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July / August 2016

DEPARTMENT NEWS: Frontissues: Colombians like what they see with tissue Marketissues: “Exceptionally strong growth” at 4% for the global tissue industry in 2015 Exitissues: CMPC created a costs virtue out...

China Environment State Investment cancels Sichuan Yibin Paper purchase; tissue project...

(News from RISI) - China’s Sichuan Yibin Paper has announced that the planned transfer of a majority stake in it to an environmental protection...

Henan Yinge in China may change ownership

(News from RISI) - China’s Henan Yinge Industrial Investment announced that a plan to put its principal shareholder’s stake up for sale has been...

K-C announces shutdown in Venezuela following country’s deepening economic chaos

Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has indefinitely suspended operations in Venezuela after it said it was “impossible” to manufacture there due to the country’s economic crisis. The tissue...

Sofidel breaks ground on $300m Ohio plant

Sofidel has broken ground at its $300m tissue paper mill and converting plant in Circleville, USA. The move will significantly increase the Italian company’s production...

Weifang Hicredit Machinery to supply two PMs to tissue mills in...

(News from RISI) - Two small mills in Baoding city, Hebei province, recently ordered 15,000tpy tissue machines from Weifang Hicredit Machinery. A spokesperson from the...

Colombians like what they see with tissue

Before the recent setback, Colombia had ranked as high as 34th in the World Bank’s “Doing Business” index, up from 53rd in 2013. That...

Colombia: Middle class rise prompts growth even as economy slows

By Euromonitor International's Svetlana Uduslivaia Colombia was one of the fastest-growing economies in Latin America over 2005-2014, resulting in rising disposable incomes and expansion of...

Colombia – sluggish T&T market tied to adverse conditions

By Fisher International's Bill Burns   Colombia, the second most populous country in South America (with ¼ the population of Brazil), has been in the midst...

“Exceptionally strong growth” at 4% for the global tissue industry in...

By Esko Uutela Last year was “above-average” for the global tissue business with worldwide tissue consumption growing to 34.8 million tonnes, up by more than...

Hard discounting is reshaping the Colombian market

Growth in low price own label products has meant a strategy rethink for value added producers. Tissue World editor Helen Morris reports. César Augusto Solano...

Tomas is shocked to discover that he’s a big tissue user...

Originally from the Czech Republic, Tomáš Tvrz, 28, has lived and worked for several years in the UK and also in Canada. He talks...

PIX Pulp indices 31.5.2016

By FOEX Indexes' Lars Halén and Timo Teräs   NBSK pulp Europe Producer country statistics from PPPC were not very good in April in terms of delivery volumes. But...

Just how committed are consumers – and the industry – to...

The strongest motivations fade when set against the cost. Pirkko Petäjä, principal, Pöyry Management Consulting, explains the hard-nosed reality behind the environmental issue. Corporate social...

Kuban Papir boosts production with TM1 wet-end rebuild

Russia’s Kuban Papir has signed a contract with PMP for a TM1 wet-end rebuild. The TM has a reel trim 2,750mm and produces tissue with...

Tissue colour safety standards have got tougher … and will get...

Only a rapid and flexible response to the increasing safety concerns of legislators and consumers will succeed. Here, Simon Boyd, global product manager colourants,...

Quality and speed supports business and product innovation at Productos Familia

An El Nino of change has hit the Colombian economy … the peso’s value down 30%, energy costs almost doubled, dramatically low rainfall. TWM...

The Barometer Issue – one year on – you report back...

  ROMANIA Big retail channels rapidly changing the market place When TWM visited Petrocart’s historic snow-laden tissue mill in Piatra Neamț in eastern Romania, the site was...

CMPC created a costs virtue out of an energy necessity

Cogeneration is the key to boost already impressive growth across Latin America for an innovative company which faced tough energy issues by building in...

IP Cart boosts capacity

Italy’s IP Cart has boosted its production capacity after it installed an Omet-supplied machine. The TV 503 4-colour paper napkin dispensing machine will produce products...

SCA to close tissue production plant in Spain

SCA will close its tissue production plant in Sant Joan de Mediona, Spain. The site has an annual capacity of 45,000 tonnes and production will...

Cascades targets American west coast with tissue investment

Cascades is to invest US$64m in constructing a tissue converting plant for the American AfH market. Located in Scappoose, Oregon, the investment includes new state-of-the-art...

Resolute files lawsuit against Greenpeace

Resolute Forest Products has filed a federal lawsuit against Greenpeace International, Greenpeace USA, Greenpeace Fund, STAND (formerly ForestEthics) and a number of their associates. The...

APP halts tissue expansion in China in face of oversupply; continues...

(News from RISI) - While gearing up for the commissioning of a massive 2.8m tpy pulp mill in South Sumatra, Asia Pulp & Paper...

Lee & Man Paper boosts capacity with rewinders buy

Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing has ordered four tissue rewinders to be supplied by A.Celli Paper. The model AC882 rewinders will have a paper width...

US upholds anti-dumping duties on certain tissue products from China

(News from RISI) - The US International Trade Commission (ITC) unanimously voted earlier this month to extend anti-dumping duties (ADD) on imports of certain...

Event Calendar

Tissue World will be participating at various industry events and we would like to invite you to come and visit us. Here is a...

WEPA Lille boosts energy savings

WEPA Lille has signed a contract with PMPower for the delivery of a recovery boiler steam system at its mill in France. PMPower is a...

Daio Paper to make tissue products at Kawanoe mill in Japan

(News from RISI) - Japan’s Daio Paper has announced a plan to restart operations at its inactive Kawanoe mill in the Ehime prefecture. The site,...

Drenik boosts capacity with rebuild

Serbian tissue manufacturer Drenik is to increase the production capacity of its Belgrade-based facilities after it placed an order with supplier Recard to rebuild PM1. The move will...

Spanish competition authority slaps fines of Euro 128.8 million on heavy...

(News from RISI) - The Spanish National Market and Competition Commission, Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC), has imposed fines of...

Tissue World Milan 2017 rescheduled to April 10-12

Tissue World has announced the change of event dates for Tissue World Milan 2017 to 10-12 April 2017. The change of event dates takes place...

Papel San Francisco to boost capacity with second PM

Mexico’s Papel San Francisco has signed up Valmet to supply a repeat order for an Advantage DCT 100TS tissue production line. It will be installed...

Universal launches interactive game of snakes and ladders tissue products

Tissue producer Universal has launched a new and unique product into the South African market: the Dinu Décor Collection Multi packs. Forming part of...

Fruits of a smart marketing strategy

Japanese designers are never afraid to turn stereotypes on their head if it makes for a sale. Their latest idea means we can once again celebrate style...

Essel boosts production with rebuild

Turkey’s Essel Cellulose and Paper Industry Trade has boosted its capacity after finalising the rebuild of a Steel Yankee tissue machine. The A.Celli-supplied rebuild has...

Syassky Pulp and Paper Mill increases capacity

Syassky Pulp and Paper Mill has started up a 45,000tpy Toscotec-supplied AHEAD tissue machine at its Syasstroy mill in Russia. The AHEAD-1.5M tissue line came...

SCA’s Productos Familia guilty in anti-trust inquiry

Productos Familia has been found guilty in an anti-trust inquiry related to tissue products conducted by the Colombian competition authority. The inquiry targeted Familia and...

SCA to shut up shop at Mediona tissue mill in Spain

(News from RISI) - SCA is set to close its tissue mill in Sant Joan de Mediona, Barcelona. In future, the production of mother reels...