharma-Cosmetic branch to focus on tissue

Helen Morris -
Multipack has realigned its business to focus on the international tissue market after it announced the sale of its Pharma-Cosmetic products division. Located in Casalecchio...
Tissue World Magazine
Latest Headlines

Northwood boosts AfH presence in the UK with acquisition

Helen Morris -
Northwood Paper Sales has targeted growth in the UK’s Away from Home (AfH) sector after it acquired the issued share capital of Disposables UK. Disposables...
Tissue World Magazine
Latest Headlines

K-C Europe boosts capacity with TouchMax embossers buy

Helen Morris -
Kimberly-Clark Europe has finalised the purchase of four TouchMax embossers supplied by Gambini. The company has invested in three TouchMax Large versions and one standard...
Tissue World Magazine
Latest Headlines

SCA invests further in Brazil with new incontinency facility

Helen Morris -
SCA is set to invest SEK 650m in a new production facility in Brazil for the manufacture of incontinence products. The company is now the...
Tissue World Magazine
Latest Headlines

K-C sales for consumer tissue down 8% in 2Q

Helen Morris -
Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has reported second quarter sales of $1.5bn for its consumer tissue segment, a decrease 8% year-on-year. The tissue giant explained the result on...
Latest Headlines

ISMA 2000 S.L boosts capacity with rebuild

Helen Morris -
Spain’s ISMA 2000 S.L has signed up Toscotec and its sister company Milltech to deliver a major dry-end rebuild of PM1 at its La...
Latest Headlines

A.Celli targets tissue and nonwovens market with TANDEM launch

Helen Morris -
A.Celli has launched TANDEM, a rewinder that it said is both affordable and flexible. It is characterised by high production flexibility: A.Celli said it optimises...
Latest Headlines

Bretting Manufacturing celebrates 125 years and five generations

Helen Morris -
Bretting Manufacturing has announced it is celebrating 125 years in business as the fifth generation of the Bretting family joins the ranks of managing...
Tissue World Magazine
Latest Headlines

Resolute set with order for Valmet NTT Advantage for launch at...

Helen Morris -
(News from RISI) Resolute Forest Products will launch into the North American tissue market in 2017 behind a Valmet NTT Advantage machine, a new...
Tissue World Magazine
Latest Headlines

APP China brings six tissue machines on stream, building another unit...

Helen Morris -
(News from RISI) - Out of the one million tonnes/yr of new tissue paper capacity coming online in China this year, APP China probably...
Tissue World Magazine
Latest Headlines

Voith and Toscotec involved in patent litigation suit

Helen Morris -
Voith has filed a patent infringement suit in Italy before the Court of First Instance in Rome against Toscotec. In its complaint announced on 8...
Tissue World Magazine
Archive

July / August 2015

Helen Morris -
DEPARTMENT NEWS: Frontissues:  Tissue sans frontiers Marketissues: Magnus Groth searching for ‘win-win’ across SCA’s global performance Exitissues: Intercontinental growth – tissue parent roll trade pushing back the boundaries   WORLD NEWS: Global...
Tissue World Magazine
Frontissues

Tissue sans frontiers

Helen Morris -
By Helen Morris The boundaries of the tissue industry’s reach across the globe are forever being pushed forward. This edition of TWM has especially emphasised...
Tissue World Magazine
July / August 2015

Magnus Groth searching for ‘win-win’ across SCA’s global performance

Helen Morris -
Tissue’s global giant SCA has a new supremo. Magnus Groth talks to TWM about business strategy for China, Asia, Russia, The Americas, emerging markets,...
Tissue World Magazine, World News
Asia

2015 July/August Asia News

Helen Morris -
INDONESIA PT Suparma Tbk boosts capacity PT Suparma Tbk has started up a new tissue line at its site in Surabaya. The Valmet-supplied Advantage DCT 100 TM...
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