Thursday, June 18, 2026
Project Survey

Projects Survey 2025

Helen Morris -
TWM’s annual Projects Survey charts all new capacity being added, ordered or in final planning stages during 2024-2025, as well as noting any projects...
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Exitissues

EXITISSUES: Tissue enters the age of wellness and beauty enhancement

Tissue World Magazine -
For decades an adjacent niche category, skin health promoted by natural ingredients and vitamins is an increasing demand for consumers. Euromonitor International’s Liying Qian,...
Sarah Wood, Senior Research Analyst, Euromonitor International.
Italy

ITALY COUNTRY REPORT: New packaging, new formulations, new sustainability features …...

Sarah Wood -
Italy’s all sector volume growth tops pre-pandemic levels, and per capita volume consumption is the highest in Western Europe. Report by Sarah Wood, Senior...
Image cc: Milan, City Life, Elisa Lovene
Italy

ITALY COUNTRY REPORT: Europe’s top exporter – its tissue, machines and...

Bruce Janda, Senior Consultant, ResourceWise. -
Slow growth, population decline, viability risk with relatively narrow and slow machinery suggest a risk to status … but long-term. Report by Bruce Janda,...
World News

Metsä Group advances fresh fibre strategy for tissue business; plans to...

Tissue World Magazine -
Metsä Group has announced plans to further invest in the production of fresh fibre-based tissue papers and modernise the water circulation systems of two...
World News

“World first”: Essity unveils 100% geothermal steam operation, reduces CO2 emissions...

Helen Morris -
Essity has unveiled the world’s first tissue machine operating wholly on geothermal steam at its production facility in Kawerau, New Zealand. The compay added that...
World News

Europe’s tissue industry titans unite for Tissue World’s strongest-ever speaker line-up

Tissue World Magazine -
Tissue World Düsseldorf 2025 will host the most powerful speaker line-up in its history, featuring an elite league of European-headquartered tissue industry heavyweights including...
World News

First Quality announces location for ultra-premium T&T operations

Helen Morris -
First Quality Tissue has confirmed that a new plant in Defiance, Ohio, will home its two new TAD tissue machines. The first of two state-of-the-art...
World News

Metsä Group submits final planning application for Goole, UK; latest technologies...

Helen Morris -
Finland’s Metsä Group has submitted the final planning application for its proposed new Metsä Tissue mill in Goole, UK. If approved, the mill would be...
World News

Kruger Products rebrands AfH division; some consumer brands soon to be...

Helen Morris -
North America’s Kruger Products has introduced the rebranded Kruger PRO, which it said aims to align the company’s AfH division with the company’s overall...
World News

Metsä Group announces Sari Pajari-Sederholm as Metsä Tissue CEO

Helen Morris -
Metsä Group has appointed Sari Pajari-Sederholm, previously Executive Vice President, Strategy, as Metsä Tissue’s Chief Executive. Esa Kaikkonen, previously Metsä Tissue’s Chief Executive, has been...
World News

Suzano announces price hikes

Helen Morris -
Brazil’s Suzano has announced a range of price increase as of March 2025. The company will increase its hardwood pulp prices by +$20/ton in Asia,...
World News

First Quality expands product portfolio after purchasing Henkel’s retailer brands

Helen Morris -
First Quality has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Henkel’s retailer brands business in North America. The company said the acquisition enhances its existing store...
Aiming to drive a completely new, scalable decarbonisation process across the global paper industry: (L-r) Jonas Bergström, Elena Viviani, and Matthias Höhsl in front of the pilot installation at Voith in Heidenheim, Germany
Operations Report

ESSITY OPERATIONS REPORT: Driving forward the decarbonisation of the paper industry

Helen Morris -
Lauded as a “ground-breaking” concept for sustainable tissue production, Essity’s collaboration with Voith will take tissue-making to the next level. TWM Senior Editor Helen...
Fully integrated case packing: the 3600 Series excels in high-speed environments
Packaging

Choosing the right case packer: side infeed vs. top load

Josh Goulet -
Josh Goulet, Account Manager at Edson, outlines what the 3600 Series side-infeed case packer and the 4000TL top-load case packer can do. A TWM...
Above: Established in 1948 as “Westfälische Papierfabrik”: WEPA Group’s production site and headquarters in Arnsberg, Germany
Operations Report

WEPA GROUP, OPERATIONS REPORT: A holistic approach on sustainability

Helen Morris -
WEPA Group targets frontrunner role in sustainability, aiming for a net-zero production until 2040, considering aspects of energy and logistics as well as using...
Somnath Ray, Principal, AFRY Management Consulting.
Exitissues

Tariffs and trade embargoes … how could they affect tissue’s supply...

Somnath Ray -
Somnath Ray, Principal, AFRY Management Consulting, urges the industry to assess the risk of potential disruption to traditional international and regional logistics. The global tissue...
Frontissues

Three years that changed the tissue market in Germany

Helen Morris -
Consumers are seeking out sustainable tissue, and are willing to pay more German shoppers – not previously known for their eagerness for change – have...
Ana Tique, Research Consultant, Euromonitor International
Germany

Three years have reshaped consumer behaviour – towards value-for-money and sustainability-driven...

Ana Tique -
Green issues have long been important for German shoppers. Now, after lessons learned during the pandemic and with inflation pressure easing, they want more....
Technical Theme: C15-Casepacker
Packaging

How the evolution of sustainable packaging at small scale is set...

Gregory Sense -
Paper overwraps on smaller packs of tissue products are increasingly more common on the shelves. But larger bundles present additional challenges. Infinity Machine &...
Germany

Germany’s cautious tissue manufacturers navigating sluggish demand

Bruce Janda, Senior Consultant, ResourceWise. -
Uncertainties across manufacturing, energy costs, the post-Covid recovery and politics mean Germany is still searching for a stable way forward. Report by Bruce Janda,...
Continued R&D and innovations: enterprises enhanced product quality and intelligent manufacturing levels
Marketissues

CHINA: STATE OF THE NATION TISSUE REPORT 2024 – SECTOR BY...

Tissue World Magazine -
Early last year TWM revealed the core issues facing the Chinese tissue industry during 2023, as reported by its national trade body, China’s National...
World News

Suzano reports record Q4 and FY sales; reaches nominal capacity in...

Helen Morris -
Suzano has set a “sales record” in 2024 as it reaches nominal capacity and one million tons of production in “record time” on the...
World News

Rexcell completes drying section rebuild in Skåpafors

Helen Morris -
Sweden’s Rexcell Tissue & Airlaid has started up its PM1 after a complete rebuild of the drying section supplied by Toscotec at its Skåpafors...
World News

PT SPS begins production on TMs; expands project to five units

Helen Morris -
Indonesia’s PT Sun Paper Source (PT SPS) has successfully started up two new tissue machines - PM18 and PM19 - at its Ngoro mill. PM18...
World News

Essity – Metsä Tissue – Sofidel – FHH – Ukraine’s KCPM...

Helen Morris -
Tissue World Düsseldorf has officially announced its conference line-up with talks and panel discussions from colleagues at Sofidel, Metsä Tissue, Essity, Fine Hygienic Holding...
World News

K-C reports solid results in first year of “transformation”

Helen Morris -
Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has reported a “breakthrough year” in its Q4 and FY 2024 results, as its “innovation-led” business model enables reinvestment in its brands...
World News

Two confidential projects will be started-up by Toscotec in Europe and...

Helen Morris -
Toscotec to supply two Yankee hood upgrades in Europe and USA. Toscotec has said it will supply two Yankee hood upgrades to a confidential tissue...
World News

Suzano announces price increases

Helen Morris -
Suzano has announced a series of price hikes for the price of its hardwood pulp. As of February 2025, the company will raise its hardwood...
World News

Essity’s President and CEO Magnus Groth to step down; strong growth...

Helen Morris -
Essity has announced its President and Chief Executive Magnus Groth will leave the company in 2025, as it reports its “highest level ever” profits...
World News

Edilio Stefani, Presidente Gruppo, Sofidel, has passed away

Helen Morris -
The Sofidel Group has announced that its Chairman Edilio Stefani suddenly passed away at his home on 30 January 2025. The company said: “This is...
World News

Amaco Group introduces the AM307 inter-folder to global tissue market

Helen Morris -
Lebanese-headquartered Amaco Group has launched its latest machinery innovation, the AM307, a fully automatic inter-folder tissue paper line equipped with an automatic log transfer. The...
World News

Metsä Group to close TM at Kreuzau as part of review

Helen Morris -
Metsä Group has announced a series of investment plans to advance the long-term competitiveness of its tissue paper business in Kreuzau, Germany, including the...
World News

Irving to boost ultra-premium production after investing in third TAD machine

Helen Morris -
Irving Consumer Products is to increase its ultra-premium tissue production in North America by 75,000tpy after investing in a third TAD tissue machine to...
World News

Hengan starts-up second TAD line; China’s first two TAD machines now...

Helen Morris -
China’s Hengan International Group has boosted its TAD production capacity after starting up its second Toscotec-supplied TADVISION tissue machine at its headquarters in Fujian. This...
World News

Tissue World Düsseldorf 2025: Registration now open! Sofidel’s Luigi Lazzareschi announced...

Helen Morris -
Registration for Tissue World’s flagship event - held again in Düsseldorf - has officially opened, with Valmet, Solenis, Buckman, Gambini, and PCMC joining over...
World News

Tissue World Düsseldorf 2025 Registration Now Open: Future-Proofing the Tissue Industry...

Tissue World Magazine -
Düsseldorf, Germany – The global tissue industry’s premier event is making its highly anticipated return! Registration is now open for Tissue World Düsseldorf 2025,...
World News

Metsä Tissue appoints Joonas Kukkonen as SVP

Helen Morris -
Metsä Tissue has appointed Joonas Kukkonen as Senior Vice President, Finland and the Baltics, and member of the company’s management team. He reports to Metsä...
World News

Metsä Tissue announces “industry benchmark” Tissue MES

Helen Morris -
Finland’s Metsä Tissue has partnered with IT software company Tietoevry to launch a modernised Tissue MES system as part of its Future Tissue Mill...
World News

Buckman unveils $10m chemical R&D plant in Memphis

Helen Morris -
Buckman has unveiled a state-of-the art chemical R&D pilot plant facility on the campus of its global headquarters in Memphis, USA. Named in honour of...
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