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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

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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

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

Tissue World Istanbul launch opens its doors

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - September 24, 2014

The inaugural Tissue World Istanbul has today opened its doors to the tissue industry located in Turkey, eastern Europe, Russia, CIS, Middle East, Central Asia and Africa. It is the latest edition...

Futura appoints Piero Ceccon

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - September 11, 2014

Futura has appointed Piero Ceccon as head of sales and Procare and vice president of international operations. Ceccon is based at the Lucca headquarters of the converting machinery supplier. Chief executive Fabio Boschi...

China’s Hwagain Group closes 55,000tpy mill in Guangxi due to environmental concerns

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - September 11, 2014

(News from RISI) China's Hwagain Group has shut down a 55,000tpy mill in Nanning city, Guangxi autonomous region. The mill, which had a combined capacity of around 20,000tpy of tissue and 35,000tpy...

Parteks boosts capacity

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - September 11, 2014

Turkey’s Parteks has successfully started up a Toscotec-supplied tissue line installed at its mill in Kayseri. Founded in 1996, 300-staffed Parteks Paper is a fully integrated large manufacturer of tissue paper producing...

Celulosa Argentina receives equipment for new 30,000tpy tissue PM

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - September 11, 2014

(News from RISI) Celulosa Argentina has received the parts of its new 30,000tpy tissue paper machine (PM) purchased in August last year from the German equipment supplier Voith, the company said. According...

Kimberly Clark de México starts up DCT line

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - September 11, 2014

Kimberly Clark de México has successfully started up a Valmet Advantage DCT tissue line at its Bajío mill, Mexico. The Advantage DCT 200TS tissue line adds 60,000tpy of high quality tissue paper...

Nobrecel plans to produce first tissue paper roll this week

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - September 11, 2014

(News from RISI) Brazilian pulp and paper producer Nobrecel expects to produce the first roll of tissue paper sometime this week at the Pindamonhangaba mill, in São Paulo state, southeast Brazil. A...

Yunnan Yunjing starts up 30,000tpy tissue PM

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - August 28, 2014

(News from RISI) - Yunnan Yunjing Forestry & Paper has started up a new 30,000tpy tissue PM at a mill in Puer city, Yunnan province. The unit, provided by Valmet, has a...

Södra hikes up prices

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - August 28, 2014

Södra will increase the market price for its NBSK in Europe to USD 950 per tonne, effective from 1 September. The company said the price increase is "due to low global softwood...

Yuen Foong Yu moves further into tissue

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - August 28, 2014

Taiwan-based Yuen Foong Yu (YFY) has invested in the high-quality facial, toilet and towel market after it signed for a new tissue line. The Toscotec-supplied tissue line will be installed at the...

Aktül Kagit Üretim Pazarlama boosts capacity

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - August 28, 2014

Aktül Kagit Üretim Pazarlama will install a new Advantage DCT 200 tissue line at its mill in Pamukova, Sakarya province, Turkey. Supplied by Valmet, start-up is planned for the first quarter of...

G-P completes acquisition of SPG

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - August 28, 2014

Georgia-Pacific has completed the previously announced acquisition of SPG. Financial details of the agreement are not being disclosed. SPG is a specialty paper packaging supplier focused on the catering industry. As a result...

Cascades expands into US south east

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - August 28, 2014

Tissue giant Cascades has expanded its tissue presence in the south east of America after it announced a US$55m investment in a new tissue converting facility in Wagram, North Carolina. Start-up is...

Cascades Tissue president and CEO steps down

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - August 14, 2014

Cascades Tissue has announced that its president and chief executive Suzanne Blanchet is to step down after more than 17 years at the head of the group. She will join the corporate...

Yuen Foong Yu boosts capacity

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - August 12, 2014

Yuen Foong Yu has boosted its capacity after it brought on stream the first of four planned Intelli-Tissue® 1600 machines. The PMP-supplied machine was brought on stream as planned on 3 July. The...

Carta Fabril starts up new 30,000tpy tissue PM in Anápolis, Brazil

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - August 12, 2014

(News from RISI) - Brazilian tissue producer Carta Fabril has fired up production on its new 30,000tpy tissue paper machine (PM) installed at its Anápolis mill, in Goiás state, Midwestern Brazil. According...

Ashland Water Technologies rebrands as Solenis

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - August 12, 2014

Ashland Water Technologies has been acquired by a Clayton, Dubilier & Rice-managed fund and rebranded as Solenis. Prior to the acquisition, Ashland Water Technologies was a commercial business unit of Ashland. The sale...

UK tissue converter Accrol Papers reveals plans to build paper mill

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - August 12, 2014

(News from RISI) – UK independent soft tissue converter Accrol Papers is set to join the paper production side of the market. A spokesperson for the firm confirmed local news according to...

Ipek Kagit Tissue boosts converting capacity

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - August 12, 2014

Turkey’s Ipek Kagit Tissue has successfully started up a new Forte line at its Yalova plant. The move is part of the company's expansion plan to become a regional powerhouse in the...

Von Drehle Corporation to start up NTT line

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - August 12, 2014

Von Drehle Corporation is to become the first tissue manufacturer in the USA to produce tissue with Valmet's flexible Advantage NTT technology. The new line will be installed at the company's facility...

Shandong Sun Paper boosts capacity

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - July 30, 2014

China’s Shandong Sun Paper has start up an Andritz-supplied PrimeLineTM W8 with Steel Yankee at its Yanzhou mill, Shandong province. PM27 has a design speed of 2,000m/min and a width of 5.62m....

Environmental concern and market competition driving upgrades at small tissue mills in China

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - July 30, 2014

(News from RISI) Although the Chinese tissue sector is in a state of oversupply and major mills are grabbing more market share, small players will not necessarily disappear, said Cao Zhenlei,...

NorthEdge purchases Accrol for £66m

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - July 30, 2014

Private equity company NorthEdge Capital has purchased Blackburn-based tissue converter Accrol Papers in a £66million deal. Accrol is one of Europe’s largest independent converter of soft tissue products. Established in 1993, it...

Cheng Loong to invest NT$1.28bn in tissue paper expansion

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - July 30, 2014

(News from RISI) Cheng Loong has earmarked NT$1.28bn to build a tissue paper machine at its Chu Pei mill in Hsinchu county, Taiwan. Output on the new 32,000tpy machine, PM16, will mainly...

SCA and Vinda to integrate hygiene business in China

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - July 30, 2014

SCA has strengthened its cooperation with Vinda International by transferring its hygiene business in China (mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau) to Vinda. As part of the transaction, SCA and Vinda have...

Sofidel’s new integrated tissue mill in France begins to take shape

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - July 30, 2014

(News from RISI) Delipapier, Sofidel's French subsidiary, has broken ground on its €120m new integrated tissue mill project at its Ingrandes site. The first phase consists of building a converting facility as...