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...

GP files case against discounter, Soundview, Solaris in federal court

(News from RISI) - Georgia-Pacific (GP) is understood to have filed a federal lawsuit against discount grocery chain Aldi along with Soundview Paper and...

SCA reports 15% net sales increase

SCA has reported an increase in net sales in its Q1 interim report, up 15% to SEK 27,958m. Between 1 January and 31 March 2015...

Countdown to Tissue World’s São Paulo launch!

The Tissue World team is making the final touches to welcome the industry to our debut launch in Latin America! The first edition of Tissue...

Krishna Tissue to boost capacity

India’s Krishna Tissue is to boost its capacity after it signed for a state-of-the-art winder supplied by A.Celli Paper. The model AC842 paper rewinder is...

PMP Group launch targets tissue sector

PMP Group has launched PMPower, a new facility that will be responsible for energy solutions for tissue and paper mills. The supplier said that widening...

Russia’s Arkhbum Tissue Group progresses with 70,000tpy tissue PM

(News from RISI) - Russia's Arkhbum Tissue Group, managed by Arkhangelsk pulp and paper mill (APPM), is forging ahead with its plans to install...

SCA to permanently suspend operations at French tissue mill by October

(News from RISI) - SCA plans to stop all operations at its Saint-Cyr-en-Val facility in France by October this year, affecting 119 workers. According to...

Fortissue starts up new tissue machine in Viana do Castelo, Portugal

(News from RISI) - Production is up and running on a new tissue machine in Portugal. Fortissue Produção de Papel, which is part of the...

SCA audit finds representatives acted in compliance with Swedish law

SCA has said an independent audit investigating claims its staff were involved in extravagant corporate perks found its representatives “acted in compliance with Swedish...

Gant Innovations launches first-of-its-kind product

Gant Innovations has launched a first-of-its-kind product: a patented adhesive paper napkin that can be manufactured without silicone tape and has no need for...

Grigiskes boosts capacity at Vilnius mill

Grigiskes has started up its new 110tpd tissue PM6 at its Vilnius mill in Lithuania. The Toscotec-supplied line has a design speed is 1,900mpm with...

Valmet completes acquisition of Process Automation Systems

Valmet has completed the acquisition of Process Automation Systems business from Metso. The company received the necessary approvals from the competition authorities on 15 January. The...

Hayat Kimya inaugurates 70,000tpy Alabuga tissue mill

(News from RISI) - Turkish tissue producer Hayat Kimya has inaugurated its 70,000tpy Alabuga tissue mill located in Tatarstan, Russia. The mill, which occupies a...

Tissue: KP ‘very hard’ at work on TAD; von Drehle NTT...

(News from RISI) - While considering a new machine for almost nine months, KP Tissue chief executive Mario Gosselin told analysts that the firm...

Tissue World Barcelona 2015 attracts 2,589 participants

The world’s top tissue tradeshow has attracted 2,589 participants including 1,561 visitors from 89 countries and 712 exhibiting staff. Held last month in Barcelona, the...

March / April 2015 – Asia News

JAPAN Tokushu Tokai tests new tissue machine in Japan (News from RISI) - Tokushu Tokai Paper has kicked off trial runs on a new tissue paper...

March / April 2015 – Americas News

USA Cascades PM ramp-up continues at St. Helens; machine rolls being sold (News from RISI) - Cascades started up a converted uncoated freesheet (UFS) paper machine...

March / April 2015 – Europe News

POLAND Almus boosts converting capacity Poland’s Almus has boosted its converting capacity after it signed for a Gambini TouchMax line. The family-run company is based in Slomniki...

March / April 2015 – Global News

SCA's Jan Johansson steps down following on-going aviation and hospitality audits SCA has said its president and CEO Jan Johansson is to step down. The company...

March / April 2015

  DEPARTMENT NEWS: Frontissues:  French market shows evolving tissue trends are helping to buck a gloomy European marketplace Marketissues: As shopping habits change SCA’s Barker sees multiple, price-relevant...

“We are targeting growing regions with a level of strong enough...

By Tissue World magazine editor Helen Morris Arjowiggins Graphic’s chief executive Agnès Roger talks to TWM about the company’s market strategy   Arjowiggins Graphic’s tissue mill is...