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...

SCA reports 28% increase in 1Q tissue net sales

SCA has said acquisitions, higher volumes and cost savings have contributed to its tissue division’s earnings improvement. Between 1 January and 31 March 2013 compared...

APP to leapfrog to global tissue top spot with Chinese, Indonesian...

(PPI Asia) – Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) has rolled out an aggressive expansion plan that will see it leapfrog Kimberly-Clark, SCA Hygiene Products...

Wausau Paper reports 1Q net loss

Wausau Paper has made “significant progress on repositioning itself to focus on tissue” as it reports a net loss of $1.7m in its first...

Parent roll increase of $40-50 gaining momentum in USA (News from...

(PPI Pulp & Paper Week) - Parent roll tissue pricing appeared to be moving up, with producers seeking a $40-50/ton increase, contacts have said....

1Q end-product prices show little change for North American producers (News...

(PPI Pulp & Paper Week) - Four tissue paper producers in North America reported mostly flat pricing for the first quarter vs their levels...

Södra raises softwood pulp price

Pulp manufacturer Södra has raised the price of its softwood pulp to US$ 890 in Europe. The increase took effect as of 1 May....

Flexlink launches X65 conveyor platform

Flexlink has launched the X65 conveyor platform, which the company said offers twice the strength compared to today’s standards and “triples user value”. It offers...

Global BSK producer stock decline leads one-day drop, as BHK overhang...

(PPI Pulp & Paper Week) - A seasonal bounce in demand and a two days-of-supply reduction in bleached softwood kraft (BSK) stock led overall...

Metsä Group’s tissue and cooking paper business invests in bioenergy

Katrinefors Kraftvärme (KKAB) is to build a new biomass combined heat and power (CHP) plant in Mariestad, Sweden, in conjunction with the Metsä Tissue...

Innventia launches tissue paper project

Innventia has launched a project within the field of tissue paper that will focus on product properties and different aspects of tissue paper. The...

Cascades launches facial tissue product

Cascades Tissue Group has extended its Cascades Moka line with the launch of what it claims is the first-ever unbleached, 100% recycled beige facial...

Exhibitors and visitors celebrate the TW Runnability awards

Tissue World 2013 has hosted the Runnability Awards to publically thank the exhibitors that have supported the show over the years. This year Tissue World...

Exhibitors and visitors celebrate the Tissue World Runnability Awards

Tissue World 2013 has hosted the Runnability Awards to publically thank the exhibitors that have supported the show over the years. This year Tissue World...

40% increase in visitors at Tissue World 2013

Some 2,815 visitors attended Tissue World 2013 in Barcelona in what was the shows most successful event yet. The figure comprises of exhibitors, delegates, speakers...

Sopanusa Tissue to double capacity

Indonesia-based Sopanusa Tissue has announced plans to create a new company called Sun Paper Source that will double the company’s tissue capacity. In an interview...

APP commits to “heavy and organic” tissue investment

Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) has said its future tissue investment strategy will be “heavy and mostly organic” and focused mostly on China and...

Sofidel finalises G-P acquisition

Sofidel Group has finalised the acquisition from SCA of the former Georgia-Pacific businesses. The move is connected with G-P’s consumer brands in the UK, Republic...

Metso receives repeat order from Turkey’s Hayat Kimya

Hayat Kimya has announced at Tissue World 2013 that it has signed for a repeat order for two complete tissue lines from Metso for...

Rate of tissue investments creates overcapacity

A huge jump in new tissue investments in emerging markets will lead to over capacity in the industry between 2012-2014, according to a talk by RISI’s tissue...

Latest changes in the supply of recovered paper

LIVE FROM TISSUE WORLD 2013: Bill Moore, president of Moore & Associates Atlanta, has discussed the number of changes occurring in the available supply...

1,037 first day exhibition visitors at Tissue World 2013

Some 1,037 visitors have attended the first exhibition day of Tissue World 2013 in Barcelona! The show opened its exhibition hall doors on 19 March...

SCA consultation puts 162 jobs at risk

SCA has started consultations with former Georgia-Pacific staff in France in a move that could affect 162 jobs. Following its acquisition of G-P’s EMEA tissue...

Star Tissue invests after increase in customer demand

Star Tissue has bought a PCMC AMICA Industria to boost the quality of its products and bring greater efficiency to its UK-based production unit. The...

Södra raises softwood and hardwood pulp prices

Södra has said it will raise the price of its softwood pulp to US$ 860.00 and hardwood pulp to USD 820.00 per tonne in...