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    Petri Helsky appointed CEO of Metsä Tissue

    Metsä Tissue has appointed Petri Helsky as CEO of Metsä Tissue Corporation. Helsky will start his new position as well as becoming a member of Metsä Group’s Executive management team no later than...

    Syassky mill to install new tissue PM in western Russia

    (News from RISI) Russia's Syassky pulp and paper mill has signed up Toscotec to supply a new tissue line at its mill in Syasstroy, in the Leningrad region. The new 125tpd tissue...
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    Clearwater Paper sells specialty mills to Dunn Paper

    Clearwater Paper Corporation has sold its specialty products business and mills to Dunn Paper and said it will reinvest the net proceeds of the sale within its consumer products division. The transaction...
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    Yunnan Yunjing resumes pulp and tissue production after earthquake

    (News from RISI) - Yunnan Yunjing Forestry and Pulp Mill has resumed production at its pulp and tissue paper mill in Jinggu county in China's southwestern province of Yunnan. The facility was...
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    APP completes 20MW solar project in Indonesia

    Asia Pulp & Paper has completed a 20MW rooftop solar project at its site Gold HongYe tissue mill in Suzhou, China. The panels cover around 300,000 square meters (the equivalent of 42...
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    Tokushu Tokai tests new tissue machine in Japan

    (News from RISI) - Tokushu Tokai Paper has kicked off trial runs on a new tissue paper machine at its Shimada mill in Shimada city, Shizuoka prefecture, Japan. The 2.2m wide unit,...
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    Cascades PM ramp-up continues at St. Helens; machine rolls being sold

    (News from RISI) - Cascades started up a converted uncoated freesheet (UFS) paper machine for making tissue paper in late October, a company official said. PM2 is a "wet crepe tissue machine...
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    Santher raises third quarter revenues by 11% to $130m

    (News from RISI) - Brazilian tissue producer Santher's third quarter revenues hit Real 337 million ($130 million), an 11% increase over the same quarter of 2013. Through September, the company sold Real...

    Tissue World Asia attracts 2,899 participants from key markets

    Asia’s largest international show for the tissue industry attracted 2,899 of the region’s key movers and shakers during the three-day event. Held in Shanghai during 11-13 November, the exhibition and conference was...
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    K-C investing in bigger capacity at Australian tissue mill

    (News from RISI) - Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has announced its intention to invest in operations at its Millicent mill in South Australia, expanding its capacity. It declined to reveal the new target capacity...

    Lamix diversifies product offering

    Lamix has diversified its product offering after it started up a PCMC-supplied Amica Matrix industrial line at its Witnica site. The line converts industrial laminated rolls at the speed of 550mpm and...
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    KP Tissue considering locations, pre-engineering for possible TAD

    (News from RISI) - KP Tissue is in "serious" consideration of adding another through-air-dried (TAD) tissue paper machine, company chief executive Mario Gosselin told analysts on 12 November. "We're really serious and...

    Sofidel boosts energy efficiencies with Advantage ReTurne start up

    Sofidel has started up a Valmet-supplied Advantage ReTurne energy recovery system at its Delicarta Valdottavo in Italy. It is the first installation of Valmet’s new technology and aims at increasing energy efficiencies...
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    Lee & Man acquires firm to run tissue business

    (News from RISI) - Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing has announced the acquisition of a company called Guang Kai for HK $404 million ($52.1 million) to run its tissue business. The Hong Kong-listed...
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    Wausau and von Drehle on the move in AfH with efficiencies plan, new PM

    (News from RISI) - Two US AfH tissue paper producers this week identified or began work on efforts that aim to net them lower input cost and additional business. Wausau Paper reported...
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    Strikes break out at APP’s Gold East and at Henan Yinge in China

    News from RISI - Employees of Gold East Paper and Henan Yinge Industrial Investment in China have recently carried out significant strikes. On 15 October, hundreds of female staff working in paper-sorting...

    LC Paper ramps up PM2 rebuild

    Spanish tissue producer LC Paper has started up its PM2 rebuild at its Besalu-based site after a major dry-end rebuild with Toscotec and sister company Milltech. The rebuild project target was mainly...
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    Lee & Man Manufacturing boosts tissue capacity

    China’s Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing has invested in a Valmet-supplied Advantage DCT 200HS tissue line. It will have a width of 5.6m and a design speed of 2,000m/min, producing 60,000 tonnes...
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    K-C volume up 7% while prices fall 1%; Clearwater ups prices 3% on new...

    News from RISI - Clearwater Paper reported a 3.1% third-quarter rise in tissue product pricing from its new TAD machine in North Carolina, while Kimberly-Clark (K-C) pricing declined 1% on consumer...
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    K-C to cut 1,100-1,300 jobs or 3% of workforce

    News from RISI - Kimberly-Clark has said it will lay off 1,100 to 1,300 staff after completing the spinoff of its healthcare business by the end of next year, the company...
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    APP continues to build tissue machines in China and Indonesia but slows its pace

    News from RISI - Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) group has brought a total of eight tissue paper machines on stream at its mills in China and Indonesia this year. However, that...
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    Countdown to Tissue World Asia! Hengan, SCA and Nielsen to present key conference sessions

    A new senior management session will be launched at Tissue World Asia 2014, which will open its doors to the region’s key tissue players in under three weeks time. Organised to reflect...
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    Kemira targets tissue and board customers with investment

    Chemicals giant Kemira will make a multimillion investment to expand its process and functional chemistry production lines at its San Giorgio site in Italy. Production will start at the beginning of the...
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    Södra improves profitability

    Södra has said increased demand and higher prices for finished goods have helped it boost its profitability. Earnings to date this year from January-August improved to SEK 1,012 million (loss: 786). Net revenue...

    ICT hikes up capacity with PM install

    ICT Group is to boost its capacity by 75,000tpy after it signed for a Valmet-supplied DCT 200 PM. It will be located at its ICT Poland mill in Kostrzyn, 80km east of...
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    China’s Yunnan Yunjing shuts pulp and tissue paper mill after strong earthquake

    (News from RISI) A strong earthquake with a magnitude of at least 6.0 hit Jinggu county in China's southwestern province of Yunnan on 2 October, forcing Yunnan Yunjing to shut its...

    ICT ramps up Spanish tissue production

    ICT is to invest in new tissue and converting capacity in Spain in order to meet the growing demand for tissue products. The company said it is considering a new investment in...
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    Tissue World Istanbul 2014 attracts 306 key tissue professionals to inaugural event

    The outstanding success of Tissue World Istanbul could not have had a more impressive ambassador for the nation’s burgeoning industry than Erdal Sükan, the president of the Turkish Pulp and Paper...
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    Hengan Group starts up PM17

    Hygiene and sanitary products producer Hengan Group has successfully started up its Andritz-supplied PrimeLineTM W8 tissue machine. The machine is the tenth tissue machine supplied by ANDRITZ to Hengan Group and has...
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    Södra begins Värö expansion

    Södra has started the expansion of its Värö pulp mill, an initiative in which the pulp producer has invested more than four billion Swedish kronor. The Land and Environment Court has now...
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    Hebei Yihoucheng Commodity boosts capacity

    Hebei Yihoucheng has ordered an Andritz-supplied PrimeLineCOMPACT II tissue machine with Steel Yankee. Start-up is scheduled for the end of 2015 and follows the start up of TM1. The machine has a design...
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    Soundview Paper Company’s president and CEO steps down

    Soundview Paper Company president and CEO George Wurtz has stepped down and been succeeded by pulp and paper industry executive Karl Meyers. Wurtz retired from his position at the Elmwood Park, New...
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    K-C announces details for completion of Health Care spin-off

    Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has announced the record date, distribution date and distribution ratio for the previously announced tax-free spin-off of its health care business. The spin-off will form the new publicly traded company,...
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    Metsä Tissue starts up new converting line, CHP plant at Katrinefors mill in Sweden

    (News from RISI) Metsä Tissue is ramping up two new investment projects at its 81,000tpy Katrinefors tissue mill in Mariestad in central Sweden - a new tissue converting line for making...

    Two out of four new Yuen Foong Yu’s PMP lines running

    Yuen Foong Yu has said two of its four new PMP Group-supplied Intelli-Tissue® 1600 Advanced lines are now up and running. The tissue producer announced at the end of April 2013 that...

    Two out of four new Yuen Foong Yu’s PMP lines running

    Yuen Foong Yu has said two of its four new PMP Group-supplied Intelli-Tissue® 1600 Advanced lines are now up and running. The tissue producer announced at the end of April 2013 that...
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    Guangdong Shaoneng invests in Steel Yankee

    China’s Guangdong Shaoneng has invested in an Andritz-supplied PrimeLineCOMPACT II tissue machine with Steel Yankee. It will be installed at its Shao Guan, Guangdong province site and start-up is scheduled for the...
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    Syktyvkar Tissue Group starts up new tissue PM in western Russia

    (News from RISI) Syktyvkar Tissue Group (STG) has started up a new 114tpd tissue machine at its brownfield Semibratovo plant in the Yaroslavl region in northwestern Russia. The 2.7m wide PM makes...
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    Roses Southeast Papers acquired by Peak Rock Capital affiliate

    Atlas Southeast Papers, an affiliate of private equity firm Peak Rock Capital, has acquired tissue manufacturer Roses Southeast Papers. Headquartered in Sanford, Florida, Atlas Southeast is now an integrated tissue manufacturer of...
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    WEPA to build two new tissue machines in France and Germany

    (News from RISI) The German tissue giant WEPA is poised for growth as it plans to spend more than Euro 50 million on two new tissue machines. The new lines will be...