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Europe

Lucart Group acquires Bokk Paper

Helen Morris - June 2, 2016

Italian producer Lucart Group has acquired the total capital of Bokk Paper, the main independent Hungarian player in the AfH tissue products market. The name...

Asia

Lee & Man advances tissue plans

Helen Morris - June 2, 2016

(News from RISI) - Despite being a latecomer to the Chinese tissue paper industry, Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing aims to become one of...

Europe

ICT’s Kostrzyn mill boosts capacity

Helen Morris - May 19, 2016

ICT Poland has started up a Valmet-supplied Advantage DCT 200HS tissue line at its Kostrzyn-based plant. The new line will add 70,000tpy of high-quality toilet...

Europe

Södra Group reports operating profit of SEK 334 million

Helen Morris - May 19, 2016

Södra Group has reported operating profit for the first four months of the year of SEK 334 million, compared with SEK 941 million the...

Asia

Sun Paper moves ahead with hygiene production

Helen Morris - May 19, 2016

(News from RISI) China’s Sun Paper is moving ahead with its incursion into the hygiene product market in partnership with Nippon Paper Industries subsidiary...

Europe

Workers stage 24 hour strike at SCA’s Saint-Etienne du Rouvray tissue...

Helen Morris - May 19, 2016

(News from RISI) - Employees at SCA’s Saint-Etienne du Rouvray tissue plant in France downed tools for 24 hours on May 12, stopping production...

May / June 2016

Helen Morris - May 17, 2016

DEPARTMENT NEWS: Frontissues: The US faces big structural changes to its tissue market Marketissues: Targeting top brand icons … by comparison and confusion Exitissues: Headwinds in the Russian tissue market WORLD...

Features

Tissue World brought the global industry to New Orleans

Helen Morris - May 16, 2016

As befits the jazz capital of the US, the four-day exhibition and conference went with a swing with almost 1,600 attendees jetting in from...

Features

PIX Pulp indices 29.3.2016

Lars Halén Timo Teräs - May 16, 2016

NBSK pulp Europe Even taking into account one more production and shipping day in February 2016 versus February 2015, the PPPC numbers published week 11...

Consumer Speak

When you are dealing with those messy creatures – otherwise known...

Helen Morris - May 16, 2016

Originally from Australia, Mary-Lou Mcdonald is a serial traveller and has lived all over the world working primarily as a nanny, in which profession...

Features

Fibre of the future

Helen Morris - May 16, 2016

With substantially more softwood pulp capacity coming on stream, what are the benefits for the tissue maker? Södra Cell’s marketing director Marcus Hellberg talks...

Features

The Millennial consumer: converting brand agnostics into brand believers

Kit Vale - May 16, 2016

Global retail today is a more competitive, complex business than ever before for retailers and brands of all sizes. US retailers, in particular, are...

Features

Strength and softness – how NBSK pulp fibres deliver

Paul Bicho - May 16, 2016

Canfor Pulp, the world’s fifth largest supplier of softwood kraft pulps, planted 78 million trees in 2015 alone in British Colombia, Canada. Here, manager...

Features

WEPA Group: Consolidated growth for Europe’s third largest tissue player

Helen Morris - May 16, 2016

With paper machines recently started-up in Germany and France, and another PM investment announced in Poland, WEPA Group has its eyes firmly fixed on...

Exitissues

Headwinds in the Russian tissue market

Esko Uutela - May 16, 2016

By Esko Uutela, Principal, Tissue, RISI Russian tissue consumption showed a very strong growth pattern from 2000 until 2012, with an average growth rate of...

Country Report

US: Battle for value and volume growth hots up in mature...

Jabel Parayil - May 16, 2016

By Jabel Parayil, Analyst – tissue & hygiene, Euromonitor International With per capita volume consumption of retail tissue standing at 14kg, the US has the...

Country Report

Northeast United States – A mix of T&T machine vintages, sizes...

Bill Burns - May 16, 2016

By Bill Burns, Senior consultant, Fisher International The global Towel and Tissue (T&T) market can be divided into six regions where North America ranks third...

Features

Targeting top brand icons … by comparison and confusion

Greg Grishchenko - May 16, 2016

By Greg Grishchenko, Industry analyst Copy-cat labelling on private label products has created a lucrative revenue stream for discount stores, increasing confusion for consumers, and...

Features

Battle for the biggest Away-from-Home sector in the world

Helen Morris - May 16, 2016

Table napkins are on a surge as Americans eat out more, enjoy ‘fast casual’ dining, and turn to the pleasures of the homeland and...

Features

Opportunity on “our doorstep” – or as it’s otherwise known …...

Helen Morris - May 16, 2016

The great metropolis is also “a great waste paper basket,” says Soundview Paper Company chief executive Karl Meyers who has targeted recycled and virgin...

Features

The US faces big structural changes to its tissue market

Helen Morris - May 10, 2016

TWM, and hopefully all who read our Regional Report in this edition will join us, has enjoyed the privilege of touring the world’s leading...

Europe

Norske Skog and Roto-cart sever tissue ties; project to produce tissue...

Helen Morris - May 4, 2016

(News from RISI) - Norske Skog and Italy’s Roto-cart are no longer partnering on the project to replace the newsprint PM at Norske Skog’s...

Latest Headlines

KCM announces capex for 2016-2017 at $400m; to invest in new...

Helen Morris - May 4, 2016

(News from RISI) - Kimberly-Clark de México (KCM), a subsidiary of Kimberly-Clark Corporation, has announced its 2016-2017 capex at $400m. KCM chief executive Pablo González...

Latest Headlines

Little Rapids Corp to invest $40m in crescent forming tissue PM

Helen Morris - May 4, 2016

America’s Little Rapids Corporation will invest $40 million to install state-of-the-art tissue making technology at its Shawano paper mill in Shawano, Wisconsin. The new crescent...

Europe

EBRD might back tissue investment of Poland’s Velvet Care

Helen Morris - May 4, 2016

(News from RISI) - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is considering the provision of a long-term loan of up to Euro...

Latest Headlines

SCA appoints president for Global Hygiene Category

Helen Morris - May 4, 2016

SCA has appointed Georg Schmundt-Thomas as its president of its Global Hygiene Category. He will have global responsibility for SCA’s customer and consumer brands and...

Latest Headlines

China’s Sun Paper entering diaper market

Helen Morris - May 4, 2016

(News from RISI) - China’s Shandong Sun Paper Industry will expand into the diaper segment, planning to market its products domestically by early May...

Latest Headlines

Solenis boosts global presence with acquisitions

Helen Morris - April 21, 2016

Published on 21 April 2016 | Speciality chemicals supplier Solenis is to acquire the shares in Lostris International and Wester Blend, privately-held companies focused on supplying...

Latest Headlines

Colombian competition authority confirms tissue paper collusion involving four producers in...

Helen Morris - April 21, 2016

Published on 21 April 2016 | (News from RISI) - After over one year of investigations, the Colombian competition authority (SIC) affirmed the existence of collusion...

Asia

Guizhou Chitianhua Paper Industry boosts rewinder capacity

Helen Morris - April 21, 2016

Published on 21 April 2016 | Guizhou Chitianhua Paper Industry has signed an agreement with A.Celli Paper for the supply of three tissue rewinders and an...

Latest Headlines

Vinda continues expansion across Chinese tissue market

Helen Morris - April 21, 2016

Published on 21 April 2016 | Vinda has signed an agreement with Futura for the supply of multiple high-performance converting lines for tissue roll products. The...

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Celupaper boosts presence with PM investment

Helen Morris - April 21, 2016

Published on 21 April 2016 | Celupaper has continued to increase its South American market share after it signed for a MODULO-PLUS tissue line to be...

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St. Croix Tissue starts-up first PM at Baileyville

Helen Morris - April 21, 2016

Published on 21 April 2016 | America's St. Croix Tissue has successfully started up the first of its two Andritz-supplied PrimeLine tissue machines at its Baileyville, Maine-based site. It...

Europe

ISMA 2000 starts up PM1 after rebuild

Helen Morris - April 7, 2016

Published on 7 April 2016 | Spain’s ISMA 2000 has successfully started up its PM1 at its mill in La Torre de Claramunt mill, Barcelona, after...

Global

STAX Technologies responds to demand with UNICA launch

Helen Morris - April 7, 2016

Published on 7 April 2016 | STAX Technologies has launched packaging machine UNICA, a single roll wrapper that wraps single bath rolls in both paper and...

Europe

Sofidel increases UK tissue presence

Helen Morris - April 7, 2016

Published on 7 April 2016 | Global tissue producer Sofidel is to boost its presence in the UK market after it invested in a latest-generation tissue...

Europe

Infinity boosts presence with Italian subsidiary

Helen Morris - April 7, 2016

Published on 7 April 2016 | Infinity Machine & Engineering has responded to global market growth in the tissue industry with the opening of a subsidiary...

Asia

SCA’s divestment of business for integration with Vinda closes

Helen Morris - April 7, 2016

Published on 7 April 2016 | SCA has said the divestment of its business in South East Asia, Taiwan and South Korea for integration with Vinda closed on 1 April. The...

Latest Headlines

Tissue World New Orleans concludes successfully; attracts attendees from 56 countries

Helen Morris - April 7, 2016

Published on 7 April 2016 | Some 1,588 attendees from 56 different countries were at the recent Tissue World New...

Latest Headlines

Forestal y Papelera Concepcion starts up new line

Helen Morris - March 24, 2016

Chile’s Forestal y Papelera Concepcion (FPC) has successfully boosted its capacity with the start up of a new Advantage NTT tissue line. The new line...

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