Strike at SCA’s Cyr-en-Val tissue mill ends

(News from RISI) - The strike at SCA's Cyr-en-Val tissue mill in France which began on 3 June has come to an end. An SCA...

Lithuania’s Grigiskes closes two tissue PMs at Vilnius mill as new...

(News from RISI) - Grigiskes has shut down the two oldest machines at its Vilnius tissue mill in Lithuania as planned. The PMs will be...

Clearwater said to be out with August hike on its consumer...

(News from RISI) Clearwater Paper, North America's second largest private label tissue product player, announced an August price increase on its consumer products, contacts...

Omet’s Koala, Raccoon and Chameleon launches target tissue market

Omet has launched a range of innovations that target the tissue industry. ‘Koala’ introduces magnetic plates in replacement of embossing cylinders which Omet said makes...

Tissue capacity additions keep coming, while demand stays steady at 1-2%/yr

(News from RISI) US tissue paper capacity entered a fifth-year of significant growth in 2015 that was not outpacing steady demand expansion and not...

Fábricas de Papel Potosí boosts capacity

Mexico’s Fábricas de Papel Potosí has invested in a new TM complete with 12-ft steel Yankee and latest-generation hoods. Supplied by A.Celli Paper, the new...

Indefinite strike hits SCA’s French tissue mill, production down

(News from RISI) - Workers downed tools for an indefinite period of time at SCA's tissue mill in Saint-Cyr-en-Val in France on 3 June...

A.Celli Paper supplies five tissue rewinders to APP China

A.Celli Paper has said it will supply five tissue rewinders to two of APP's facilities in China. The rewinders model AC 882 are characterised by...

Lee & Man starts up new 60,000tpy tissue PM in Chongqing,...

(News from RISI) - Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing has commissioned a new 60,000tpy tissue PM at its mill in Chongqing municipality, China. The Voith...

APP and APRIL become PEFC-certified in Indonesia

Indonesia’s top two pulp and paper producers Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) and Asia Pacific Resources International (APRIL) have become certified to PEFC and...

China’s tissue market under oversupply pressure

(News from RISI) - China's tissue capacity may rise to around 10.44 million tpy by the end of this year, up by 10.6% from...

Italy’s Roto-cart shelves plan to build tissue converting facility in Austria

(News from RISI) - St. Veit an der Glan in Carinthia, southern Austria, will not be the home of a new tissue converting facility. Italy's...

Doubletree Paper Mills boosts capacity

Doubletree Paper Mills has started up a PrimeLineCOMPACT tissue machine with Steel Yankee at it Arizona mill. Supplied by Andritz, the machine has a design...

Södra hikes up softwood prices

Södra has increased the price of its softwood pulp in Europe to USD 870 per tonne. The pulp producer said the move was “due to...

Suzano announces entry into hardwood fluff pulp segment

Suzano Pulp and Paper has introduced its new EucaFluff product at Tissue World São Paulo, marking the company’s move into the hardwood fluff pulp...

GP completes $5m addition at Camas mill

(News from RISI) - In a $5m converting plant project, Georgia-Pacific (GP) started up a new rewinder for Away-from-Home tissue paper towels at its...

São Paulo launch is a Tissue World winner with Brazilian flair

Tissue World’s first venture into the vibrant South American tissue market attracted 1,119 influential participants from across the continent and beyond. Feedback during and after...

May / June 2015

DEPARTMENT NEWS: Frontissues:  An intriguing contrast – an economy on solid ground in a country prone to earthquakes Marketissues: Tissue World Barcelona attracted key industry members from...

Tissue marketplace in Chile: maturing retail and opportunities in away-from-home...

By David Mackinson, senior research analyst, Euromonitor International  A bit of time spent in Chile, and you might consider it an outlier amongst its Latin...

PIX Pulp indices 24.3.2015

By FOEX Indexes’ Lars Halén and Timo Teräs NBSK pulp Europe UTIPULP (the group of European market wood pulp users) published the market pulp consumers’ consumption...

‘Our target – to give America something new’

With the start-up of the world’s second NTT line in May, Chile’s FPC Tissue (FPC) is used to thinking big... but to give the...

Chile – Modest T&T business with recent growth

Chile is the number three pulp and paper producing country in a Latin American market that is heavily weighted to pulp production. Nearly half...

Tissue World Barcelona

A return to gradual growth as Europe emerges from a prolonged economic struggle and the focus of tissue business shifting from west to east....

Tissue World Barcelona attracted key industry members from across Europe and...

Country Update: France France is the fourth largest producer of Paper and Market Pulp in Western Europe making 10.1 million metric tonnes per year. Towel...

An intriguing contrast – an economy on solid ground in a...

I don’t know if Guillermo Swett, chief executive of Chilean producer FPC Tissue, has any Italian ancestry, but he reminds me of some good...

TWM helps Wesley open ‘a Pandora’s box’ of issues with his...

Born in the UK, Wesley Sawkins talks about his preference for bulk buying, his scepticism on presentation and corporates, and his experiences...

SCA’s global business model finds a welcome and unique market in...

As Latin America’s star economy, Chile is a well-developed and stable country where per capita tissue consumption reaches 10/11 kilos annually. Tissue World magazine...

Södra invests to make its totally chlorine-free pulp stronger still

Latest developments at Södra’s Mönsterås mill in Sweden target tissue makers favouring TCF pulp. The company talks to TWM about responding to customer demand...

NBSK… keeping the industry’s benchmark pulp at the highest grade

From the mighty pines and spruce of British Columbia to the tiny crill from wood chip particles - Canfor Pulp’s Innovation director Paul Watson...

Global retail tissue in 2014: a diverse and dynamic marketplace

By Svetlana Uduslivaia, head of tissue and hygiene industry at Euromonitor International The global retail tissue market continued to show a healthy growth in 2014,...

RETAIL SPECIAL: Recession as a springboard for private brand growth, purchasing...

TWM takes a look at some of the talks from Tissue World Barcelona’s Tissue Retail & Distributor Insight Forum (TRIF)   World tissue - development, normalisation,...

Waste not – want not… the issue of disposability facing tissue...

By Industry analyst Greg Grishchenko Even among developed ‘non-Western’ nations to ‘flush or not to flush’ is still the question. Tissue - the brightest segment in...

PT Suparma Tbk boosts capacity

PT Suparma Tbk has started up a new tissue line at its site in Surabaya, Indonesia. The Valmet-supplied Advantage DCT 100 TM increases the company's...

Papelera San Andrés de Giles to start up new tissue converting...

(News from RISI) - Argentinean tissue producer Papelera San Andrés de Giles is to launch a new converting line by the end of May,...

Private equity consortium takes minority stake in Nuqul’s FINE Hygienic Holding

(News from RISI) - A consortium led by Standard Chartered Private Equity (SCPE), the private equity arm of Standard Chartered Bank, has invested $175...

CMPC posts sales of $1.16bn in 1Q 2015; aims to start...

(News from RISI) - Chilean group CMPC has registered consolidated sales of $1.16bn in the first quarter of 2015, down 3% compared to the...

SCA says Columbian anti-trust inquiries “will not have a material financial...

The Colombian competition authority is conducting an anti-trust inquiry that includes the joint venture Productos Familia, of which 50% is owned by SCA. Kersti Strandqvist,...

A.Celli Paper starts up TM in El Salvador

A.Celli Paper has started up a tissue machine in El Salvador. The rebuild project for a confidential industrial group began in September 2014. The machine has...

Man killed in accident at Metsä Tissue’s Stotzheim facility in Germany

(News from RISI) - A 41-year-old truck driver was killed in an accident at Metsä Tissue's Stotzheim facility in Euskirchen in Germany on 29...

Celulosa Argentina starts production on 30,000tpy tissue PM at Capitán Bermúdez

(News from RISI) Argentinean pulp and paper producer Celulosa Argentina started up its new 30,000tpy tissue paper machine (PM) on 25 April at its...