APP commits to halt all natural forest clearance

Pulp and paper giant Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) has committed to “an immediate halt” in the clearing of natural forest across its entire...

Wausau Paper to narrow focus to tissue business

Wausau Paper has started a process to identify “strategic alternatives” for its paper segment that will position its focus on the growth of its...

World’s first Advantage NTT to be started up

World’s first Advantage NTT tissue line to be started up Mexican-based Fabrica De Papel San Francisco is to start up the world’s first tissue line...

Intelli-Tissue® machine in China

PMP Group has signed a contract with Chinese producer Henan Hulijia Industrial CO to install an Intelli-Tissue® 900 EcoEc line. The Intelli-Tissue® 900 EcoEc machine...

Disley Tissue starts up

UK-based Disley Tissue has boosted its capacity with the successful start up of a Metso-supplied Yankee Advantage AirCap hood and Advantage WetDust dust control...

Focus on sustainability

Retailers and tissue makers focus on sustainability at Tissue World conference in Barcelona: best ever gathering of distinguished speakers A world-class lineup of speakers, including...

As energy efficiencies and raw materials continue to dominate the headlines,...

1. What have been the most important technical developments at your company during 2012? Emmanuel Allibe, ABK Group managing director: “ABK Group has taken a decisive...

Kimberly-Clark in bamboo fibre

Tissue giant Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has teamed up with biotechnology company Booshoot to support the production of tissue products made with bamboo fibre. K-C said the...

WEPA to cut 150 jobs

German tissue giant WEPA has announced more cost-cutting measures. In addition to the planned sale of two mills in Italy, the firm revealed plans to...

Kemira launches KemFlite

Kemira has launched KemFlite to reduce paper and board machine problems caused by deposits from the agglomeration of hydrophobic particles. The particles originate from wood...

Global Voith launches NipVision

Voith has launched NipVision, a real time system that makes nip measurements possible while the paper machine is running. The online and real-time measurement tool...

TISSUES are a must in the mountains

Lisa Pearson lives near Denbigh in north east Wales with her partner Owen and cat Guinness. She is a careers adviser...

TISSUE WORLD ASIA 2012 show review

The $70bn a year global tissue industry is built on information, intelligence, technological innovation, cost analysis and business strategy. It faces new challenges and...

Rehabilitating life for existing equipment stems from OEM

Tissue operations with mature machinery are looking for renewed life from their existing equipment, and determining whether to purchase capital equipment or retrofit existing...

As energy efficiencies and raw materials continue to dominate the headlines,...

1. What have been the most important technical developments at your company during 2012? Emmanuel Allibe, ABK Group managing director: “ABK Group has taken a decisive...

AMERICA NEWS

Americas USA White Mountain Tissue makes first tissue reel Tissue producer White Mountain Tissue has had its first tissue reel supplied to the former Gorham Paper and Tissue...

ASIA NEWS

Asia TISSUE WORLD ASIA 2012: Shanghai report with a summary of core points from the key speakers New businesses to the fore as 131 companies exhibit APP...

December/January 2013 Cover Stories

  Operation Report Operation Report Almost 255 years in operation under 10 generations of the family, Gomà-Camps tells TW how it draws on its history in order...

GLOBAL NEWS

Global United Converting and IKS form joint venture Italy’s United Converting and Americanbased International Knife and Saw (IKS) have formed a joint venture to sell converting...

Europe

Europe Retailers and Tissue Makers focus on Sustainability at Tissue World Conference in Barcelona Best gathering of distinguished speakers ever at Tissue World “The Chinese tissue industry...

Short Issues

Södra has increased the price of its softwood pulp price to USD 820 per tonne. The hike came into effect from 1 November 2012. In...

Tissue World in Barcelona is moving at full speed

New ideas, new technology, new methods for tissue makers and converters Excitement is now building for Tissue World 2013, the world’s largest event targeted specifically...

GLOBAL NEWS

Tissue World Americas: 36% more visitors Tissue World Americas has been a clear success attracting almost 1,000 of the industry’s leading personnel – up 36%...

SHORT ISSUES

Lila Kagit has boosted its tissue paper output after it started up an Advantage DCT 200 TS tissue production line at its Corlu mill...

EUROPE NEWS: Russia, Romania, UK & Turkey

RUSSIA Syassky starts up Toscotec line Syassky Pulp and Paper mill has boosted its presence in the domestic market after it started up a new Toscotec...

ASIA NEWS: China

CHINA APP China to build twelve small tissue PMs with capacity of 240,000 tpy (PPI Asia) - APP China has decided to add twelve more tissue...

AMERICAS NEWS: North Americas

NORTH AMERICA Free box/Facebook offer from Kruger represents social media-coupon play The days of using only print, radio, and TV advertising to sell tissue paper and...

Optimising the Tissue Fibre Furnish

Desired product properties primarily determine the tissue fibre furnishes, but there is space to optimise the fibre selection HIGH FIBRE COST Fibre costs account for some...

Clearwater Paper consumer products division’s target: “The best private label TAD...

A Tissue World report With a strong influence in the development of private label tissue in the western USA, TW visited the company’s north Las...

Consumers want it both ways … national brand equivalent quality in...

A Tissue World report Cascades' Kingman, Arizona, USA-based tissue converting facility. The approach to Cascades’ Kingman tissue converting site in Arizona in the west of the...

Focus on western USA: Tissue – market developments in the western...

The tissue market in the west region of the United States faces unique challenges and opportunities. The presence of imports and large independent converters...

Western USA: From recession to recovery

Although the US economy was badly hit by the post-Lehmann recession, an upturn in economic activity (although somewhat uneven) as well as population expansion...

“The West” – One segment of the world’s largest T&T producing...

Select a figure to view:Figure 1 Distribution of T&T production in the USA Figure 2 Distribution of T&T paper machines in the USA. Figure 3 Distribution...

Consumer Speak

Greg Williams is a tour director and lives in Hobart, the capital of Tasmania. As a Tassie, he has a knack for...

Global tissue market continuing its strong growth, but Europe struggling

Global tissue business has recovered well from the 2009 recession, but recent economic and political turbulences have disturbed the return to normal business conditions...

A more bullish west US aspires to quality and economy in...

After reading our Euromonitor International report Western USA: From recession to recovery about ‘bellwether activities’ such as eating out contributing toward an upturn in...

Rotor thermal stress can lead to a pulper’s unscheduled downtime. Here,...

COPPER BAR ROTOR MOTOR DESIGN FOR PULPER APPLICATIONS In tissue mills, process reliability is absolutely crucial to the bottom line. Due to the batch nature...

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