Liuzhou Liangmianzhen Paper Product boosts capacity

China’s Liuzhou Liangmianzhen Paper Product has started up the second of two MODULO-PLUS ES tissue lines supplied by Toscotec at its mill in Liuzhou,...

GRIGIŠKĖS targets tissue business with 6m loan agreement

GRIGIŠKĖS has signed a six million euros loan agreement with Nordea Bank for development of its tissue paper business. The producer has also completed a...

Clearwater Paper in $160m upgrade of Lewiston mill

Clearwater Paper is to upgrade its Lewiston mill in Idaho in a $160m investment. The tissue producer will start construction of a new continuous digester...

Södra reports strong results

Pulp producer Södra has reported strong results for the first eight months of 2015 due to “high price levels for finished goods” and “mainly...

Voith launches TissueForm ITY forming fabric

Voith has launched a forming fabric that is said creates optimal performance in tissue production. The TissueForm ITY forming fabric is designed for challenging applications...

Paper Prime enters into tissue production

Portugal’s Paper Prime has entered into the tissue market after it invested in a Toscotec-supplied tissue line. The new tissue line is scheduled to come...

Renova in European first with NTT buy

Portugal’s Renova has become the first European tissue producer to invest in Valmet’s Advantage NTT tissue technology. The production line will be installed at the...

Lee & Man Paper boosts capacity

Chinese pulp and paper producer Lee & Man Paper has signed up Valmet for a repeat order of two Advantage DCT 200HS tissue production...

September / October 2015

September / October 2015DEPARTMENT NEWS: Frontissues:  Tissue tough enough to withstand the Greek tragedy … so far Marketissues: APP welcomes competition from multinational and local players …...

2015 Sept/Oct Asia News

CHINA APP China brings six tissue machines on stream, building another unit at new Chinese mill; new capacity totalling 354,000tpy Out of the one million tonnes/yr...

Tissue tough enough to withstand the Greek tragedy … so far

It is the least wanted of distinctions, but Greece’s woes do give the industry the chance to study how tissue is able to perform...

2015 Sept/Oct Americas News

AMERICA Bretting Manufacturing celebrates 125 years and five generations Bretting Manufacturing has announced it is celebrating 125 years in business as the fifth generation of the...

2015 Sept/Oct Global News

GLOBAL K-C sales for consumer tissue down 8% in 2Q Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has reported second quarter sales of $1.5bn for its consumer tissue segment, a decrease...

2015 Sept/Oct Europe News

EUROPE K-C Europe boosts capacity with TouchMax embossers buy Kimberly-Clark Europe has finalised the purchase of four TouchMax embossers supplied by Gambini. The company has invested in...

Greece – primarily local T&T market with signs of contraction

By Fisher International's Bill Burns Among Western Europe’s Towel and Tissue (T&T) producing countries, Greece is a small player with a manufacturing T&T capacity base significantly...

Reduced purchasing power shapes consumer tissue preferences in Greece

By Euromonitor International's Svetlana Uduslivaia Greece boasts one of the highest tissue per capita consumption in Western Europe and many product categories are considered to...

How Maxi is surviving Greece’s economic tragedy

Bankruptcies and closures saw an end to production at five paper machines in recent years, but with Greece still seeing the tissue market grow...

PIX Pulp indices 14.7.2015

By FOEX Indexes’ Lars Halén and Timo Teräs NBSK pulp Europe The pulp market in Europe is slowing down in the seasonally quieter period of the...

From massage therapy to Muay Thai, quality tissue goes hand in...

Nadia Hussain is a therapist living and working in London. In her spare time she practises Muay Thai, a form of...

Why (not) Private Labels?

F.A. RETAIL founder Fernanda Accorsi talks to TWM about the issues for tissues Private Label (PL) is already a recognised brand in the market. If...

FOCUS ON: Southeast Asia

By Fisher International’s Bill Burns An area of high growth using value engineered conventional machines Southeast Asia’s Towel and Tissue (T&T) production had been experiencing modest...

Southern America: Engaging in the world production chain

By Geraldo Ferreira, partner, Huntsfield Brasil Consultancy, Brazil  The region’s tissue market has three alternatives to respond to an ever-increasing import wave: entrench, adapt or...

Grade specific optimisation: Permanent (PAE) versus temporary (GPAM) wet strength utilisation

By Kemira’s Clay Campbell, Harold Goldsberry, Kristin Wittich and Felipe Higa Kemira talks us through the latest chemical technical developments relevant to your business. Historically, it...

APP welcomes competition from multinational and local players … it’s just...

Asia Pulp & Paper’s Chinese tissue division is to bring six new tissue machines on stream making a total new capacity of 354,000tpy –...

Toscotec absorbs Milltech into business

Toscotec has absorbed its tissue machine hood and ventilation sister company Milltech into its tissue technology business. The PM supplier purchased Milltech in 2012 and...

Gomà-Camps becomes sole shareholder of GC & Wepa

Gomà-Camps and WEPA Group have ended the joint cooperation they have maintained for the last 10 years through the joint venture GC & Wepa. Gomà-Camps...

Vinda appoints Christoph Michalski as CEO

Vinda International Holdings has appointed the president of SCA’s Global Hygiene Category Christoph Michalski as chief executive. Effective as of 1 October, the company said...

A.Celli Paper announces management changes

A.Celli Paper has appointed Mario Fazzi as its new managing director. Giuseppe Antonini has been nominated president of A.Celli Paper; Mauro Celli and Alessandro Celli...

Resolute Forest Products boosts production

Resolute Forest Products has increased its product offering after it invested in Valmet’s Advantage NTT 200HS tissue machine. The new tissue line will have a...

SCA strengthens hygiene operations

SCA has announced it will strengthen its competitiveness in the hygiene market to “intensify growth and the pace of innovation”, making a number of...

Cascades reports 3Q sales increase of 4%

Cascades has reported a sales increase of 4% to $950m for the three month period ending 30 June compared to the same time a...

SCA closes tissue plant in France

SCA has announced the closure of its Saint-Cyr-en-Val-based production plant in France. The company said the move was part of its on-going cost-savings programme related...

Metalicplas boosts capacity with installation

Romania’s Metalicplas has expanded its production tonnage after it signed for a new tissue machine from supplier A.Celli Paper. The tissue producer is part of...

Metsä Tissue boosts capacity in Germany

Metsä Tissue is to increase its tissue capacity at its Raubach, Germany-based site after it signed up Valmet to upgrade its TM 1. The rebuild...

SCA’s Skelmersdale investment doubles site’s capacity

SCA has boosted its tissue capacity in the UK after construction at its Skelmersdale tissue site was completed. Work started 18 months ago and included...

Clearwater reports net sales drop follow speciality mills sale

Clearwater Paper Corporation has posted net sale results of $444.6m for the second quarter of 2015, down 10.9% year-on-year. The company said this was primarily...

Beskidy boosts capacity with new crescent former machine

Fabryka Papieru i Tektury Beskidy has started up a new crescent former machine supplied by Hergen Paper Machinery. The HCF 920 SMART FIT machine has...

Valmet acquires tissue rewinder business from Massimiliano Corsini

Valmet has acquired MC Paper Machinery and Focus Rewinding from Massimiliano Corsini. The acquired operations mainly supply rewinders for tissue and non-woven machines. In the past...

Norske Skog to enter tissue market in joint venture with Roto-cart

Newsprint and magazine paper manufacturer Norske Skog is to replace newsprint production at its Austrian Bruck-based mill with tissue manufacture. The Norwegian company made the...

Tissue World Jakarta: Event merged with Tissue World Shanghai

Due to an insufficient number of relevant papers from the ASEAN region submitted for the conference planned in Jakarta, the Tissue World team has...