Understanding vibration to perform smart chatter monitoring

By BTG’s Florent Bougerolle BTG’s Florent Bougerolle talks to TWM about how doctor blade vibration monitoring helps tissue makers get valuable insight into costly coating...

Converting companies are surging through Europe’s economic woes

From strengthening core technology to a new project to “revolutionise” the tissue industry – leading companies look ahead   TW1: How are you tackling the recessionary...

New sulphur reduction targets mean a potential 30% increase in sea...

By Pöyry Management Consulting’s Pirkko Petäjä and Jyrki Latvala In an ever more challenging business environment, top experts suggest how the industry should manage a...

PIX Pulp indices 30.12.2014

By FOEX Indexes’ Lars Halén and Timo Teräs NBSK pulp Europe The pulp market remained fairly firm over the fourth quarter as the share of market...

“It’s a luxury I can’t do without”

By Chloe Setter Chloe Setter, 31, is head of policy at a UK children’s charity. She lives in South...

“Dream” of second PM within reach for fiercely independent French hygiene...

By Tissue World Magazine Senior Editor Helen Morris Already a market leader, quality product and location are key...

“A Europe-wide outlook is vital for us.”

By Tissue World magazine editor Helen Morris As the WEPA Group’s French mill, WEPA Lille’s location is key for understanding the dynamics within the French...

France – T&T strength in an overall weakened market

By Fisher International’s Bill Burns France is one of the top ten paper making countries in the world but, like elsewhere, the shrinking global market...

As shopping habits change SCA’s Barker sees multiple, price-relevant and distinctive...

By freelance journalist Simon Creasey Sally Barker has a vision. And that vision is to drive a sustainable business for long-term growth. It’s a vision...

France boosts brands thanks to bulk buys

By Euromonitor International’s Ian Bell A gloomy economic climate, coupled with low consumer morale and a mature and saturated market, equals a difficult environment for...

French market shows evolving tissue trends are helping to buck a...

By Tissue World magazine editor Helen Morris As a Francophile it doesn’t surprise me in the least that French shoppers are bucking the trend, in...

Fire hits SCA Oakenholt tissue mill in Wales, production briefly suspended

(News from RISI) A fire broke out on the morning of 27 February at SCA Hygiene Products' Oakenholt tissue mill in north Wales. The mill...

Solenis completes acquisition of Clearwater Specialties

Solenis has completed the previously announced acquisition of Clearwater Specialties, a privately-held specialty chemical company dedicated to the tissue and towel market. The deal includes...

Liuzhou Liangmianzhen boosts capacity

China’s Liuzhou Liangmianzhen Paper Product has invested in two Toscotec-supplied MODULO-PLUS ES tissue lines that will be installed at its production site in Liuzhou,...

Cuban tissue maker Prosa resumes production pace

(News from RISI) - Cuba's sole tissue paper producer Productos Sanitarios (Prosa) has completed in the last quarter of 2014 an investment to replace...

SCA inaugurates first production facility in India

SCA has inaugurated its first manufacturing facility for personal care and tissue products in India. Based in Pune in the central Indian state of Maharastra,...

WEPA boosts private label presence with French mill acquisition

WEPA has increased its presence in the French consumer private label market after it acquired Lucart's Troyes tissue plant. The WEPA Group took over the...

SCA to take out 69 jobs at Nokia tissue mill in...

(News from RISI) SCA has wrapped up the discussions it started with employee representatives in November last year regarding possible job cuts at its...

Andritz starts up eleventh TM for Hengan Group

Andritz has successfully started up Hengan Group’s PM18 tissue machine. The PrimeLineST W8 tissue machine is installed in the company’s Changde mill and it has...

Slovenian tissue producer Paloma seeks Euro 15m in capital increase

(News from RISI) - The Slovenian tissue producer Paloma has started a process to raise its capital by Euro 15m ($17m) in order to...

Portucel Soporcel acquires AMS BR Star Paper

Portucel Soporcel has diversified into tissue paper with the acquisition of tissue paper manufacturer AMS BR Star Paper (AMS). After a period of heavy investments...

GZP boosts capacity

Głuchołaskie Zakłady Papiernicze (GZP) has boosted its capacity after it signed up Hergen to supply a Smart Fit Crescent Former. The Polish company produces a...

Changes at the top of SCA; on-going aviation and hospitality audits

Magnus Groth is to replace Jan Johansson as president and chief executive of SCA as of 1 March. Formerly president of the company’s European consumer...

China’s Hengan starts up new 60,000tpy tissue PM in Hunan province

(News from RISI) - China's Hengan International has started up a new 60,000tpy tissue PM at a mill in Changde city, Hunan province. The commissioning...

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 and produces Almusso...

Sofidel starts up wastewater treatment plant at Delicarta

Sofidel has started up a wastewater treatment plant at its Delicarta Paper Mill in Italy. The overall investment for the implementation of the project -...

Hebei Xuesong Paper boosts capacity

China’s Hebei Xuesong Paper has boosted its capacity after it signed for its second Intelli-Tissue® 1200 EcoEc tissue machine supplied by PMP Group. TM2 has...

Vinda boosts tissue capacity to almost one million tpy in 2015

(News from RISI) - Vinda International Holdings plans to build three new 30,000tpy tissue PMs in China in 2015, raising its total tissue capacity...

Tissue World moves to Milan after Barcelona

Tissue World has kept its vow to circulate in Europe and in 2017 will move to Italy, Milan! It follows two events in a fantastic...

SCA to build biological wastewater treatment plant at Kunheim mill in...

(News from RISI) - SCA will add a biological water treatment stage to the wastewater treatment plant at its 50,000tpy Kunheim tissue mill in...

Zhejiang Jingxing Paper starts up TM

China’s Zhejiang Jingxing Paper has successfully started up an Andritz-supplied tissue machine with an 18-foot steel Yankee. Based in Pinghu city, Zhejiang province, China, the...

Slovakia’s Bukóza prepares for two new lines of personal care products

(News from RISI) - Bukóza Invest is taking another step in its entry into the hygiene products business. The company started production on two lines...

Papcel finalises acquisition of ABK Groupe

Czech Republic machinery manufacturer Papcel has finalised the acquisition of French paper machine supplier ABK Groupe. The newly formed group will now supply tissue technology...

Gambini boosts global presence with AMS joint agreement

Gambini has increased its global presence after it announced a joint collaboration with Vancouver-based Applied Motion Systems (AMS). The agreement will provide tissue converting technology...

Van Houtum to rebuild PM4

Independent hygienic paper producer Van Houtum is to boost its capacity after it signed up Toscotec to carry out a dry end rebuild of...

January / February 2015

DEPARTMENT NEWS: Frontissues:  The great balancing act Marketissues: Thinking inside … and outside the box Exitissues: Algeria set to double its tissue capacity   FEATURES: Country Report: Romania – overall weakness offset by...

Algeria set to double its tissue capacity

By former senior paper industry officer Omar Chabane With North Africa awakening from a period of inertia, TWM spotlights Faderco, a company with big ideas...

Paper Machine: Technical Theme

New technology start-ups, Chinese overcapacity, softness and bulk innovations … TWM interviews the world’s leading tissue machinery manufacturers to bring you the latest knowledge TW/1...

“Friends laugh at my mini obsession”

By Simon Bird Originally from Manchester, Simon Bird now lives in Bristol in the south-west of England. He works...

Project Survey 2014/15

By Tissue World magazine editor Helen Morris Recessionary climates and a global slowdown in many tissue markets do not seem to have drastically impacted the...