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    APP halts tissue expansion in China in face of oversupply; continues in Indonesia

    (News from RISI) - While gearing up for the commissioning of a massive 2.8m tpy pulp mill in South Sumatra, Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) has shifted its tissue paper expansion...
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    Lee & Man Paper boosts capacity with rewinders buy

    Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing has ordered four tissue rewinders to be supplied by A.Celli Paper. The model AC882 rewinders will have a paper width of 5,620mm and a speed of 1,000...
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    US upholds anti-dumping duties on certain tissue products from China

    (News from RISI) - The US International Trade Commission (ITC) unanimously voted earlier this month to extend anti-dumping duties (ADD) on imports of certain tissue products from China. As a result of...
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    WEPA Lille boosts energy savings

    WEPA Lille has signed a contract with PMPower for the delivery of a recovery boiler steam system at its mill in France. PMPower is a division of paper machine supplier PMP, and...
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    Daio Paper to make tissue products at Kawanoe mill in Japan

    (News from RISI) - Japan’s Daio Paper has announced a plan to restart operations at its inactive Kawanoe mill in the Ehime prefecture. The site, which is near Daio’s huge Mishima mill,...
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    Drenik boosts capacity with rebuild

    Serbian tissue manufacturer Drenik is to increase the production capacity of its Belgrade-based facilities after it placed an order with supplier Recard to rebuild PM1. The move will boost the machine’s maximum speed of 800m/min...
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    Spanish competition authority slaps fines of Euro 128.8 million on heavy inco cartel

    (News from RISI) - The Spanish National Market and Competition Commission, Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC), has imposed fines of Euro 128.8 million ($142.6 million) on seven...
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    Tissue World Milan 2017 rescheduled to April 10-12

    Tissue World has announced the change of event dates for Tissue World Milan 2017 to 10-12 April 2017. The change of event dates takes place in combination with a change of exhibit...
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    Papel San Francisco to boost capacity with second PM

    Mexico’s Papel San Francisco has signed up Valmet to supply a repeat order for an Advantage DCT 100TS tissue production line. It will be installed at the company's mill in Mexicali and...
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    Essel boosts production with rebuild

    Turkey’s Essel Cellulose and Paper Industry Trade has boosted its capacity after finalising the rebuild of a Steel Yankee tissue machine. The A.Celli-supplied rebuild has taken place at the tissue manufacturer’s Caycuma...
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    Syassky Pulp and Paper Mill increases capacity

    Syassky Pulp and Paper Mill has started up a 45,000tpy Toscotec-supplied AHEAD tissue machine at its Syasstroy mill in Russia. The AHEAD-1.5M tissue line came on stream on 29 April. The site...
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    SCA’s Productos Familia guilty in anti-trust inquiry

    Productos Familia has been found guilty in an anti-trust inquiry related to tissue products conducted by the Colombian competition authority. The inquiry targeted Familia and four other companies in the Colombian market...
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    SCA to shut up shop at Mediona tissue mill in Spain

    (News from RISI) - SCA is set to close its tissue mill in Sant Joan de Mediona, Barcelona. In future, the production of mother reels in Spain will be concentrated at SCA’s...
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    Lucart Group acquires Bokk Paper

    Italian producer Lucart Group has acquired the total capital of Bokk Paper, the main independent Hungarian player in the AfH tissue products market. The name of the company has already been changed...
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    Lee & Man advances tissue plans

    (News from RISI) - Despite being a latecomer to the Chinese tissue paper industry, Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing aims to become one of its top producers. It is targeting a total...
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    ICT’s Kostrzyn mill boosts capacity

    ICT Poland has started up a Valmet-supplied Advantage DCT 200HS tissue line at its Kostrzyn-based plant. The new line will add 70,000tpy of high-quality toilet and towel grades for the European market....
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    Södra Group reports operating profit of SEK 334 million

    Södra Group has reported operating profit for the first four months of the year of SEK 334 million, compared with SEK 941 million the same time a year earlier. The group said...
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    Sun Paper moves ahead with hygiene production

    (News from RISI) China’s Sun Paper is moving ahead with its incursion into the hygiene product market in partnership with Nippon Paper Industries subsidiary Crecia. The partnership will see Sun Paper market...
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    Workers stage 24 hour strike at SCA’s Saint-Etienne du Rouvray tissue plant in France

    (News from RISI) - Employees at SCA’s Saint-Etienne du Rouvray tissue plant in France downed tools for 24 hours on May 12, stopping production at the factory. The employees were protesting against...
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    Norske Skog and Roto-cart sever tissue ties; project to produce tissue at Bruck publication...

    (News from RISI) - Norske Skog and Italy’s Roto-cart are no longer partnering on the project to replace the newsprint PM at Norske Skog’s Bruck mill in Austria with a tissue...
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    KCM announces capex for 2016-2017 at $400m; to invest in new tissue PM with...

    (News from RISI) - Kimberly-Clark de México (KCM), a subsidiary of Kimberly-Clark Corporation, has announced its 2016-2017 capex at $400m. KCM chief executive Pablo González said: “We’re aggressively raising our investment plan...
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    Little Rapids Corp to invest $40m in crescent forming tissue PM

    America’s Little Rapids Corporation will invest $40 million to install state-of-the-art tissue making technology at its Shawano paper mill in Shawano, Wisconsin. The new crescent forming tissue machine will replace the existing...
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    EBRD might back tissue investment of Poland’s Velvet Care

    (News from RISI) - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is considering the provision of a long-term loan of up to Euro 20 million to the Polish tissue specialist...
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    SCA appoints president for Global Hygiene Category

    SCA has appointed Georg Schmundt-Thomas as its president of its Global Hygiene Category. He will have global responsibility for SCA’s customer and consumer brands and innovation in the hygiene area. He will take...
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    China’s Sun Paper entering diaper market

    (News from RISI) - China’s Shandong Sun Paper Industry will expand into the diaper segment, planning to market its products domestically by early May at the latest. In March, the firm signed...
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    Solenis boosts global presence with acquisitions

    Published on 21 April 2016 | Speciality chemicals supplier Solenis is to acquire the shares in Lostris International and Wester Blend, privately-held companies focused on supplying specialty chemicals to the pulp, tissue and...
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    Colombian competition authority confirms tissue paper collusion involving four producers in the country; CMPC...

    Published on 21 April 2016 | (News from RISI) - After over one year of investigations, the Colombian competition authority (SIC) affirmed the existence of collusion in the tissue paper market involving four...
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    Guizhou Chitianhua Paper Industry boosts rewinder capacity

    Published on 21 April 2016 | Guizhou Chitianhua Paper Industry has signed an agreement with A.Celli Paper for the supply of three tissue rewinders and an additional agreement for a further nine rewinders. Part...
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    Vinda continues expansion across Chinese tissue market

    Published on 21 April 2016 | Vinda has signed an agreement with Futura for the supply of multiple high-performance converting lines for tissue roll products. The Chinese tissue giant has made the investment...
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    Celupaper boosts presence with PM investment

    Published on 21 April 2016 | Celupaper has continued to increase its South American market share after it signed for a MODULO-PLUS tissue line to be installed at its site in Papelera Nicaragua. Supplied...
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    St. Croix Tissue starts-up first PM at Baileyville

    Published on 21 April 2016 | America's St. Croix Tissue has successfully started up the first of its two Andritz-supplied PrimeLine tissue machines at its Baileyville, Maine-based site. It is the first time the mill - which is...
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    ISMA 2000 starts up PM1 after rebuild

    Published on 7 April 2016 | Spain’s ISMA 2000 has successfully started up its PM1 at its mill in La Torre de Claramunt mill, Barcelona, after a major dry-end rebuild delivered by supplier...
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    STAX Technologies responds to demand with UNICA launch

    Published on 7 April 2016 | STAX Technologies has launched packaging machine UNICA, a single roll wrapper that wraps single bath rolls in both paper and poly. The machine can reach speeds of up...
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    Sofidel increases UK tissue presence

    Published on 7 April 2016 | Global tissue producer Sofidel is to boost its presence in the UK market after it invested in a latest-generation tissue rewinder. Supplied by A.Celli Paper, the machine has...
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    Infinity boosts presence with Italian subsidiary

    Published on 7 April 2016 | Infinity Machine & Engineering has responded to global market growth in the tissue industry with the opening of a subsidiary in Bologna. The Italian headquarters will be dedicated...
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    SCA’s divestment of business for integration with Vinda closes

    Published on 7 April 2016 | SCA has said the divestment of its business in South East Asia, Taiwan and South Korea for integration with Vinda closed on 1 April.​ The tissue giant is the majority shareholder in...
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    Tissue World New Orleans concludes successfully; attracts attendees from 56 countries

    Published on 7 April 2016 | Some 1,588 attendees from 56 different countries were at the recent Tissue World New Orleans exhibition and conference. Held in March 2016,...
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    Forestal y Papelera Concepcion starts up new line

    Chile’s Forestal y Papelera Concepcion (FPC) has successfully boosted its capacity with the start up of a new Advantage NTT tissue line. The new line fulfils FPC's target of producing 100% textured...
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    Fire briefly idles production at WEPA tissue mill in Mainz, Germany

    (News from RISI) - A fire brought production to a brief standstill at WEPA’s tissue mill in Mainz earlier this month. A spokesperson for the group confirmed a report of the local...
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    Eliodoro Matte leaves CMPC; company hires Luis Felipe Gazitúa as new president

    (News from RISI) - Chilean pulp and paper producer CMPC’s president Eliodoro Matte has decided to leave the company for personal reasons and will be substituted by Luis Felipe Gazitúa. Matte has...