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

Tissue World Magazine - May 3, 2024

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

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

Countdown to Tissue World’s São Paulo launch!

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 7, 2015

The Tissue World team is making the final touches to welcome the industry to our debut launch in Latin America! The first edition of Tissue World São Paulo – the gateway to...

Krishna Tissue to boost capacity

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 23, 2015

India’s Krishna Tissue is to boost its capacity after it signed for a state-of-the-art winder supplied by A.Celli Paper. The model AC842 paper rewinder is the main element of a new project...

PMP Group launch targets tissue sector

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 23, 2015

PMP Group has launched PMPower, a new facility that will be responsible for energy solutions for tissue and paper mills. The supplier said that widening its product portfolio based on Intelli-Tissue® and...

Russia’s Arkhbum Tissue Group progresses with 70,000tpy tissue PM

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 23, 2015

(News from RISI) - Russia's Arkhbum Tissue Group, managed by Arkhangelsk pulp and paper mill (APPM), is forging ahead with its plans to install a new tissue mill in Vorsino, in...

SCA to permanently suspend operations at French tissue mill by October

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 23, 2015

(News from RISI) - SCA plans to stop all operations at its Saint-Cyr-en-Val facility in France by October this year, affecting 119 workers. According to a spokesperson from the company, a combination...

Fortissue starts up new tissue machine in Viana do Castelo, Portugal

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 23, 2015

(News from RISI) - Production is up and running on a new tissue machine in Portugal. Fortissue Produção de Papel, which is part of the Suavecel group, started production at its mill...

SCA audit finds representatives acted in compliance with Swedish law

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 23, 2015

SCA has said an independent audit investigating claims its staff were involved in extravagant corporate perks found its representatives “acted in compliance with Swedish law and company policies”. The company had been...

Gant Innovations launches first-of-its-kind product

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 8, 2015

Gant Innovations has launched a first-of-its-kind product: a patented adhesive paper napkin that can be manufactured without silicone tape and has no need for the tissue to be reinforced. The adhesive paper...

Grigiskes boosts capacity at Vilnius mill

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 8, 2015

Grigiskes has started up its new 110tpd tissue PM6 at its Vilnius mill in Lithuania. The Toscotec-supplied line has a design speed is 1,900mpm with a net web width of 2,750mm. Gintautas Pangonis,...

Valmet completes acquisition of Process Automation Systems

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 8, 2015

Valmet has completed the acquisition of Process Automation Systems business from Metso. The company received the necessary approvals from the competition authorities on 15 January. The enterprise value of the acquisition is €340m...

Hayat Kimya inaugurates 70,000tpy Alabuga tissue mill

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 8, 2015

(News from RISI) - Turkish tissue producer Hayat Kimya has inaugurated its 70,000tpy Alabuga tissue mill located in Tatarstan, Russia. The mill, which occupies a 73,000m2 site in the special economic zone...

Tissue: KP ‘very hard’ at work on TAD; von Drehle NTT set for early...

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 8, 2015

(News from RISI) - While considering a new machine for almost nine months, KP Tissue chief executive Mario Gosselin told analysts that the firm was "working very hard on site selection"...

Tissue World Barcelona 2015 attracts 2,589 participants

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 8, 2015

The world’s top tissue tradeshow has attracted 2,589 participants including 1,561 visitors from 89 countries and 712 exhibiting staff. Held last month in Barcelona, the event hosted more than 180 international and...

Fire hits SCA Oakenholt tissue mill in Wales, production briefly suspended

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - March 11, 2015

(News from RISI) A fire broke out on the morning of 27 February at SCA Hygiene Products' Oakenholt tissue mill in north Wales. The mill and surrounding area were temporarily evacuated and...

Solenis completes acquisition of Clearwater Specialties

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - March 11, 2015

Solenis has completed the previously announced acquisition of Clearwater Specialties, a privately-held specialty chemical company dedicated to the tissue and towel market. The deal includes all assets, intellectual property and business associated...

Liuzhou Liangmianzhen boosts capacity

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - March 11, 2015

China’s Liuzhou Liangmianzhen Paper Product has invested in two Toscotec-supplied MODULO-PLUS ES tissue lines that will be installed at its production site in Liuzhou, Guangxi. The two TMs are based on Toscotec’s...

Cuban tissue maker Prosa resumes production pace

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - March 11, 2015

(News from RISI) - Cuba's sole tissue paper producer Productos Sanitarios (Prosa) has completed in the last quarter of 2014 an investment to replace a suction press roll at its mill...

SCA inaugurates first production facility in India

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - March 11, 2015

SCA has inaugurated its first manufacturing facility for personal care and tissue products in India. Based in Pune in the central Indian state of Maharastra, the site produces baby diapers and tissue...

WEPA boosts private label presence with French mill acquisition

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - March 11, 2015

WEPA has increased its presence in the French consumer private label market after it acquired Lucart's Troyes tissue plant. The WEPA Group took over the plant - now known as WEPA Troyes...

SCA to take out 69 jobs at Nokia tissue mill in Finland

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - February 26, 2015

(News from RISI) SCA has wrapped up the discussions it started with employee representatives in November last year regarding possible job cuts at its 80,000tpy Nokia tissue mill in Finland. As a...

Andritz starts up eleventh TM for Hengan Group

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - February 26, 2015

Andritz has successfully started up Hengan Group’s PM18 tissue machine. The PrimeLineST W8 tissue machine is installed in the company’s Changde mill and it has a design speed of 2,000m/min and a...

Slovenian tissue producer Paloma seeks Euro 15m in capital increase

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - February 26, 2015

(News from RISI) - The Slovenian tissue producer Paloma has started a process to raise its capital by Euro 15m ($17m) in order to enhance efficiency and its financial results by...

Portucel Soporcel acquires AMS BR Star Paper

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - February 26, 2015

Portucel Soporcel has diversified into tissue paper with the acquisition of tissue paper manufacturer AMS BR Star Paper (AMS). After a period of heavy investments which ended in 2009 and culminating with...

GZP boosts capacity

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - February 26, 2015

Głuchołaskie Zakłady Papiernicze (GZP) has boosted its capacity after it signed up Hergen to supply a Smart Fit Crescent Former. The Polish company produces a variety of tissue products across five machines...

Changes at the top of SCA; on-going aviation and hospitality audits

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - February 26, 2015

Magnus Groth is to replace Jan Johansson as president and chief executive of SCA as of 1 March. Formerly president of the company’s European consumer goods unit, Groth has worked at SCA...

China’s Hengan starts up new 60,000tpy tissue PM in Hunan province

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - February 12, 2015

(News from RISI) - China's Hengan International has started up a new 60,000tpy tissue PM at a mill in Changde city, Hunan province. The commissioning has raised its total tissue capacity to...

Almus boosts converting capacity

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - February 12, 2015

Poland’s Almus has boosted its converting capacity after it signed for a Gambini TouchMax line. The family-run company is based in Slomniki and produces Almusso products, consumer and AfH products as well...

Sofidel starts up wastewater treatment plant at Delicarta

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - February 12, 2015

Sofidel has started up a wastewater treatment plant at its Delicarta Paper Mill in Italy. The overall investment for the implementation of the project - which the company said is the first...

Hebei Xuesong Paper boosts capacity

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - February 12, 2015

China’s Hebei Xuesong Paper has boosted its capacity after it signed for its second Intelli-Tissue® 1200 EcoEc tissue machine supplied by PMP Group. TM2 has a reel trim of 2,850mm, a design...

Vinda boosts tissue capacity to almost one million tpy in 2015

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - February 12, 2015

(News from RISI) - Vinda International Holdings plans to build three new 30,000tpy tissue PMs in China in 2015, raising its total tissue capacity to 980,000tpy. One of the three will be...

Tissue World moves to Milan after Barcelona

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - February 12, 2015

Tissue World has kept its vow to circulate in Europe and in 2017 will move to Italy, Milan! It follows two events in a fantastic city that graced the tissue industry with...