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Tissue World Istanbul Returns as Premier Tissue Industry Event for Türkiye and Surrounding Regions

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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

Helen Morris - January 11, 2024

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WEPA boosts capacity with rebuilds; Leuna mill investment latest

Helen Morris - December 17, 2019

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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

Helen Morris - December 17, 2019

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APP invests in four new tissue lines

Helen Morris - December 17, 2019

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

Helen Morris - December 17, 2019

SCA Hygiene Spain boosts performance with rewinder upgrade

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - July 30, 2015

SCA Hygiene Spain has signed up A.Celli Paper to refurbish its Allo site’s rewinder. The rebuild project will involve an updated service to move the rewinder assets as well as offering a...

Multipack sells Pharma-Cosmetic branch to focus on tissue

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - July 30, 2015

Multipack has realigned its business to focus on the international tissue market after it announced the sale of its Pharma-Cosmetic products division. Located in Casalecchio di Reno, Bologna, the company has over...

Northwood boosts AfH presence in the UK with acquisition

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - July 30, 2015

Northwood Paper Sales has targeted growth in the UK’s Away from Home (AfH) sector after it acquired the issued share capital of Disposables UK. Disposables UK operates from Meltham near Huddersfield and...

K-C Europe boosts capacity with TouchMax embossers buy

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - July 30, 2015

Kimberly-Clark Europe has finalised the purchase of four TouchMax embossers supplied by Gambini. The company has invested in three TouchMax Large versions and one standard version. It said the embossers “significantly modernise” its...

SCA invests further in Brazil with new incontinency facility

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - July 30, 2015

SCA is set to invest SEK 650m in a new production facility in Brazil for the manufacture of incontinence products. The company is now the second largest in the Brazilian incontinence marketplace...

K-C sales for consumer tissue down 8% in 2Q

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - July 30, 2015

Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has reported second quarter sales of $1.5bn for its consumer tissue segment, a decrease 8% year-on-year. The tissue giant explained the result on currency rates that were “unfavourable by 9%...

ISMA 2000 S.L boosts capacity with rebuild

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - July 15, 2015

Spain’s ISMA 2000 S.L has signed up Toscotec and its sister company Milltech to deliver a major dry-end rebuild of PM1 at its La Torre de Claramunt site. The start-up of the...

A.Celli targets tissue and nonwovens market with TANDEM launch

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - July 15, 2015

A.Celli has launched TANDEM, a rewinder that it said is both affordable and flexible. It is characterised by high production flexibility: A.Celli said it optimises production and line productivity, which can both...

Bretting Manufacturing celebrates 125 years and five generations

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - July 15, 2015

Bretting Manufacturing has announced it is celebrating 125 years in business as the fifth generation of the Bretting family joins the ranks of managing the company. C. G. Bretting Manufacturing Co. was...

Resolute set with order for Valmet NTT Advantage for launch at Calhoun mill

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - July 15, 2015

(News from RISI) Resolute Forest Products will launch into the North American tissue market in 2017 behind a Valmet NTT Advantage machine, a new unit that is growing in interest globally...

APP China brings six tissue machines on stream, building another unit at new Chinese...

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - July 15, 2015

(News from RISI) - Out of the one million tonnes/yr of new tissue paper capacity coming online in China this year, APP China probably accounts for around 30%. Since late last year,...

Voith and Toscotec involved in patent litigation suit

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - July 15, 2015

Voith has filed a patent infringement suit in Italy before the Court of First Instance in Rome against Toscotec. In its complaint announced on 8 July, Voith alleges that a tissue machine...

Zhejiang Jingxing Paper starts up second TM with Steel Yankee

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - July 2, 2015

China’s Zhejiang Jingxing Paper has started up a second TM with Steel Yankee. Supplied by Andritz, it follows the start-up of TM1 in January. The PrimeLineST C8 machine has a design speed of...

Strike at SCA’s Cyr-en-Val tissue mill ends

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - July 2, 2015

(News from RISI) - The strike at SCA's Cyr-en-Val tissue mill in France which began on 3 June has come to an end. An SCA representative said the site reopened on 18...

Lithuania’s Grigiskes closes two tissue PMs at Vilnius mill as new PM 6 gains...

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - July 2, 2015

(News from RISI) - Grigiskes has shut down the two oldest machines at its Vilnius tissue mill in Lithuania as planned. The PMs will be dismantled and sold, either for spare parts...

Clearwater said to be out with August hike on its consumer products

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - July 2, 2015

(News from RISI) Clearwater Paper, North America's second largest private label tissue product player, announced an August price increase on its consumer products, contacts said this week. The company alerted customers in...

Omet’s Koala, Raccoon and Chameleon launches target tissue market

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - July 2, 2015

Omet has launched a range of innovations that target the tissue industry. ‘Koala’ introduces magnetic plates in replacement of embossing cylinders which Omet said makes the changing of embossing “simple and low-cost”. It...

Tissue capacity additions keep coming, while demand stays steady at 1-2%/yr

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - July 2, 2015

(News from RISI) US tissue paper capacity entered a fifth-year of significant growth in 2015 that was not outpacing steady demand expansion and not taking the air of producers' pricing. That said,...

Fábricas de Papel Potosí boosts capacity

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - June 18, 2015

Mexico’s Fábricas de Papel Potosí has invested in a new TM complete with 12-ft steel Yankee and latest-generation hoods. Supplied by A.Celli Paper, the new 2,800-mm tissue machine is equipped with a...

Indefinite strike hits SCA’s French tissue mill, production down

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - June 18, 2015

(News from RISI) - Workers downed tools for an indefinite period of time at SCA's tissue mill in Saint-Cyr-en-Val in France on 3 June in order to protest against SCA's layoff...

A.Celli Paper supplies five tissue rewinders to APP China

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - June 18, 2015

A.Celli Paper has said it will supply five tissue rewinders to two of APP's facilities in China. The rewinders model AC 882 are characterised by a paper format of 5,630 millimetres and...

Lee & Man starts up new 60,000tpy tissue PM in Chongqing, China

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - June 18, 2015

(News from RISI) - Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing has commissioned a new 60,000tpy tissue PM at its mill in Chongqing municipality, China. The Voith unit came on stream last week, raising...

APP and APRIL become PEFC-certified in Indonesia

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - June 18, 2015

Indonesia’s top two pulp and paper producers Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) and Asia Pacific Resources International (APRIL) have become certified to PEFC and its local partner, the Indonesian Forestry Certification...

China’s tissue market under oversupply pressure

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - June 18, 2015

(News from RISI) - China's tissue capacity may rise to around 10.44 million tpy by the end of this year, up by 10.6% from 9.44 million tpy in 2014, according to...