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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

Paper Prime invests with new TM

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 31, 2017

Portugal’s Paper Prime has boosted its capacity after investing in a Toscotec-supplied AHEAD tissue machine. TM1 will be installed at the company’s Vila Velha de Rodão site. Included in the investment is...

First Quality boosts capacity with 70,000tpy TAD investment

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 31, 2017

America’s First Quality Tissue has invested in an Andritz-supplied PrimeLineTAD tissue line with complete stock preparation for its mill in Lock Haven. Start-up is scheduled for 2019 and once up and...

Kadant highlights new ceramic tip creping blades launch

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 29, 2017

Kadant South America has used Tissue World São Paulo to launch its new CeraEdge creping blade line for use in tissue production. The new creping blade uses a thermal spray technology and...

Buckman highlights latest technologies

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 29, 2017

Buckman is showcasing its latest range of tissue technologies at Tissue World São Paulo, including the its latest generation of creping products and enzymatic technologies. The company is highlighting its broad range...

OMET showcases converting lines for folded disposable products

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 29, 2017

OMET is exhibiting its latest converting machines for the production of folded disposable products. Alberto Redaelli, OMET international sales manager, said: “We are pleased to be present at Tissue World São Paulo...

Andritz highlights innovative tissue technology and energy-efficiencies

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 29, 2017

Andritz is showcasing its latest range of high-tech technologies, from stock preparation to tissue machine, automation and pumps. Thomas Scherb, Andritz director of tissue and PB machines, Latin America, said: “Tissue World...

Conference targets potential in Southern American tissue market

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 29, 2017

Tissue World São Paulo has started its first day of conference sessions, under the theme ‘Challenges and opportunities – approaches to accelerate the success’. The sessions are discussing the latest opportunities and...

Tissue World São Paulo opens its doors!

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 25, 2017

The South American tissue industry is gathering in São Paulo to attend the only key meeting point for the region’s growing and dynamic tissue market. It is the second edition of Tissue...

Brazil: P&P on a sharp positive trend despite country’s rollercoaster economic performance

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 18, 2017

By Bill Burns, Senior Consultant, Fisher International Brazil’s economy was in a strong growth cycle when the global financial crisis of 2008 hit, when its GDP growth rate plummeted from 4+% down to zero. However, recovery from...

Unprecedented number of tissue machines installed since 2010

Latest Headlines David Vallieres - May 18, 2017

With tissue consumption growing at a rapid pace in emerging markets, particularly in China, an unprecedented number of new tissue paper machines have been installed. Numera’s analysis shows that 327 new tissue paper machines...

The future for fibres

Latest Headlines Bill Adams - May 18, 2017

The higher web strength that premium reinforced pulps bring the tissue maker improves tissue machine and converting efficiency, says Bill Adams, senior director at Canfor Pulp, the world’s fifth largest producer of market...

Investments mean more ECF pulp from Södra

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 18, 2017

Södra Cell has pioneered TCF pulp but with the evolution in the market and in ECF bleaching technology, the company has significantly boosted its growing position in ECF. Södra’s latest investments have included the new...

Multi-solutions for multi-shoppers

Latest Headlines Fernanda Accorsi - May 18, 2017

Product positioning, choosing a loud and clear way to communicate a product’s attributes, inspiring and educating shoppers: Fernanda Accorsi, founder of F.A. Retail, talks to TWM about changing retail trends We do not wear...

Brazil consumer tissue: lingering effects of economic downturn

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 18, 2017

Brazil’s economy has experienced one of its worst recessions, with real GDP contracting once again by 3.4% in 2016. With economic downturn, the value of private final consumption fell by 3.5% in 2015 and only a marginal...

Chinese tissue market in a good growth phase but oversupply continues

Latest Headlines Esko Uutela - May 18, 2017

According to a recent talk by Zhang Yulan, of the China National Household Paper Association (CNHPIA), in 2016 the Chinese tissue business maintained growth, and the expansion of the tissue industry continued at a good pace –...

Pulp and Paper United do the nation proud

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 18, 2017

Let’s describe general economic performance in recent years as a football match … why not, this is Brazil after all: it has been an end-to-end thriller. TWM must first apologise to those across the...

How to achieve growth in a national crisis

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 18, 2017

These are turbulent times in Brazil – but tissue is toughing it out. Helen Morris, Tissue World magazine senior editor, visits Carta Fabril’s Rio de Janeiro headquarters as the company begins the start-up...

Family tissue: for babies’ noses… and Construction Club

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 18, 2017

Creativity is at the heart of Brazilian Melissa Hoemke’s family. After living in London for 12 years she wants to do right by the children and the environment, and...

Baotuo Paper Machinery supplying Baoding firms with TMs in China

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 18, 2017

(News from RISI) - Two small producers in Baoding city, Hebei province, China, recently purchased new tissue machines from domestic supplier Baotuo Paper Machinery. Mancheng Yongxing Paper has placed orders for two...

China’s Hengan starts new 60,000tpy TM in Chongqing

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 18, 2017

(News from RISI) - Hengan International has fired up a new 60,000tpy tissue machine at its mill in Chongqing municipality, southwestern China. The Andritz-supplied PM23 has a trim width of 5.6m, a...

Algeria’s PMI boosts capacity with TM investment

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 18, 2017

Paper Mill Investment (PMI) has invested in an Andritz-supplied PrimeLineCOMPACT tissue machine with Steel Yankee and shoe press. The new plant will produce high-quality facial wipes as well as toilet and towel...

Cascades 1Q margins impacted; results in the near-term to benefit from price increases

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 18, 2017

Cascades has said higher raw material prices, lower jumbo roll sales and new facility construction investments have impacted its first quarter 2017 results. Sales were stable at $1,006m compared to $1,003m in...

WEPA targets European AfH market with Van Houtum acquisition

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 18, 2017

WEPA Hygieneprodukte is to boost its AfH capacity in Europe with the acquisition of Netherlands-based Van Houtum Group Holding. The purchase is subject to the approval of the competition authorities and is...

GP invests $400m in consumer business; funding approved for TAD line

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 18, 2017

Georgia-Pacific (GP) is to boost its private label branded capacity with a $400m investment in its GP Consumer (retail) tissue and towel business. Funding has been approved for a through-air-dried (TAD) paper...

K-C reports 1Q earnings growth despite “a challenging environment”

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 4, 2017

Kimberly-Clark Corporation has reported net sales of $4.5bn - even with a year earlier - in its first quarter 2017 results. Operating profit for the quarter was $834m in 2017 compared to...

Hengan Group boosts capacity with investment

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 4, 2017

China’s Hengan Group has started up its 12th Andritz-supplied PrimeLineTM W8 tissue machine. The line is based at the company’s Chongqing mill and has a design speed of 2,000m/min and a width...

Sun Paper boosts capacity with investment

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 4, 2017

South Carolina-based Sun Paper has invested in its packaging facilities after purchasing a XF800 wrapper line from PCMC. It will be installed in October 2017 and is replacing a reciprocating wrapper that...

Ningxia Jiamei gets two new TMs for mill in Wuzhong, Ningxia

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 4, 2017

(News from RISI) Ningxia Jiamei Paper will install two new 20,000tpy tissue machines at its mill in Wuzhong city, in northwest China’s Ningxia autonomous region. The producer has placed orders for the...

The countdown to Tissue World São Paulo has begun!

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 4, 2017

The Latin American tissue industry is gearing up to attend Tissue World São Paulo - the only key meeting point for the region’s growing and dynamic tissue market. Whether on the show...

SCA reports 1Q EBITDA decrease of 2%; 5% net sales increase

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - May 4, 2017

SCA has reported an EBITDA decreased of 2% to SEK 797m in its first quarter 2017 interim results. Net sales increased 5% to SEK 3,969m compared to the same time a year...

WEPA Group boosts capacity with Piechowice start-up

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 20, 2017

WEPA Group has started-up a Toscotec-supplied paper machine in Piechowice, boosting the group’s production capacity to 750,000tpy. Following a successful construction phase, the first paper was produced on 11 February and made...

Vajda Papir and LC Paper take home TWM Mill Awards

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 20, 2017

Hungary’s Vajda Papir and Spain’s LC Paper have been awarded prestigious awards during Tissue World Milan 2017. Tissue World magazine’s Mill Awards recognise marketing strategy and energy efficiencies. Vajda Papir won the ‘Best...

Mtorres acquires Italian automatic tissue line manufacturer Universal Tissue Technology

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 20, 2017

Mtorres has acquired Italian automatic tissue line manufacturer Universal Tissue Technology (UTT). The company announced the purchase at TW Milan and will operate under the name of Mtorres Tissue. This new brand will...

Ariete increases capacity with MODULO-PLUS order

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 20, 2017

Italian tissue manufacturer Ariete has ordered a new MODULO-PLUS machine from Toscotec for its paper mill in Cava dei Tirreni, Salerno. The new tissue machine replaces the exiting one and start-up is...

Irving Consumer Products boosts premium product capacity

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 20, 2017

Irving Consumer Products has invested in an Advantage ThruAir tissue production line. Supplied by Valmet, the machine increases Irving's capacity to provide premium household paper products to the North American market. It will...

Tissue World Milan 2017 attracts 3,284 participants

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 20, 2017

The industry’s most prestigious and international tradeshow - this year held in Italy, the heart of the tissue industry - has been attended by an impressive 3,284 participants. Tissue World Milan 2017...

Innovative tissue technology and energy-efficient solutions: Andritz highlights key technologies

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 11, 2017

Andritz is showcasing a range of technologies for tissue production – complete tissue lines as well as key components – at Tissue World Milan. The company is onsite to discuss “sophisticated stock...

Mtorres acquires Italian automatic tissue line manufacturer Universal Tissue Technology

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 11, 2017

Mtorres has acquired Italian automatic tissue line manufacturer Universal Tissue Technology (UTT). The company will operate under the name of Mtorres Tissue. This new brand will supply and serve customers worldwide with a...

Voith presents latest generation of paper machines

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 11, 2017

Voith is presenting its XcelLine tissue machine technology, its Papermaking 4.0 solutions and InfiltraDiscfilter at Tissue World in Milan. Under the name "XcelLine", Voith said it has improved and refined its paper...

Tissue World Milan opens its doors!

Latest Headlines Helen Morris - April 10, 2017

Key members of the tissue industry have descended on Milan to attend the world’s leading exhibition and conference event for the global tissue industry. Over 200 exhibitors and 50 industry speakers are...

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