SCA Hygiene Spain boosts performance with rewinder upgrade

SCA Hygiene Spain has signed up A.Celli Paper to refurbish its Allo site’s rewinder. The rebuild project will involve an updated service to move the...

Multipack sells Pharma-Cosmetic branch to focus on tissue

Multipack has realigned its business to focus on the international tissue market after it announced the sale of its Pharma-Cosmetic products division. Located in Casalecchio...

Northwood boosts AfH presence in the UK with acquisition

Northwood Paper Sales has targeted growth in the UK’s Away from Home (AfH) sector after it acquired the issued share capital of Disposables UK. Disposables...

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 three TouchMax Large versions and one standard...

SCA invests further in Brazil with new incontinency facility

SCA is set to invest SEK 650m in a new production facility in Brazil for the manufacture of incontinence products. The company is now the...

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 8% year-on-year. The tissue giant explained the result on...

ISMA 2000 S.L boosts capacity with rebuild

Spain’s ISMA 2000 S.L has signed up Toscotec and its sister company Milltech to deliver a major dry-end rebuild of PM1 at its La...

A.Celli targets tissue and nonwovens market with TANDEM launch

A.Celli has launched TANDEM, a rewinder that it said is both affordable and flexible. It is characterised by high production flexibility: A.Celli said it optimises...

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 Bretting family joins the ranks of managing...

Resolute set with order for Valmet NTT Advantage for launch at...

(News from RISI) Resolute Forest Products will launch into the North American tissue market in 2017 behind a Valmet NTT Advantage machine, a new...

APP China brings six tissue machines on stream, building another unit...

(News from RISI) - Out of the one million tonnes/yr of new tissue paper capacity coming online in China this year, APP China probably...

Voith and Toscotec involved in patent litigation suit

Voith has filed a patent infringement suit in Italy before the Court of First Instance in Rome against Toscotec. In its complaint announced on 8...

July / August 2015

DEPARTMENT NEWS: Frontissues:  Tissue sans frontiers Marketissues: Magnus Groth searching for ‘win-win’ across SCA’s global performance Exitissues: Intercontinental growth – tissue parent roll trade pushing back the boundaries   WORLD NEWS: Global...

Tissue sans frontiers

By Helen Morris The boundaries of the tissue industry’s reach across the globe are forever being pushed forward. This edition of TWM has especially emphasised...

Magnus Groth searching for ‘win-win’ across SCA’s global performance

Tissue’s global giant SCA has a new supremo. Magnus Groth talks to TWM about business strategy for China, Asia, Russia, The Americas, emerging markets,...

2015 July/August Asia News

INDONESIA PT Suparma Tbk boosts capacity PT Suparma Tbk has started up a new tissue line at its site in Surabaya. The Valmet-supplied Advantage DCT 100 TM...

2015 July/August Americas News

COLUMBIA SCA says Columbian anti-trust inquiries “will not have a material financial impact” SCA has said its joint venture Productos Familia S.A. is under investigation by...

2015 July/August Global News

SCA reports 15% net sales increase SCA has reported an increase in net sales in its Q1 interim report, up 15% to SEK 27,958m. Between 1...

Kazakhstan – Local T&T business in an area with modest papermaking...

By Bill Burns, Senior consultant, Fisher International With a territory larger than Western Europe, Kazakhstan is the northern most of the five Central Asian countries...

Kazakhstan: healthy growth and opportunities ahead in consumer tissue

By Svetlana Uduslivaia, head of tissue & hygiene industry, Euromonitor International  Although not as much in the spotlight as its larger neighbours Russia and China, Kazakhstan...

Karina poised to build on four years of 11% sales growth

When the Kazakhstan company first offered kitchen towels many years ago store buyers asked why they needed such wide toilet paper. It’s come a...

İpek Kağıt set to double capacity at its Kazakhstan vantage point...

By Helen Morris, TWM editor The Turkish tissue manufacturer went the extra miles to take advantage of a vast geographical region of economic and social...

Antibacterial kitchen wipes so perfect at messy meal times

With a demanding toddler to look after, self-confessed lazy shopper Gemma O’reilly, a mum and journalist who lives in west London, has...

PIX Pulp indices 26.5.2015

By FOEX Indexes’ Lars Halén and Timo Teräs NBSK pulp Europe UTIPULP (the group of European market wood pulp users) April market pulp consumption data came...

Is there a limit to environmental advancement in tissue’s current industry...

By Joan Vila, chief executive of L.C. Paper 1881 A purchasing manager told me recently that we have reached the limits of invention in tissue....

Nuqul’s Al-Sindian mill sets the standard for environmental and commercial success

Management commitment to sustainability, employee engagement, enhanced public image, competitive advantage and financial benefits… that’s what taking control of natural resources has delivered for...

The Barometer Issue – One year on… you report back on...

By Tissue World magazine editor Helen Morris In 2014, TWM visited a number of mills from around the world – from Argentina, Mexico, Benelux, Italy,...

Intercontinental growth – tissue parent roll trade pushing back the boundaries

By Esko Uutela, Principal, Tissue, RISI A global tissue business in excess of 2.6 million tonnes a year and providing 35% of all tissue sold...

2015 July/August Europe News

GERMANY Man killed in accident at Metsä Tissue’s Stotzheim facility in Germany A 41-year-old truck driver was killed in an accident at Metsä Tissue’s Stotzheim facility...

TISSUE WORLD SÃO PAULO

São Paulo launch is a Tissue World winner with Brazilian flair. Here, TWM summarises some of the key talks from the three day conference. Tissue...

May / June 2015 – Asia News

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Nuqul Group relocates Jordan tissue mill Nuqul Group to relocate Jordan tissue mill to new facility in UAE in $90m Greenfield project. FINE Hygienic...

2015 May / June – America News

AMERICA Tissue: KP ‘very hard’ at work on TAD; von Drehle NTT set for early 2016 startup While considering a new machine for almost nine months,...

May / June 2015 – Europe News

TURKEY Hayat Kimya starts up 70,000tpy TM Hayat Kimya has started up its up 70,000tpy tissue machine at its Mersin mill in Turkey. The company started production...

May / June 2015 – Global News

Audit finds SCA representatives acted in compliance with Swedish law SCA has said an independent audit investigating claims its staff were involved in extravagant corporate perks...

Zhejiang Jingxing Paper starts up second TM with Steel Yankee

China’s Zhejiang Jingxing Paper has started up a second TM with Steel Yankee. Supplied by Andritz, it follows the start-up of TM1 in January. The PrimeLineST...

Strike at SCA’s Cyr-en-Val tissue mill ends

(News from RISI) - The strike at SCA's Cyr-en-Val tissue mill in France which began on 3 June has come to an end. An SCA...

Lithuania’s Grigiskes closes two tissue PMs at Vilnius mill as new...

(News from RISI) - Grigiskes has shut down the two oldest machines at its Vilnius tissue mill in Lithuania as planned. The PMs will be...

Clearwater said to be out with August hike on its consumer...

(News from RISI) Clearwater Paper, North America's second largest private label tissue product player, announced an August price increase on its consumer products, contacts...

Omet’s Koala, Raccoon and Chameleon launches target tissue market

Omet has launched a range of innovations that target the tissue industry. ‘Koala’ introduces magnetic plates in replacement of embossing cylinders which Omet said makes...

Tissue capacity additions keep coming, while demand stays steady at 1-2%/yr

(News from RISI) US tissue paper capacity entered a fifth-year of significant growth in 2015 that was not outpacing steady demand expansion and not...