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Khalid Saifullah, former Managing Director and shareholder of Star Tissue UK and future Managing Director of WEPA Professional UK (left), and Andreas Krengel, Chief Executive Business Unit Professional of the WEPA Group

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WEPA increases UK presence with Star Tissue UK acquisition

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WEPA boosts capacity with rebuilds; Leuna mill investment latest

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Voith to be carbon neutral worldwide from 2022

Helen Morris - December 17, 2019

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Gambini delivers TouchMax.Air to Byness Company

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APP invests in four new tissue lines

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Hubei Zhencheng announces tissue expansion; 10 TMs ordered in first phase

Helen Morris - December 17, 2019

Suzano installs two 60,000tpy tissue PMs

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - November 18, 2015

(News from RISI) – Brazil’s Suzano has announced a Real425 million investment in two tissue paper machines, each with capacity to produce 60,000tpy. One PM will be installed at its Mucuri plant...

Chile’s CMPC posts EBITDA of $337M in 3Q15, up 34% y-o-y

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - November 18, 2015

(News from RISI) - Chilean pulp and paper producer CMPC released its financial results for the third quarter of the year showing EBITDA 34% higher compared to a year ago, at...

Vinda boosts capacity with PM start-ups

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - November 18, 2015

Vinda Sichuan and Vinda Shandong Paper have started-up two Toscotec-supplied AHEAD-1.5m tissue machines. The two machines have come on-stream according to schedule at Vinda’s tissue mills in Deyang, Sichuan, and Laiwu, Shandong, and...

Sofidel continues drive in America with GBC purchase

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - November 18, 2015

Italian tissue giant Sofidel has further strengthened its position in the American tissue market after announcing the acquisition of Green Bay Converting (GBC). With its subsidiary Sofidel America, the purchase includes a...

Resolute in “step-change acquisition” of Atlas Paper

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - November 18, 2015

Resolute Forest Products has expanded its At-Home and AfH tissue product offering after it acquired Florida-based Atlas Paper Holdings. Atlas Paper manufactures branded and private label tissue products offering recycled and virgin...

Solenis announces price hike for process chemicals

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - November 5, 2015

Solenis has increased the price of selected process chemicals and containers by 2-4% worldwide. Effective immediately, higher increases can be expected in countries where there has been significant local currency devaluation. Charles Robinson,...

Yuen Foong Yu Taiwan starts up PM

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - November 5, 2015

Yuen Foong Yu (YFY) Taiwan has started up its first AHEAD-1.5m tissue machine at its plant in Chingshui. Supplied by Toscotec, the machine has started up at Yuen Foong Yu’s Chingshui mill...

Resolute to boost tissue capacity with Futura install

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - November 5, 2015

North America’s Resolute Forest Products has invested in the new Futura Andromeda Concept converting technology. It will be installed at the company’s plant in Calhoun, Tennessee, and will be delivered to coincide...

SCA strengthens presence in Asia

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - November 5, 2015

SCA has strengthens the cooperation with Chinese hygiene company Vinda by integrating its business in South East Asia, Taiwan and South Korea into the business. As part of the transaction, SCA and...

Wepa starts up tissue line in France

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - November 5, 2015

The Wepa Group has started up a Toscotec-supplied tissue line in Lille, France. The 2.8m-wide machine came on-stream after the commissioning period and is now producing high quality tissue products. It has a...

CMPC and SCA allegedly colluded to control Chilean tissue market

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - November 5, 2015

Chilean forestry company CMPC and a subsidiary of SCA are guilty of price-fixing in Chile, according to Chilean prosecutor Fiscalía Nacional Económica (FNE). On 28 October, the FNE presented an injunction against...

Papcel to deliver tissue paper line to Saudi Arabia

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - October 21, 2015

The Papcel Group has signed a contract to deliver a new paper machine to a confidential company in Saudi Arabia. It will produce papers for the production of napkins, paper towels, tissues...

Sofidel boosts Nordic presence

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - October 21, 2015

Sofidel’s Swedish subsidiary Swedish Tissue has boosted its capacity after it started up a new converting plant in Kisa. The new converting plant is now fully operational with two active production lines:...

SCA set to acquire Wausau Paper

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - October 21, 2015

SCA is to boost its presence in the north American Away-from-Home (AfH) tissue market with the acquisition of Wausau Paper for US$513m. The move enhances the tissue giant’s AfH premium tissue portfolio...

Hangzhou Nbond Nonwoven starts up flushable wipes line

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - October 7, 2015

China’s Hangzhou Nbond Nonwoven has started up a new flushable wipes production line. Supplied by Voith and Truetzschler, the new production line is the first in the Chinese market to use the...

OMET reports record sales

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - October 7, 2015

OMET has reported record sales in Italy in the first half of 2015 and said it is on track to continue its run of double-digit percentage growth in sales seen over the...

Liuzhou Liangmianzhen Paper Product boosts capacity

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - October 7, 2015

China’s Liuzhou Liangmianzhen Paper Product has started up the second of two MODULO-PLUS ES tissue lines supplied by Toscotec at its mill in Liuzhou, Guangxi. A TT WIND-M high-speed slitter rewinder will...

GRIGIŠKĖS targets tissue business with 6m loan agreement

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - October 7, 2015

GRIGIŠKĖS has signed a six million euros loan agreement with Nordea Bank for development of its tissue paper business. The producer has also completed a €20 million investment project this year during...

Clearwater Paper in $160m upgrade of Lewiston mill

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - September 23, 2015

Clearwater Paper is to upgrade its Lewiston mill in Idaho in a $160m investment. The tissue producer will start construction of a new continuous digester which is expected to begin in October...

Södra reports strong results

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - September 23, 2015

Pulp producer Södra has reported strong results for the first eight months of 2015 due to “high price levels for finished goods” and “mainly favourable” currency conditions. Operating profit rose to SEK...

Voith launches TissueForm ITY forming fabric

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - September 23, 2015

Voith has launched a forming fabric that is said creates optimal performance in tissue production. The TissueForm ITY forming fabric is designed for challenging applications in tissue production and “ensures excellent stability...

Paper Prime enters into tissue production

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - September 23, 2015

Portugal’s Paper Prime has entered into the tissue market after it invested in a Toscotec-supplied tissue line. The new tissue line is scheduled to come on stream in the last quarter of...

Renova in European first with NTT buy

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - September 23, 2015

Portugal’s Renova has become the first European tissue producer to invest in Valmet’s Advantage NTT tissue technology. The production line will be installed at the company’s Torres Novas mill in Zibreira, Portugal,...

Lee & Man Paper boosts capacity

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - September 23, 2015

Chinese pulp and paper producer Lee & Man Paper has signed up Valmet for a repeat order of two Advantage DCT 200HS tissue production lines. The new tissue machines will have a...

Toscotec absorbs Milltech into business

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - September 9, 2015

Toscotec has absorbed its tissue machine hood and ventilation sister company Milltech into its tissue technology business. The PM supplier purchased Milltech in 2012 and has since operated it as a separate...

Gomà-Camps becomes sole shareholder of GC & Wepa

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - September 9, 2015

Gomà-Camps and WEPA Group have ended the joint cooperation they have maintained for the last 10 years through the joint venture GC & Wepa. Gomà-Camps acquired Wepa’s shares in the business to...

Vinda appoints Christoph Michalski as CEO

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - September 9, 2015

Vinda International Holdings has appointed the president of SCA’s Global Hygiene Category Christoph Michalski as chief executive. Effective as of 1 October, the company said the move “represents a clear commitment from...

A.Celli Paper announces management changes

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - September 9, 2015

A.Celli Paper has appointed Mario Fazzi as its new managing director. Giuseppe Antonini has been nominated president of A.Celli Paper; Mauro Celli and Alessandro Celli remain at the helm of the family...

Resolute Forest Products boosts production

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - September 9, 2015

Resolute Forest Products has increased its product offering after it invested in Valmet’s Advantage NTT 200HS tissue machine. The new tissue line will have a width of 5.2m and a design speed...

SCA strengthens hygiene operations

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - September 9, 2015

SCA has announced it will strengthen its competitiveness in the hygiene market to “intensify growth and the pace of innovation”, making a number of changes to its operations. Some 85% of the...

Cascades reports 3Q sales increase of 4%

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - August 27, 2015

Cascades has reported a sales increase of 4% to $950m for the three month period ending 30 June compared to the same time a year ago. The company said the result was...

SCA closes tissue plant in France

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - August 27, 2015

SCA has announced the closure of its Saint-Cyr-en-Val-based production plant in France. The company said the move was part of its on-going cost-savings programme related to the acquisition of Georgia-Pacific’s (G-P) European...

Metalicplas boosts capacity with installation

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - August 27, 2015

Romania’s Metalicplas has expanded its production tonnage after it signed for a new tissue machine from supplier A.Celli Paper. The tissue producer is part of Pehart Group Companies and the PM purchase...

Metsä Tissue boosts capacity in Germany

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - August 27, 2015

Metsä Tissue is to increase its tissue capacity at its Raubach, Germany-based site after it signed up Valmet to upgrade its TM 1. The rebuild includes a new Advantage DCT wet end...