Improving runnability on tissue machines

Catanchem’s Gerhard Viljoen and aquaTECH’s Julien Arnold and David Hunkeler consider how to make savings, and get the most from the mill When tissue grades...

Top of the league SCA is on the ball to meet...

With its focus on innovation and sustainability, SCA has taken the top spot in the UK tissue market. TW visits its renowned Manchester mill on the...

Toilet paper in the UK: private label sales have reached the...

As fears of further economic downturn are fading branded toilet paper is enjoying a strong market position. By Tamara Bartels, Euromonitor International analyst - homecare, tissue &...

The technical and economic essentials behind achieving Chain of Custody

With consumer demand for sustainable tissue products increasing, tissue producers need to demonstrate to existing and potential clients a firm commitment to sustainability. Here...

The Barometer Issue: a climate report on tissue growth

TW revisits its country report mills of 2012 in Japan, Brazil, Western USA, Turkey and South Korea to check progress against investment strategy. JAPAN, Tissue...

With 2,000 different designs and products being exported to 40 countries,...

The Polish economy slowed but never entered in deep recession and now it’s poised again for another leap forward. TW visited one leading napkin...

Strength technologies improve profitability

Kemira’s Vladimir Grigoriev, Mikko Mäkinen and Roberto Zulian review the new developments in strength technologies and discuss the economic benefits found from industrial case...

Tissue retail in Africa’s southern region

The current state of the continent’s strongest economy, South Africa, has had a noticeable impact with many consumers suffering a sharp dip in their disposable income....

PIX pulp indices: FOEX examines NBSK and BHK pulp prices in...

By Lars Lars Halén, senior manager, FOEX Indexes and Timo Teras, managing director, FOEX Indexes  NBSK pulp Europe Data over the producers’ pulp stocks was released by...

From spotlight to campsite quality tissue is essential

Donna Sawyer is a finance journalist living and working in Sydney, Australia. With much of her work on camera, she looks for high quality tissue products...

Poland gets in shape to take full advantage of the European...

By Helen Morris, Tissue World Editor Poland’s 40 million population, or at least the ones who get round to doing the cooking and the cleaning, love...

Young and dynamic – Lamix typifies Poland’s emerging tissue sector

Successive investment has strengthened Lamix’s hold on the hygiene market. Here the company discusses its market strategy with TW. “The customer is getting richer and richer as Poland...

WORLD NEWS: Global, America, Asia, Europe & Short Issues

GLOBAL NEWS Wausau Paper launches DublNature T&T Line W+D launches W+D FLOWTOS SCA reports 28% increase in 1Q tissue net sales Voith launches Masterjet Pro T headbox Flexlink launches...

SHORT ISSUES

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

Europe news: Belarus, Austria, Italy and UK

UK 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 &...

ASIA NEWS: Indonesia, Japan and China

Indonesia PT. Suparma signs for new tissue line Indonesian tissue producer PT. Suparma has signed for a new Metsosupplied tissue line that targets cost efficient high-quality...

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...