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Operations Report

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    Aiming to drive a completely new, scalable decarbonisation process across the global paper industry: (L-r) Jonas Bergström, Elena Viviani, and Matthias Höhsl in front of the pilot installation at Voith in Heidenheim, Germany

    ESSITY OPERATIONS REPORT: Driving forward the decarbonisation of the paper industry

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    Lauded as a “ground-breaking” concept for sustainable tissue production, Essity’s collaboration with Voith will take tissue-making to the next level. TWM Senior Editor Helen Morris interviews Elena Viviani, Technology Director at...
    Above: Established in 1948 as “Westfälische Papierfabrik”: WEPA Group’s production site and headquarters in Arnsberg, Germany

    WEPA GROUP, OPERATIONS REPORT: A holistic approach on sustainability

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    WEPA Group targets frontrunner role in sustainability, aiming for a net-zero production until 2040, considering aspects of energy and logistics as well as using sustainable fibres from paper for recycling, recycled...
    Above: Founders Sumit (far right), Meena Khanna (middle), and colleagues; the company is enthusiastic about the future and is planning to increase its installed capacity by three-fold.

    OPERATIONS REPORT: As tissue paper mills mushroom and India’s growth continues, the stylish Beeta...

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    In 1992, Sumit & Meena Khanna set out to create innovative, high-quality tissue products from a small garage. Now, their FSC-certified face tissues, napkins, and rolls are found in boutique stores...
    Ashwin J. Laddha, Managing Director and Chief Executive, Orient Paper Industries

    OPERATIONS REPORT: OPIL’s root and branch review advanced its value chain as it expects...

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    Ashwin J. Laddha, Managing Director and Chief Executive of the pioneering , explains the dramatic changes taking place in tissue consumption. Report by TWM Senior Editor Helen Morris. For several decades, actualising...
    Production boost: the company started up a Baosuo-supplied TM at its Sarigam mill (pictured) in October 2024

    OPERATIONS REPORT: Jani Sales’ recent PM2 start-up and further growth ambitions will help meet...

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    Director Abiali Jani explains the advancing production strategies and changing consumer choices behind India’s buoyant market. Report by TWM Senior Editor Helen Morris. “Our local Indian market is looking very promising”, Jani...
    General Manager Alp Öğücü

    OPERATIONS REPORT LILA KAĞIT: Tissue giant Lila Kağıt pioneers expansion in eastern Türkiye as...

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    General Manager Alp Öğücü explains the key choices now facing the industry as its dynamic expansion is poised to move into its next phase. Report by Senior Editor Helen Morris. On 17...
    Şahin Civelek, Global Tissue Production Director, Hayat Kimya

    HAYAT KIMYA OPERATIONS REPORT: After a supply surplus slowdown the time is right...

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    The market leader across the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Africa is planning more state-of-the-art technology, a rebound to premium products, and new production sites in new countries. TWM Senior Editor...
    Investments in high-tech factories: the company has recently commissioned “Türkiye’s newest and highest-quality recycling deinking system”, and a treatment plant that supports zero-waste production at the business’ Çaycuma facility (pictured)

    OPERATIONS REPORT: Essel Pulp and Paper Industry’s PMS is the latest advanced addition for...

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    İzmit-headquartered Essel Pulp and Paper Industry can reel off a list of achievements … 100% pure cellulose and recycled jumbo rolls, Türkiye’s widest and highest capacity tissue PM, fully closed-loop automation,...
    Capacity boost: Navigator now has a total production capacity of 165,000 tons of tissue paper and 180,000 tonnes of tissue converting capacity per year

    Latest acquisition means UK contributes around 50% of Navigator’s total tissue turnover

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    Converter Accrol Group Holdings takeover is “a key pillar” in strategy of sustained expansion says Graham Cox, Chief Operating Officer, Navigator Tissue UK. Report by TWM Senior Editor Helen Morris. In April...
    Tim Vormweg, Director Group Communications, WEPA

    WEPA GROUP OPERATIONS REPORT: WEPA outlines its strategy behind acquisition of leading company in...

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    A hybrid market of changing responses to hygiene, hybrid products, sustainability, and price. Following the acquisition of Star Tissue UK, Tim Vormweg, Director Group Communications at WEPA, outlines the company’s direction...
    Independent Northern Powerhouse: Overnight, Poppies Europe doubled its space to 12+ acres

    POPPIES EUROPE OPERATIONS REPORT: Faster, leaner, newer, bigger … independent market leader Poppies Europe...

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    Buying up an adjacent former aluminium casting mill in the northwest of England is the latest move to develop “vertically and horizontally,” ready to seize new opportunities. Director Armindo Marques spoke...
    Products from UPP’s leading tissue brand Dinu: the company continues to bring out new products for different markets

    Foreseeable double digit growth even as many consumers struggle with rising costs

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    South Africa’s mixed economy sees many consumers moving down market, but growing urbanisation means the pool of consumers able to buy tissue products is growing. Universal Paper & Plastics Managing Director...
    Belkacem Becharef, Africaine Paper Mills (APM) General Manager

    OPERATIONS REPORT: Five years on from its tissue start-up Africaine Paper Mills is enjoying...

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    Algeria is attracting a lot of trade because of its low costs base. After having to turn away orders due to mill capacity, General Manager Belkacem Becharef is determined to gear...
    Ronald Rusco, Chief Executive, Sopanusa Tissue & Packaging Saranasukses

    OPERATIONS REPORT: A Southeast Asian “premier titan” embarks on visionary expansion

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    In March, Indonesia’s Sun Paper Source announced it had invested in four tissue machines at its plant in Ngoro, Mojokerto, boosting production capacity to 300,000tpy in total with sister company Sopanusa...
    Roberto Caballero, VP Supply Chain for LatAm, Essity.

    ESSITY OPERATIONS REPORT: Supply chain integration the key as diverse Latin American market enters...

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    Following the start-up of a TAD tissue machine at the company’s Sahagún facility in Mexico in 2020, Essity continues to target premium products in its main global growth market. TWM Senior...
    Leonardo Grimaldi, Head of Global Pulp Sales, Marketing and Logistics; Suzano

    SUZANO OPERATIONS REPORT: The Latin American pulp giant emerging as a major force ...

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    Just seven years after moving into the tissue manufacturing market, Suzano’s Head of Global Pulp Sales, Marketing and Logistics Leonardo Grimaldi says the company is embarked on era-defining expansion. TWM Senior...
    Hayat's Sustainable Innovations in Tissue Manufacturing

    HAYAT OPERATIONS REPORT: Middle East region’s largest tissue manufacturer targets “immense potential for growth...

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    As one of the leading global companies in the FMCG sector, in 2023 Turkish-headquartered Hayat announced investment plans worth $55m which will see it open two tissue and non- woven production...
    (MEPCO) Seizes Growth Opportunity with Tissue Diversification

    MEPCO OPERATIONS REPORT: With global tissue consumption projected to double in two decades, one...

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    The newly announced India Middle East Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) will add even greater incentive to the rising young population and tourism boom fuelling growth. For the Middle East Paper Company...

    KRUGER PRODUCTS OPERATIONS REPORT: Margin recovery, strong top-line growth, ramped up production … a...

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    Here, Kruger Products speaks to TWM about how it is building momentum through innovative products, marketing, and sustainability initiatives, as its expansion plans fuel growth across Canada and U.S.  As the leading...

    ST PAPER: The low capital dynamic: re-utilise shut or under-used facilities … and build...

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    With its latest investment – a PrimeLineTM W 2000 – started-up at its site in Duluth, Minnesota, in January this year, ST Paper is primed for further expansion. TWM interviews Senior...

    OPERATIONS REPORT: The MSS Group – demographic trends drive major changes in tissue shopping...

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    Single-person households, a drop in marriages, the online warehouse and next-day-delivery malls are driving a new era of small-volume production. TWM interviews Monalisa Chief Executive and MSS Group Chief...

    Circular economy pioneer Essity producing paper CO2 free 

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    Thorsten Becherer, Site Manager at Essity’s Mainz-Kostheim, Germany-based plant, explains the latest advances in award winning e-save programme.  TWM/1: What’s unique about the Mainz-Kostheim plant?

    Industry partnerships key to tackling challenges with sustainability and innovation the drivers

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    With a market share of 25% in its home country, tissue giant WEPA Group has ambitious plans to maintain the top spot. Here, WEPA Chief Operations Officer Harm Bergmann-Kramer...

    OPERATIONS REPORT Northwood Dicepa: Open air restaurants, increased vacationing, sunny climes – how the...

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    Two tissue plant acquisitions in Spain by the UK-based Northwood Group have seen a double win … the Spanish market’s continued recovery, and a solution to a potential Brexit...

    OPERATIONS REPORT Essity Valls: After the ‘big evolution’ the market is stabilising again

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    Spanish consumer tissue leader Essity Valls met the turmoil of recent years with its own rapid response. Miriam Guasch, Operations Director Manufacturing Spain, Global Supply Chain, charts how the...

    OPERATIONS REPORT Lucart Tissue & Soap: “2022 has shown a full recovery of the...

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    Lucart Tissue & Soap (Lucart T&S) is a Lucart Group subsidiary based in Artziniega in the north of Spain, running two industrial plants since the beginning of 2018. Here,...

    OPERATIONS REPORT LC Paper: “AfH revenue to double in the next three years, AH...

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    With a new converting production site ready for start-up, Pau Vila, LC Paper’s General Manager, explains the new trends guiding consumer choices and the company’s innovative responses. A TWM...

    OPERATIONS REPORT: MP HYGIÈNE ON TRACK FOR PIONEERING HIGH SPEED TISSUE MACHINE WITH EXCLUSIVELY...

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    Already an AfH market leader in the French tissue market, the AHEAD 2.2 tissue machine 2024 start-up will mean its CO2 footprint will be one of the lowest in the world, says President and Chief Executive Marc Miribel. Report by TWM Senior Editor Helen Morris.

    Klabin’s southern softwood bleached market pulp, diversifying and differentiation in the fluff segment–innovation on...

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    By Marco Martins, MSc Science Forest and Chemical Engineering – Klabin’s Customer Technical Services Manager, Flaviana Milagres – Forest Engineer, Master and Doctor in Forest Science - Klabin’s Research...

    Operations Report: Aktül Kagıt investments to boost production capacity to 210,000tpy

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    A 70,000tpy TM is planned for start-up in Q4 2022, and once up and running the business will look to export its new production. TWM speaks to Factory Director...

    Operations Report: State-of-the-art-machinery gives Europap Tezol Kağit “a big opportunity”

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    In three years annual capacity rose from 95,000tpy to a projected 130,000tpy with an AHEAD 2.2S tissue line start up in 2023, boosting super-prime branded tissue products sold abroad...

    Operations Report: “We want to continue to serve the sector by adding a high-capacity...

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    Essel Cellulose and Paper Industry has made substantial strides forwards since it was founded in 2005, when it commissioned its first tissue machine. Now, a worldwide shortage of raw...

    Kimberly-Clark: Operations Report – A ‘fully reopening’ Thailand sees its tissue demand boom continue

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    The country’s market leader Kimberly-Clark, celebrating its 150th anniversary, reflects on local shifts in shopping habits and pandemic-accelerated opportunities to pivot and drive stronger penetration for in-home consumption. Ratree...

    C.A.S. Paper Operations Report: Launched in the pandemic – this new tissue entrant survived...

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    With most countries in the region now opening up, tissue is continuing on its growth path. Here, C.A.S. Paper Mill Co. Managing Director Torpong Thongcharoen describes what’s next for...

    Velvet Care: Poland’s tissue market leader seeing dynamic post-pandemic growth

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    Velvet Care has achieved a series of firsts in production capacity, workforce levels, turnover, quality and its Eco Agenda 2025. Wanda Ciesielczuk, Production and Technical Director, talks to TWM...

    Operations Report: “We estimate that about 40% of all paper sold on the shelf...

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    With roughly half the per capita consumption rate of Germany and France, the Transylvania, Romania-based company’s extensive investment programme is targeting home growth, as well as international expansion where...

    Operations Report: With a sixth tissue machine due to be started-up in the last...

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    The best laid development plans on 2018 were tested during the pandemic years. Today, continued investments have brought the goal of 125,000tpy production target into sight. TWM Senior Editor...

    Fábrica de Papel San Francisco: Controlled capacity to meet demand growing through move into private...

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    Juan José Mubarak Helú Villavicencio, Sales & Marketing Director of Fábrica de Papel San Francisco, forecasts a 5% plus tonnage sales growth ahead. Report by TWM Senior Editor Helen...

    WEPA Group: After the pandemic hit consumer business, 2022 is the year of recovery...

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    WEPA’s new strategies progressing product diversity, flexible machinery, recycled paper, packaging, hybrid products, and efficient renewable energy. Bernhard Gross, Managing Director WEPA Italia, talks to TWM. 

    Operations Report: Essity expects professional hygiene market is set to grow faster compared to...

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    Italian operations at Lucca and Collodi playing leading roles in new “more agile and competitive” Consumer Tissue Private Label division for Europe announced in 2021. Here, Riccardo Trionfera, Commercial...
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