Sofidel America boosts American capacity with rewinder investment

Sofidel America has increased its presence in the American market after signing for a rewinder for its facility in Circleville, Ohio. Supplied by A.Celli Paper,...

Clearwater boosts private label capacity with $340m NTT investment

Clearwater Paper has responded to customer demand for premium and ultra-premium products by investing in a second tissue machine and converting facility at its...

Tissue Online launches the first Executive Training Course for Tissue Converters

Portal Tissue Online intends to open the doors for training in the area of ​​executive management for tissue converters. Aimed at working with tissue paper...

China’s Guangxi Tianlifeng starts 20,000tpy tissue machine in Nanning

(News from RISI) - Guangxi Tianlifeng has kicked off production on a new 20,000tpy tissue machine at its sole mill in Nanning city, in...

Tissue Italy appoints president for iT’s Tissue 2018

Tissue Italy Network has appointed Massimo Franzaroli as president for iT’s Tissue 2018. He replaces Sergio Casella who has stepped down due to other commitments. Casella...

Lucart’s French site starts-up PM rebuild

Lucart has started up its PM10 at its Laval sur Vologne mill after a rebuild project undertaken by Toscotec. The rebuild will boost the machine...

Omet launches No-Stop unwinder

Omet has responded to customer demand with the launch of the No-Stop unwinder. The patented module allows operators to change paper rolls without stopping the...

Resolute reports results; prepares to ramp-up Calhoun tissue operations

Resolute Forest Products has reported a net loss for the quarter ended 31 December 2016 of $45m, compared to a loss of $214m in...

SCA strengthens UK tissue presence with TAD investment

SCA is to invest SEK160m in a through-air drying (TAD) machine at its tissue plant in Skelmersdale, UK. The investment is to “meet the growing...

SCA to discontinue hygiene business in India

SCA is to discontinue its hygiene business in India just four years after entering the market. It reported net sales for the business of SEK...

Solenis announces price hikes on process chemicals and PAM products

Solenis has increased the price on its process chemicals and Polyacrylamide (PAM) Products for the Asia Pacific region. Effective immediately or as contracts allow, a...

China’s Guangdong Shaoneng orders new 27,000tpy tissue unit

(News from RISI) - Guangdong Shaoneng Group has placed an order for a new 27,000tpy tissue machine for its pulp and paper mill in...

China’s Taison Group gets four tissue machines for Jiujiang mill in...

(News from RISI) - The Taison Group is forging ahead with its tissue paper expansions in China, ordering four 60,000tpy tissue machines for its...

Vinda Paper (Zhejiang) boosts capacity with TM investments

Vinda Paper (Zhejiang) has taken delivery of two tissue machines supplied by Toscotec. TM3 and TM4 are scheduled to be installed at the company’s Longyou...

K-C reports consistent 4Q results amongst “competitive environment”

Kimberly-Clark has reported fourth quarter 2016 net sales of $4.5bn as it noted a “challenging economic and competitive environment”. Organic sales for the period increased...

Project Survey 2016

While 2016 has gone down in history for the many significant global events that took place, for the tissue industry it’s been a slightly more subdued...

Paper Machine Quality, energy, fibre, water, costs… the search for high...

TWM/1 What new technical advances have you made in the last year concerning issues such as energy, fibre and water reduction, sheet quality and...

2016 North American tissue statistics point to a balanced market

Shipments and operating rates are currently strong but we worry about the supply side So the demand side of the North American tissue market appears strong, but...

From the Himalayas to city life – a modern-day nomad’s world...

Gary J. Carroll is an adventurer and professional photographer. Born in Birmingham, England, he travels the world as a street/urban photographer exploring different...

PIX Pulp indices 27.9.2016

By FOEX Indexes’ Lars Halén and Timo Teräs               NBSK pulp Europe: The softwood pulp market remains relatively stable. Price pressures have, however, recently been rather downwards than upwards,...

Focus on Sweden: a nation of tissue lovers

By Marcus Hellberg, Head of marketing and business development at Södra Cell Ten million Swedes are second only to the US in per capita consumption. It’s all down...

A tough modern makeover for the table top star ‘close to...

By Tissue World magazine editor Helen Morris After closures and a sharp market re-focus, global coloured tissue leader Duni’s SEK110m investment has brought its 5%...

Tradition and passion creates Sofidel’s most advanced automated site

By Tissue World magazine editor Helen Morris TWM interviews Robert Jensen, Sofidel Sweden, country operations manager, on the latest tissue trends in the region. Sofidel’s Swedish plant produces...

Back from the brink in Norway’s dramatic Paper Valley

By Tissue World magazine editor Helen Morris Amid the spectacular mountains and fjords, the story of a mill’s survival is barely less impressive. After all looked...

Scandinavia – regional provider of pulp and paper with local T&T...

By Bill Burns, Senior consultant, Fisher International Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway and Denmark) is well known for producing pulp and paper products for both the local market and export. Exports are heavily...

Eurozone’s ‘saturated’ market consumption has risen well above trend … thanks...

Tissue usage increased 3.6% after a dramatic drop in energy prices in the winter of 2014-2015, plus an improvement in consumer confidence. TWM asked Numera...

It does exactly what it says on the scented packaging

I like the sound of Vårt Finaste Toalettpapper. It means, as I’m sure you will have worked out, Our Finest Toilet Paper. It was launched by the...

Chilean press reports CMPC, Kimberly-Clark involved in diaper collusion case in...

(News from RISI) - Almost two years after pulp and paper producer CMPC self-reported to the Chilean authorities about coordinated price arrangements carried out...

C&S Paper considers tissue expansion in Hubei

(News from RISI) - C&S Paper is mulling over adding 200,000tpy of new tissue paper capacity at its mill in Xiaogan city, Hubei province,...

Clearwater Paper restructures tissue facilities

Clearwater Paper has announced it will permanently close its Oklahoma City tissue converting facility and shut down two of its tissue machines at its...

Hengan Group boosts capacity with double PM investment

Chinese tissue manufacturer Hengan Group has increased its capacity after it invested in two MODULO-PLUS ES tissue machines. Supplied by Toscotec, the two lines will...

Suzano’s board approves Real 346m loan for tissue projects in Brazil

(News from RISI) - Suzano’s board has approved a Real 346.4 million ($105.8m) loan with the Brazilian Northeast Bank (Banco do Nordeste) to be...

Tissue World Milan set to be world’s largest tissue event

Italy is gearing up to host the world’s largest gathering of tissue professionals for the first time as the industry prepares for Tissue World Milan...

Irving boosts capacity with TAD investment

Canadian tissue manufacturer Irving Consumer Products has invested in a Thru-Air Dried tissue making machine from Valmet. Delivery is expected in 2018 and once up and running the line will increase...

First Quality expands manufacturing capacity with PM investments

First Quality Tissue is to focus its long term growth plans on the ultra-premium towel and tissue sectors after it announced plans to invest in two new state-of-the-art tissue...

Gomà‐Camps to boost capacity by 34,000tpy following investment

Spain's Gomà‐Camps Group has signed for a new high quality paper machine to be installed at its Gomà‐Camps Consumer site in Ejea de los Caballeros. Supplied by Voith, PM7 has a trim...

Bedford Paper invests in retail and AfH production capacity

America's Bedford Paper has invested in a tissue converting and packaging line for its facility in De Pere, Wisconsin. Supplied by PCMC, start-up is expected in 2017 and will increase the...

C&S plans tissue expansion in Hebei; small mills in Mancheng forced...

(News from RISI) - C&S Paper is to add 75,000tpy of new tissue paper capacity at its mill in Tangshan city, Hebei province, to feed increasing...

Winners of Sofidel’s Suppliers Sustainability Award announced

Italian tissue company Sofidel has announced the winners of the first edition of its Suppliers Sustainability Award. The Award was created to encourage and spread best practice and improvement activity currently being carried out...

Tissue ‘the unsung hero of our daily lives’

Dave Ripper is one of many to discover how prominent tissue is only when asked, as here, to recall their encounters with the vital aid to living....