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    Wepa Professional Piechowice to boost capacity

    Wepa Professional Piechowice is to boost its capacity after it signed for a Toscotec-supplied tissue line to be installed at its Poland-based site. The new AHEAD-2.0S line will strengthen Wepa’s recent strategic growth...
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    Tissue World Americas 2018 moves to Miami

    Tissue World has announced that its next Americas exhibition will be held in the beautiful city of Miami, Florida. Following survey results, the next TW Americas will be held from 21 –...
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    Tissue World New Orleans 2016 exhibition and conference opened its doors

    Tissue World has welcomed America and the country’s key tissue industry professionals to its exhibition and the US’s largest tissue industry conference. Some 155 leading and influential personnel exhibited last week at...
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    Vinda boosts capacity with three TMs

    Chinese giant Vinda Group has invested in three Toscotec-supplied tissue machines that are scheduled for start-up in the second half of 2016. Two Ahead 2.0M machines will be installed at the company’s...
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    Kimberly-Clark Europe boosts Swiss converting facilities

    Kimberly-Clark Europe has invested in the latest generation Futura JOI Embosser for an existing tissue converting line at its Niederbipp facility in Switzerland. The new JOI Embosser started up in October 2015 and...
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    UK-based Poppies Europe boosts converting production

    Tissue producer Poppies Europe has invested in three OMET napkin production lines. They will join six existing OMET lines installed by the company in the last two years. Poppies Europe has been operating...
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    Lee & Man boosting tissue presence in China; year-end profits increase 22.4% from 2014

    (News from RISI) - Lee & Man is aggressively expanding in the tissue sector in China. It looks set to add around 220,000tpy of tissue capacity by the end of this year...
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    CMPC hires Ignacio Goldsack as new CFO; to announce new general secretary soon

    (News from RISI) - Chilean CMPC has hired Ignacio Goldsack to be the company's new CFO, effective February 2016 and replacing Luis Llanos. According to CMPC, Goldsack studied business and administration at...
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    Sofidel strengthens presence in Hungary

    Sofidel has continued to grow in Europe after it announced the acquisition of the Forest brand and converting facilities in Hungary. The operation, made with Forest Papir Kft, involves the acquisition of...
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    China’s Shanghai Welfare invests in new 12,000tpy tissue PM

    (News from RISI) - China’s Shanghai Welfare Group has ordered a new 12,000tpy tissue PM for its mill in Shaoxing city, Zhejiang province. Kawanoe Zoki has been signed up to supply the...
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    Faderco starts up tissue PM in Algeria

    Independent tissue paper company Faderco has started up its Valmet-supplied tissue line at its site in Sétif. Owner Amor Habes told TWM the new line will produce more than 30,000 tonnes of...
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    Lucart starts-up PM4 in Porcari after rebuild

    Italian tissue producer Lucart has successfully started-up its PM4 tissue machine in Porcari, Lucca, after a rebuild undertaken by Toscotec. The upgrade includes a modification of the forming section and the complete...
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    BOR Biotechnology plans new tissue mill in Czech Republic

    (News from RISI) - The Czech firm BOR Biotechnology is preparing to build a new tissue mill in the town of Kozomín just north of the capital city of Prague. The new...
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    Clearwater Paper reports 4Q and full year 2015 results

    Clearwater Paper has reported sales of $431.6m for the fourth quarter of 2015, down 8.6% compared to the same period a year ago. The company said the decrease was mainly due to...
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    Sofidel to boost capacity in Poland with NTT install

    Italian tissue giant Sofidel has boosted its presence in Europe after signing for the latest-generation Advantage tissue machine from Valmet. The machine will be installed in the Delitissue plant in Ciechanów, Poland,...
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    Interstate Paper Industries invests in production facilities

    Interstate Paper Industries has boosted its capacity after it upgraded two of its rewinders. Based in Egypt, the tissue mill is part of the Indevco Group of companies. The upgrade to its north...
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    Metsä Tissue renews organisational structure

    Metsä Tissue has renewed its business unit structure as of 1 January 2016. The new organization is based on four business units: Consumer Nordics, Consumer Continental, Away-from-Home and Baking & Cooking. CEO Petri...
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    Bolton Group shuts Softex tissue production in Greece

    (News from RISI) - The manufacture of Softex tissue products in Greece has come to an end. In mid-January, the employees of the factory based in Athens were informed that the site...
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    OverMeccanica acquired by OVERMADE

    OverMeccanica - in temporary operation since September 2014 after entering bankruptcy proceedings - has been acquired by OVERMADE in November 2015. OVERMADE is a new company of Italian investors headed up by...
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    Nuqul Group’s Fine Hygienic to boost capacity

    Nuqul Group’s Fine Hygienic Holding (FHH) has signed for a Valmet-supplied Advantage DCT 200TS tissue production line. The tissue machine will be installed at the Al Nakheel mill in Abu Dhabi and...
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    Tissue mills in Baoding, China, keep expanding

    (News from RISI) - Two small tissue mills in Baoding city, Hebei province recently ordered four new tissue PMs with a combined capacity of 80,000tpy. On 22 January, Hebei Jinboshi Group signed...
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    Kruger restarts tissue machines shortly after shut due to fire

    (News from RISI) - Kruger said it has restarted three paper machines after suspending production due to a fire at its Gatineau, QC, tissue paper mill, a company official told RISI...
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    SCA closes Wausau Paper acquisition

    SCA has closed its acquisition of Wausau Paper for USD 513 million in cash. The European tissue giant consolidated Wausau Paper on 21 January 2016. Magnus Groth, SCA president and chief executive, said:...
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    Metalicplas boosts capacity with TM start-up

    Romania’s Metalicplas has increased its production capacity by 34,000tpy after starting up its new tissue PM. Part of the Pehart Tec Group, the A.Celli-supplied machine has a width of 2.8m at the...
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    Calling all sustainable tissue mills in America!

    Tissue World has officially launched the ‘Tissue Mill Awards’ to recognise exceptional environmental awareness and marketing excellence by tissue mills across America. Showcase your talent and product excellence to your peers and...
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    Suzano orders two tissue paper machines for Mucuri and Imperatriz mills

    (News from RISI) - Suzano Pulp and Paper has signed a $58 million order for two tissue paper machines (PM) to be installed at the company’s Mucuri and Imperatriz mills in...
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    K-C announces Q4 and full year 2015 earnings

    Kimberly-Clark has reported a fourth quarter net sales decrease of 6% to $4.5 billion compared to the same period a year earlier. The company said changes in foreign currency exchange rates reduced...
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    Barry-Wehmiller boosts tissue presence with further acquisition

    Barry-Wehmiller has acquired Winkler+Dünnebier and POEM GmbH (W+D) from Körber. W+D is headquartered in Neuwied and Löhne, Germany, and has additional locations in the United States and Malaysia. It provides integrated system solutions...
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    YFY brings first of two medium-sized tissue machines on stream in China

    (News from RISI) - Yuen Foong Yu (YFY) has started up a 27,000tpy tissue paper machine at its mill in Zhaoqing city, Guangdong province, China. Guangdong Dingfeng Paper, the YFY subsidiary operating...
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    Fábricas de Papel Potosí boosts production

    Mexico’s Fábricas de Papel Potosí has started-up a new tissue machine supplied by A.Celli Paper. The machine has a 2,850mm web width, a working speed of 1,500m/min and a production capacity of...
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    Gordon Brothers Group purchases assets formerly owned by Lincoln Paper and Tissue

    Gordon Brothers Group has purchased the assets of Lincoln Paper and Tissue as part of a joint venture that includes Capital Recovery Group (CRG), PPL Group and Rabin Worldwide. The global advisory,...
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    Kimberly-Clark to cooperate with cartel tissue investigation in Peru

    (News from RISI) - Kimberly-Clark Peru said it will cooperate with the investigation opened by the country’s Defense of Competition and Intellectual Property Protection (INDECOPI) into certain competition practices within the...
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    Vinda to acquire SCA’s hygiene business in Asia

    Vinda International Holdings is to purchase SCA’s hygiene business in South East Asia, Taiwan and South Korea. The divestment of the business for integration with Vinda was approved on 13 January and...
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    SCA boosts capacity at Östrand mill, Sweden

    SCA has signed an order with Andritz to supply production technologies and equipment for the extension of its Östrand pulp mill in Timrå. Start-up is scheduled for the second quarter of 2018...
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    WEPA Giershagen boosts capacity

    WEPA Giershagen has increased its high quality tissue capacity by 32,000tpy after it started up a Toscotec-supplied AHEAD line. The turnkey Toscotec delivery for the new TM#19 is based on the best...
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    Potosí’s new 25,000tpy tissue PM begins production in Mexico; PM2 stops

    (News from RISI) - Mexican Fábricas de Papel Potosí has started up a new 25,000tpy tissue paper machine at its mill located in San Luis Potosí, north-central Mexico. The equipment was supplied...
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    TalentFind at Tissue World New Orleans!

    Tissue World has launched TalentFind, an initiative to connect tissue industry employers with students from leading paper technology universities and institutes. The partnership programme will debut at the exhibition in New Orleans...
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    Santher’s 3Q profits decline; company implements extra price adjustments

    (News from RISI) Brazilian tissue producer Santher reported net revenues at Real 340.4 million in the third quarter of 2015, an increase of 0.9% over July-September 2014. Net loss for the period...
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    CMPC to participate in mediation involving tissue cartel case in Chile

    (News from RISI) - Empresas CMPC has agreed to join a mediation proposed by the Chilean Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Servicio Nacional del Consumidor – SERNAC) in order to compensate consumers...
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    Lee & Man starts up new 60,000tpy tissue PM in China

    (News from RISI) - Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing has started up a new 60,000tpy tissue PM at its mill in the southwestern municipality of Chongqing in China. The Valmet-supplied PM came...