Sofidel to boost capacity in Poland with NTT install

Italian tissue giant Sofidel has boosted its presence in Europe after signing for the latest-generation Advantage tissue machine from Valmet. The machine will be installed...

Interstate Paper Industries invests in production facilities

Interstate Paper Industries has boosted its capacity after it upgraded two of its rewinders. Based in Egypt, the tissue mill is part of the Indevco...

Metsä Tissue renews organisational structure

Metsä Tissue has renewed its business unit structure as of 1 January 2016. The new organization is based on four business units: Consumer Nordics, Consumer...

Bolton Group shuts Softex tissue production in Greece

(News from RISI) - The manufacture of Softex tissue products in Greece has come to an end. In mid-January, the employees of the factory based...

OverMeccanica acquired by OVERMADE

OverMeccanica - in temporary operation since September 2014 after entering bankruptcy proceedings - has been acquired by OVERMADE in November 2015. OVERMADE is a new...

Nuqul Group’s Fine Hygienic to boost capacity

Nuqul Group’s Fine Hygienic Holding (FHH) has signed for a Valmet-supplied Advantage DCT 200TS tissue production line. The tissue machine will be installed at the...

Tissue mills in Baoding, China, keep expanding

(News from RISI) - Two small tissue mills in Baoding city, Hebei province recently ordered four new tissue PMs with a combined capacity of...

What to expect next: March/April 2016

MarketIssues: With a whirlwind of different factors impacting the UK’s grocer volume sales, the country’s tissue industry is in an interesting phase. The big...

Kruger restarts tissue machines shortly after shut due to fire

(News from RISI) - Kruger said it has restarted three paper machines after suspending production due to a fire at its Gatineau, QC, tissue...

SCA closes Wausau Paper acquisition

SCA has closed its acquisition of Wausau Paper for USD 513 million in cash. The European tissue giant consolidated Wausau Paper on 21 January 2016. Magnus...

Metalicplas boosts capacity with TM start-up

Romania’s Metalicplas has increased its production capacity by 34,000tpy after starting up its new tissue PM. Part of the Pehart Tec Group, the A.Celli-supplied machine...

Calling all sustainable tissue mills in America!

Tissue World has officially launched the ‘Tissue Mill Awards’ to recognise exceptional environmental awareness and marketing excellence by tissue mills across America. Showcase your talent...

Suzano orders two tissue paper machines for Mucuri and Imperatriz mills

(News from RISI) - Suzano Pulp and Paper has signed a $58 million order for two tissue paper machines (PM) to be installed at...

K-C announces Q4 and full year 2015 earnings

Kimberly-Clark has reported a fourth quarter net sales decrease of 6% to $4.5 billion compared to the same period a year earlier. The company said...

Barry-Wehmiller boosts tissue presence with further acquisition

Barry-Wehmiller has acquired Winkler+Dünnebier and POEM GmbH (W+D) from Körber. W+D is headquartered in Neuwied and Löhne, Germany, and has additional locations in the United...

YFY brings first of two medium-sized tissue machines on stream in...

(News from RISI) - Yuen Foong Yu (YFY) has started up a 27,000tpy tissue paper machine at its mill in Zhaoqing city, Guangdong province,...

Fábricas de Papel Potosí boosts production

Mexico’s Fábricas de Papel Potosí has started-up a new tissue machine supplied by A.Celli Paper. The machine has a 2,850mm web width, a working speed...

Gordon Brothers Group purchases assets formerly owned by Lincoln Paper and...

Gordon Brothers Group has purchased the assets of Lincoln Paper and Tissue as part of a joint venture that includes Capital Recovery Group (CRG),...

Kimberly-Clark to cooperate with cartel tissue investigation in Peru

(News from RISI) - Kimberly-Clark Peru said it will cooperate with the investigation opened by the country’s Defense of Competition and Intellectual Property Protection...

Vinda to acquire SCA’s hygiene business in Asia

Vinda International Holdings is to purchase SCA’s hygiene business in South East Asia, Taiwan and South Korea. The divestment of the business for integration with...

January / February 2016

January / February 2016 DEPARTMENT NEWS: Frontissues: The Socialist Republic of Vietnam joins the world market – official Marketissues: US tissue market: dynamic phase following recent slow growth Exitissues: A...

Is Vietnam at last beginning to emerge from its troubled history?

Tissue demand is growing at 20%, so Vietnam Pulp & Paper Association vice chairman and secretary general Vu Ngoc Bao heralds a major opportunity...

Project Survey 2015/16

Overcapacity and the mushrooming of new tissue projects, in particular in markets such as Brazil and Mexico, along with a lot of activity in...

Bringing Japanese efficiency – and patience – to Vietnam

Recycling pioneer JP CORELEX VIETNAM is poised to reap the benefits … but it has to narrow the gap between polar opposite tissue industries...

Not content with being a market leader, Saigon Paper plans to...

Vietnam is a classic tissue growth market. One million new urban residents added each year - per capita consumption less than 1.0kg – behind...

Energy efficiencies, new technology start-ups, emerging market potential, product innovation, softness...

TWM interviews the world’s leading tissue machinery suppliers to bring you the latest knowledge in our ‘Technical Theme: Paper Machine’. TWM/1 What have been the...

US tissue market: dynamic phase following recent slow growth

With America’s tissue market geared up for Tissue World New Orleans in March 2016, RISI’s Esko Uutela talks growth and demand trends in the...

Vietnam – modest but steady growth in an underdeveloped T&T...

By Fisher International's Bill Burns Globally, the Asia Pacific Region is the largest centre of Pulp and Paper (P&P) being first out of the six...

Consumer tissue in Vietnam: changing lifestyles spell good news for the...

While Vietnam’s household disposable incomes are the lowest, on average, of all major Asia Pacific nations, long-term economic growth continues to support strong gains...

PIX Pulp indices 24.11.2015

NBSK pulp Europe The consumption of softwood pulp was down and inventories up in October in Europe, compared to both September 2015 and October 2014,...

A radical step changer?

The new Andromeda converting technology is, manufacturer Futura believes, going to revolutionise the market. TWM reports on the claims. It’s six months since Futura launched...

The Socialist Republic of Vietnam joins the world market – official

There have been calls recently for the inclusion of Vietnam among the MINT economies … the next major set of emerging nations comprised of...

A tes souhaits!*

Now living and working in London after 11 years in France, Rebecca was in New York when she discovered the one thing the much-loved...

Song Duong: on the brink of privatisation and expansion, TWM talks...

Director Nguyen Van Quan explains the fundamental shift taking place in consumers’ tissue expectations across Vietnam . TWM/1 What are your investment plans for the...

SCA boosts capacity at Östrand mill, Sweden

SCA has signed an order with Andritz to supply production technologies and equipment for the extension of its Östrand pulp mill in Timrå. Start-up is...

WEPA Giershagen boosts capacity

WEPA Giershagen has increased its high quality tissue capacity by 32,000tpy after it started up a Toscotec-supplied AHEAD line. The turnkey Toscotec delivery for the...

Potosí’s new 25,000tpy tissue PM begins production in Mexico; PM2 stops

(News from RISI) - Mexican Fábricas de Papel Potosí has started up a new 25,000tpy tissue paper machine at its mill located in San...

TalentFind at Tissue World New Orleans!

Tissue World has launched TalentFind, an initiative to connect tissue industry employers with students from leading paper technology universities and institutes. The partnership programme will...

Santher’s 3Q profits decline; company implements extra price adjustments

(News from RISI) Brazilian tissue producer Santher reported net revenues at Real 340.4 million in the third quarter of 2015, an increase of 0.9%...

CMPC to participate in mediation involving tissue cartel case in Chile

(News from RISI) - Empresas CMPC has agreed to join a mediation proposed by the Chilean Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Servicio Nacional del Consumidor...