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    Chongqing Well Mind starts up 30,000tpy tissue PM in China

    (News from RISI) - Chongqing Well Mind Paper has started up a 30,000tpy tissue PM at its mill in Chongqing municipality. Supplied by A Celli, the machine has a trim width of...
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    China’s Sun Paper starts up 60,000tpy tissue PM, UFP unit being rebuilt

    (News from RISI) - China's Sun Paper has started up a new 60,000tpy tissue PM at its flagship mill in Yanzhou city, Shandong province. The Andritz unit, dubbed PM27, has a width...

    Luohe Yinge Tissue Paper

    Luohe Yinge Tissue Paper has responded to customer demand after it started up NipcoFlex T shoe presses in two tissue lines supplied by Voith. General manager ShiJin Zhang said the investment means...
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    SCA commits to Spain with baby diaper line

    SCA is to start up a new baby diaper line at its mill in Valls, Spain. It will become the first SCA mill in Europe to combine the production of personal care...
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    First Quality announces an up to 8% increase on its tissue paper products

    (News from RISI) - In what appears to be the first official tissue paper price increase for consumer/retail products in three years in the USA, First Quality Tissue has announced an...
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    China’s Shandong Dongshun testing new 16,000tpy tissue PM, more to come

    (News from RISI) China's Shandong Dongshun Group is testing a new 16,000tpy tissue PM at its mill in Taian city, Shandong province. The Kawanoe Zoki unit has a trim width of 2.76m...
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    Fire hits Cartiera Lucchese’s Porcari mill in Italy

    (News from RISI) Italy's Cartiera Lucchese Porcari tissue and packaging paper mill was hit by a fire on 11 May, destroying some 3,000 tonnes of recovered paper (RCP) in the plant's...

    Ganzhou Hwagain Paper starts up TM2

    China’s Ganzhou Hwagain Paper has successfully started up TM2. Supplied by Andritz, the scope of supply for TM 2 comprised the stock preparation plant for softwood, hardwood and bamboo pulp, the two-layer...
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    Romania’s Petrocart boosts capacity

    Romanian tissue producer Petrocart has boosted its capacity after it started up a new Toscotec-supplied tissue line at its Piatra Neamt plant. It is based on a turn-key concept and will...
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    First Quality confirms site for first new TAD PM start-up

    First Quality Tissue has confirmed it will install the first of its two new TAD machines at its existing Anderson, South Carolina site. The company has previously announced plans to add two...
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    China’s P&B production and consumption declined in 2013; tissue growth also slowing

    News from RISI - China's paper and board (P&B) production and consumption declined in 2013 after years of rapid growth. The latest statistics from the China Paper Association (CPA), released earlier this...
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    C&S starts up 60,000tpy tissue PM in China

    (News from RISI) - China's C&S Paper has started up a 60,000tpy tissue PM at a greenfield mill in Luoding city, Guangdong province. The first sheet of paper rolled off the line...

    Malaysia’s Fudak starts up Amica line

    Fudak has successfully started up its new Amica line at its Malaysian facilities in Johor Bahru. The line will produce high-quality consumer rolled products at a speed of 550mpm. They will then be...
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    Hebei Xuesong Paper boosts capacity

    China’s Hebei Xuesong Paper has successfully started up its first EcoEc tissue machine, the Intelli-Tissue® 1200 EcoEc. The company produces 80,000tpy of tissue and its brands include Xuesong, Jiabei and Haorenjia. Based in...

    Angola’s SICIE invests and expands product range

    SICIE has invested in a PCMC-supplied Amica Matrix line at its site in Viana, Angola. The new line will convert toilet rolls and kitchen towels and further widen the company’s portfolio of...
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    Mexico’s KCM to start up new 60,000tpy tissue PM in June

    (News from RISI) Kimberly-Clark de Mexico (KCM) has scheduled the start up of its new 60,000tpy tissue paper machine (PM) installed at its Bajíio mill for June. As stated in KCM's financial...
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    APP radically slowing down massive tissue expansion plan at Chinese and Indonesian mills

    (News from RISI) - Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) has put the brakes on its aggressive tissue paper expansion plans after revisiting them in the wake of the economic slowdown in...
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    Kemira closes acquisition of BASF’s global AKD emulsion business

    Kemira has closed the acquisition of BASF's global AKD emulsion business. AKD is an alkyl ketene dimer-based sizing agent which impacts paper and board hydrophobicity or water resistance. The acquisition strengthens Kemira's position...
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    Clearwater Paper reports tissue volume sales down 3.6%

    Clearwater Paper has reported total tissue sales volumes of 127,758 tonnes in the first quarter of 2014, down 3.6% compared to the first quarter of 2013. Converted product cases shipped were 13.4...

    Japan’s Oji Group invests in a Steel Yankee Dryer

    Japan's Oji Group has boosted its capacity after it invested in a Steel Yankee Dryer to be installed at its production site in Kasugai. The TT SYD will be supplied by Toscotec...
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    China’s Nanning Sugar cancels tissue project

    (News from RISI) Nanning Sugar Industry has decided to cancel a 20,000tpy tissue project planned at its former Pumiao mill in Nanning city, Guangxi autonomous region. The 130,000tpy bagasse pulp mill has...
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    Gomá-Camps severs ties with AMS Gomá-Camps, expands into Africa

    (News from RISI) The Spanish tissue specialist Gomá-Camps is no longer part of AMS Gomá-Camps in Portugal. The firm said it signed an agreement ceasing its involvement with the Portuguese tissue producer...
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    Orchids Paper enters strategic alliance with Mexico’s Fabrica

    Orchids Paper has boosted its presence in the west coast of America after it announced a strategic alliance with Fabrica de Papel San Francisco (Fabrica). Based in Mexicali, Mexico, Fabrica is a...
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    Sun Paper Source set to start up another tissue paper machine later this year...

    (News from RISI) Indonesia's Sun Paper Source has decided to bring a 25,000tpy tissue paper machine online at its mill in Mojokerto city, East Java, in October. The second-hand machine, PM2, came...
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    Marutomi Paper boosts production capabilities

    Japan’s Marutomi Paper has successfully started up a new Steel Yankee dryer. Due to surging fuel and electricity costs Japanese tissue makers are constantly looking for opportunities to reduce production cost. The...
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    Santher improves financial results in 2013

    (News from RISI) Brazilian major tissue paper producer Santher recorded a Real 17.7 million ($7.8 million) loss in 2013, according to the company's latest financial results report. The figure is, however, an...
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    Brazilian Carta Fabril prepares to start up new tissue PM in April

    (News from RISI) Brazilian tissue producer Carta Fabril is close to initiating production on a new tissue paper machine (PM) at its Anápolis mill, in Goiás state, mid western Brazil. According to...
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    Sun Paper Source boosts capacity with start-up

    Indonesia’s Sun Paper Source has successfully put into operation its new VTM 1. Based at the company’s plant in Sukoanyar, the machine reached an operating speed of 1,600m/min three days after...
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    K-C announces 1Q 2014 results

    Kimberly-Clark has reported “solid first quarter” results but said first quarter sales for its consumer tissue segment decreased 2%. For the first quarter of 2014, the group’s net sales of $5.3 billion...
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    Kemira announces renewed focus on tissue, packaging and board industries

    Kemira has announced an increased focus on the tissue, packaging and board industries. In a statement, it said it “strives to support growth of the paper industry in the stagnant market of...
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    SCA, Nokian Renkaat and energy companies consider joint energy plant in Finland

    (News from RISI) SCA, the tire manufacturer Nokian Renkaat and the energy companies Leppäkosken Sähkö and Tampereen Sähkölaitos are evaluating whether to build a joint energy production facility at the site...
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    Ipek Kagit Tissue Paper boosts capacity

    Turkey’s Ipek Kagit Tissue Paper has invested in a new Advantage tissue production line. The Valmet Advantage DCT 200TS line will be installed at the company’s Manisa plant in Turkey and start-up...
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    China’s Hengan International delays new tissue PMs due to oversupply pressures

    (News from RISI) Hengan International is delaying new tissue PMs due to current oversupply pressure. The Chinese tissue giant ordered eight 60,000 tpy PMs in 2012, intending to boost its total tissue...
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    WEPA sells Fabbriche di Vallico tissue mill in Lucca to Italy’s EUROTEC, production to...

    (News from RISI) The German tissue giant WEPA has parted with its Fabbriche di Vallico tissue mill near Lucca in Italy. The firm said it signed a contract for the sale of...

    40% increase in participants in the latest record breaking Tissue World Americas

    Tissue World Americas 2014 has been another record breaking show after it attracted 1,931 participants, a 40% increase compared to the 2012 edition. The statistics are stacking up after the Miami trade show...
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    Metsä Tissue announces price increase

    Metsä Tissue has said it will increase the prices of its tissue paper products by 8%. The increase will take place during the second quarter of 2014. The company said the price increase...
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    Voith and Canfor Pulp announce developments

    Voith Tissue & Pulp Innovation Centre and Canfor Pulp have announced the latest developments of their on-going technical collaboration. The technical cooperation was first established between Voith Paper Tissue & Pulp Innovation...
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    SCA Nicolás de los Garza reduces energy consumption

    SCA has invested in a NipcoFlex T shoe press that will be installed at its Nicolás de los Garza plant in Mexico. The new shoe press will be installed in PM3 and...
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    Hanke Tissue starts to ramp up new tissue machine in Poland (News from RISI)

    Hanke Tissue, a subsidiary of the German MBB Industries group, is about to double its tissue capacity. The firm is set to launch production on a new tissue line at its mill...
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    Tissue World new launches – setting the stage for the bigger picture!

    2013 was a year to remember: in the season that marked the 20th anniversary of Tissue World, the show moved from Nice to Barcelona, expectations were building up, and thanks to...