Sunday, May 19, 2024
Operations Report

OPERATIONS REPORT: The MSS Group – demographic trends drive major changes...

Helen Morris -
Single-person households, a drop in marriages, the online warehouse and next-day-delivery malls are driving a new era of small-volume production. TWM interviews...
Exhibitor showing products to visitor at Tissue World
Tissue World Miami

8 Reasons to Exhibit at Tissue World Miami (in 2024)

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Tissue World Miami is North America’s largest tissue industry event and is made up of a three-day trade show and conference.
Suzano and Sofidel join forces in landmark pilot programme. Image: ©Fabio Liggeri
World News

Suzano and Sofidel join forces in Amazon rainforest pilot project

Helen Morris -
Suzano and Sofidel have joined forces in a landmark pilot programme that aims to advance ecological conservation and restoration whilst supporting socio-economic...
Metsä Tissue joins the Modellfabrik Papier, Düren-based research network
World News

Metsä Tissue joins sustainable paper research network Modellfabrik Papier

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Metsä Tissue is to become a shareholder of Germany’s Modellfabrik Papier, a research project that works to develop sustainable paper technologies and...
WEPA Kriebstein: WEPA Group has acquired insolvent German papermaker K&N’s stock preparation division for the plant
World News

WEPA integrates fibre processing at Kriebstein plant  

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WEPA Group has acquired the stock preparation division of insolvent German papermaker Kübler & Niethammer Papierfabrik Kriebstein (K&N).  All...
Kimberly-Clark’s Scottish wind farm is up and running after going live on 1 April 2023
World News

Reduction of plastics and water-use highlighted in latest K-C sustainability report 

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Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has addressed the social and environmental challenges it faces in the next decade - including the reduction of its environmental...
Essity’s divestment of its Russian operations expected to be finalised during Q2 2023
World News

Essity to exit Russian market after divesting operations  

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Essity has signed an agreement for the divestment of its Russian operations and the transaction has now been approved by authorities.  
CPI’s Papercycle recyclability tool “first of it kind” in UK market
World News

“First of its kind” recyclability tool for fibre-based packaging launches in...

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The Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI) has launched Papercycle, a recyclability assessment and certification service for fibre-based packaging.  Launched...
Billerud’s wrapping solution for toilet and kitchen rolls
World News

Billerud launches wrapping solution for toilet and kitchen rolls

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Billerud has introduced a machine glazed kraft paper especially adapted for wrapping toilet and kitchen paper rolls.  The company...
“A ground-breaking new pulp”: Södra investigates possibilities of agricultural-enhanced softwood pulp
World News

Södra investigating possibilities of agricultural-enhanced softwood pulp 

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Södra investigating possibilities of agricultural-enhanced softwood pulp  Södra is investigating “a ground-breaking new pulp” which will combine wood from...
“Accrol is significantly well invested and fully automated,” Gareth Jenkins, Chief Executive, Accrol
World News

Accrol reports strong performance in trading update; tissue mill project on...

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UK-based independent tissue converter Accrol Group has reported FY23 results “at least in line” with market expectations and FY24 margins improving in...
Navigator Q1
World News

Navigator reports “best performance ever” in Q1 results; pursues tissue and...

Helen Morris -
The Navigator Company has recorded its highest-ever turnover against what it described as a backdrop of “unprecedented” global contraction in demand across...
Infinity’s Optic M1 Bundler: the technology has been designed with the needs of the international market in mind
World News

Infinity targets global tissue bundler market with Optic M1 launch  

Helen Morris -
Infinity Machine & Engineering Corp. has responded to its global customers’ requests for packaging versatility and speed by launching its latest innovation,...
100% renewable energy power supply: the Western Macedonia solar farm in the north of Greece is to be fully operational by the end of Q1 2024
World News

Sofidel signs PPA to supply 100% renewable energy to Katerini plant

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Italian tissue giant Sofidel has signed a 10-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to supply 100% renewable energy to its plant in Katerini,...
Mario-Plourde-Cascades
World News

Cascades reports “solid first quarter”; tissue sales expected to improve sequentially 

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Cascades has reported sales of $1,134m in Q1 – up $96m from the $1,038m recorded in Q1 2022 – and said it...
World News

Kruger Products reports improved Q1 revenue of $451m  

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Canadian tissue manufacturer Kruger Products has reported a “strong performance” driving revenue and adjusted EBITDA growth in its Q1 results.  
World News

Velvet CARE reports 57% sales increase; eyes further acquisition  

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Polish Consumer tissue producer Velvet CARE has reported increased sales in 2022 up 57% to PLN1.3bn (€280m), and said it is considering...
World News

SPG boosts high quality production with TM start-up

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Saudi Paper Group (SPG) has started up a Toscotec-supplied AHEAD 2.2 tissue machine and OPTIMA slitter rewinder at its Dammam mill in Saudi...
World News

GP boosts retail consumer towel business with $50m investment  

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Georgia-Pacific (GP) is making investments worth $50m at its Port Hudson mill in Zachary, Louisiana, to grow its retail consumer towel business. 
World News

K-C delivers “strong top-line growth” in Q1 results 

Helen Morris -
Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has reported net sales up 2% year-on-year to $5.2bn in its Q1 results. Organic sales were up...
World News

Cascades to close underperforming tissue plants

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Cascades has announced a repositioning of its tissue papers operating platform that will see it close its tissue plants in Barnwell, South...
Essity’s sales growth amounted to just over 17% for the first quarter of 2023, compared with the corresponding period of 2022
World News

Essity reports “strong start” to the year in Q1 results; mulls...

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Essity has reported a net sales increase of 25.1% in its Q1 results as it initiates a strategic review of its ownership...
WWF-US’s Sheila Bonini joins P&G’s Board of Directors
World News

P&G announces Board of Directors appointments

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Procter & Gamble (P&G) has appointed Sheila Bonini, Senior Vice President of the World Wildlife Fund, and Rob Portman, former US Senator,...
The Carbon Trust has certified that Irving’s Royale tissue products are carbon neutral
World News

Irving’s Royale tissue brand certified carbon neutral

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Irving Consumer Products has announced that its Canadian household consumer tissue products brand Royale has been certified carbon neutral by the Carbon...
Körber’s Kit Bio Pack plus replaces all polyethylene packaging materials with kraft paper
World News

Körber aims to “revolutionise packaging” with Kit Bio Pack plus launch

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Körber Business Area Tissue has launched its latest packaging innovation, the Kit Bio Pack plus, which it said will “revolutionise packaging” and...
K-C’s 12-turbine wind farm
World News

K-C’s UK sites shortlisted for government’s Hydrogen Business Model Strategy

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Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has said three of its UK-based green hydrogen projects it is developing with energy partners have won places on the...
MG TEC celebrates the successful start-up of the second Andritz-supplied tissue production line
World News

MG TEC boosts capacity with TM start-up

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Romania’s MG TEC has started up its second complete tissue production line from Andritz at its mill in Dej.
Operations Report

Circular economy pioneer Essity producing paper CO2 free 

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Thorsten Becherer, Site Manager at Essity’s Mainz-Kostheim, Germany-based plant, explains the latest advances in award winning e-save programme.  TWM/1:...
Frontissues

Fundamental changes are underway in Europe’s largest economy

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Germany’s green transition may have been accelerated by five to ten years. And remarkably, it could have proceeded at a faster pace...
Operations Report

Industry partnerships key to tackling challenges with sustainability and innovation the...

Helen Morris -
With a market share of 25% in its home country, tissue giant WEPA Group has ambitious plans to maintain the top spot....
Germany

Under energy-price pressure Germany’s slow-growth stage sees its decarbonisation rate accelerate

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Economic growth of 0.2% is now forecast for 2023 instead of a recession. With machine replacements and upgrades focused on cost, quality...
Exitissues

China’s state of the nation tissue report: Overcapacity a serious concern...

Tissue World Magazine -
China’s National Household Paper Industry Association has urged its companies to invest “rationally” in its annual assessment of the current status of...
Sivashankari Bharathi, Analyst, AFRY Management Consulting, and Sanna Sosa, Senior Principal, AFRY Management Consulting
Marketissues

Market pulse 2023: American tissue’s rollercoaster ride is now on the...

Tissue World Magazine -
AfH is largely back to pre-pandemic levels. AH is seeing structural changes in buying habits, pressure on spending power, a rise in...
Project Survey

Special Feature: Projects Survey

Helen Morris -
The combination of life after the outbreak of Covid-19, the global energy crisis, and ongoing fluctuations across trades and raw materials, has...
Paper Machine

View from the inside – leading companies explain their strategies for...

Helen Morris -
High levels of flexibility – a necessity caused by unprecedented economic circumstances - characterise the global industry response in the supply chain...
Consumer Speak

Koehler’s Eco Black recycled paper – 250 metres of it –...

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Italian artist Enrico Mazzone’s work includes Rubedo, a visual representation of Dante’s Divine Comedy, and the largest work of art said to...
Germany

German consumers finally decide they like tissue via e-commerce

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Notorious resistance has eased thanks to promotions, enforcement of personal data protection, same-day delivery, the ability to order anytime anywhere, auto-repeats, and...
Exitissues

China’s state of the nation tissue report: Overcapacity a serious concern...

Tissue World Magazine -
China’s National Household Paper Industry Association has urged its companies to invest “rationally” in its annual assessment of the current status of...
The opening of the ABB Dundalk R&D Centre in Ireland
World News

ABB opens global R&D facility in Ireland

Helen Morris -
ABB has opened a multi-million-dollar global R&D centre in Dundalk, Ireland, to drive technological advancements in pulp and paper.
Gomà-Camps Consumer facility in Zaragoza, Spain
World News

Navigator completes acquisition of all Gomà-Camps shares

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The Navigator Company has completed the acquisition of all shares representing the share capital of Spain’s Gomà-Camps Consumer and French company Gomà-Camps...
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