Fabio Perini highlights latest technologies

Fabio Perini has used Tissue World Milan to highlight its latest technologic innovations. These include the Constellation Effect, which in the 18 months since its...

Voith presents latest generation of paper machines

Voith is presenting its XcelLine tissue machine technology, its Papermaking 4.0 solutions and InfiltraDiscfilter at Tissue World in Milan. Under the name "XcelLine", Voith said...

Sofidel and SCA help kick-start TW Milan’s conference sessions

A range of key industry leaders and insiders have opened up Tissue World Milan’s conference sessions. With the theme "Change is the only constant...but where...

Tissue World Milan opens its doors!

Key members of the tissue industry have descended on Milan to attend the world’s leading exhibition and conference event for the global tissue industry. Over...

Kemira increases prices of polymer products in Europe

Kemira has increased the price for its polymer product line by 4-8 % across all European countries. It said the price increase is “necessary due...

WEPA invests in new converting line in Germany

(News from RISI) German tissue giant WEPA is set to raise the converting capacity at its Kriebethal tissue mill in Saxony. The company is investing...

China’s Mancheng Paper to add two new TMs to Baoding mill

(News from RISI) - Mancheng Paper (formerly known as Tiantian Paper) will install two new tissue production lines at its sole mill in Baoding...

PCMC launches tissue embosser-laminator Omnia

PCMC has launched Omnia, a new tissue embosser-laminator that the supplier said will “offer customers’ flexibility and safety in a small footprint”. According to the...

Resolute boosts capacity with Calhoun start-up

Resolute Forest Products has boosted its private label capacity with the start-up of its new tissue machine in Tennessee. The first tissue parent roll was...

APP boosts capacity with TM investments

Tissue giant Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) has invested in eight new tissue machines. Supplied by Toscotec, the scope of supply includes AHEAD-2.0L crescent former...

Italy – T&T capacity leader in Western Europe

By Bill Burns, Senior Consultant, Fisher International Italy is traditionally a major player in the story of tissue and today remains the capacity leader in the Western...

Cascades launches household tissue range

Cascades has targeted the consumer market with the launch of a range of household tissue products. Consisting of three varieties of toilet paper and two...

Japan’s Daio announces 10% hike for its household paper range

(News from RISI) - Daio Paper has announced its intention to hike all of its household paper prices, on shipments starting from 1 May. The...

Italy’s Cartiera Ferrania to double capacity with installation of new tissue...

(News from RISI) - Italy’s Cartiera Ferrania will install a new tissue machine as well as a cogeneration plant, the Italian newspaper La Stampa...

Universal Paper expands capacity with start-up

South Africa’s Universal Paper Manufacturers has successfully started up its turn-key green field tissue mill at its Ga-Rankuwa mill. Start-up of TM5, a PMP-supplied Intelli-Tissue...

The countdown to TW Milan has started!

Over 200 exhibitors and key industry speakers are gearing up for Tissue World’s leading exhibition and conference, held in Milan in just over two...

Star Paper Mill boosts capacity

United Arab Emirates-based Star Paper Mill is to increase its production capacity after signing a contract for the supply of a turnkey plant. Supplied by...

Italy: Growth in consumer tissue sales hampered by market maturity and...

One of the largest economies in Europe and in the world, Italy has gone through a period of significant economic and financial downturn. The country’s economy contracted for three...

Converting technology sector in positive mood heading into 2017

Despite a modest 1.5% GDP growth forecast for the EU and a world economy still emerging from a lacklustre 2016, research by TWM sees Italy’s major...

‘We are facing a sophistication of demand’

Only in Italy could there be a fibre di latte, one of many pioneering products of fibre experts Lucart at its Diecimo site. In a...

Searching for distinction in a complex market

When competition is fierce and price discounting dominates, niche, flexibility and targeted response to rapidly changing consumer demands become crucial. TWM visited family owned Industria...

We need greater speed on the production floor… and we need...

The Smart robotics revolution is underway to meet the rapid pace of change in the feminine, adult and baby care products markets. As E-commerce and...

Converting Technical Theme: key innovations in the search for perfection on...

Futura, PCMC, OMET, Fabio Perini, Maflex and MTorres talk to TWM about targeting their latest R&D efforts in response to customer demands. A TWM report. ...

Distribution Special Feature

Adapting to every request for end of line or the automatic conveying system: TWM hears from OCME on its latest offerings. A TWM report. OCME is...

Tissue EU Ecolabel: its current success is the best proof that...

The tissue industry was stunned in November 2016 to hear that the EU College of Commissioners was considering not renewing three Ecolabels, including one of the most successful –...

My three-point guide to tissue etiquette

Cheapest: too rough even for the toughest of men. Middle rank: comfortable, quality, full-bodied. Luxury: generally pointless, but essential for a girlfriend’s...

Defining the products of the future

  Greater efforts to save margins, fearless investment in technological innovation and new products, e-commerce selling, increasing of stakeholder engagement processes, potential double digit growth in the...

How will the tissue connection between Europe and North America continue?

For several decades, North America and Europe shared some of the same tissue suppliers. However, during the last decade a lot has changed. Previously, North American companies were...

The Home of Tissue: driving forward innovation to create the products...

It’s pressure which produces diamonds, and the fiercely competitive nature of the Italian market is producing some sparkling results. They have been called “smart factories,” but tissue factories...

Trevipapel Group boosts capacity with Steel Yankee investment

Trevipapel Group has invested in a Toscotec-supplied tissue line at its Paper Prime mill in Vila Velha de Rodão, Portugal. The Steel Yankee Dryer TT...

Tissue World Magazine Mill Awards: entry submission is open!

Tissue World is calling all green and innovative tissue mills across Western Europe to get in touch to showcase their latest developments in our...

Italian tissue mill Cartiera San Lorenzo hit by fire, production halted

(News from RISI) - Italy’s Cartiera San Lorenzo was hit by a fire last week and forced to stop production. The local fire brigade said...

Sofidel UK starts-up latest-generation tissue rewinder

Sofidel UK has boosted its tissue production capacity after it started up a tissue rewinder at its Lancaster-based site. Supplied by A.Celli, the latest-generation tissue...

Hayat Kimya boosts presence with Egypt start-up

Turkey’s Hayat Kimya has boosted its presence in the Middle East after it started-up a PM at its new mill in Egypt. The Valmet-supplied line...

Trevipapel Group boosts capacity with Steel Yankee investment

Trevipapel Group has invested in a Toscotec-supplied tissue line at its Paper Prime mill in Vila Velha de Rodão, Portugal. The Steel Yankee Dryer TT...

Suzano to sell converted tissue products; investment in tissue increases to...

(News from RISI) - Brazilian pulp and paper producer Suzano is to acquire converting equipment that will enable it to sell finished products in...

Grupo Corporativo Papelera boosts capacity with tissue investment

Grupo Corporativo Papelera has invested in a tissue machine for its Mexico-based site. Supplied by A.Celli, the line will add an additional 34,000 tonnes to...

Kemira hikes up prices

Kemira has increased the price of its pulp and paper FennoSize AKD chemicals in EMEA. The price increase of the AKD sizing chemicals will be...

Arkhbum to start up 70,000tpy tissue PM in H2 2018

(News from RISI) - Arkhbum Tissue Group, managed by Arkhangelsk pulp and paper mill (APPM), has detailed a timeline for the construction of the...

Daio Paper looking to buy Japanese tissue mills from Nisshinbo

(News from RISI) Daio Paper has announced it is in talks to take over the tissue production activities of fellow Japanese firm Nisshinbo Holdings. The...