AMERICA NEWS

Canada Kruger Products reports 1Q results following TAD construction Canadian manufacturer Kruger Products has posted an increase in its 1Q 2013 revenue after it completed the...

GLOBAL NEWS

Global Wausau Paper launches DublNature T&T Line Wausau Paper has launched its new Green Seal certified, DublNature line of premium, cloth-like towel and tissue products. It uses...

BASF increases prices

Chemical company BASF has announced it will increase prices for its resins and additives by 3-10%. The increase will take effect from 1 July in...

ABB appoints Ulrich Spiesshofer as CEO

ABB has appointed the head of its discrete automation and motion (DM) division Ulrich Spiesshofer as chief executive. He will succeed Joe Hogan in this...

Voith rebuilds tissue machine at
WEPA

WEPA’s TM1 has been successfully rebuilt and modernised by Voith to “substantially increase the availability and efficiency” of the tissue machine. Located in Mainz, Germany,...

OMET launches vacuum-fold FV Line

OMET has launched its latest vacuum-fold FV line, a new tissue converting line for the production of folded napkins. Its launch targets the market for...

Metsä Group’s tissue and cooking paper business opens site



Metsä Tissue has boosted its presence in Russia after it opened up a converting and warehousing site in Vorsino. The company said the developing Russian...

K-C sells Reisholz mill and German rolled tissue brands


Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has concluded the final handover of its Reisholz tissue manufacturing mill and its German rolled tissue brands to Palero capital. The move includes...

Muniks boosts production capacity with Crescent Former buy

Muniks has invested in a secondhand slope wire machine that it plans to rebuild into a Crescent Former. The Minsk, Belarus-based tissue producer has made...

Sepac increases operating speed after investment

Sepac has said its operating speeds on two paper machines have increased by 20% after it invested in two Hergen-supplied Steel Yankee Dryers. At the...

Clariant launches Leucophor Ack

Specialty chemicals producer Clariant has launched Leucophor® ACK, which it said is “the world’s most highly-concentrated, urea-free liquid optical brightening agent (OBA)”. The product can...

LPT signs natural gas pipeline agreement

Lincoln Paper and Tissue (LPT) has boosted its energy and environmental performance after it signed a contract with Bangor Gas that will provide pipeline...

Yunnan Yun-Jing to install high-quality tissue line

China’s Yunnan Yun-Jing forestry and pulp mill company is to boost its product range after it announced it will install a complete tissue production...

NTG (Papermill) prosecuted for health and safety breach

UK-based tissue manufacturer NTG (Papermill) has been fined £10,000 after pleading guilty to a breach of health and safety regulations.
 The announcement was made on...

Wausau Paper launches DublNature T&T line

Wausau Paper has launched
its new Green Seal certified, DublNature line of premium,
 cloth-like towel and tissue products. It uses 100% recycled fibre on the company’s...

W+D launches W+D FLOWTOS

W+D has targeted the tissue and hygiene industries with the launch of its W+D FLOWTOS. The company said it is “the industry’s most innovative...

Voith launches MasterJet Pro T headbox

Voith has targeted the tissue market with the launch of its new MasterJet Pro T headbox. With this headbox, the company said “an excellent quality...


Northwood & Wepa acquires former GB&I G-P private label business



Northwood & Wepa has acquired the former GB&I Georgia-Pacific private label tissue business from SCA. Northwood & Wepa is a joint venture made up of...

SCA starts staff consultation at Oughtibridge site

SCA has started a period of consultation on the future of its site at Oughtibridge in the UK; a move that could impact 161...

PT. Suparma signs for new tissue line

Indonesian tissue producer PT. Suparma has signed for a new Metso-supplied tissue line that targets cost-efficient high-quality tissue production. It will be installed at the...

Apex North America granted its first US patent

Apex North America has been granted its first US patent for its Genetic Transfer Technology (GTT). The GTT Anilox technologies have been recently introduced into...

Green Innovations to launch North America’s first tree-free bamboo-based bath tissue



Green Hygienics is set to launch an exclusively licensed line of tree-free bamboo-based bath tissue.  
The Green Innovations subsidiary said it will be the first...

Kruger Products reports 1Q results following TAD construction

Canadian manufacturer Kruger Products has posted an increase in its 1Q 2013 revenue after it completed the construction phase of its TAD project. It...

Soundview in US first

Soundview has started using natural gas instead of oil as boiler fuel for its recycled tissue, towel and napkin operation in Putney, Vermont. The move...

Tissue World 2013 in Barcelona: video review

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Relive the highlights and hear about the key trends and themes at the industry’s biggest trade show Tissue World 2013 in Barcelona. TW interviewed exhibitors...

Marutomi invests in a Toscotec Steel Yankee Dryer

Japanese tissue producer Marutomi has boosted its production speed after it invested in a Toscotec Steel Yankee Dryer to replace its existing 12ft Cast...

Syktyvkar Tissue Group plans for turnkey DIP line

Syktyvkar Tissue Group has invested in a turnkey deinked pulping (DIP) line, a move that will help the company on its way to becoming...

Yuen Foong Yu orders four Intelli-TissueTM 1500

Yuen Foong Yu (YFY) has ordered four Intelli-TissueTM 1500 machines from PMP Group as it continues along its substantial expansion path. 
The company has invested...

Indonesian tissue market: a barometer of socio economic development

Indonesia is somewhat typical of an emerging market where a heady combination of rapid economic growth, accelerated urbanisation and the westernisation of consumption culture...

Focus on: Tango Roll makes a point for point-to-point

Futura’s Tango line has been lauded as the latest breakthrough in high efficiency, value- adding technologies. It marked the debut of the latest JOI...

Indonesia – An emerging global supplier of T&T products

Indonesia currently produces 750 thousand MT/Yr of Towel and Tissue (T&T) paper. That makes Indonesia the largest T&T producing nation in the Southeast Asia...

Indonesia: the perfect combination of inputs for tissue growth

Indonesia has the perfect combination of inputs driving growth in tissue manufacture, from a lifted GDP to an expanding middle class. Here, Phillip Lawrence...

A unique market aiming to create a new category of ICI...

Indonesia is a fascinating market offering huge potential for the tissue industry. Almost 251 million people and counting, geographically located as the gateway between...

Technical theme: ‘virginising’ tissue fibre furnish

Tightening availability and increasing prices of ‘white’ recovered fibre are impacting the developments of the tissue fibre furnish while recovered fibre usage concentrates on...

‘When cooking and cleaning, and polishing the bike… nothing beats the...

Paul Ashcroft lives in the picturesque village of Rivington in the north west of England. He works in the water industry and...

Soft options

Södra Cell Värö has transformed itself into a tissue-focussed mill with pioneering environmental credentials. A TW report With hindsight, would you have re- orientated a...

With demand for hygiene products forever on the increase, pulp producer...

With demand for hygiene products forever on the increase, pulp producer Sappi tells TW how sugar cane waste residue has enabled it to develop...

Sopanusa Tissue: adapting to an ever-expanding global market

With a new business and substantial investments underway, TW meets integrated Indonesia manufacturer Sopanusa Tissue It takes one and half hour drive from Juanda International...

APP says it’s turned the page … but will the sheet...

After a significant sustainability announcement in February that grabbed the attention of the world’s paper industries and media, TW visited APP in Indonesia to...

Better monitoring – fewer stoppages

When SCA’s Edet Bruk mill invested in a new burner management system from ABB, the difference was immediate. Two years later, the company tells...